Ecology-vs.-Economics
The greatest lunacy that has taken over mankind, and now sweeping the whole specie, is Economics. It is the ultimate mass lunacy. We the Homo sapiens have long back become the homo in-sapiens, the most anti ecological and ego centric or lunatic specie. This anti nature or anti ecological cult is supposed to be development. At one go without batting an eye lid, we assert that the entire Universe is just a resource for the use of only mankind!
“Life is not merely a murderous game in which cheating and killing insure the injection of the rogue’s genes into the next generation, but it is also a symbiotic, cooperative venture in which partners triumph. Indeed, despite the belittling of humanity that naturally occurs when one looks at “Homo sapiens sapiens “from a planetary perspective of billions of years of cell evolution, we can rescue for ourselves some of our old evolutionary grandeur when we recognize our specie not as lords but as partners: we are in mute, incontrovertible partnership with the photosynthetic organisms that feed us, the gas producers that provide oxygen, and the heterotrophic bacteria and fungi that remove and convert our waste. No political will or technological advance can dissolve that partnership.”(Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan in Microcosmos).
Well, we are actually attempting to dissolve the partnership and also destroy the partners, viz., the rest of the biosphere and that attempt is what is called economics. Let us for some time leave the human perspective and adopt the perspective of bacteria, to study nature and our cult-the economics.
“From the microcosmic perspective, plant life and animal life, including the evolution of humanity, are recent, passing phenomena within a far older and more fundamental microbial world. Feeding, moving, mutating, sexually recombining, photosynthesizing, reproducing, overgrowing, predacious, and energy expending symbiotic microorganisms preceded all animals and all plants by at least two billion years.”
There is an urgent need to leave the anthropocentric (or ego centric) perspective and adopt the perspective of bacteria which are still the architects and administrators of evolution. You are now living because; every single micro second of your life is due to the activity of the bacteria in you. Economics is the flower of ignorance and absolute stupidity.
We are fundamentally and foundationally bacterial based organisms.
“People are neither fundamentally in conflict with nor essential to the global ecosystem. Even if we accomplish the extraterrestrial expansion of life, it will not be to the credit of humanity as humanity. Rather it will be to the credit of humanity as a symbiotically evolving, globally interconnected, technologically enhanced, and microbially based system.”(Lynn Margulis and Dorian Sagan).
We need to urgently change our perspective. It has to be the ecological and more importantly from the perspective of the microorganisms. Nature is not the usable and consumable wealth. You are part of nature as one symbiotic organism. The very concept of consumption boils down to self consumption-tuberculosis. Economics as it is taught today is outrageous. Kind Regards. Sunder T. 20150925
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