Sunday, September 12, 2010

Growth paradox

First of all, I want to take the opportunity to thank you all for the compliments about the beginning. As you all advised I am continuing with my efforts with this new thought.
               Lecture on Organization management is going on. I am feeling sleepy as I do in most of lectures but as sleeping in VG’S class can be really dangerous, so writing comes to rescue. Writing something needs thinking. This time, my thought took me to an uncharted territory about human development and growth paradox of life.
               Development is base of any form of life. Any form of life which doesn’t develop ceases to exist. It is all about survival and growth. This phenomenon is equally applicable to all forms of life. Each and every organism lives primarily to survive and grow. Taking an example to emphasize on the point (I am going to make), a virus which lives in body of some other organism, first tries to survive by fighting with WBC’c and then after surviving it tries to grow and multiply. This growth is internal as well as external to host (Vomiting, loose motion, cough are example of external growth in which virus tries to find other host and move to his body). But in the process it causes some pain to host. This pain is sometimes so much that it became unsustainable for host to live. And this is the end of host in the form of death which in turn eliminates the virus too. Similarly Human being first fought to survive and when survival became easier they tried growing. But now the growth is reaching an unsustainable level.  So will earth now die and so will humans? That is the biggest question to answer. And according to nature which is mostly symmetrical what applies to virus should apply to human as well. My analysis says that it is natural for every organism to grow and die (with its habitat) or move over to another habitat to make that die too. That is also we humans are trying to do by exploring space. So naturally earth and human should die together when natural growth causes them to.
               But my analysis has some basic flaws. One of them is that earth is not a living system as a host was in virus analogy. But this can be countered as it is not the earth which is playing the host but the ecosystem, which is based on living organisms and they can certainly die. Another flaw is human intelligence. This makes a difference between virus and human. A human can understand the phenomenon of growth leading to death. Now, the responsibility of saving human and earth from human urge to grow lies on human intelligence. For this intelligence has to overcome natural tendency to grow. And in this way human have to be unnatural for saving the nature. Isn’t it sounds like a paradox? For me it does.

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