IT SEEMS A VERY STUPID thing to say but it seems, human intelligence, what it is deemed as in popular sense, is the worst element of disaster for humanity! It is truly crucial to demystify the puzzle as why the best problem solver of universe is now mired in and overwhelmed by worst of problems; mostly of its own creation.
We wonder, how even ancient humans successfully build mega structures like Egyptian Pyramids and Taj Mahal In India, at a time when today’s modern technology and tools were not available. We call them ‘Wonders’. It was all possible because thousands of men and women, who worked to build these wonders, adhered to singular and objective principle of architectural design and structure making. It was possible because, there was this only possible way available for making these wonders. This principle remains the same.
Humanity developed the structures and functions of global aviation, space satellites, computers, internet, automation and proven solutions for almost all health problems. These modern wonders became possible also because of the singularity of methodology and scientific principles, which engendered them.
However, the same brilliant human, the magician of all solutions for all possible troubles is a huge flop like a stupid when it comes to solving his or others personal problems. Humanity could not even fix a singular benchmark for societal or personal good and bad.
Individuals and society at large are facing acute and widespread problems of drugs, suicides, corruption, mafia, crime, racialism, terrorism etc. We are culturally, ethnically, economically as well as politically a hugely divided and conflicted bunch of 7 billion people on Earth. We are conflicted and confused within and having its larger than life reflection in our societies and cultures. Why?
The answer seems very clear and simple. We have attained huge mechanical success but fail in our cultural excellence. Our technologies are common globally and accepted with ease. However, culturally, we have huge difference of personal as well as collective behavior.
The simple fact is – the mechanical success comes because of the adherence to ‘singularity’ of objective, proven and measurable procedures, which we call technology; whereas the cultural failure owes it to plurality and multiplicity of conflicting subjective procedures based on culturally-differentiated opinion, conjecture, imagination, hearsay, dogma, ideology, fantasy and fiction having almost little measurable and proven basis.
If we have to make huge and state of the art space satellite, we can have a team of a hundred scientists and technicians from same number of countries. They shall work together peacefully and successfully build the satellite, even when they have different languages and cultural preferences.
However, even if a team of a hundred intellectuals from one single country, with same ethnicity and cultural background is gathered to chalk out a simple thing like a primary school educational syllabus, there shall be loads of conflicts and debates. Almost every single person shall have his or her own idea and this he or she would insist to be the right one, and probably the only right one.
It is just because, their ideas shall be very subjective, based on subjective imagination about what they deem as good and right. Unlike technology, their ideas shall not be based on singular, objective, measurable and proven basis of knowledge and wisdom. The conflict and confusion is bound to prevail.
It is just a simple notion to understand. A husband and wife shall have conflict over later wishing to go on a vacation and former wanting to buy the latest Television set in the market. Once they decide on a Television, it shall be easy as there shall not be a battle over which one. The one with latest technology, with most features and applications as well as the best brand value shall be a unanimous choice. However, once the Television is at home, the fight shall commence over who shall watch what on it!
We are stretching this idea in long discussion just to bring to the attention the realism that those issues, which are purely emotional, intangible, inter-personal, behavioral and ideational, shall be always open to larger conflicts and competitiveness compared to those, which are tangible. The reason is, former is in the domain of subjectivity and later in objectivity.
The very understanding that subjectivity and cultural elements are great facilities for us but, they are also the elements, which prompt us to unnecessarily ‘dress-up’, which is genuinely a simple trouble. Knowledge and acceptance of this mechanism shall help us in ‘undressing’ our problems for easy solutions.
# Excerpts from author’s free eBook, ‘Naked Solutions Of Dressed Up Life Woes’…
