Collated by Tusar Nath Mohapatra
We bid goodbye to one of the rare men of our age who understood that the great crisis of modern civilisation was not simply environmental, economic or technological. It was a crisis of belonging. May the earth you so loved receive you gently, Wendell Berry.
From 'The Unsettling of America':
"The disease of the modern character is specialization. Looked at from the standpoint of the social system, the aim of specialization may seem desirable enough. The aim is to see that the responsibilities of government, law, medicine, engineering, agriculture, education, etc., are given into the hands of the most skilled, best prepared people. The difficulties do not appear until we look at specialization from the opposite standpoint—that of individual persons. We then begin to see the grotesquery—indeed, the impossibility—of an idea of community wholeness that divorces itself from any idea of personal wholeness.
The first, and best known, hazard of the specialist system is that it produces specialists—people who are elaborately and expensively trained to do one thing. We get into absurdity very quickly here. There are, for instance, educators who have nothing to teach, communicators who have nothing to say, medical doctors skilled at expensive cures for diseases that they have no skill, and no interest, in preventing. More common, and more damaging, are the inventors, manufacturers, and salesmen of devices who have no concern for the possible effects of those devices. Specialization is thus seen to be a way of institutionalizing, justifying, and paying highly for a calamitous disintegration and scattering-out of the various functions of character: workmanship, care, conscience, responsibility.
Even worse, a system of specialization requires the abdication to specialists of various competences and responsibilities that were once personal and universal. Thus, the average—one is tempted to say, the ideal—American citizen now consigns the problem of food production to agriculturists and “agribusinessmen,” the problems of health to doctors and sanitation experts, the problems of education to school teachers and educators, the problems of conservation to conservationists, and so on. This supposedly fortunate citizen is therefore left with only two concerns: making money and entertaining himself. He earns money, typically, as a specialist, working an eight-hour day at a job for the quality or consequences of which somebody else—or, perhaps more typically, nobody else—will be responsible. And not surprisingly, since he can do so little else for himself, he is even unable to entertain himself, for there exists an enormous industry of exorbitantly expensive specialists whose purpose is to entertain him."
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Vedic Paradigm: The Subject as Subject
My prior post on abstractions becoming devas in the Veda was perhaps not clear. Let me try again
You see an abstract is itself an abstraction
The Vedic Rishis did not see the intellect as having an independent existence or interest. They described things as they are. Not theory. Reality
Whom are they describing? Themselves. This is the crucial distinction
When I say I love Agni, Agni is not sitting outside to be described. Agni is my state. It is I. There is no duality here
Does this make sense? I am Mitra or I am becoming friendly in RV 1.2.7. Or I am invoking my transformation to a friendly loving state and person. There is no separation
The world outside is an abstraction that goes away on a deeper meditation. The ego is an abstraction that is the creator of the sense of I. Aham- kara, the creator and creation of the sense of I. But,
The Veda is an entirely different ballgame. It is not describing a dualized universe but something very intimate, profound, आत्मीय
That is the crucial difference between boys and men.
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क्या Vedas सिर्फ हजारों साल पुराने धार्मिक ग्रंथ हैं, या उनमें आज की Gen Z के सवालों के लिए भी कुछ meaningful है? Don’t just inherit answers. Learn to ask better questions.
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Being seen is one of the greatest privileges and one of the greatest risks. — article written by Christine J Ko, MD doctorsonsocialmedia.com/creativity-fee… via @somedocs
Although I feel pressed for time and would never want to be seen as a less than diligent physician, hobbies help me stay grounded in humanity through remaining fully aware of my shortcomings. Writing helps me be a better doctor. The more I write, the more I am unable to not write, but the more I write, the risk of jeopardy seems greater.
Anyone putting a part of themselves out into the world, whether it be in the form of a creative pursuit like a book or trying to sustain a connection with someone, is vulnerable, creating an opportunity for rejection.
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You might have the most brilliant ideas in human history since Aristotle, but if no one knows who you are nothing will come your way. By contrast, once you begin to get stuff out there writing opportunities snowball. Suddenly people are asking you for pieces here and there, for contributions to their journals and conferences, and so on. Writing issues more writing. This is true even of blog writing. When I think of people to contribute to conferences and edited collections, these people are usually people I’ve corresponded with or who have blogs that interest me. Had they not posted their random thoughts I wouldn’t have thought about them.
However, there is another reason that the more you write the more you will write. Writing is like kudzu. Kudzu is a vine common to the south that grows at about a foot a day. It’s a really amazing (and irksome!) plant. This is how it is with writing as well. Writing grows from writing. Writing produces the imperative to write more. This is because, as you write you discover new themes, new concepts, and things that need to be worked through. Like a growing crystal, writing expands. In my view, one of the biggest mistakes aspiring writers make lies in trying to write before you write. By this, I mean that many writers, myself included, try to have their ideas before they write their ideas. But things just don’t– at least for me –work this way.
Now, of course, just as you need a seed to form a crystal in a supersaturated solution, you need a seed to start writing. However, the seed is not the idea. The idea is something that only comes into being in the process of writing. It is not something that is there prior to writing. The point is not to have the idea before you write, but to allow the idea to emerge in writing. And once you’ve produced a lot of chaff, you then get to the arduous work of polishing and organizing. In this regard, it is a necessity to write obsessively and all the time. This is where ideas are born, not before the act of writing.
The drive for originality is also a big impediment to writing. On the one hand, we suffer from a sort of transcendental illusion. We (or I) think to ourselves that if we have an idea it can’t possibly be original precisely because the idea is familiar to us. It is not new to us. But writing is not for us, but for others...
An encounter with the unfamiliar, with alterity, generates an unassimialable kernel with respect to what I had previously been focusing on. That kernel functions as a seed to throw thought in motion, generate new conceptual spaces, form a weave of relations to make sense of these disparate worlds, thereby generating the work of writing.
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