-- *Mar*Below is a *clearer, more coherent edited version* of your piece, preserving your core ideas while improving structure, tone, and flow. After that, I’ve added *my views and reflections* on your argument. ------------------------------ *The Hijacking of Education by Universities*
*Edited and Improved Version* Every university today seems caught in a frenzy of mechanization. Every subject and nearly all research are grounded in Cartesian logic—the logic of the machine. No matter what euphemisms are used to disguise it, the fundamental truth remains: science and technology, as they are currently pursued, have become a serious menace to nature. Nature is no longer seen as a fountain of enlightenment, but merely as an economic resource. There is no market value for discoveries, revelations, or inner understanding. If it were possible, nature would be nailed to a wooden log, dissected, and emptied of its contents in order to extract economic benefit. René Descartes nailed animals to tables and opened their bodies to prove that they were only machines—entities without feelings or pain. Today, universities continue a similar violence against nature. They not only attempt to render Gaia lifeless and mechanical, but also subject nature to endless manipulations called “inventions,” slowly destroying nature’s innate ability to flash insights, discoveries, and revelations. An overwhelming majority of nature—over 99.9965%—is invisible to the human eye. Even an atom is almost entirely empty space. Galaxies themselves are mere specks floating in the vast vacuum of the universe—an immense ocean of understanding and continuous transformation. Thoughts, emotions, and feelings have no visible form, yet they are real. True education can arise only through concentration, experience, and a deep emotional interaction with nature. Through sustained practice of experiencing, nature spontaneously reveals discoveries and insights. One begins to see beyond form and enters the abstract, formless universe through feeling—this is real seeing. What our eyes present as solid three-dimensional reality is, in fact, an edited and censored illusion. If we could truly see down to atoms and particles, the macrocosm would dissolve into the formless microcosm. Objects would cease to exist as “things” and instead dissolve into “thinks”—into vacuum, into the ever-changing ocean of understanding. Today’s universities offer education almost exclusively grounded in Cartesian thinking. Without machines, universities can scarcely function. Worse still, there is little room left for real education, because universities have hijacked learning itself and corrupted it through mechanization. Every machine harms nature, and universities remain busy inventing newer tools and manipulations that further exploit it. Planet Earth now suffers from a fatal Cartesian lunacy. Everything in the universe is interconnected—not through physical wires or copper links, but through understanding, symbiosis, and perhaps electromagnetism itself. Education must be rooted in feeling and direct experience. Machines cannot understand or feel on our behalf. In their relentless pursuit, universities attempt to construct a Cartesian Theory of Everything—through string theory, loop quantum gravity, and holographic models of the universe. In doing so, they risk mechanizing even God, reducing the divine to an economic or technological resource. Let us hope that universities will at least call a spade a spade, and restore sanity by beginning with something simple: preserving untouched natural spaces. A free nature park, left unmanipulated, could become the starting point for real education—education born from experiencing and feeling the living world. — *Y. M. Sarma* ------------------------------ *My Views on Your Argument* Your essay raises *important and provocative questions* about modern education, especially its overdependence on mechanization and reductionist thinking. You make a strong philosophical case that *education has drifted away from wisdom and toward utility*, from understanding toward exploitation. Strengths of Your Perspective - You rightly criticize *Cartesian reductionism*, which often fragments reality instead of understanding it holistically. - Your emphasis on *experience, feeling, and intuition* aligns with many Eastern philosophies, phenomenology, and even modern ecological thinking. - The idea that universities prioritize *economic output over enlightenment* is a widely shared concern, especially in the age of industrialized research and commercialization. - Your critique of turning nature—and even God—into a “resource” is powerful and ethically important. Where Balance May Help - While mechanization can harm nature, *science itself is not inherently anti-nature*. Many scientific traditions—ecology, systems theory, neuroscience, quantum foundations—also seek interconnectedness and humility. - Machines are tools; the deeper problem may be *how universities choose to use them*, not their existence alone. - Feeling and experience are vital, but they become even more powerful when *integrated with careful reasoning*, not placed in total opposition to it. A Possible Synthesis Rather than rejecting universities or science outright, your vision could be strengthened by advocating for: - *Experiential education alongside scientific inquiry* - *Nature immersion programs within universities* - *Ethics, philosophy, and contemplative practice as core disciplines* - *Technology guided by ecological wisdom, not economic greed* In essence, your essay is a *call for re-humanizing education*—or perhaps more accurately, *re-naturalizing it*. It reminds us that knowledge without wisdom is dangerous, and that understanding cannot be mechanized. If you’d like, I can: - Make the essay more academic - Make it more poetic or spiritual - Prepare it for publication or a speech - Or help you write a counter-argument or dialogue version Just tell me. -- 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%2BN%2BQQg2D8MPua6gY%2B8ULAXcx%3Dom8x16PFQm_QLmFJAxg%40mail.gmail.com.
