The Topic
The problem
is that we fail to acknowledge that ‘Technology is religion and gadgets are the new gods’
“We live in
a changing universe, and few things are changing faster than our conception of
it”-Timothy Ferris
But Professor, please note that MSM
is finding you to be communal and doing injustice to them. Only last week Honorable MP Sitaram
Yetchury declared to the ever enthusiastic secular media that ‘Make in India’
and ‘Digital India’ will not generate jobs [I think CITU does]. They prefer him
to Bharathan or Raja because the TV channels feel that these two may along with
biting English words also end up biting the mike sets.
The problem with science and
technology is that they have displaced vague inanities and also inane vagueness
in many matters and thus have deprived many of their livelihoods and some of
their entertainment.
Some morbid
minds and manipulative minds manage to
unite the luddites of the world with appealing slogans, as Murphy’s law
says ‘ a good slogan can block reasoning and thinking forever’ by advancing
arguments like Ronald Reagan used to do with his famous one liners, “ I notice
that everyone in favor of abortion has already been born”.
The
influence and impact of technology is too obvious and it has also cleared many
areas of confusion which even great academic scholars like Colin McGinn is to
express, “ The head spins in theoretical disarray; no explanatory model suggest
itself; bizarre ontologies loom. There is a feeling of intense confusion, but
no clear idea about where the confusion lies”.
However, the
mind set of status quo addicts, who suffer from the usual conflict generating
impulse [of projecting differences out of inherent polarity] suffer from
pessimistic closures of cognition. This becomes more dangerous and becomes
contagious when peddled through political or religious ideologies.
Even the so
called advanced societies and organization are susceptible to this, Drucker
Forum’s theme this year was ‘Claiming Our Humanity — Managing in the Digital Age’ for which I wrote
this
[A bit
lengthy with lot of links in it but those who have time can read and hopefully
reap something out of it]
Various
political systems, albeit with some short comings, have accelerated the
establishment of living together of human species as social beings with some
specific patterns benefiting growth of civilization as function organization.
Art,
literature, religion, culture, philosophy etc have accelerated, expanded and in
some cases enhanced human thinking, imagination, idea etc to contribute to
various facets of human life organizing it to function efficiently.
Science has
helped human beings to explore, to experiment and to understand rationally and
also use that understanding for betterment of all life forms, including
environment. Technology has accelerated this process and brought the benefits
to various spheres of life.
You also
will have to expand your visual arena and take note of things in the attic of
museums of fossil genetic samples wherein you can find the leftover Indian
Left’s ideology like Yetchury’s excellent observation and ruthlessly dismiss
them because otherwise IIM may have a secular student union which may get
activated if they want to divert attention of the nation through MSM.
