Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Aesthetic, Physiological and Safety Needs! - Introduction
Welcome back to the 30th episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!
Today’s episode titled “Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Aesthetic, Physiological and Safety Needs!” will tell you about corruption in industrial complex, big pharma & insurance, military-industrial complex and politics-business nexus.
The first casualty, as was the case with our biology, was the sociocultural root chakra.
As it stands today, closed sociocultural chakras have blocked the human energy right at the lowest level of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, namely physiological and safety needs.
SKELETAL LEAP, the mind body connection for mind and body healing, is a giant leap that our skeleton can take through the way it postures its joints.
I had stumbled upon this miracle many years ago, coincidentally
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Aesthetic, Physiological and Safety Needs! - Show Notes
In this enlightening episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure, titled “Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Aesthetic, Physiological and Safety Needs!”, I explore the intricate relationships between socio-cultural institutions and the pervasive corruption that has taken root within them.
Join me as I guide you through a thought experiment inspired by Dr. Albert Einstein, challenging listeners to reflect on the distinctions between needs and wants.
Discover how societal wants have increasingly overshadowed genuine needs, leading to a fragmented understanding of our physiological and safety requirements.
This episode explores the historical evolution of socio-cultural structures, tracing the origins of corruption from the industrial complex to the military-industrial nexus and the intertwining of politics and business.
Learn how the quest for personal ownership and wealth has distorted our priorities, transforming essential needs into mere commodities.
As I discuss the implications of this corruption on our health and well-being, I emphasize the importance of returning to a state of balance and understanding.
I posit that a collective emptying of the mind is necessary to restore genuine health and foster spontaneous decision-making aligned with our true needs.
This thought-provoking episode invites you to consider how the socio-cultural root chakra has been compromised and what steps can be taken to reclaim our health and humanity.
Can we learn to prioritize genuine needs over corrupted wants?
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Aesthetic, Physiological and Safety Needs! - Chapters
(00:00:01) - What is the Corruption in our Social Systems?
(00:09:39) - Living a comfortable life
(00:14:13) - Power of Business nexus in politics
(00:18:37) - Socio-cultural Root Chakra
(00:20:31) - What is it that makes us prone to falling in the trap of
(00:25:03) - Health of Modern People vs Holistic Healing
(00:31:47) - Healthcare and the military
(00:42:05) - Art and Entertainment: Verbal Needs
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Aesthetic, Physiological and Safety Needs! - Video
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Aesthetic, Physiological and Safety Needs! - Transcript with Timestamps
Let us do a thought experiment (one of the most
favorite tools of one Dr. Albert Einstein).
Think of yourself as an idealist for a moment.
My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to “Skeletal Leap:
A Living Adventure”. Skeletal Leap
transforms one’s life into a personal heaven.
Today’s episode will tell you about corruption
in industrial complex, big pharma & insurance,
military-industrial complex
and politics-business nexus.
The first casualty, as was the case with our
biology, was the sociocultural root chakra.
As it stands today, closed sociocultural
chakras have blocked the human energy right
at the lowest level of Maslow’s Hierarchy of
Needs, namely physiological and safety needs.
As explained above, the root of the problem lies
in faulty cognition of reality whereby societal
wants function as proxies for social needs.
Personal ownership of resources became more
important than the physiological or aesthetic
needs it fulfilled. Thus, money, as a means to
personal ownership of resources, became a
currency for the exchange of the goods and
services that fulfilled these needs. Sociocultural
institutions belonging to the sociocultural root
chakra include the most sought after core of
society at present. Physiological needs comprise
the biological component of human survival
guaranteeing homeostasis to the human body.
These are provided by the social systems
such as industrial complexes for jobs and
financial complexes to enable and manage
transactions using ‘personal ownership’
of resources as its main currency.
However, this currency turned into a
source of widespread corruption.
Pursuit of Genuine Physiological
Needs Instead of Its Corrupted Currency,
Personal Ownership of Resources (Money)
Let us do a thought experiment (one of the most
favorite tools of one Dr. Albert Einstein). Think
of yourself as an idealist for a moment.
What if you tell me that I will get
whatever I need whenever I need
as much I need unconditionally?
Imagine what would my reaction be.
If I am fearful, controlled by my mind, I
could easily turn greedy. I may say, “Just change
the word need with the word want and I am okay.”
Needs are physical phenomena whereas wants
are psychological in their basic etymology.
What decides what I need and
what decides what I want?
Aren’t these two entities the calls given
by the brain and the mind respectively?
Back to the thought experiment…had
I not been corrupted by my mind,
I would have been the happiest man on earth to
have been offered this proposal by you! I would
have immediately accepted your proposal
and asked you what I need to do for that.
However, let’s continue with the version
of me that IS being driven by fear.
You say, “Throw the yoke of all your possessions
off your shoulders and just be a free man.”
I may not believe you for a
moment and retort, “Why? Do
YOU want to take away all my possessions?”
“I don’t need to…,” you smile. “I don’t
need to want,” you repeat.
“Won’t you like ruling the world? Don’t you want
that?” I sound stupid to my own self as I ask.
“Why would I?” you give a carefree look,
“Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown!”
“But what would I do if I get what I need without
doing anything for getting it?” I am intrigued.
“Decide it for yourself if you really feel like
doing something,” you are still smiling.
“It would turn me crazy,” I retort.
“That you already are,” you show me
the mirror, “A slave to your mind!”
“By the same token, aren’t you a
slave to your brain too?” I challenge.
“My brain is my friend. Your mind is your boss. It
keeps you scared with a threat of starving in case
you don’t earn the right to live,” you sound cool.
“And your brain?” I ask again.
“It doesn’t think of future. It lets me do
what I feel like doing right now,” you reveal.
“YOU do what you feel like doing. What
would I do, I don’t know,” I nervously say.
“Enable me to enable my guarantee that
I just gave you!” you start laughing.
I get taken aback for a moment.
Then I start laughing along.
That ends our thought experiment.
It tells us idealism is not as
impossible as it is presented to be.
The entire question swings between two different
approaches to life, ‘to have’ or ‘to be’.
Do we have a gene within us that would
answer this question? If it says the
fittest survives, doesn’t our thought
experiment hint toward that possibility even
when threatened by human-induced climate change?
Cavemen never felt they ever
required any private property.
If it were in our genes, we would
have started going along that track
right then and there. If we did it later,
something new must have conspired to do so.
I hypothesize, it was simply our mind
gone greedy, trying to save itself from
starving to death in future.
We had evolved to grow our
own food on the fertile land.
But we hadn’t evolved to own
the land primarily and go on expanding its
perimeter to the last days of our lives.
Doing so through putting the yoke of all its
stressful burdens on our shoulders took its
toll on our health. No other species
in the entire animal world ever does
that. And if we got a brain, did we get
it for wasting it on such petty concerns?
We certainly went wrong somewhere when we
shifted from hunting-gathering to agriculture
and personal ownership of resources. We
thought it would give us freedom but what
it gave us was slavery and disease alone. The
more personal resource ownership we amassed,
the more it impoverished us in other ways.
Have we ever thought how much energy we waste
just in the petty pursuit of staying alive and
comfortable? In fact, to secure our comfortable
living in the future, we ‘want’ to amass resources
that are many times more than we would ever really
need. Doesn’t this amount to stealing from
others who could have used those resources
to live a comfortable life? But unluckily 80% of
the human wealth lies under the control of 20%
of the human population. The rest 80% live
a life of have nots. And majority of these
20% people has acquired the 80% of the human
wealth through unethical if not illegal means.
Here are two quotes of this Pareto’s
principle of 20-80 distribution…
Pareto’s observation was in connection with
population and wealth. Pareto noticed that
approximately 80% of Italy’s land was owned by 20%
of the population. He then carried out surveys on
a variety of other countries and found to his
surprise that a similar distribution applied.
A chart that gave the effect a very visible
and comprehensible form, the so-called
“champagne glass” effect, was contained in the
1992 United Nations Development Program Report,
which showed that distribution
of global income is very uneven,
with the richest 20% of the world’s population
receiving 82.7% of the world’s income.
If we don’t have sufficient ownership of
resources in order to live a comfortable life,
we will keep dreaming of it all the time. If we
have way more resources than needed, it keeps us
too busy not to lose them and, therefore, to
grow them further. Why? It is because nothing
is sufficient for human greed which is driven
by the human fear of losing everything one has.
In both cases, we are not living a life full of
freedom. We are doomed to remain slaves to the
same wicked design that we ourselves created as
our sociocultural structure. It not only robs us
personally of our joy of living a free life but
also socially of the countless geniuses hidden
in broad daylight amidst us. This is because
they never become free to exhibit their talents
while they are busy dreaming of and toiling for
the ownership of a bigger chunk of resources.
Slaves never enjoy. They don’t enjoy because
they are not free. Slave holders never enjoy
either. They don’t enjoy because they are
busy keeping slaves as slaves forever.
Hence their slaves don’t let them be free.
They become the slaves of their slaves. I
still remember a couplet that I
had read in my early childhood:
Leave your birthplace, And roam around the world;
Refusing either to be a slave, Or a slave holder
I wouldn’t be surprised if you are asking as you
read this, “Who decides what is comfortable?”.
Well, it is my contention that ‘Skeletally Leapt”
humans, operating primarily from their brains,
would answer that question organically and would
arrive at similar, if not the same, answers as a
society. Therefore, we don’t really need to take
any direct corrective action in order to resolve
this dilemma. We just need to empty our mind via
Skeletal Leap to regain our health. And leave it
to our brain to take the right spontaneous
decisions. What constitutes a comfortable
life would be as obvious to them the same way that
existence of matter is self-evident to science and
that of life is self-evident to each one of us.
Sociocultural Root Chakra: Industrial Complex
The first 6000 yearsh1 after the transition
from the mode of hunting-gathering to that of
agriculture and cattle-rearing resulted
in two strong social institutions:
business and the state. Business was in the
rudimentary form of loosely organized crafts,
trades and services while the state gradually
evolved into aggressive empires that constantly
fought with one another and extended their control
over further chunks of lands and populations.
Everything remained in flux for a very long
period of around the next 6,000 years. Empires
kept changing hands by new power centers forcing
businesses to keep changing their currencies.
Much later, after the Industrial Revolution in
Europe took place in the eighteenth century,
businesses were able to revolutionize their
speed of production. Their sizes started
getting bigger and bigger needing
bigger markets for their products
and more raw materials for their production.
This started an era of certain European nations
colonizing far-flung countries in Asia, Africa
and South America mainly for the resources that
lay untapped therein. The ones that missed
the bus then tried to compensate later by
waging the two World Wars that they eventually
lost. Still, these two wars left the imperial
powers’ control on their colonies severely
depleted. They were forced to move out,
limiting them back to their own homelands.
Since the world came out of the trend of
nations attacking others to extend their
boundaries and control, political control
has given way to business control all over the
world. The power of big business has assumed
the size of financial empires, bestowing them
with real powers to manipulate governments.
Business morphed into a profit generating machine
more than a responsible facilitator of comforts
and innovations. Politics-business nexus began
centralizing unprecedented powers to control
almost every single aspect of people’s lives.
As of today, business as an entity has started
controlling every single
aspect of our life on earth.
Sociocultural Root Chakra: Politics-Business Nexus
Power got concentrated in the hands of the cunning
and the corrupt. And they took extra care to
ensure that it never slipped off their hands.
All the instruments of the state that existed
in the name of serving the masses actually
started being co-opted by secret agenda.
These agenda took care that the cunning
and the corrupt were able to maintain their
control over people’s lives and prosperity.
Countries were never a part of
the package that we received as
we evolved into a thinking species on earth.
What was offered to us was an unnamed vast
expanse of land to live and move around on.
This nexus between the state and the
business threatens the very welfare of humanity.
Business, as an entity, has grown so powerful that
it can even make or break political structures
anywhere. Both of them have their respective
vested interests which generally don’t align
with the genuine interests of the very populace
that they each claim to ‘serve’.
Human-induced climate change is
a direct outcome of this misalignment.
During the COP26, the yearly UN climate summit
held in Glasgow in 2021, the well-known climate
activist Greta Thunberg protested in Glasgow,
saying COP26 wasn’t leading us anywhere. Only
pledges and commitments aren’t going to stop
temperature from rising beyond 1.5C. We do need to
implement them under a strict regimen holding all
parties accountable to their commitments.
COP27 was held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt,
from 6 November until 20 November 2022. Its
credibility was dealt a serious blow by the
absence of big powers, Russia and China.
COP28, held from 30 November to 13 December
2023 at Expo City, Dubai, United Arab
Emirates received widespread criticism
as it lacked a clear-cut time-based commitment
to either fossil fuel phase-out or phase-down.
China and India did not even sign the pledge to
triple their output of renewable energy by the
year 2030 and committed to coal power instead.
COP29 held from 11 November to 22 November
2024 in Baku, Ajerbaijan couldn’t break any new
ground too, limiting itself to lip service alone.
Who will ensure that the targets of these
summits are met before it is too late?
Unluckily, here again, the national
ambitions of the politics-business
nexus are coming in the way of its success.
The point of no return is very close and,
when it arrives, it will be no less than Nero
playing the fiddle while Rome was burning!
This, though, is only half the story
of the sociocultural root chakra.
The other half of the sociocultural root
chakra got closed by the corruption of our
safety needs through the ‘currency’ we know
as ‘public welfare’. Safety needs comprise
healthcare along with security. These
are provided by healthcare facilities,
judiciary for providing justice, army and warfare
for defense and governments for making policies.
Sociocultural Root Chakra:
Big Pharma & Health Insurance
Healthcare has, of course, helped the masses in
a great way but only to manage ailing conditions,
not curing them permanently. It definitely did its
bit in surgical interventions excellently but then
fell short of energizing society cyclically.
As far as judicial systems are concerned,
they do their job only up to the point
where the political system at the helm
of power doesn’t get challenged. After
that point is reached, politics-judiciary
nexus immediately gets created by those in
political power at the moment in a covert
dictatorial way. We have seen it happening in
more than one countries in the recent past.
Similarly, public welfare got diminished by
sloganeering that takes center stage rather than
fulfilling safety needs in reality. Armies have
always remained an instrument of offense rather
than genuine defense for safety. Warfare has
been a way of life along the passage of history.
What essentially is it that makes us prone
to falling in the trap of an unhealthy life?
An Unhealthy Fragmented Mind:
As already described in Episode 26 in detail,
a fragmented mind is an unhealthy mind.
Okay, but what exactly do we mean by
the fragmentation of mind?
Well, fragmentation simply
means divided in two or more parts rather
than being one single entity as a whole.
When it comes to an undivided mind, it means a
mind focused at one single thing at one given
time. It happens when the mind is emptied of all
its motivations and left alone with its passion.
From Interest to Involvement to Focus:
When the mind is focused at one single thing
like this, it works at its best. All its energies
get aligned, producing a laser-like effect in
order to deal with the concern in question.
Such focus comes with absolute involvement in
the process that the mind is busy with.
But generally, the mind lacks that
level of involvement in almost
anything it lays its hands on.
Why?
Simply because it is not REALLY interested in it!
It is interested in what it
is going to get out of it.
Herein lies the biggest lacuna of human health,
i.e., the way humanity lives an unhealthy life.
Passion Vs Motivation:
We do an action not because that action
is our passion. We rather do it based on the
motivation for what it is going to reward us with.
We act out of motivation, not out of passion.
If motivation is the driving force behind our
mental action, it has already fragmented
our mind. Mind is doing one thing in the
present and thinking about another in
the future or the past, for that matter.
It is not really involved in the action, simply
because it is not really interested in the action.
Motivation Is A Mirage:
It is interested in something other than
acting in the present. It is rather the action of
dreaming about the future when it hopefully will
have rewarded us with its outcome.
Motivation and passion don’t ever
go hand in hand with each other.
Motivation comes from outside. It is
needed only when we are not passionate
about what we are doing from within.
In that sense, we can think of punishment
as its opposite. If we are not passionate,
we are shown a carrot to do a thing to the
best of our efficiency. If that fails, a rod
as punishment is the next option that is applied.
If we are passionate from within, we neither need
a carrot as motivation nor a rod as punishment.
The greed for a carrot or the fear of a rod can
only make cosmetic enhancements in efficiency.
Neither can ever match the efficiency that comes
from passion for the action at hand. This
is simply because the reward-punishment
approach doesn’t enjoy the process, it
is rather preoccupied with outcome alone.
But humanity performs almost all
its actions out of motivation for
the outcome, not out of passion for the action.
The results are always much less than optimal.
It further fragments our mind, looking for an
even stronger motivation the next time. Our
petty vision keeps us limited but still satisfied
in just doing the job a little better each time.
But it is never going to happen!
We may come up with various acceptable
outcomes that our society has become
accustomed to. But we will never be able
to come up with an optimally excellent outcome
generating an exhilarating experience in life.
Mind Affecting Body:
dynamics of an unhealthy mind in action.
What about its effects on the body?
The body is responsible for healthy
physiological processes, after all.
Well, it turns out that an unhealthy
mind makes the body unhealthy too.
When two opposite driving
forces pull the mind in two
opposite directions, the body mirrors the same.
This results largely due to the nerves carrying
two or more opposing signals from the brain.
These conflicting signals confound the muscles
to move in two or more opposite directions.
In such a situation, it becomes physically
impossible for the muscles to follow
such opposing signals from the brain.
Fragmentation Generates Stress:
An unhealthy fragmented mind
makes the brain go haywire.
When the muscles are not able
to follow the conflicting signals
from the brain, what do they do?
They just get set in a state of
limbo, which turns them rigid.
Rigidified involuntary muscles
inside the body as well as the
voluntary ones outside it turn the body rigid.
This rigidity manifests itself in the body’s
internal physiological processes
as well as its external actions.
This is how mental stress, which is nothing but
a state of fragmented mind, turns into physical
stress. It debilitates the body and renders
it prone to all kinds of lifestyle diseases.
Holistic Healing Vs Modern
Holistic healing is a philosophical approach to
healing. It stands 180o opposite to the approach
of modern pharmaceutical medicine. This is as
far as taking care of human health is concerned.
Pharmaceutical medicine, also known as
‘Big Pharma’, is a big business with its
size being over one trillion U.S. dollars per
year. It is very natural that business will do
its best never to let its grip loosen on such
a large market. Especially when an alternative
approach such as holistic healing starts
growing roots in the mindset of the masses.
I would like to point out here that it is not
a mere coincidence that, whenever a social
institution such as pharmaceutical medicine
attempts to fulfill a real safety need (health,
in this case), the already corrupted institution
of business takes over. It is much the same way
that an individual human body in which the root
chakra is closed is prone to the higher chakras
getting closed as well. No wonder then, that we
are dealing with “too big to fail” monsters such
as politics-business nexus, politics-judiciary
nexus, ‘big pharma’ and many other harmful nexuses
that we will talk further about.
The way big business thwarts an alternative
approach to healing is by challenging its
scientific validity. Its main assertion is
that any such procedures need to undergo
strict laboratory testing. Health authorities
always look for convincing statistical data to
establish the efficacy of any new
approach to address human health.
But in doing so, the field of pharmaceutical
medicine ignores the most basic philosophy of
healing which is to do away with the root cause
of any health problem. It is not sufficient to do
away with the symptoms of the problem alone.
If the symptoms alone are done away with,
the problem tends to relapse. Almost
everyone has experienced this. That is,
perhaps, why the modern medical approach calls
their procedures ‘treatments’ and not ‘cures’.
Treatment Vs Cure:
Healing, on the other hand,
concerns itself with curing an illness
permanently as opposed to treating it
temporarily by focussing on its symptoms alone.
Treating symptoms temporarily can be a much
swifter process than curing the root cause
permanently. This is the reason why modern
pharmaceutical medicine has gained acceptance
among the masses. In the age of fast food,
people look for fast medicine as well. It doesn’t
matter if it damages their health in the long run.
Treating Symptoms Alone Spoils Health:
How does treating only symptoms damage
health in the long run?
It does so in two main ways:
First, as the symptoms temporarily disappear,
the patients psychologically feel that the
problem has been eliminated. Hence they revert
to their old lifestyles that had caused the
problem in the very first place. As a result,
the problem relapses after some time turning
them weaker and weaker every time it does.
Second, the symptoms cannot be naturally
eliminated without addressing the causative
factors. What pharmaceutical medicine actually
does is that it suppresses the symptoms
artificially by sending an army of antibodies
from outside. It doesn’t strengthen the
antibodies that the innate immune system
generates within. The immune system is just
not given enough time or chance to fight the
illness with its own natural antibodies.
As a result, in the long run, it gets
conditioned not to be able to generate
these antibodies efficiently anymore.
It leads to incrementally reduced immunity
in the mind-body system after taking every
course of modern pharmaceutical medicine.
Every new relapse of the same condition
proves to be more serious than the former,
complicating the treatment more complex each time.
Health deteriorates further!
Apart from normal acute diseases, there
are more permanent lifestyle diseases too.
migraines | diabetes | hypothyroid |
hyperthyroid | hypertension | heart
conditions | acidity | constipation
| obesity | liver cirrhosis | kidney
failure | asthma | anxiety |
depression | and many more.
Unfortunately, modern pharmaceutical medicine
doesn’t have any permanent cure for them. It
only has a few options to merely manage
the above-listed conditions somehow.
Role of Money:
Significant resources are required
in carrying out such monitored tests on sample
sets of patients. ‘Big Pharma’ is the entity that
funds this research and then has to make it all
back by lobbying for, marketing and force-feeding
medicines that only cure symptoms to a populace
that, at best, gets habituated and, at worst, gets
addicted to them. It is something like pop music
and popular movies selling way more than classical
ones or fast food more than nutritious diet.
Both time and resources go against holistic
healing procedures. They aren’t effectively
able to carry out monitored tests on large
enough sample sizes of patients for a
long enough time. Hence they are at a
loss to show better statistical results
in a scientifically convincing manner.
It is very much like the rich becoming
richer even if inefficient, and the poor
becoming poorer even if more virtuous.
Healthcare also brings in another
big business as a huge commercial
activity called health insurance.
It benefits from people’s fear of falling ill
or else dying prematurely, both of which have
scary consequences to deal with. There is also
a much costlier fear of losing what one has,
including one’s business and costly belongings.
In a healthy society supported by strong pillars
of closely-knit communities, such fears wouldn’t
have rooted themselves deep enough. But since that
is not what it is, an individual feels alienated,
scared of being left alone in any such emergency.
The only available option one finds
to feel reasonably safe and secure
is a legally binding insurance to take care in
case any such casualty happens. And ironically,
the agency that provides this feeling of safety
is one of the biggest businesses on earth.
Although it does provide the feeing of
a legal safety, the socio-psychological
security network is awfully missing.
On top of it, recurring payments for
various kinds of insurance add up fast to a
considerable sum to part with, every month.
The insurance companies have the last laugh
with a heavy bank balance at their disposal.
Even after the legal safety is purchased, the
lonely individual mind never sits relaxed!
It is always the mind that fears. Brain simply
acts in a passionately focused manner if needed.
Sociocultural Root Chakra:
Military-Industrial Complex
Army - A Social Institution Licensed to Kill:
Army is one of the most weird social
institutions that Homo
sapiens ever built on earth!
Is it possible for a sensitive soldier to kill
an enemy soldier without feeling bad about it?
Killing a man is not like killing an animal.
Had it been so, consuming human flesh could
have been a norm like eating animal flesh is.
But we don’t eat our own species simply because
we sense a common link among us. Even the thought
of doing so invokes a strong revulsion not only
in our mind but in our body too.
Won’t a real killing of a real man
invoke a similar reaction in someone
with a normal level of sensitivity?
It should! It ought to!
Sensitivity Vs Insensitivity:
If it doesn’t, it simply shows
that the person concerned is not
sensitive enough to feel bad about it.
But then, throughout the history of
mankind there have been armies invading
other armies to kill soldiers in wars.
Who are these people who do so and
don’t ever feel a tinge about it?
One can only infer that the human mind can
certainly be trained to become insensitive enough
not to feel bad about killing other humans.
But is that a healthy state to achieve?
What implications will such insensitivity have
on the mental health of the person concerned?
The real act of love depends on sensitivity
in order for its subtleties to be felt! Will
a killer ever be able to love another human
being with all the soft and tender feelings?
His/her act of love would also be
something like an act of winning a war.
An Army Against Another Army:
That was from the perspective of an
individual soldier who is trained to kill.
Let’s ponder upon it from a
totally different perspective now.
How can the collective humanity justify
raising armies aimed at killing other humans?
What turns certain armies enemy to one another?
Soldiers in the two enemy armies don’t even know
one another, let alone being each other’s enemies!
The same enemies might have been the best of
friends, had they met one another in different
circumstances elsewhere in life.
And who can guarantee it will continue
like this in the future? On retirement,
they may settle down in some foreign land and end
up being next door neighbors. They may even turn
out to be passionately fond of each other!
Anything is possible! We just investigated
one such hypothetical situation.
Even if some lands are spared being
tagged as adversaries by the political bosses, our
sensitivities may never be with them. We may turn
insensitive to the people residing in those lands.
We inherited this beautiful earth and
we divided it into countries and
nationalities making it look so ugly!
In today’s world, this enmity is further
strengthened by mainly two kinds of narratives.
The first one is the border disputes that
generally afflict neighboring nations.
The second narrative has to do with the
ideological differences. Nations tend to
resist worldviews that affect the kind of society
they have designed for themselves, even if such
resistance comes from thousands of miles away.
Any suspicious move by one is interpreted as a
conspiracy on their behalf intending to
devour the very existence of the other.
In such a scenario, every nation is
always in a constant state of paranoia.
Politicians very well know how to create
narratives benefiting them in strengthening
their control on the internal politics of
their own states. They can easily turn them
as a dangerous threat to their very existence
as a nation. A sprawling wave of fear spreads
all over in the minds of its inhabitants who,
then, are ready to unconditionally support
their rulers. The armies are alerted, recruiting
more soldiers and purchasing new lethal arms for
them. Everyone shuns their brains, panicking
and acting emotionally in a haphazard manner.
We have seen it happening all around
the world for various political motives.
Fast Forward to The Present Day:
Let us fast forward to the present
day scenario of the state.
The state changed its form in
almost all countries and nationalities from
feudal kingdoms to the so-called democratic
republics. They should actually have been
called plutocratic republics instead.
The dominance of resources in the present form of
money still persists as far as formation of the
governments in all countries and nationalities
is concerned. It was only the form of the state
that changed, not its essential character.
The cunning and the corrupt are still in
power in every state of the world. Thanks to
the power of money that gets them elected to
represent millions of people under the mask of
patriotism. This is now an irrefutable fact.
Aesthetic Needs
networks are social institutions that fall under
sociocultural sacral chakra arising from the
suppression/ repression of sexual gratification.
The currencies it uses are ‘fame’ and ‘celebrity’.
The growth needs that these institutions
aim to fulfill are aesthetic needs. However,
these aesthetic needs got corrupted by the
currency of ‘fame’ and ‘celebrity’ into phenomena
such as the ‘star system’ in the film industry.
And since the suppression/ repression of sexual
gratification was an intensive as well as an
extensive phenomenon, almost everyone looked
forward to aesthetic experiences either in the
form of a creator or else a consumer. Consuming
was way easier than creating aesthetic experiences
offering day-dreams to them. Naturally,
consumers of such aesthetic experiences found an
element of entertainment in them. As a result,
such experiences started pulling in huge crowds to
their performances. Their creators and performers
started acquiring fame and celebrity resulting in
a special status for them in society. This helped
them to not only become rich but also objects
of desire for their consumers. This also helped
them in coming out of suppression/ repression of
their sexual gratification. Soon, they started
acquiring a larger than life stature in society,
epitomizing its most sought after desires.
Thus, art, the purpose of which was to fulfill
aesthetic needs got waylaid by the artist and,
consequently, the sociocultural
sacral chakra got closed.
Thanks for listening to this episode of Skeletal
Leap: A Living Adventure! In the next episode,
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marriage, organized sport, and nation state.
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