-- *Mar*Below is an *edited, polished, and strengthened version* of your original piece. I have preserved your voice and message, but clarified structure, sharpened imagery, and deepened the philosophical coherence. If you want it more poetic, more academic, or more argumentative, I can revise again. ------------------------------ *Our Reduction*
*(Edited and Improved Version)* Today we live under the subjugation of science—no longer the noble search for understanding, but a cult of reduction, where every phenomenon is stripped of feeling, meaning, and vitality until only a cold mechanical residue remains. There was a time when the millions of pores on our skin breathed the air of the troposphere, when we lived as macro-beings woven into the life of the planet. Thousands of nerve endings on our palms and heels once connected us directly to the lithosphere. Soil bacteria interacted with our immune systems; the biosphere was not an external environment but our extended body. We breathed, smelled, sensed, perceived—and thereby learned. All five senses formed a single symphony through which nature communicated its knowledge. Discoveries came not through instruments, but as sudden illuminations in the brain. God impacted continuously. Nature educated continuously. And the knowledge entered not just the mind, but the hormones, the nerves, the very anatomy of our being. We did not merely live *on* Earth; we lived *as* Earth. In those times of complete sensitivity, we perceived climate shifts as instinctively as we felt changes in our heartbeat. We sensed earthquakes before they struck, read the atmosphere before storms, intuited the stirrings of volcanoes. Our bodies were instruments of communion. But today these natural faculties have been seized by machines. We depend on devices to accomplish even trivial tasks, gradually freezing our limbs, our reflexes, and our perceptual capacities. At the most fundamental level—consciousness itself—technology has become the guide and governor. Our biospheric anatomy, once the basis of sensing, learning, and understanding, has been surrendered. This mechanization is marketed to us as comfort and luxury, while the hapless students of economics are drilled to believe that each layer of numbness constitutes a “higher standard of living.” The champions of technology, who proudly label themselves atheists or rationalists, have created countless disciplines built upon a single paradigm: that everything rests on a foundation that is emotionless, feelingless, and mechanical. In embracing this paradigm, we have forgotten a basic truth: *nature is always teaching*. Emotional sensing is nature’s pedagogy, embedding knowledge directly into physiology and anatomy. We have journeyed from total sensitivity—where action was reflexive, immediate, and attuned—to a state where we cannot sense at all without technological assistance. Our education is no longer through sensing; sensing has become the prerogative of machines. To survive, we created the dismal science of economics. Today that very economics has rendered us redundant through total robotization. We forget that there are millions of meaningful human tasks waiting in the healing of a nature wounded by our own mechanistic arrogance. Yet universities continue to train students for professions that accelerate destruction. Each course, designed within a Cartesian-mechanical worldview, mass-produces what in myth would be called *Basmasuras*—figures empowered only to self-destruct and destroy what sustains them. As a first step toward reclaiming sanity, every university should establish a *Free Nature Park*—an untouched area without human manipulation. Gradually, universities must shift away from the Cartesian blueprint and bid farewell to René Descartes. Real education is ecological, experiential, and natural—not mechanical. *True learning begins when we return to the grand teacher that never ceases its instruction: nature itself.* — *YM Sarma* ------------------------------ If you’d like, I can also produce: - a more *academic* version - a more *poetic* version - a more *radical and passionate* version - or a *shortened version suitable for publication* Just tell me the tone and purpose. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thatha_Patty" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/thatha_patty/CACDCHC%2BAkv8CfjimM4kRwugLjkrFFo7nCVjOPLzdHdFirk209A%40mail.gmail.com.
