Alternative Reality For Illusioned Humanity by Santosh Jha (books to read for teens txt) 📕

Human brain’s journey with wider, un-survivalist and knowledge related Information began early in our civilization. Around 3000-4000 years back, philosophy was the torchbearer of human inquisitiveness and wisdom. It was impending and incumbent upon Philosophy to ask relevant questions and seek sincere and honest answers. Human knowledge began on sound footing with early intellectuals in possession of philosophical duties were respected well and had the support of people, who looked upon them as leadership. That was however the Time, when human knowledge could not go much beyond innate intuitive thinking and cognition, even though the philosophers did their best to be inquisitive about almost every little aspect of life-living and milieus around. They however did not have the tools and enough Information to arrive at definitiveness of what we now know as scientific objective Reality in its holism.

Science now has taken the leadership baton from philosophy, even while the later still remains valid and worthy, as it continues to supplement and support science with relevant questions and alternative possibilities of answers. However, in contemporary Times, objective science is the definitive ‘benchmark’ of approaching all Realities. It is altogether different matter that contemporary science is not as respected and followed by masses, as ancient and even modern era philosophers were. Science has not been duly and definitively handed over the crown position of human leadership, as it was given to philosophy in earlier centuries. Tragically enough, a rogue politician or an iconic movie star is far more powerful mass leader than any brilliant scientist in contemporary world of humans!

Still, as Philosophy did earlier for humanity, contemporary science is the true and definitive Timekeeper for humanity. Humanity is as back and forth in Time linearity as the scientific knowledge pool takes us to. What contemporary science has known and established as True and Real, is the Benchmark of Presentness and Contemporaneous for an individual. Anyone, having lesser Information than the benchmarked ‘Wisdom’, lives in Past. Someone, who can seek to know more than this benchmark is a futuristic person.

Human brain has evolved so far as innate and tough nature ensured that all brains of single species remained ‘leveled’ at this critical ‘presentness’ at any given point of time. As we have talked earlier, all animals process Information in innate and entrenched way and there is no cultural metaphorization of Information. That is majorly why all brains of a particular animal population are at this ‘Singularity of Presentness’. They behave and act in consonance with singular collective and contemporaneous wisdom of the herd, which itself emanates out of singular common processing of Information by the collective minds of animals in herds. We have all watched how every year many hundred thousands of Wildebeest of Serengeti, along with Gazelles, Impalas and Zebras follow a definitive migratory ritual of crossing the Mara River in collective action/behavior. This is the magic of singular brain Presentness & Contemporaneousness, which is rare for humans. Yes, humans also somehow poorly simulate the ‘animal behavior’ when they watch a passionate soccer game in large stadium or become a crowd of rioting humans on streets.

This missing singularity is definitive superiority of humans as it allows them the differentiated cognitive shades of Reality. However, this is also the core trouble element of humanity and this happens because human brains are at different Timelines, primarily because of the troubled ‘metaphorization’ of innate and entrenched Information by human cultures. That is why, we talked about the blatant need of an alternative culture and other human systems, which are based on singular benchmark of ‘utility’ and ‘worth’ as decided by the contemporary Timeline of scientifically objective and universal Information, available to all humans of the world, irrespective of which country they live, what ethnic identity they belong to and whatever faith they may be free to follow. Human knowledge for all 7.5 billions of people on earth and the Information plexus they are deriving from it, must be singular and universal. If not, then the humanity can never ever be at one Timeline and may always remain divided, conflicted and confused.

There may never be equality of resources every human possesses in human systems. However contemporary concentration of most wealth in five percent hands should also be immediately corrected and an alternative human system must have at least ‘equitable’ distribution of wealth and incomes. However, there must be reasonably high equitability of knowledge and unfettered Information to all. This Equitability of Knowledge is the primary and transcendental Liberty, which we have talked about earlier. Humans without Liberty are worse than animals as they become slaves. All human brains and mind consciousness must have reasonably high equitable consciousness and cognition levels, so that they all live in ‘presentness’ of singular Timeline. This Liberty is available inevitably to animals; why humans should lag behind? This fair equitability of Information shall facilitate a harmony and symmetry in human cultures and systems that ‘govern’ or organize human lives, especially the corrupted political systems. Equality of Information is the very basis of Liberty of humanity. The contemporary age of advanced scientific knowledge of humanity can and it must ensure this universal Liberty to all humans. This is the bare minimum, the alternative and novel culture humanity needs in 21st century.

The fact remains to be entrenched as core cultural wisdom that economic equality of material resources is not even important for human systems and life-living. The economic prosperity probably requires some level of reasonable ‘inequality’ of incomes and resources but not as much concentration of wealth as it is in contemporary human world. The requirement is ‘equitability’, where no human should be left to suffer any hardship because of sufficient resources for food, education, health and security. These are bare basics for every human and it is the duty of all political systems to provide equal facilities to all its citizens with respect to the bare basics. There still shall be enough areas where unequal resource distribution can be allowed and it shall not affect the overall harmony and symmetry of societies and cultures. Yes, provided that along with universal endowments of bare basics, every human being have perfectly equal access and possession of Information and its sanctity and sanity is ensured by contemporary scientifically objective benchmarks of Reality.

We need to clearly understand, what basically ails the current human cultures and human systems when it comes to the very critical idea of ‘equality’ and Liberty. We deliberate here these aspects to arrive at how we need to unlearn the current cultural stupidities/hypocrisies and embark on a true alternative idea of equality and liberty.

We have talked about how Information seeks its Media for expression and communication. Also, the Media itself manifests its own ‘messages’ as Information, often metaphored and represented. Therefore, the Information keeps changing and transforming itself at different milieu and media specific dimensions. These transformations create Causalities and these causalities in turn engender Purposes. We have hypothesized earlier that innate and entrenched information become metaphors or symbols of the Reality because the Media itself loads, shades and lends ‘forms’ to innate Information. This in turn translates to a transformed reality that Media and its own ‘loaded messages’ become the ‘purpose’ itself than what true and real purposes the innate information could have been. The Media invests its own sense and cognition of ‘Purpose’ on the causalities and here the trouble starts.

Let us be more specific and understand it with more clarity. Our body-mind is a very powerful Media. The consciousness, which itself is the Media of body-mind plexus, is the genius of representation of Information to create its own subjective Reality. It processes the innate causalities in a way that has high entropic probability of seeding depravity and mediocrity. The body-mind Media has its own set of survival causalities and it comes in the form of Innate and entrenched Information but expressed as metaphoric subjective representations, which we term as Hunger, sexuality, comfort, safety, relationships, etc. These Informations present themselves as ‘Purpose’. These purposes are just the means for the survival optimization of the Media as the Media is powerful enough to embark on a journey of many shades of other set of information. The body-mind Media and its sub-media of Consciousness however assigns undue and obsessed ‘worth and utility’ to the basic but survivalist ‘purposes’ of Hunger, sexuality, comfort, safety, relationships, etc. Here the entropic probabilities creep in. These purposes are essential but they are not what the Media has the innate potential to attain. It is the simple question of ‘ends’ and ‘means’. The means cannot be and should never be ‘ends’ in itself. This is mediocrity and depravity. The consciousness is such a powerful Media and it is the ‘Portal’ of infinite realities as it can and it should access infinite information in the milieus, much through non-intuitive cognition. This is what the Media of consciousness has potentials for and these are true and real ‘Purposes’.

For example, I join a new job and the first day I visit my office, I invest all my time and energy in ensuring I have the best of facilities. So, I find the office cabin small for my comfort. I am unhappy with the chair and desk and want them changed with ‘suitable’ ones. I am not fully satisfied with the laptop I have been provided with and want them replaced. The curtains, the upholstery, the stationery, the feel of the place, the air-conditioning, everything seem so out of place to me and I want them all changed to my satisfaction. It is very much like most humans spending all their lives, investing most of their energies and Time on availability, abundance and specificity of survivalist ‘purposes’ of Hunger, sexuality, comfort, safety, relationships, etc.

Alternatively, what I could have done on the first day of my visit to my new office, even while I would not have been ‘happy’ with the above-mentioned facilities, is mingle with my colleagues and strike a harmony and camaraderie with them. I could have met my seniors and try to imbibe what they expected me to work as and what were the core issues, where I could prove my utility and worth as new entrant in their work system. Or I could have visited all other departments, other than mine, to understand the holism of the mechanisms and processes my new organization had for me to have a true and right perspective of how I could make a difference in their quality augmentation. The list is endless, provided, I had the Time and energy spared from my ‘unhappiness’ with facilities and replacing them to my ‘satisfaction’. Moreover, even if everything in my new office were perfect to my satisfaction and even better than what I had expectations of, I still could not have done what alternatively I could have or ‘should have’ done, if I did not have this consciousness, cognition and informed awareness about what ‘alternative’ there could be as my ‘work ethics’, sanity and sanctity. I, my consciousness, my cognition of worth-utility-success, my sense of purpose, my choices, etc are all ‘contextual’ to the quality and quantity of Information, which permeates and saturates my brain plexuses. I, my life-living, my success and my utility-worth are all just about Information. This information must always be very contemporaneous and at par and in sync with the presentness of collective accumulated Information Pool of humanity. This alone can ensure that I have the facility of optimizing my best potentials in all domains and dimensions of I, my consciousness, cognitions and causalities, which I confront and engender.

This situation and reality is for all of us. It happens with most of us. As we have talked earlier, majority of men and women have to struggle all their lives to have sufficiency of basic elements and resources of life-living like livelihood, food, safety, security, health, education, relationships, respect, affection, etc. Tragically enough, majority of human lives hover around just this miniscule Information of livelihood. Most