Sunday, July 7, 2024

Geopolitics at Pause

 Geopolitics at Pause

As an author there is a self-giving freedom for imagination and a diplomatic freedom of expressing the same. Not all thoughts germinating from the mind of an author is received with openness. Critics are part of the play. This article will have no less a surprise if critics emerge from any part of the digital wave.

Geopolitics is a stage where invariably all countries from all identified continents participate. Players are many and all of their focus will be centric to economics. Strangely, countries with divided opinion come out on the stage as paired ones expressing strong hatred. Every geopolitical event gets magnetized between such two countries that confront to divide the globe.

War for supremacy, race in conquering space, race in exhibiting supremacy in war strategies, race for putting up leading technological progresses, race in development in medical expertise, economic race for dominance, race for currency supremacy, and the list keep adding every passing day.

When two countries with rich history, progressive thoughts, facing each other as opponents on global stage decide to shred away their differences, set in a pact for openness, evolve a plan for trusting each other, respecting each other's intrinsic goodwill, signing a historic document to never show any sign of hatred between them, accepting mutually benefitting trade formulas, integrating by way of respect to respect and honor both its citizens, ensuring a stronger bond that cannot be diluted by any envying nation, agreeing to share their natural richness of resources for progressive future, agreeing never to edge out each other for dominance, will set the act of Geopolitics at pause. 

Which two countries could, with privilege in qualification, participate in a futuristic act such as one dreamed in the previous paragraph is an open option for readers to fill in their mind. Many readers may weigh different combinations as options to test the pattern set in the dream that can pause critics of geopolitics for the next 100 years. 

Many may start with the US and Russia, Russia and Ukraine, Iran and Israel, Egypt and Israel, India and Pakistan, North and South Korea, Japan and China, and many more. As an author, I too, use the privilege of choice from many options available. It just struck that these two countries should have a rich cultural history that complemented each other all the way back in time. 

That two countries which had rich cultural history that complemented each other, having huge potential for mutual economic activities, rich is participative markets, not keen to exercise supremacy by war and conflict, interested in diluting all differences grown in passing times, ensuring trusted transparency in agreement, agreeing to pay mammoth cost of significant proportion if breaking the trust bond, and going ahead to shake hands and sign the mutual and powerful document that will silence all critics, start to worry international economist, mute all international critics and cause a pause on geopolitics will be the first two highly populated nations in Asia. 

If an honest pact of trust between the two most populated nations in Asia happen, then all superpowers will be in a state of muted shock. To do or not to do is not in our hands, to dream and not to dream is a personal choice. But unbending super-powers will simply have sleepless hours in years to come if something like that happen.
 

Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Technology and Spirituality

 Technology and Spirituality

Technology and Spirituality may seem to be a mix of water and oil or something two events moving in the opposite direction. But it actually may not be that way to understand. Technology and Spirituality has some uniqueness, both are on a progressive side. They both move their adaptors or, to catch the right word, users in pattern of progress. 

A stagnated technology and the stagnated spirituality cannot hold people together for a long time. People basically need change, change in ideas, change in the way they do things, change that keeps them busy in syncing with what is happening around them.

Spirituality may prefer to stay out of the lane meant for technology, but in reality, it is not possible for that to happen. Spirituality always believes that there is something greater than an individual. All the forces beyond the reach and control of humans are deposited into spirituality. 

Interestingly, technology is something that aims to reach out and control things that were not humanly possible. With little realization, people still do not understand, that every technological development, breaks down old spiritual understand and rebuilds newer ones in their mind.

May a time people feel like coming closer to spiritual realization, knowing more about self, but in each of such advancements there is a setback which secretly raises spiritual platforms to new heights making people travel the added length by marching towards it.

If for experimental purpose humans stop technological advancements for next few years, the pattern of their living will make them so mechanical, a repetitive living being, they will literally have no feel for a spiritual realization, because nothing is any more challenging. Everything looks to be so programmed that it happens systematically, even without any indulgence and interventions of humans. 

In such a condition, man will be another creature in nature like all other creatures, accepting the life the way it is spread out. Such situations will make humans come very close to nature and the closeness will be such that acceptance of events programmed and planning to live with it will be the only mechanized preference giving no scope for spiritual journey. In fact, in such a case people may not need a spiritual enlighten because nothing is going to change.

This very monotonous patterns are broken by technological advancements; by bringing new technologies we also bring in new challenges, and the march towards tackling such new challenges becomes a priority. It is then that the humans imagine existence of powers beyond their reach. It is only then humans believe in spirituality.

As technology progress and develop, spirituality is taken to new heights. Technology becomes tangible force and spirituality becomes an intangible force. Technology will never nullify spirituality and spirituality will never halt technological progress. The fate of technology and that of spirituality are embedded in each other.

Geopolitics at Pause

 Geopolitics at Pause As an author there is a self-giving freedom for imagination and a diplomatic freedom of expressing the same. Not all t...