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Humanics
Humanics!
What is Humanics!
Cells!
Cells! Celluone!
A
single
human body has a few billion cells that enable it to function as a
biological "machine". Yet when we look at a human being or
ourselves we don’t see these cells or think with a cellular outlook.
However, for the purpose of making a point, let us take a look at this
biological genetic "machine" that is built
They are a unit of life and living organism; each of them has to serve a
set of functions: keeping alive, eating, breathing, drinking, waste
management, reproduction in order to continue the survival, fight enemies to
keep alive and
well.
Yet on their single self they know none of these billions of cells could
do any of these jobs and therefore, each and everyone of them is destined
to perish! The
fact that they do not perish makes us wonder why that is the case.
Well, because they realise that they cannot crack the business of living
on their own alone! Therefore, they begin to join forces. Similar cells
come together to become stronger and able and they form tissues and yet
they are not yet capable
of doing a lot! So the coming together continues and similar tissues come
together and form organs and here we see that now these tiny cells are not
tiny anymore!
They are now capable of achieving almost impossible. In the process they
divide the whole range of tasks between the right organs and therefore
organ that is responsible to take blood to each cell (through which it
takes food, nutrition
and oxygen and get the waste back to be managed) does not get concerned
with taking news of happenings which is the job of the nerves system.
Everything is divided between organs that come to form systems and all
systems know their functions and do not fail to carry them out. In this
absolutely tuned and harmonized systems of biological supreme engineering
no organ or system or tissue or cell is more or less important. Each unit
is absolutely vital and
paramount for the functioning and survival of the whole.
We might say this organ is the most important or that system is less,
however, biologically speaking that is not true. So we see that human body
cells all have to
work together, unified in their common goal of survival, living and
keeping alive while ensuring that the cycle of life continues to flow. In
this process if disharmony strikes, if cells begin to act on their own,
worse still, begin to act against each other then we are done! But this
does not happen! In human body cells do not act against each other, they
act within the harmony of togetherness because each of these cell’s
survival and keeping life flow going depends on their working together at
all time.
Now that we have looked into the biology of cells we would like to
look at humanity that occupies this planet. Each one of us of this human
race is like a living cell in a total universal human body and each one of
us has the same list of jobs and functions that we need to be able to
carry out. Here each one of us, like our individual cells find that this
is an utter impossibility to actually do it on our own. We have to realise
that our common togetherness is the only way we could sustain our singular
individual life and living.
Now, here is the big problem: the way we are living in this current time,
we are divided into so many different things, identities, boxes,
nationalities and God
knows what else, we are working against each other as groups, as nations,
as religions, as language speaking blocks, as classes, as buyers and
sellers.
This is causing continual disharmony, unrest, disturbance, strife and
tribulations, stress, distress, sorrows and pains that are bound to
essentially kill us off! This would happen to a human body if each cell
begins to act against each other.
So when we are told, competition, jealousy, resentment, hatred, being
unkind, nasty, selfish and any other negative traits that we could think
of, all these are "natural human" qualities, we simply respond
by saying these are absolutely untrue! These are not natural human traits
or characteristics rather they are behaviours of "normal" humans
that the system we live in has successfully
bred and trained so that they serve the system while dying in themselves
by ensuring that they kill each other and eventually the whole body of
humanity.
Of course, the argument that would come forward and can be almost seen
coming, is well, humanity is not a single human body and therefore, the
biological analogy does not hold the sack of argument. Well, without
metaphorical usage of language human understanding is like a house made of
send. So yes, this is a metaphorical expression, yet this holds truth.
And our system, its politics, its jurisprudence and legal system and the
whole culture is such that forces everything to be black and white, into a
manipulated majority and a cornered minority, left and right, legal and
illegal this that and the other.
The politics is a science and profession that divide people into ferocious
little groups that are ruthless in their ambition and determination to
acquire power.
This whole system of politics, culture, profession and apparatus is
corrupting and corrupt in itself, as it does not allow humanity to be able
to exercise humanity rather it gets human beings to become mechanised and
ruthless.
It can train and make us anything it wants us to become: all it has to do
is to make it legal and pay lot of money for it as well as employing the
propaganda and branding machine behind it so that it is well grounded in
the market psyche and begin to be seen as acceptable norm. Look at the
armies of the world, look
at the people who are trained to carry out legal state murders and look at
the rest of us always doing the things by the books as we are trained to
do. (No disrespect to any
profession is intended here.) This, profession of politics must
be replaced by a profession of humanics that does not divide humanity into
groups and parties, minorities and majorities, left or right because there
is only one humanity and every single member of this humanion has a moral
right to be with everyone one else and a moral obligation and duty to
themselves as well as to the whole to do anything and everything in their
power to ensure that the individual maintain and enhance and live their
life while ensuring the whole is capable of doing so.
That is what humanics is and ought to be about. Humanics is the study of
the business of humanity’s living and the profession of taking humanity
towards
that harmony that is a must in order for us to maintain and enhance,
advance and foster humanity and develop ourselves into a humanion on this
blue
planet.
Majority does not have a moral high ground because morality does not come
either from a mass or a single individual but from the truth and truth
cannot be
made by a majority agreeing on something. In theory, majority can be
manipulated to agree on a falsehood that would not make it true nor
would it make it moral.
At the same time when A, B, C, D, E, F and G get together to agree on a
joint course of action for supposedly everyone’s benefit and common
interest each with the stand point that each of them has an inclusive best
interest which is not anyone else’s best interest all they would end up
doing is not achieving any best
interest at all simply because they do not believe in a so called common
good. However, on the other hand, if all of them join the summit not to
negotiate but to attempt and find a way to resolve a problem as
mathematicians would do then they ought to believe that this problem that
they are to resolve must have a solution (no mathematician would say that
a particular mathematical problem lacks a solution) and all of them then
would concentrate on together to locate that solution and once they found
it they would be jubilant and celebratory. This is not what we do now. One
comes up with an idea that they think would server him and others are
likely to accept it yet others do not see it or approach it that way,
instead they look at it and try to see how that might impact upon them and
harm them and their response depend on that.
That’s why we have a mess in international affairs and politics. Here there’s no morality is playing a part at all. Morality and democracy comes from people and their consensus of their discussions and debates and of their sincere and natural participation and involvement where experiences, knowledge, science, philosophy and wisdom have played their part and most importantly, all the participants are involved not because they have a vested interest or greed but they have a moral obligation to do absolutely everything in their power to come together in finding a way for humanity to carry on taking the singular individuals to develop and continue as valid and functioning unit of the whole while the whole is able to continue to do so.
Foot
Note: Is
there any University on this Planet that can be courageous enough,
visionary enough, imagination-bound enough to see the future of Humanics
in relation to the development of the humanion and begin to offer some
kind of academic discipline on the subject of Humanics! Let's see! There
must be some hope as we are eternal optimist!
Unveiling
a Country: Waiting for a Nation, State, Government, Laws and
Philosophy
Logical viewpoint would point to an infinite space that we call the Universe; on or in which we find our Blue Planet floating away as it goes around its axis every day while orbiting the Sun as it spins around. The immediate space in which we find the globe rotating is the Solar System which is formed around the gravitational and electromagnetic force region to which there are planets, to which the Earth is one, that orbit the sun. At the furthest corner of this tiny space inhabits a dwarf planet, Pluto, which is about 5, 913,520,000 km away!
Looking beyond this space, let's give her a human name: call her Sunnara, this new country of humanity, fondly lighted, heated and cradled by the burning Sun, we find a much wider and bigger space that we call the Milky Way which houses our home Sunnara, in a vast expanse of multi dimensional space spectacularly bewildered by more than 200 billions (estimates range between 200 and 400 billions stars!) stars that are gigantic in sizes among which the Sun is just a tiny dwarf star! Sunnara lies at the peripheral end of the galaxy, which is approximately 28,000 light years from the centre of the Galaxy!
The diameter of Milky Way Galaxy is 100,000 light years or there about! We are not writing about the Milky Way as Astronomers would write, therefore leave the science bit of our exploration and try to enter another domain of discussion.
Suffice to say that Milky Way is a tiny dot in terms of what other Galaxies, clusters of them are thriving and living out there, about which we have minuscule knowledge and understanding, let alone those galaxies, we do not know much about our own Galaxy Milky Way, and to be frank, our system, to which we devote our whole life time, does not give much importance to this at all and therefore we do not see resources going into the studies of sciences, mathematics and geo-physics that we need to develop our knowledge, understanding and to go with it, make the necessary technological advances! No, we are busy doing lot of other things that are our utter preoccupation.
So here we are faced with a space that spreads across the void infinitum, 100,000 light years! This distance is almost impossible for our finite human minds to actually grasp. We can gather a slight degree of vague empathy as to the vastness of the distance just to acquire enough sense to create a sense of the reality.
Now we invite you to zoom in so that we could locate our home, Sunnara in this vast entity of space and objects going through three-directional spinning round and we locate a dot. If we magnify the space many times over we could now see little dots in vast darkness where we find at the centre this almost eternal lamp burning away: the Sun and the little planets that have little moons and things are working perfectly well.
And here we see our Blue Planet and here now we have got our goings on that do not at all take anything else into consideration about the Universe! Forget about the Universe or Milky Way or even Sunnara we do not even think about the Earth as one little entity. We are so many nations, so many nationalities, so many states and governments, so many maps and mental traps of multi faceted identities that we are not one in our human identity. We human beings are all and everything but a nation of humanity or a humanion. We are fragmented into pseudo boxes that are made of illusory borders and political lies!
On this scale of things one can really see things in perspective and is forced to question the vary foundation of our system of governance, structures of our functionality and the fallacy of our philosophical ideas and impotence of our political and cultural mechanics and foundation of our political morality.
We have nations, states, governments and bodies in layers comprising of neighbourhoods, localities, provincials, regional, national, supranational, multinational and international that brings us back to the question: where is the humanity in it? Where is the nation that should occupy, lead, manage, develop, nurture and foster this country of Sunnara where humanity practices its common purpose that offers them fair and equal opportunities to live and work for a meaning of their living? Where is the state for this landscape that is not a flat map? Where is the government for the management and leadership of this space and this nation that is yet to be prepared and shaped up to be ready to take up new challenges? Where are the political, social, cultural, philosophical and moral values and most importantly, where is the philosophy on which everything should be based upon!
We do not even have a body that represents and can claim legitimately to be the government of this globe! No one is bothered about the lack of even the idea that the globe needs a government for the nation of humanity and for the country that Sunnara is. The United Nations is the closest entity that could be made into such a body only if we the broken-to-pieces-humanity come together to realise that it is time we begin to change the way we think and identify ourselves. The United Nations ought to be reshaped and remade on a totally different philosophy and structure where these village governments do not get to become members but each individual member of the humanion is a member of this body and this body becomes the government of not only for the Globe but also for Sunnara and lead humanity to the process of resolving grievances and issues that have been left unresolved between so called nations on earth. In this process we could resolve these issues that are causing hatred to germinate and grow like wild bush fires and this resolution can only be done by reliving, retelling, re-examining, analyzing and finally understanding so that these issues could be put away sealed as forgiven, forgotten and therefore resolved and we all are now ready to be members of this new nation of humanity. No hatred, no resentment, no rivalry, no jealousy, no animosity, no competition but a commons sense and purpose. For finding some guidance and wisdom for this, one ought to think of South African experiences of truth and reconciliation which should take place between all nations.
When Sheraton Hotel is spending a lot of money in designing their first Lunar Sheraton, Richard Branson's Virgin Space Holiday Programme is a couple years' away from becoming a reality and Russia in order to generate cash to support its space programme and research offering space tourism flights to the ultra rich; is not about time, we wonder what are the laws and systems that would regulate and support this expansion into space! How are these expansions going to impact on our lives, and if not regulated, theses might open up catastrophes in cosmic scale from which nothing could save us!
It is not in too distant a time in the future, probably few decades ahead, there would be space tourism starting from the moon and spreading to other planets. There would be lunar camps and facilities where students would go and live, study and research. There would be time when the whole Sunnara is going to be explored the way people went about learning and knowing more about the Earth in the recent past centuries! These activities would generate pollution and a whole lot of other political, social, cultural and moral issues that we do not have the systems, mechanisms, apparatus, laws and law enforcement bodies and a philosophical framework that could prepare us to deal with. People are selling space on the moon for gift, issuing gift vouchers! They are selling space on the Mars too! How these are going to create problems in future in terms of claiming ownerships on these so called purchases! This might sound like joke today but these could produce serious difficulties and we do not have mechanism to deal with any such things. These are no longer science fiction issues! The countries of the world that have the scientific knowledge, explorative experiences and most importantly, the required technological abilities as well as political power and structures in addition to will and determination to go out there and declare the supremacy first and therefore would end up like the land lords of the universe keeping the whole of humankind under their control and manipulative prowess unless we are now able to do something about it so as to be able to avoid that.
In order to take up the challenges that humanity is forced up to accept and act upon, we first of all need to become one: "we the people" must now be woken up and say: "We the Humanity is One" and if we need to call it a nationality, call it humanion, the nation of humanity that occupies this planet and that our planet is part of our country Sunnara.
Our country can no longer be UK or America, or South Africa or India, Japan or Egypt. These are our little villages from where we venture out into this new country.
Under the current atmosphere and system of economics and governance we are drowned in hatred, resentment, wars and conflicts, bloodshed, famines, droughts, lack of vital and fundamental necessities and amenities and the absolute supreme reign of lack of education and awareness as well poverty while another part of the world is living in utter excess and wasting and abusing resources. All these are feeding more hatred that is supported by bigotry, prejudices, made up "knowledge" , lies, myths against other nations and the history of colonisation, of wars, of massacres, of exploitation, of brutality, of slavery, of imposition, of abuse of power, of impacts of corruption and collusion, of a whole range of other issues that do not help but reinforce the divide and continual increase of more lethal hatred. Humanity ought to begin the process of its own Truth and Reconciliation Process so that it "purifies" itself of all the blood and destruction, of all the death and pain, of all the suffering and agony, it caused to its own members (nation to nation, group to group, tribe to tribe, religion to religion, party to party, region to region, this to that and so on) and in this process the so called nations get buried and at the funeral of these boxes of identities a new nation of humanity, a humanion comes out to take up its role to develop this new country and its nation with all that they need to prepare them to take up the challenges that previous humanity could not even imagine or understand.
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