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

has to be against the status quo. The entire 20th century has successfully worked out and strengthened such symbiotic structures of greed between politics and economy, that in 21st century, as the realism seems to stand today, the human world is a theatre where only five percent humans are controlling the lives of rest of 95 percent humans, relegating them to the status of slaves and puppets in their hands.

The last decades of 20th century somehow very meticulously and successfully eliminated the dominant and cardinal position of philosophy from the global human discourse. The philosophy always ruled human cultures as it perpetually pushed ahead and atop the need for evolving idealisms for higher purposes of human life-living. Philosophy was dangerous for gangs of profiteers as the powerful advocacy of liberal minds and liberal attitudes stood as sentinel against conspiracy of politician-corporate nexus to enslave human minds.

The dying years of 20th century however successfully ousted philosophy from its crown position and instead installed the new king called psychology. Psychology is convenient tool in the hands of politician-corporate gang as it portrays humanity ‘As It Is’ as against philosophy, which speaks of humanity ‘As It Should Be’. The last decades of 20th century almost killed philosophy and the new king psychology was dexterously used to install and spread the agenda of ‘Five Percent’ over the ‘95 Percent’. The 21st century has succeeded in complete transformation of the idea and expression of Liberty. Liberty in contemporary human world lexicon stands to mean ‘Full Freedom of Complete Consumption of Market Manufacturing’.

Globally, there are passionate talks of more growth in economy and it dominates all human discourse. Money and investments has emerged as the only truly ‘global citizen’, with liberty to travel anywhere and be welcomed. It is the only single language that the entire world speaks and understands without confusion and conflict. People seems to have been conditioned to see and accept that Rights and Liberties essentially mean how more people should consume and how more and more people should avail whatever is there for consumption.

Globally, a small group of rationalists have been warning that there has been a constant and persistent effort by politics and market forces to unleash such trends that blunt the propensity of human minds to think and rationalize. The education systems globally has been divested of liberal thinking and rationality discourses and invested with skills for human minds to perform ‘assigned tasks’ to repetitive uniformity and compliance. This needs to be understood not only as a localized or regional reality but a global causality.

Earlier, at the end of 20th century, education was designed to create humans who could work uniformly like machines. Now in 21st century, the machines and artificial intelligence has replaced humans as they do the same task better. Now economy, markets and corporate do not need humans as work force but only as consumers. People are now being trained, not by education system but my ‘media-message-management’ to become insatiable consumers with little or no ability to think and rationalize. Ideal situation for insanity to prevail and sustain for optimum profiteering!

We can surely put this phenomenon into a perspective. As we proceed into a life-living situation, where milieus around us have become growingly and unimaginably complex and expansive, the modern average consciousness of common men and women develops the propensity for ‘entropy suppression’ to avoid abstractions and confusion of thinking and action. This is natural. When reality or perception of it becomes complex and confusing, there is a natural urge to make things simple and easy to avoid complexities. Thinking and rationalizing is surely not easy and simple!

So, this rising trend has its own set of troubles and allied repercussions on cultures and society. The entropy expansion; the reverse of entropy suppression, usually leads to independence and liberal expressions of consciousness as the accommodation space expands. Historically, liberty and its optimum expression has been directly associated with entropy expansion mode of consciousness. This however leads to larger randomization and diversities of thoughtfulness, perspectives and behavior-actions in society and cultural landscape. This liberal consciousness and independent cognition is a definite recipe of trouble for society, culture and especially the political set up and government.

Political structures always have trouble with liberal and expansive perspectives as it weakens the legitimacy of authoritative patterns of governments. Liberal governments historically have been associated with less nationalistic and ethnicity fervor and less authoritative administration. This has changed as governments are under pressure to perform batter, look after the growing consumption demands of people and compete better in their global economic adventures of moneys and investments. This has made the modern governments to seek and administer more authority, more discipline and more uniformity of actions. The liberal population with larger independence to thought-action expression is now in direct clash with political authority. This may be called the China-Model of Growth, which is threatening all other erstwhile big and powerful economic powers of post-second world war era. Somehow, many countries are now happily following the Chinese model of growth-governance, even while braving up to counter surging Chinese power.

Naturally, average individual facing political and societal repression for ‘uniform’ and ‘unified’ behavioral regime, willfully starts doing entropy suppression. This compresses accommodation and assimilation urges of consciousness and therefore, many liberal elements and their asymmetrical expressions are either mitigated, subdued or squeezed. This itself in long run creates another set of trouble for societies, cultures and politics. This entropy suppression and adherence to uniformity of consciousnesses creates deep crisis of Monolithic Cognition. Monolithic cognition means majority of people have singular, partial and uniform viewpoint and perspective on core belief and utility that political masters offer. This kills holism.

Initially, the monolithic cognition suits the political structures as it enables and ensures discipline and uniformity but in long run, this becomes the license to autocratic tendencies and kills democracy. This is already happening in many parts of the globe. Experts warn that in USA, India and many European countries, the monolithic cognition of collective consciousness has dawned upon and consolidated itself. It has begun to influence the political structures and popular psyche there, especially in USA and India, where majoritarianism has started to supply license of autocratic behavior to the political system and violence to societal layers. It has already percolated down to demographic levels where majority identity behaves autocratically and violently towards minority expressions. Naturally, the minority cognition and perspectives are in dire threat. The societies and cultures are under huge threat of uncontrolled entropy that is set to unleash catastrophic energies of conflict and chaos. They already are!

The discerning minds and receptive people with rational and holistic perspectives can see and visualize that at macrocosmic levels, things have moved to such extremes that a correction and restitution to normal is now almost impossible. The trouble for humanity and its growing propensity towards insanity seems to have become systemic. The milieus have become so charged and filled with reactionary energies and belligerent competitiveness that it is gradually but decisively shaping and coloring average consciousness of even normal men and women to self-centered and self-obsessed cognitions. The end result of this prolonged self-obsession, which majority of people believes is a must for survival in contemporary socio-cultural and political-economic milieus, has considerably eroded and dwindled the collective altruism, especially personal as well as collective quantum of compassion, which is core to the sanity of system.

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CHAPTER 4

Somehow, given the current hypothesis about Reality, which contemporary human wisdom accepts; the entire idea opens up for novelty of diverse interpretations and philosophization. Objectively speaking, even average people have their reasons to see and accept that as Reality is not singular and definitive, probably intellectuals and experts of different domains are ‘cherry-picking’ suitable perspectives from contemporary world milieus and theorizing as per their own predilections. This perception is common among masses, globally. This emergent trend has twin troubles of intellectuals not caring enough for non-reactionary and holistic expression of their genuine concerns on one hand and average men and women growingly becoming less open to criticisms of their fixed beliefs. Unfortunately, both troubles are maturing and consolidating.

It is the same situation, which has often been associated with history. It has been said that history is not the expression of ‘what was there’ but what someone ‘wants to see’ what must have been there. Somehow, very few people are willing to learn from history that world is always a better place to live when all possible shades of Realism is allowed compassionate and accommodative advocacy as well as hearing. It is because holism must have as many possible dimensions of realism and they all must have equitable playing field in society, culture and politics. Contemporary world has this aspect hugely missing. History’s lessons seem to have never been dumped and sidelined as summarily as it is being done now.

For example, there are serious voices that warn about twin disasters that are imminent and ready to explode anytime, threatening to make organized human live extinct from Earth. These voices cite threat of Nuclear War and Environmental Changes as imminent and already big threats on face of humanity. Still, majority of average men and women are least bothered about them and many even think that such threats are only unreal and perceptional, created and lobbied by a section of intellectuals and experts to install their own personal or group agenda.

Similar is the situation with issue of rising threat of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other cutting-edge technology like 5G internet system, etc. Globally, there are voices that are listing some imminent threats to organized human life-living in the new millennium and they also put out strong advocacies for governments to pay attention for corrective measures for restoration of sanity in the system. However, average people and even governments globally seem to be oblivious of them. Rather, there seems to be an unobserved skepticism and observed disdain about such concerns.

The basic and primary idea is that as Reality itself is an elusive proposition in human scheme of perception and communication, there probably can never be singular and unified human initiative towards any threat to sanity and system. Probably, the very dualistic nature of Reality orchestrates an ever present, innate and intrinsic ‘Causality’, which lines up one group of humanity as beneficiary of an ‘Insanity’, even while larger human population may remain devastated by the same insanity.

For example, the very threat of nuclear weapon insanity evolved in the same line. The environmental issue also has same story. The technology as threat also has same old reality. The very idea of nuclear weapon was an insanity that a country created and executed on humanity. Ideally, there should have been global and complete annihilation of all nuclear weapons so that history could never be repeated. However, what happened was that few nations have them and they are not interested in destroying the weapons but using all possible power and clout to stop all other nations from having it. So, the Reality has just shifted shades. Insanity is not killed but what is done is stop it from spreading to others, even while monopolizing the insanity as an ‘asset’ and as clear threat to others for submission and one-upmanship.

So, broadly, Reality itself is neutral. The perception of good and bad Reality is only contextual and relational. Therefore, history tells us that since inception of human civilization, what humanity has always done and has accepted as benchmark of success is to control and monopolize ‘contexts’ and ‘relativity’ in such a fashion that it makes Reality collapse in their favor and profit, even as it creates disaster for rest of humans. Human definition of success is in positioning ‘Causalities’ in their favor so that the Realties these causalities or contexts collapse and create stands and remains in their favor and benefit, even while the same stands as authoritative command over rest of humanity for subjugation.

It is this transcendental approach of humanity towards Reality that has the seed of insanity in human world and life-living. This hypocrisy as singular basis of all benchmarks of