Corona Virus: Revenge of Nature (1)
Schools are closed, social events are non-existent, places of worship are empty, roads are deserted, and markets are deserted. People are reluctant to shake hands and are running away from each other. The people, the people, the heads of state are feeling at ease in being isolated.
What is this? The question that resonates in the minds of religious people is that if there is a God, why is He not intervening, and why is He seeing human beings dying in this world of helplessness? Non-religious people are wondering when science will finally develop and eradicate these epidemics before they even occur. Scientists are wrong in researching why the virus broke out and what is the treatment? Thinkers wonder whether nature's process is merely a process or a reaction. Is it just a blind cause, or is there a conscious force behind it? Are intellectuals worried that it is the blind forces of nature or the actions of human beings that are responsible? Let's find the answers to these questions in the light of the laws of history, reason, and nature.
The first case is that religion reveals God's secret hand behind this nature, while the non-religious school of thought considers this nature to be the real motivator. It is as if the religious or non-religious people all agree on the laws of nature. So if we agree on the laws of nature, both schools of thought can be addressed, and all these questions can be answered.
The laws of nature
Let us first look at some of the laws of nature. We know that nature is based on physics, chemistry, biology, and other physical laws, and all these laws are based on the principle of balance. Whenever man tampers with these laws, Nature responds to him. For example, if a person ignores the principle of gravity, he will be injured or die if he jumps from a high place. Becomes ashes. If an airplane violates Newton's third law, it lands. If a water plane does not operate under Archimedes' law, the sea is lost.
The question is, on what principle does nature stand, apart from these material laws, and on what non-material basis does it maintain its balance? At the same time, nature is based on immaterial principles. More than ninety-five percent of this universe is not part of the material world and is called dark matter and dark energy. Due to its presence, it is certainly based on immaterial principles, and it is on these foundations that material laws come into being, which creates balance.
So nature also stands on immaterial foundations. Among these are the most important moral foundations. Observation shows that nature is based on the moral principle of welfare. The main purpose of this welfare is to provide the creatures with an environment through which the creatures can be provided a favorable environment for evolution. That is why the sun has been providing heat and light by burning itself for thousands of years. Chalk provides food.
So the second case is that the universe is based on some moral and immaterial principles like material laws, and this principle is the principle of welfare, selflessness, and profit. Nature reacts to this principle in the same way as it reacts to the violation of material laws. Whenever a man or his special classes have tried to upset this balance of the universe through selfishness, waste of resources, misuse of power, inequality, and oppression, nature has not only affected man through reaction. Warned and even punished.
For example, in the name of development, man harmed ozone through polluted gases in the atmosphere, while Nature responded by global warming. When the trees were massacred based on selfishness, the heatwave made sense. When forests were cleared in the guise of civilization, floods wiped out human settlements, when humans spread filth, nature warned through epidemics.
The cruelty of history and the reaction of nature
Is the global coronavirus outbreak a reaction to nature? Is this a warning of nature? If so, what was wrong with a man that Nature reacted so strongly? We see the answer to this question clearly in history, and it seems that history is repeating itself.
Modern human history is divided into three parts, based on which innumerable inventions have taken place, and the lifestyle has changed radically. The first industrial revolution began with the invention of the steam engine in 1760 and ended in 1850. Most of the effects of this revolution were in Britain and gradually spread to Europe. The Second Industrial Revolution began in 1870 and lasted until about 1914 and was based on electricity use. Then came the Third Industrial Revolution in 1969. It is also called the information age and is based on the computer. Man is now knocking on the door of the fourth industrial age, which can be called the age of artificial intelligence or the cyber age.
We don't go too far into the past and just look at what happened when a man entered the Information Age from the Second Industrial Revolution and why. If we understand this, then the background of the current coronavirus epidemic will also be understood, and it will also be understood to some extent. What are the intentions of nature, what is going to happen, and how is it possible?
Let us look at the first industrial revolution (2-6) and the second industrial revolution (2-6), how a man tried to affect the balance of nature in this era and how nature reacted to humanity. Warning. The era of the industry began with the discovery of the steam engine. At the same time, an endless series of inventions began. With this, man's lifestyle changed radically, and a new era of ease and luxury began to breathe.
All these discoveries and inventions were for the welfare of all human beings. But in this period, as in the past, certain classes began to occupy them and began to fight for them only for their wealth, luxury, power, lust for power, and the rise of the empire. So the industrialists began to exploit the workers badly and build their own Taj Mahal on their bodies. The capitalists, in their desire to amass wealth, built an indescribable wall of wealth and poverty.
Globally, this era brought with it a system based on oppression. The world powers started colonizing the poor countries. Nationalists turned their inventions to firearms to seize power. International traders began to transfer the wealth of poor nations to their countries in the name of trade.
It is as if the exploiting classes and states of this era have created new stories of selfishness, materialism, racism, oppression, and exploitation. At the same time, this industrial age began to destroy the environment by emitting gases. So Nature reacted.
The first reaction was World War I, which apparently started with a murder, but it was the same factors mentioned above. The war began in 1914 and ended in 1918, leaving 17 million people dead.
During the same period, Nature, which is similar to the Coronavirus, was given another major shock. This is more or less a hundred years ago when the flu, called the Spanish flu, spread in Europe. It began in January 1918 and ended in December 1920. The flu has wreaked havoc worldwide, including in Europe, the United States, and China, and according to modern research, it has killed nearly 100 million people. Thus, more than five percent of the world's population died as a result of this flu. At the same time, business was badly affected. The flu has been sweeping the world at various intervals in various waves and is considered one of the few destructive epidemics in the world.
But that is not all. Exploitation continues on a global scale. Capitalism, which was based on exploitation, caused great economic depression in the United States. Only then did fascism and Nazism take root in Europe. World War II broke out in 1939 and lasted until 1945. The war killed 75 million people or 3% of the population. This war resulted from attitudes such as nationalism, fascism, materialism, selfishness, oppression, exploitation, and oppression. All the classes that were part of the Industrial Revolution took part in this war directly or indirectly, including the capitalists, the industrialists, the scientists, the politicians, the states, the army, and the people.
Thus, from 1914 to 1945, Nature punished human beings for disturbing this balance through these three great events. In the twentieth century, about 200 million people died in wars and epidemics, accounting for about nine percent of the population. It is noteworthy that Nature gave this punishment in response to their actions for the last hundred years.
After World War II, human beings and the exploiting classes had no choice but to learn and improve themselves. After that, the western countries started liberating the occupied countries. Instead of war, the League of Nations was replaced by the United Nations. To end segregation in Europe, the European Economic Community, now called the European Union, was formed. The World Bank was created to rebuild a devastated Europe, while the IMF was created to help close the balance of payments deficit. The International Trade Organization came into being to support international trade. The purpose of all these institutions was to repent from the past mistakes, end racism, fascism, oppression, and exploitation, and create an atmosphere of unity and solidarity with each other. It was the principle of well-being on which nature stands and invites human beings to stand.
As if a man could not easily understand what Nature explained through his reaction, Nature's system is based on the principle of balance based on welfare. Anyone who violates the principle of well-being and destroys the balance of nature is doomed. And the one who maintains this balance goes through the stages of evolution.
The current Coronavirus and the future of humanity
According to a study, nature has started shaking humans again after more or less a hundred years. The Spanish flu, which came a hundred years ago, has been re-infected with a new virus. After all, what are the major crimes that forced Nature to take this step?
We moved in the right direction for some time after World War II, keeping in mind the overall well-being of man. But after a while, the same forces came into play that tries to do their part in development beyond their means, even if they have to go to any lengths to do so.
The Soviet Union adopted a system of repression that later came to an end. One of the negative effects of the end of the Cold War was the re-liberation of capitalism and the movement's demise that began with the establishment of the welfare state. The developed nations implemented a system of justice for their nation but began to enslave the weaker nations based on free trade, debt, arms, technology, and scientific progress. Thus the cruel story of global economic and social inequality began to be repeated.
International organizations aimed at helping the weak became hostages of the powerful themselves. As a result, the United Nations did not have a special status. The IMF began to exploit instead of economic development. The World Trade Organization began to impoverish poor countries under the guise of promoting trade. Countries rich in natural resources were encamped by powerful countries, and their resources were seized sometimes by war and sometimes by trickery. In poor countries, powerful countries began to prolong their indirect power by giving power to a few powerful classes.
In the name of consumerism, multinational companies began to lengthen their business indefinitely. The distribution of wealth was such that half of the world's wealth was concentrated in the hands of only one to two percent of the richest people. Today, there are more than 600 million people in the world living below the poverty line. Economic resources have been taken hostage by only a few specific groups. A large population is being exploited on this basis.
The same inequality exists in politics. The big countries and powers, intoxicated with their weapons and technology, attack whatever they want. This political turmoil has escalated to such an extent that the Middle East, especially Syria, has become an arena for world powers, and oppression is rising.
The performance of religion in this modern age has also been disappointing. In this century, instead of focusing on the relationship between God and the servant and the servant and the servant, religion has become obsolete. At the same time, by misinterpreting trust, destiny, salvation, worship, and the purpose of life, he played an important role in misleading people instead of showing them the right path. Thus the institution of religion lost its status on the world stage, and its influence was limited to a few specific circles.
Some religions have tried to create chaos in the world by focusing on the dream of conquering the world. As a result, two Muslim states fought proxy wars in the name of religion and affected a large world region. As a result of the rewards process, the fires of war have now reached their homes, and they are struggling to cope.
The internal conditions of poor countries have also not been satisfactory. Certain groups of them maintained illegal control over politics and resources. Its people were oppressed on one side. However, most people suffered from moral decay, laziness, and sluggishness, which gave other groups a chance to dominate.
[to be continued]
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