Back to Writings
STATE of EMERGENCY.
It would be hard not to see that there exists an
(albeit officially not yet declared) state of a
globally wide emergency. This emergency is
unprecedented in the entire history of humankind.
Humans have run out of physical space. Until relatively
recently the wise way to solve disputes and the lack of
fields to grow crops on was to pack up one's family
and move onto a new, by other humans not occupied,
territory.
To employ this stratagem of solving intergroup
differences is no longer possible. The landless and
persecuted ones can no longer go to a "New
World"; the proverbial "young man" of
New England can no longer "go West", and no
islander can any longer set the sail for a new, of
humans devoid island. Yet, while the habitable space is
limited for humans, the problems and disputes that
humans are creating for themselves continue compounding
themselves in the crucible of the hermetically limmited
world in which the precious and base substances stay
inseparably together to react together again and again,
with outcomes that are impossible to foretell. The only
sure prediction that can be made is that along with
increasing wisdom, the suffering of the Earth's
inhabitants will also increase, - the suffering
generally affecting much larger number of beings than
the number of those who benefit by the increased
wisdom. The more smarter computers and bombs we have,
the more homeless, hungry, criminal, imprisoned, and
desperate ones we have also, and their fate interests
us less and less in an inverted proportion with their
rising numbers.
We, the academically trained people, are directly
responsible for this state of things in the world,
because it is us--the magisters--who administer this
world (most states-persons are academically educated)
and thus, directly and indirectly, we are also creating
all the misery that seems to be impossible to get rid
of. Those two aspects of actions performed by
university created people imply that the hands of
"Alma Mater" do not know of each other's
doings, but the Alma Mater should know! The state of
affairs in the world is the direct result of the
woefully inadequate education of those who lead
humanity. At universities to care about the welfare of
the world is a subject at the bottom of a list that is
headed by learning about how to excel in subjects whose
objectives are held to be important only in order to
decide who are going to be the leaders, and who is
going to wash the dishes. It is time to indeed
"subvert the paradigm" and put first things
first - there is a state of an acute emergency in the
world that is being inexcusably ignored.
|