Allow me to thankyou for quality post! More importantly for putting effort in creating a different perspective?
What is Meta-Material dives into Material and then desolves into Sub-Material and then....
Momentum of History never stops. Or does it?....
However, we need to have a clear understanding of Spirituality before we attempt to add this Factor into OurModelling of the tangible... so what is it?
A maker (to foster better understanding) Afghans in the FirstAfghanWar and now in the SecondAfghanWar didn't have any airforce... kindly, do calculate the diparity between the agressor and defender ... helps to model things... in the second AfghanWar... the disparity was/is ... well... you know it too well.
Since, quantumdynamics is 'spiritual' in its nature, is it possible that socialogy/political sciene might be the same?
To interlink the above... would you agree that for understanding the present AsianDynamcis... it is valid to benchmark China with India.. from independence onwards... as both became modern nation states after that...? Both equal sized, populations and ancient.... yours have a head start as modern state and performing in GDP much better till the 80s.
Then why .... it is now what it is?
Indeed, intelligence is relevant into the context it comes into play... of course, it qoutient determines the 'survival' in that context... upward tick of it results in 'thriving'... for the rest for living... the automatism of function doesn't require intelligence... body has its own programming as you know very well. However, endocrine system... its make up... plays a critical role.... how?
In the pervailing techno-social benchmarks how do you see your country?
Momentum of History?
Spirituality? What is it?
I tackle your questions one by one:
Spirituality: Broadly it would be a acknowledgement that scientific materialism and/or daily mundane existence doesnot provide the individual soul the will to survive and continue his existence. Specifically it would be the acknowledgement of the fundamental,irreducible nature of Consciousness and the absolute magic like quality of living,breathing conscious Experience. Inevitably this acknowledgment would certainly lead a soul to some sort of Higher Insight or even may be a Higher Source.
Air Force is an outgrowth of Industry which in turn is an outgrowth of Technology which in turn is an outgrowth of Science which in turn is an outgrowth of the Scientific Revolution which in turn is really the spiritual outburst of one man--->Sir Isaac Newton
Time and again people from the non-european world cannot fathom how utterly changing and how utterly devastating the Scientific Revolution was. How the begnnings of it were completely unfathomable to the best brains of 17th-18th century Islamic world, India and China.Today's modern revisionists insist on comparing Indian mathematics and initial Islamic scientific inquiry to the full blown European scientific revolution in order to assuage hurt egos...That would be like saying that a glass container holds water and the Three Gorges Dam also holds water...but the scale makes all the difference
For me regarding setting a benchmark in Asia, it has to be Japan. Why? Briefly there is something called too little spirituality and something called too much spirituality. Both would lead to inevitable collapse. When you pursue too much spirtuality and donot take care whether your spirituality is producing real world tangible results, you inevitably die. China and Easter Island were victims of too much spirituality. During Boxer Rebellion, disgruntled Chinese spirtual masters thought that their special life force "chi" would make them impervious to Western technological weapons. The results were disastrous. I suspect this "too much spirituality" strain always ran through the Chinese vein in history and engendered their numerous losses to the nomadic horselords to the north.Easter Island collapsed because the tribal chiefs continued to cut down trees in order to erect statues even though wood supply were running out for the construction of boats..and once boat construction stopped, the famed polynesian orally transmitted navigational skills were also lost
Contrarily,too little spirituality renders life meaningless and people start internally shattering and collapsing once faced with adversity. See the collapse of Soviet Union,The Great Leap Forward,the ongoing culture wars in the West etc...even in case of aesthetics compare the great architecture made by a relatively more religious Russian Empire to the drab buildings turned out by USSR..For aesthetics,beauty,heroism,sacrifice,greatness,immortality you need spirituality..
The Golden Mean would be something that was pursued by Middle Age Europe and Samurai Era Japan (12th to 19th century). Engage with the rational material world but still accept the Greater Spiritual Mysteries/Forces in the background. It is this life affirming engagement with Reality along with sexual continence that helped Newton,Leibniz,Kantor,Kant,Tesla and many many others to achieve immortality
India is where it is because it never had a tryst with the Science,Rationality...No just education till PhD level is not enough..There has to be a fundamental paradigm shift in the understanding of the world...This would mean chucking out a huge part of the past and accepting they were wrong..chucking out proliferation of pseudo science and proliferation of pseudo history..claiming that an entire lost civilization has been found beneath the sea on the basis of one piece of wood that has been dated 7000 BC...But then neither the Islamic world nor the Chinese are better in these..Splitting of the moon, to the Chinese state hounding one MMA fighter because he debunked ancient Chinese Martial Arts and the much vaunted spiritual energy of "chi".....But still for all its ills I expect India to achieve 10,000 euros GDP per capita or present Brazil levels somewhere before 2040-2050
But all that is really irrelevant as I expect somwhere between 2060 and 2090 (no later than 2100) this interlocked system of nation states to collapse in a quite catastrophic way...Human population then collapsing gradually to a few billion..Something much worse than the European Dark Ages from 476 AD to 1492 AD...Think more akin to Bronze Age Collapse or to behavioural sink experiments of the Rat Colonies...I expect my grand children and great grand children to completely live in War lord times...more akin to Chad,Somalia and Afghanistan rather than any semblance of a functional state...and This is regardless of which place in the world they find themselves in
As far as endocrine system goes, the male and female sex hormones play as much a role in shaping human destiny as Intelligence.
Republic of India's maximum potential is to be a middle income country with some great cities ...The Republic of India would stop growing or the world would have already started collapsing by the time Republic of India has achieved five times its current GDP
