Some Basic Aspects of Humans’ Relations to Nature

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What can be seen in nature are somewhat patterned motions, not random or unruly mix-ups. It is not possible to understand or ascertain nature in its whole, because humans are one of the least constituents, and are not equipped physically and intellectually for such a job. But in class societies when one small section tries to dominate intellectually over the majority they demonstrate themselves as the monopolistic representatives of overall understanding of nature. Hundreds of bourgeois intellectuals and scientists are being produced by this ridiculous and shameful system. Most of the scientists belong to such a fraudulent species that they never disclose the simple linkage and methodology derived out of ordinary experience which guided them to reach the logical complexities of their contributions; they deliberately keep this secret to dominate their intellectual superiority over ordinary people and the existing intellectual substratum.

The substratum of a class society is normally associated to some sorts of generalized categories like nationality, religion, race etc. The development of bourgeois intellectuals and intellectualism are also related to these categories. Bourgeoisies are basically exploiters; unless they snatch they do have nothing. Since they are in the job of snatching they are robbers, and it is not possible to develop any sorts of intellectualism by themselves. They share the loot to feed certain sections and develop some sorts of coole intellectuals and intellectualism. In this mess-up these cooles, and times even the bourgeoisie themselves, pose as the monopolistic representatives of knowledge. This is being the normal scene of all class societies. In these courses of development and conflict a set of understanding emerges as a system of knowledge. In this context, bourgeoisie try to solve all the contradictions which they encounter through this system of knowledge. It stays as an instrumental mechanism of bourgeois intellectual production as far as bourgeoisie is able to feed these cooles.

Hitherto such developments of knowledge systems are the product of class societies. So, most of such knowledge systems, class aspects— aspects of exploitation of both nature and humans—are the basic aspects. This makes the basic orientation of any class knowledge system as synthetic and misleading regardless of its complexities.

Impacts and repercussions, and its interrelations are the basics of change. When humans intervene in nature and change the natural aspects of impacts, repercussions, and its interrelations based on synthetic mode of translations—counter posing nature against humans and vice versa, spirit and religion, centre staging humans among natural constituents, speculative logical systems like philosophy and physical science as knowledge of nature, etc. such innumerable areas based on blunt logic, generalization and intellectual freeplay of these—it affects the natural developments of cycles, and thus lives and surroundings.
As such it is not possible to develop an absolute knowledge system because both external and internal environments are in constant cyclic motion state. So, as time moves on, knowledge systems and knowledge will be qualitatively replaced.

In a class society, in such a changing scenario, the development of knowledge based on human’s relation to nature is absolutely prohibited; in spite of that the dynamic ride as a changing system through class contradictions makes any knowledge system as relative, relative to the aspects of class exploitation. So, western systems, like most of the other systems, are racial and class oriented. They are based on synthetic hypotheses like generalization, logical freeplay, and absolute concepts.

Intellect and morphology of humans have developed as part of food gathering and survival in response to ever changing physical surroundings based on impact and repercussions and subsequent interrelated changes of internal and external environments. It can be generally concluded that these developments are part of a cyclic process, but still it is not possible to comprehend all the cycles responsible for such developments, and most of the smaller cycles as well as larger ones are unknown. Humans could only able to grasp certain cycles in between these larger and smaller cycles. The known basic functions of an organism are survival, food gathering and consumption, and reproduction. Development of morphology is hierarchically ordered—morphology of organelles to organism, and even more micro level to macro level and its interrelations to natural environments, and vice versa. Based on the prevailing human knowledge, external and internal factors are mutually depending on impact and repercussion, and its interrelations on developmental process. But regarding humans, rather uniformity of their physical development reveals that the whole process is part of a particular cyclic stage. Changes are cyclic in nature, if these change—the development of humans inside this nature, both as individual and species—are cyclic process, and then it also has to undergo growth and decay stages. Therefore no static stage is prevailing in human’s physical developments. All the stages are the part of motion cycles, neither the successor nor the predecessor stage repeats as such as in anywhere of the stages. The present stage, like all other stages, is delicately interwoven with the external surroundings. If this is true, then humans or any living things, as individual and species, the predecessor and successor generations vary from the present generation. The variations can be either towards growth, or decay depends on the stage of the cycle.

Every motion in this nature is cyclic, and no cycle repeats as such as again. There are larger cycles and smaller cycles; smaller cycles are part of larger cycles, or hierarchically ordered. Motion decides the assembly of an entity. If the nature of motion is cyclic, then the lifespan—another motion of upper order hierarchy—is also cyclic. So, as such there is no absolute existence, as for as human’s knowledge is concerned, possible in this nature. Existence of an entity has innumerable relations to its surroundings. No human mind or epistemological apparatus could be able to comprehend an entity in its absolute relations, and this is applicable even for a dust particle or any least entity in this nature. Human’s relations to nature are related to his physical survival and food gathering. So, it is possible for humans to develop certain methodological understandings to these activities. These are purely physical developments, might have developed over his journey since his arrival in this nature due to interactive relations between internal and external environments. When humans interfere in other areas of nature, other than food gathering and survival, he uses copies of these methodologies. Except this, humans could produce nothing in this nature. He could eat food, sex and survive; nothing more is possible for him in his natural relations. This is the outright limitation of humans, he never will be able to overcome this natural aspects. Once this understanding is grasped, instead of god or spirit, heaven, or other absolute concepts which no way can exist in nature independently, it is possible to understand one’s own importance in nature surroundings and societies. Based on this ‘nature thought’ no aspects of speculation and mysticism hold valid.

Most of the war leaderships in America consist of diseased older people. They are waiting their coffin. Along with them or before their demise they may force to ‘sacrifice’ innumerable lives of young generations who have not yet seen this world. Why this diseased and older people who already enjoyed the ‘pleasure’ of life takes the life of the young ones. It is known that, regardless of the presence or absence of these old killers the world never will be the same again. Still, these killers want to stop the motion of lives and nature by living in speculative and mystic reality. Little understanding on ‘nature thought’ will help these generations to reject these racist and supremacist thugs uncompromisingly. But the academic education system molded out of lies infecting generations with fantasy. So the soldiers are in a synthetic environment believing that they are fighting for their country or their race.

Race, nationality, religion, caste, etc. are generalized logical abstractions which are used to organize loyal fighting forces in all areas for enslavement and exploitation of humans and ‘resources’ by bourgeoisie in modern class societies. Generalization abstraction removes interconnections of entities from its physical surroundings and makes it as a logical object. This logical object is simple ideas has no relation to natural existence. Therefore race, religion, caste, etc. are logical objects of generalized abstractions which do not have any objective validity. How it is possible for a small group to fight for a whole race or religion? But they pretended to be doing so and make manipulative demonstrations in every area of social sphere. These arrangements, whatever may be the context, absolutely based on deliberate manipulation of lies. Each and every area of intellectual, scientific and social spheres these aspects are obviously visible.

How races are evolved in this nature is a difficult question. It is a deep relation between nature and humans. There is no definite answer possible to this question. But speculative answers are possible. Those answers are not absolute, they change when either the knowledge system or understanding of man changes. Such speculative answers through conventional research—paper culture—are not knowledge. That is simple compilation of different logical aspects with no inter linkage to the surroundings. Fundamentally such questions cannot be answered. Some factors of surroundings like climatic conditions, physical situation, food habit, etc. might have influenced the formation of races, one can talk generally. However, the external situations and its interrelations to humans, out of which these races being brought out, cannot be ascertained, because, humans do not have any such capability to do such things.

Racism is a part of the system of exploitation. Racism does not mean share of loot for all the members of the race. Exploitation normally works as a system. Any system of exploitation creates conflicts with nature and society, because it is fundamentally antinature in content. Religion, racial thought, nationality, caste, etc. are the identity concepts being used by the exploiters to organize one section against other for the purpose maintaining the setup of exploitation of both nature and humans. The system of exploitation will not be able to withstand without these identity concepts. The concepts of racism in a systematic form—definitely with variation due to circumstantial impacts —have been integrating into western exploitation system since its emergence as a concept of social system. It is not a linear process, definitely there are deviations to different sides, and eventually it is consolidating in the form of white racism due to the limitations of the circumstances the system of exploitation is facing. Probably this is the last stage of their survival; either social upheavals or civilizational wars between the oppressed and oppressor bring down all the logical system in this world through a long process of revolution. Positively that will put end to all wars and exploitation systems. Definitely it would be coordinated attempts extending to generations through complex social and natural understandings.

Take some prominent war criminals like Bush, Obama, Sarkzoy and Putin. These people are responsible for killing thousands and thousands of people. These criminals are not intellectuals, they are basically politicians. What politics is? A class society can exist only based on lies, because it has to exploit fellow humans and nature surroundings. The exploiter classes never admit that they are exploiting. Therefore they have to depend on lies. State is a social instrumental mechanism of exploitation. Politics is related to state and power. Therefore politics means lies. These people, how skillfully they are maneuvering election campaigns with full of lies! If they kill few thousands of people that cannot be considered based on their knowledge or understandings, but on their skill in lies. These people are nothing more than a piece of meat, no human feelings in the least corner of their mind. Then, consider the soldiers who are fighting the war, say, Americans. Will they get second life in this earth? No, life is only once. They are filled with identity concepts like race, religion, nationally, etc. simply to make them ready to kill others. In the course this developments they also get killed. Will these identity concepts or any physical realities stay as such as in this world? The answer is no…Then what is the meaning of the life of these soldiers; if they agree or not they are the victims of activities of these ruthless lairs. Other than war can’t they find any other way to fill their stomach? How could we able to enrich fellow humans? Is it possible to do with in the capitalism? It demands a pound of flesh of fellow humans. Is it possible to do with in any religion? It still demands the same, a glass of blood. It is possible neither with racism nor with casteism too. All these are degraded aspects of human’s attitudes. Fellow humans are natural surroundings where lives are being enriched. Enrichment of fellow humans is possible not by conquest, exploitation or enslavement but through knowledge synthesis based on life experiences. Hegemony, the most antinature aspects of class-knowledge system has no role over here. So, it is the time for resurrection, resurrection against all antinature aspects of social life. Bourgeois democracy represents only the bourgeoisies, the oppressor classes, it never represents the exploited.
Vishnu Ramakrishnan

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