Sanity Is Impossibility by Santosh Jha (books to read in a lifetime txt) 📕

the straight question as whether Love is Utility and Futility, Good and Bad or Right and Wrong and find how the answers come. Anyone can find that answers shall come from different perceptions of Love, emanating out of different experiences of Love for every individual and after asking a reasonable number of people the same question, one can see that the answers shall broadly be classified into seven or plus shades. It is largely because humans or human minds come in broad seven shades of consciousnesses.

What we mean to say is Reality is dualistic only at theoretical levels at macrocosmic domain. For human world, the Reality is always multidimensional and almost broadly in seven shades, still having innumerable sub-shades. Also, the perception is never static and keeps changing. The same person may speak about Love differently at different time and space context and relationship. Change the context of Reality of Love and the same ‘observer’ or consciousness is in most likelihood shall visualize and relate with the Reality differently. This is true with almost all Realities of human world.

Given the nature of Reality, as it is perceived and accepted by different human beings, it is somehow easy to handle and manage when the scale of magnitude of humanity is small. In small magnitude, it is easy to manage differences and bring in cohesion and symmetry in ideas and perspectives. Also, in small group of humans, it is possible to play up a one identity of commonality and gravitate all differences around them to install order and symmetry. Small group of people can be reached out well, trained successfully to see and accept singular perspective of a Reality for larger wellness.

However, the tragedy is that we are around over 7.5 billion people and spread over a vast area of the Earth with varied physical, social, cultural, economic and political contexts and relationships. With such a magnitude, it is now almost impossible to work out singular worldview and perspective of Reality. Moreover, the biggest trouble is the stonewalled identity of nation-state, the nationality factor of identity between humans, which is now so powerfully hijacked by politicians and their benefactors that any effort of commonality and universality shall stand defeated. Look at how emaciated and drifted the United Nations stand today, despite its high ideals and common goals for humanity.

Empirically, we can see how people usually behave reasonably well individually and in small, dedicated socio-cultural or political groups where it is easy and amenable to install a singular Reality for all to see, accept and follow. We also know from experience that small countries with manageable population, largely homogenous demography and history of uniform cultural evolution have better discipline, sanity, system and order in socio-cultural as well as political-economic domains. It is structural because as we all know, human mind consciousness is hugely stupid at seeing and understanding holistic ideas and realism. However, it is genius at breaking something to small ‘parts’ and invest all its genius onto that for success.

There is a clear pattern of the chaos, confusion and conflict that takes away the possibility of sanity in most collectives of humanity. It is simple and easy to understand it. It needs to be accepted that what the core and transcendental nature of Reality envisages is Liberty. Liberty is the canvas that is primary and critical to the expression of differentiated shades of Reality by different people in a collective milieu. No doubt, humanity has struggled a lot in past centuries to install Liberty as the core and cardinal principle of human life-living excellence. This itself somehow proves that the core causalities of nature, have powerful and predominant expression, which runs deep and thick through the ‘media’ that human consciousness is.

Now it is another debate whether causalities create its suitable medium and its message or physics of elements randomly create media and later causalities are created as per the nature of media. Both ways, what concerns we humans is there seems an emergent and evolving cyclicality between causalities, media and message in our immediate and larger milieus and together they not only impact how Reality is perceived as but also installs a ‘specificity’, which is seed proceeds of 3Cs – Confusion, Chaos and Conflict in human world and life-living.

Therefore, it is pertinent question to ask, ‘What Liberty entails?’ It simply underlines the core nature of Reality. Liberty emanates out of the primary acceptance that Reality cannot be singular and as there shall always be different shades of Realities for different people, everyone must be at free will to accept Reality as per his or her individual cognitive expressions and practice whatever principles he or she deems fit. Liberty therefore underlines the Reality of human world and human life-living. It allows accommodation and prosperity of relativity of context and relationship that humans have for acceptance of Reality. Liberty creates causalities that require specific media and as Liberty is human expression of Reality, it is only natural that Liberty installs media, which are human creations within societal life-living domain. This social-societal necessity of Liberty originates political ideas and spaces and in turn, the emergent and evolving political causalities create economic structures and functions.

That is probably why as early as 16th-17th century; humanity had accepted individual liberty as the singular guiding principle of all human practices in collective domains. It clearly accepted all human institutions and groupings, even state power and society as subservient to the individual will. This universal idealism of liberty and its optimal expression postulated the central and predominant position of individual in all human scheme of things to come in future march of civilization and culture.

However, this idealism had always had roadblocks and vitiation primarily because humans could not ensure the quantum of compassion required in social, cultural, political and economic milieus for the idea and idealism of liberty to play out. Rather, gradually, the reverse happened as state authority and nationalistic sentiments made liberty subservient to state power. The compassion element gradually gave way to competitiveness and conflicts. Interestingly, this was done on the name of individual’s empowerment and wellness! The brute force of state power however, happily termed itself as ‘Welfare State’!

It has to be understood that the big trouble is that the very idea of Liberty is highly entropic in nature as it unleashes powerful energies of diversity and asymmetry. It is only natural that such powerful energy field has to have enough scale magnitude of operative space so that it does not interfere with the energy field of another individual. Also, it was essential that overall milieus remained sufficiently compassionate to minimize conflicts and competitiveness. Politics came into being in human world with this specific requirement. Politics by definition of its nature means humanly designed and devised structures and functions to accommodate, assimilate and systematize different competing and conflicting shades of Realities. Politics by its very origin means a compassionate meeting point of all competing energies in society and cultures to optimize Liberty by arraying and aligning conflicting ideas and demands into a System of Sanity. And, democracy was accepted globally as the single working tool of political maneuvering for Sanity.

It is altogether different matter that politics itself had such inherent and innate ‘Causalities’, which engendered the Frankenstein of Insanity and Conflicts. The ‘media’ of politics may have been designed to communicate and express the compassionate element of assimilation and accommodation in social-cultural life-living but as discussed earlier, this ‘medium’ of politics had its own ‘message’. The massive power structures, causalities of authoritative control and legitimacy for violence etc ensured that politics itself turned out to be the single largest killer of compassion, assimilation and accommodation.

Contemporary nature of politics globally has come to stay as ‘Dispenser of Solutions’, which it is not designed for. Politics has no solutions to offer, instead, politics in contemporary world is the single largest trouble of humanity! Politics in contemporary human world is the best example of the calamitous reality of ‘Medium Is Message’. Interestingly, modern politics is behaving almost similar to the ‘mechanism of evolution’, which is accepted by most as ‘stupid engineering’.

Liberty, by very definition is itself contextual and relational as Liberty is a Reality only in societal context and social relationships. There is no meaning of the reality of Liberty in a vast jungle where a single human being lives. Liberty is a socially-contextual Reality and as a natural corollary, stands as a competing idea just because of the fact that its operative domain is a physically defined space of society where people with different perceptions and perspectives live side by side; often in uncomfortably intrusive limits. Human population is now many many times more than what could be the idea of ‘enough space’ for every individual to practice his or her personal diversities peacefully. The population is also not equitably dispersed. Also, in modern times, all human lives with their stakes on available resources on Earth are so intricately linked to each other that it is truly tough for an individual Liberty to express itself and not interfere with that of others.

The very idea of liberty stands as a competitive entity as its innate nature, which makes it highly entropic. It is simply because Liberty has meaning only in human world and humans live in finite domains of space, time, resource, etc. Naturally, liberty of different individuals shall always compete with each other to optimize the energy field of Liberty. As human population is much beyond sustainable limits of the Earth, every passing day, the operational space available for each energy field of individuals liberty is shrinking, making the competition harsher and exceed the probabilities of compassion, accommodation and inclusiveness. So, liberty itself engenders such causalities that play out their realities in a way that erodes compassion. Erosion of compassion in life-living and human milieus is such powerful causality that it unleashes elements that murders sanity.

In contemporary human world, it is this hugely entropic energy of Liberty, which is incessantly hiking the quantum of insanity and disorder in societies. Take the example of how modern world has come to stay as a major theatre of liberty of women, across the globe. Since thousands of years, women liberties were suppressed and now they have come to the forefront of all major societal, political and economic discourses. However, as majority of men world have not taken this women enterprise for liberty with sufficient quantum of compassion, accommodation and inclusiveness, the entropic structures between men and women have only strengthened, causing more chaos, conflict and confusion between them. Similar is the case with all other hitherto ‘marginalized’ sections, who are attempting to take their liberties to the mainstream of societal-political-economic discourse. Every new expression of liberty is shrinking compassion and enhancing stress of conflict.

It is however debatable, whether there could be a possibility of sanity and non-conflict if there were only five humans in the entire cosmos, living in far away galaxies. It seems, even then there probably could not be peace because some day, the five would get connected and even while there would be enough space, the causalities of Liberty would creep in and at least one of the five humans might feel that he or she should ideally own 95 percent of the cosmos, instead of the current 20 percent! Liberty as the expression of reality that human consciousness perceives is a ‘causality’, which automatically finds a ‘media’ for entropic probabilities.

The idea is that Reality shall always find expression as it essentially is contextual and relational. Reality happens or it is installed only when a context of a causality collapses it. Therefore, it seems very probable that Reality can never allow its own permanency and stability because Reality is created with this innate, entrenched and embedded energy of ‘Context’, which in turn enters into dialectical evolution. A ‘thesis’ is created along with ‘antithesis’, a matter is created with anti-matter. So, Reality probably cannot be without context and context cannot be without dialectical evolution. Naturally, entropic energies shall always remain working, never allowing stability and permanency. This by very