Despots won't care how many die

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Ashis Nandy's  mocking  life sketch of Sri Aurobindo in Intimate Enemy n d implied gesture of "clinical psychology" is not in good taste. I strongly condemn it as a biased n a  factually wrong note. These indians r more "enlightened" than Peter Heehs, the notorious debunker!

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#IndiaQuarantinesCorona | Watch: World succumbs to #Coronavirus, but India ahead on COVID-19. | Rahul Shivshankar on INDIA UPFRONT. https://t.co/R7nrw1k09u

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Rahul sharing personal exp of MOTHER. We must be Spiritual, respect Animals. Sharing Prof Sampadananda Mishra shares what the Mother of Sri Aurobindo Ashram said about virus in 1953, based on her being affected by a terrible flu in Japan, year 1919.

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Authoritarian, repressive regimes have faltered the most in controlling the extremely contagious #COVID2019 #coronavirus. China, Iran both suppressed news of the outbreak, did horribly by their people by NOT informing them of the dangers, refuse to share real statistics with ROW.

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In a way, super spreading events have been enabled majorly by the reticence of China and Iran, and the world is suffering. Specifically with China having the largest data set of infections and not sharing the knowledge endangers the ROW, which has no knowledge of certain facts.

There is a lesson here. Open and caring societies will manage and save their people. Despots won't care how many die as long as they retain power. Another important takeaway - despotic powers like China CANNOT BE TRUSTED with the world's leadership.

Eventually, the repressive CCP regime may get its derailed system back on track and continue on its hegemonic world expansion plan. But the ROW should be even more wary and come up with alternatives to reduce its influence and power.

Let's address the root cause: "Both SARS and COVID-19 can be traced to China’s open-air markets where animals (such as wolf cubs, snakes, turtles, rats, civets) are bought live and then slaughtered on the spot." Such markets will spawn more deadly viruses. https://t.co/kHtFDaPakn

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Chinese secrecy also worsened this crisis. Yet international agencies, too petrified to say an unkind word about Beijing, now lavish praise on a totalitarian regime that will never disclose the full truth. This dystopia is an upshot of the CPC's unchecked global clout.

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Om #SriAurobindo & #TheMother.

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47.  Let me continue my tweets on #ADISANKARA  

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48. The great founders of the modern science such as Descartes, Newton, Galileo and Bacon contributed to the modern scientific way of understanding Nature with their tests for the Real.

49. Descartes sees the world as consisting of the dualism of matter and mind, or object and subject, or observed and observer, matter being the extended moving ‘substance’ and mind, the unextended immaterial thinking ‘substance’.

50.  Newton thinks of the world as an aggregate built out of discrete material particles, the combination of which, under the influence of the forces of attraction, have produced the great determinate world-machine.

51. Galileo assumes Nature to be a book written in the language of Mathematics.  Bacon believes that scientific knowledge is obtained through inductive generalizations from objectively observed facts.

52. This way of looking at the world implies that man as the observing subject (or mind, thinking substance) is totally detached from

53. the object (the world, the extended moving substance) and, at the same time, can obtain knowledge of the world which is totally impersonal, objective and based on facts as they are.

54. Materiality, quantifiability, amenability to mathematical treatment and to analysis into discrete parts, are the characteristic scientific tests for the Real.

55. With these tests for Reality, was born in the seventeenth century the modern quasi-religion of Positivism of which David Hume is the arch-priest.

56. For this positivist philosophy, statements can be meaningful only if they are synthetic judgements about verifiable matters of fact – the inductive method, and science, or analytical judgement based on a priori reasoning, mathematics and logic – the deductive method.

56A. Apart from these two classes of judgments, all other insights or intuitions are not germane to this philosophy and are supposed by it to be strictly meaningless and not recognized or even shunned.

57.  Aesthetic, moral and religious insights, which are more subjective, cannot, of course, be verified nor refuted with reference to material correctness just as empirical and scientific statements can be verified or refuted, but

58. their presence by us, is as much real as empirical facts themselves of science, if not more.  But Positivism considers them meaningless or at most to be mere expressions of subjective human desires.  The intellectual effect of this is a fundamental cleavage in the human mind.

59.   Since science reveals no purposes or ends in the world but only things, forces and objects, obeying these forces, man himself becomes an object in a world of objects.

60. For the Positivists, it is the most unforgivable of solecisms to commit the naturalistic fallacy by inferring an ‘ought’ (value) statement from a ‘is’ (fact) statement.

61. Thus, we arrive at an intellectual schizophrenia, a split, an unbridgeable gulf between the ‘is’ and the ‘ought’, fact and value, world and man, object and subject, observed and the observer.

62. Notwithstanding this split, the great predictive success of Newtonian atomistic mechanical theory meant that over the next two or three centuries atomistic mechanism was extended into all physical sciences like light, heat, chemistry etc.,

63. and into the science of life also like biology and medicine. (For Descartes, all animals are machines.)  In the 19th century and early 20th century, this incorporation of all phenomena into the great Newtonian world machine proceeded further into psychology too, behaviorism;

64.  human thought was described as an ‘epiphenomenon of material processes.’  Man thus becomes ‘nothing but a complex of biochemical mechanisms, powered by a combustion system which energizes computers with prodigious storage facilities for retaining encoded information.’

65. To this way of thinking, value and meanings are nothing but defense mechanisms and reaction formations.  Man, thus, fully incorporates himself into the insentient world-machine.

66. In, thus, entertaining a vision of the dualistic world, man finds himself to be the center of an intense conflict, both inward and outward. Inwardly, his spontaneous hunger for meaning, values and ideals, for what T.S.Elliot called the satisfaction of the whole being,

67. revolts against a doctrine, which divides the ‘is’ and ‘ought’ (fact and value) and denies any fundamental reality to his religious insights and ideals.

68. At the same time, his loyalty to and his dependence on, the mechanistic world do not allow him to dwell trustfully within a world of religious and metaphysical values.

69. Thus, matter (the observed world), the outer substance in the Cartesian dualism, overwhelms mind (the observer), the ‘inner’ substance.  But mind, as the creator of this entire edifice of scientific thought, revolts against the incorporation of itself into mere matter.

70. Thus, the inner conflict, the civil war in inner space is prolonged indefinitely in various forms and guises as fact vs. value, determination vs. free-will, matter vs. mind, meaninglessness vs. meaning etc.

It is very likely that Yeats' "rough beast" of his poem "the Second Coming" is the same as Jean Gebser's riddling "the law of the Earth".

https://twitter.com/fourfoldvision/status/1238113510569041921?s=19

The breakdown of the "gyre" (which is also R. Moss's *Mandala of Being* & Rosenstock-Huessy's "cross of reality") is the pre-condition for the rise of "the rough beast" and Gebser's "Law of the Earth" likewise.