Wabi-Sabi*
Extremism in anything is bad.
Even to pass on this message of feeling of annoyance against
technology one has to use technology.
Unloving criticism is as bad as uncritical love- both are
susceptible to overlook facts and realities.
Some years ago a well known swamiji was sermonizing about
the utter uselessness of materialism which he said ‘was not required for life’
at all.
I just went near the stage and switched off the mike.
It has become a fashion to condemn everything modern and
predominantly used by the present generation and also by all or many at present.
Surprisingly this tendency to put down modern trends-irrespective
of their importance, impact and also indispensability in some cases- is even
adopted by institutions which are supposed to promote them.
Drucker forum conducted a
conference last year titled ‘Claiming our
humanity in the digital age’ and I did write a rejoinder
Instead they start viewing them as something against all
things old and start viewing it as different and dividing factor.
They all forget the
inevitable polarity principle in nature and evolution.
As a result of this wrong perspective and attitude there is
an unending list of ‘versus’:-
Faithful versus unfaithful;
Religious versus irreligious;
Science versus Religion;
Science or religion versus spirituality;
Tradition versus taboo;
Technology versus Humanity;
I can elaborate the damage it has done to the development of
humanity leading to petrified ideologies, putrefied perspectives, puerile
interpretation of many things and view various polarity principles as paradoxes.
Recently I had to refute a great scholar on this.
Technology is religion and gadgets are
the new gods.
Humanity and
Technology- let us not see it as humanity versus technology
Paradoxes or Polarity
SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY
*Japanese word:-
Much has been written on this Japanese concept,
but in a sentence, one might be able to understand it as “a way of living that focuses
on finding beauty within the imperfections of life and accepting peacefully the
natural cycle of growth and decay.”
No comments:
Post a Comment