Biochem vs. Electromechanics

If you grew up, live in and/or are connected to places where flora and fauna thrive you will be more happy and tolerant than if you grew up playing videogames and, as adult, operated switches, knobs and buttons most of the time. Earth is mostly biochemical today with a dash of gravity and magnetism thrown in for "seasoning." Creatures take millions of years to evolve and adapt to it. Imposing electromechanical rhythms stresses them out. In turn, they become insecure, aggressive, intolerant and destructive.

As wheel-reinventing knowledge addicts, we might buy a Tolerance Software Package for our kids' computers--but they don't need it. Species far more ignorant and indolent than us thrive easily on Earth. Not ignorance but an imbalanced activism--which even our simian cousins cannot match--is our problem. Teaching the Facts of Life In A Changing World to those BORN alive and kicking is, if not fake and phony, foolish and false. It is true, the land, air and oceans of Earth, courtesy human hyperactivity, have been badly bruised, but its mass, axis, poles, spin and velocity are still, fortunately, intact and unhampered. We are "threatened' not so much by the multiplying poor--warmongering and market capitalism leave them little else to do besides twiddle their toes--but by the misdirected, predominantly Electro-mechanical hyperactivity of (essentially greedy} insecure, aggressive, intellectual, educated fools who, due mainly to self-generated stress, can seldom claim to keep even their own bowels and bladders clean.

To make tolerance a key word--and deed--in the 21s century, we must create and live, with our children in an environment which harmonizes and balances its biochemical and electromechanical constituents. If with our machines, we persist in our hostility to Earth, it may choose to makes us no longer welcome here. We would then either face slow or rapid obliteration or, in our delusional sense of Glory, will have to run out into the irradiated blackness of Space where, in loneliness, some of us might create a world of our own smart folly. That would be Adam and Eve falling from Paradise for a little while--all over again.

-- From an essay Vyom wrote in 1995 on Tolerance.