April
21, 2003
Self-generation
of Prosperity by the Society
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Social determinism is
Self-determinism.
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Avatars
have aspired for the abolition of suffering.
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Great
leaders have worked for the abolition of slavery.
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Thinkers
were dreaming of prosperity, equality, and happiness for all mankind.
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Religions
have come to realise it.
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Revolutions
rose to fulfill those ideals.
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Very
much has been done; as much remains to be done.
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The
integral nature of society or creation is such that any farfetched ideal
humanity has had, had its distant mild echo in the past. Our rule is nothing
can emerge which is not in the Absolute. That
Absolute seems to be peeping at us from the distant past.
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An
idea is realised when the Society takes it up into its own hands fully.
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The
pioneer, the leader, the Avatar, etc., broaches the subject to the world. It
comes to be accepted long after. Some token experiments succeed. They spread as
an initial wave. Slowly either the government or the society or both take it
up, give life to it, sponsor it, and give support in the form of a new
organisation. That has been the history of any successful social movement until
now.
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Often
such an aim is fulfilled copiously and to saturation by a technology.
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When
someone turns bad or anti-social, he cannot live any longer in his place. He
migrates to Madras. It is a frequent experience that he becomes a VIP later and
is welcomed by his own native place. What happened here is the urban centres
create innumerable opportunities which are suspect in the eyes of the
population. Castaways readily clutch at them. They rise quickly. Persons in the society have no courage to
resort to the new opportunities created by the society. But one who is thrown
away by the society takes to them. People can see the results, not the
opportunities.
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The
history of any flourishing town like Madras or Bombay is replete with such
instances. The history of USA has standardised this phenomenon, as there was no
inhibiting influence there for progress since the social context and mental
attitude were fresh all over.
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The
NIIT Physicist and educationist, Dr. Sugata Mitra, in his website, tells of:
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Illiterate
children of five or six years learning computer usage by themselves very quickly.
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Absence
of knowledge of English is no bar.
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They learn to use the mouse RESPONDING to what the computer does.
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Children
do not suffer from the mental exhibitions we suffer from.
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He
says 500 million children can be made computer-literate at a cost of $2 billion
which will otherwise cost $ 4 billion.
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He finds the scope
phenomenal, infinite and frightening.
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In
Holland, 11 year-old children learn to create web sites in six months,
irrespective of their educational levels.
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If
one can find a commercial benefit to someone in the $2 billions project, society
can take to it and render all children capable of earning.
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We
were considering the creation of a website that may cost $400 in a fraction of
that cost which, if it can be true, will eradicate poverty from India.
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It
seems poverty itself is nothing when the potential is seen fully.
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The
fact that someone can learn something implies that there is a way to earn
through that learning.
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It appears that such a project will create its own market which will
raise the prosperity level of the population.
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Should
this happen, society will take upon itself the sacred and dangerous work of the
pioneer, usurping the role of the Planning Commission.
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Such
social endorsement occurs by the creation of an organisation which later
becomes an institution.
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Once
such approval is there and an organisation emerges to fulfill it, trade and
commerce see an opportunity there. That is how new products or technology
arise.
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Here
a NEW technology seems to have
arisen to fulfill social aspirations.
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Should
there be any evolution and any truth in what Dr. Mitra has found and in further
thought about commercialising the process, it will be the Self-conception of
the Society to Self-generate Prosperity, a consummation of the Theory in
practice.
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If
this is true, it needs no sponsor, no support from government, no endorsement
by social approval. It can begin by itself if someone tries a token experiment.
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The
prosperity we witness in India recently is not merely an Indian phenomenon. It
is a world phenomenon.
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Computer,
rather Internet, is revolutionary in its conception. It is an instrument of a
social revolution hitherto unthought of.
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Poverty
as well as ignorance can be wiped off the face of earth. Then VIOLENCE will be unheard of.
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The
Supramental Force of 1956 is organising itself and taking possession of
Technology as well as social, subtle organisation, having moved from the
governments it possessed in 1967.
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The
Delhi experiment shows children can learn.
Next, they must be shown
what they can learn usefully.
Maybe the Internet can tell
them that too, if they know the language.
If it is known what skills
can be learnt, the COMPUTER can play the role for the cream of children that the IIT can do.
There are tailors,
carpenters, cooks, hotel servers, teachers, lawyers, etc. Internet can
upgrade the SKILLS of any of them if they look
for it.
Raising the SKILLS of a population is to raise the Prosperity of that nation.
Internet can teach the
population in a few years what the society has taught it in 100 or 200 years.
Information is primary to
the mind; skills are so for the body. There is vastly more.
For example, the uneducated,
especially the young, will flower differently on receiving knowledge of
geography or history.
Any higher knowledge
acquired, especially by one's own effort, by the mentally undeveloped will have
an entirely different effect now not predictable on the wide spectrum of
that population
The only experience the
world has is its own history. A better version of it was seen in USA emerging as a prosperous nation.
Now we will witness.
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USA
emerging in all countries, and
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The
results of higher skill and information on people who are emotional, subtle and
occult.
Certainly it will break new
ground on a very wide scale.