Talk 14: I-ness camouflaged!

Talk 14: I-ness camouflaged!

6 November 2020 Off By Naginder Sehmi
  • Art of camouflage

    Even a chameleon cannot outdo human BHG in the art of camouflage. Having learnt everything from nature, we have become superbly shrewd and arrogant. Our I-ness has fortified in goodness and badness. We have become divine creators, inventors, destroyers, and spoilers. Yet we are unable to resist fighting each other to enhance our I-ness. With much difficulty and by using crafty tactics through political and social groupings we manage to maintain some form of peaceful working order and at the same time satisfy the I-ness of the ogre. Often the order breakdowns and explodes into local and global conflagrations just short of total wiping out.

    The more civilized the greedier

    At this point in time, we have failed to safeguard Earth’s ecological systems, failed to prevent self-inflicted suicidal disasters, and failed to share wealth fairly. Governing bodies at all levels are run and manipulated by powerful commercial forces run and manipulate governments to manage the economy, work force, finance, industry, commerce, and armament. Entertainment industry and the rich have enslaved art and culture.

  • Children know and appreciate more about Harry Potter, Superman, and other fake and extra-terrestrial beings than they do about plants and birds around them. Politicians specialize mainly in talking and arguing. They conform to the biblical contention: the more civilized they are, the greedier they become. It is difficult to disagree with Jonathan Swift’s contention, “I should never have attempted so absurd a project as that of reforming the Yahoo race in this kingdom: but I have now done with all such visionary schemes for ever.” We are as virulent as ever, if not more.

    Helping Grete

    While I do not want Grete to read my pessimistic vision, I wish that my fellow beings would read these lines and hopefully change to save sick Earth. This would certainly reinforce Grete’s efforts.

    Finally, I would like to return to the inner devils of our nature. Our powerful forces have set up innovative production and commercial enterprises. They ensure the supply plentiful affordable goods and services, thus satisfy the basic needs of human beings in richer regions.  This has awakened the inner devils in poor regions in a frightening way. The mighty inner devils comfortably lodged with colossal enterprises do not need to observe any moral and ethical codes when plundering nature. This demonic wheel of human I-ness continues to grind to:

    1. Provide jobs so that individuals can consume more and satisfy their need and greed.
    2. Exploit natural resources to produce consumer goods.
    3. Generate profit to expand production, provide jobs and satisfy the ever-greedier needs of the exploding human population.

    This colossal wheel is the aggregate of the total human greed. this greed has mutated into national and multinational I-ness. The wheel is getting continually bigger and choking the entire ecosystem. Would you like to witness sick Earth suffocate? Will our Earth-Doctors ever develop a vaccine and use it to make the killer BHG less virulent?