Stray thoughts

The modern technological revolution took the world by storm, everything else faded into the background. Now the new advances are coming every day rather than every year or century or millennia. Human knowledge has expanded with such rapidity that philosophy soon became out of touch with scientific development and had to hide behind an analysis of language to stay around. The only people who now believe in the effectiveness of philosophy are the Marxists and they are also finding it hard to explain things with the help of an out dated system of belief. Belief?! Yes it is only a set of beliefs really. Most of the tools of analysis used by the system are so antediluvian in the modern world. This may sound like a harsh criticism, but ever since the atom bomb was discovered the chance of a socialist revolution became almost non existent. To hope for an internal revolution is to hope for the impossible now. Even the loose and unformed liberalism is finding it almost impossible to cope with the modern realities. The modern reality is fluid and virtual rather that static and physical.

All this happened in a few decades time in the last century. Even the shape of atom was not fully determined before the 20th century came around. It required the genius of Einstein to solve the hot debate between the atomists and anti atomists. He decided in favor of atomism. This battle had raged for centuries. Even If we forget the contribution of Kanada to the theory of atomism this feud was begun at the times of Democritus who thought that every thing is made up of atoms. Even the discovery of J.J Thompson of electron did not bring any relief to this struggle. Then came Einstein .But with the advent of Quantum Mechanics every thing was topsy turvey again. Now we rest on a strange wave- particle theory to explain subatomic phenomena.

This instability has also reflected in the theoretic approaches in fields of arts also. There is an increasing confusion as to the nature reality of which we are speaking about. We can’t anymore substantiate reality in the older method of physical observation and analysis. With the advent of propagandist culture everything became defiled. We do not think of it now but none of that we see or experience in our world has the same kind of reality such things had in the world before. Open any number of dailies and you would come across any number of versions of reality. All would claim absolute factuality. Switch on the TV. It is the same thing there. The matters do not end there. These media’s are infested with subtle advertisings and subliminal programming that aims at controlling the brain of the audience. Who can believe any of that is displayed in them and if we can’t believe them then what can we believe in?

The world and the intelligentsia failed to cognize the changes happening within it. The philosophical approach to the world had become stunted as it withdrew into its shell of linguistic analysis. This has placed the world at a great dis advantage. At this point of history we can see no visible signs of an intelligent approach to what is happening in the world. The need of the hour is some such vision. Not the scientific vision of a futuristic society, something human and enduring. Well these are but stray thoughts, more effort is needed to make them into any presentable order. I might try to do it in the future.

This is all for now.