sushil_yadav ([info]sushil_yadav) wrote in [info]adbusters,
@ 2006-09-13 12:22:00
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Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment
The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.

The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.


Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment

Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet.
Subject : Environment can never be saved as long as cities exist.


Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.

If there are no gaps there is no emotion.

Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion.


When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.

There comes a time when there are almost no gaps.

People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps.

Emotion ends.

Man becomes machine.



A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.

A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.

A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety.



FAST VISUALS /WORDS MAKE SLOW EMOTIONS EXTINCT.

SCIENTIFIC /INDUSTRIAL /FINANCIAL THINKING DESTROYS EMOTIONAL CIRCUITS.

A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY CANNOT FEEL PAIN / REMORSE / EMPATHY.

A FAST (LARGE) SOCIETY WILL ALWAYS BE CRUEL TO ANIMALS/ TREES/ AIR/ WATER/ LAND AND TO ITSELF.


To read the complete article please follow either of these links :

http://www.planetsave.com/ps_mambo/index.php?option=com_simpleboard&Itemid=75&func=view&id=68&catid=6

http://www.earthnewswire.com/index.php?option=com_forum&Itemid=89&page=viewtopic&t=11


sushil_yadav

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[info]moralxdilemma
2006-09-13 06:57 am UTC (link)
How many more communities do you plan on posting this to?

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[info]sushil_yadav
2006-09-13 07:03 am UTC (link)


What is wrong if I have posted on several communities? Does it harm anyone? Does it hurt anyone? Does it kill anyone?

The important question here is why do we have so many communities in the first place? We have many communities because each forum is visited by different people. If the same people were visiting all forums there would be no need to have different forums - we could very well have one forum for all discussions and for all people.

My article is related to the following keywords - Environment, Philosophy, Nature, Ecology, Activism, Socialism, Mind, Yoga, Meditation, Spirituality, Global Warming, Climate Change, Simple Living, Frugal Living, Anti Globalization, Anti Capitalism .... and many others. There are different forums for all these topics and these forums are visited by different people. This is why I have posted my article on so many forums - my article is suitable for all these forums.

I have always posted in communities that are relevant to my article. I always check the keywords/ interests of the community before posting.

sushil_yadav

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[info]moralxdilemma
2006-09-13 07:11 am UTC (link)


There are different communities because each community discusses *different* issues. Even if they may have overlapping interests listed. Simply having an interest listed does not necessarily make your article on topic, or your posting of it appropriate. Your journal seems to have been created entirely with the purpose of posting this single article. You therefore don't seem to be interested in participating in the community dialogue.

If you are intent on spamming my friends list with you article, then is it possible for you to put it behind a cut and post to all the communities at once. Then it's over and done with at least.

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[info]mcfnord
2006-09-13 07:35 am UTC (link)
While I think the article fits here, a cut would be quite welcome.

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[info]agent139
2006-09-13 04:00 pm UTC (link)
Now here I agree with you.

The time it takes me to scroll through a couple extra cross posted messages is worth the message reaching more people.

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[info]agent139
2006-09-13 03:58 pm UTC (link)
I don't know, the underlying assumption here strikes me as false.

I feel all the time when I'm thinking, there are plenty of times when I'm not thinking, and not feeling either. The idea that emotion and thought are opposites on a continuum just doesn't line up with experience, though a lot of people seem to take it as true because it is a myth that we've bounced around probably since Descartes if not well before. (I think before, in the time of the "scholastics," the primary cultural myth in the form of a dialectic was probably faith/reason, but whatever.)

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[info]kinkygiggles
2006-09-13 04:44 pm UTC (link)
Well if you go back to Plato...

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[info]agent139
2006-09-13 04:47 pm UTC (link)
I'd say the "myth" of Plato had something more to do with the dialectic of identity/form and reality... which-- though it was one of the central arguments of Philosophy throughout "western history"-- got dragged out of the closet thousands of years later in the signified/signifier (Saussure.)

(Only using quotations above as I usually do, meaning the term is questionable but it's the best I have at the moment.)

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Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment
[info]sushil_yadav
2006-09-14 02:01 pm UTC (link)
There has been some talk on thoughts and emotions on this thread. I would like to clarify a few points.


Thoughts and Emotions are different things - totally/ completly different.

Words can be spoken - words can be read - words can be heard.

Emotion is a subjective-experience. Other examples of subjective experience are taste, smell, headache, stomach pain.

One can understand the difference this way :

When we eat an apple we can feel the taste of apple. Apple can give us the taste of apple - but apple is not taste.

If we pour apple juice into a glass - the glass will not feel the taste - it does not have the ability to feel taste.

If a person eats an apple he will feel the taste - because he has the ability to generate taste from apple.

Words/ Visuals can evoke, intensify and sustain emotions - but words/ visuals are not emotions.

sushil_yadav

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