Sadia Tariq's Page

Do you believe we're now in a global emergency?

Yes! I think today we are experiencing and observing both internal (within the individual mind) and external crisis and disintegration of human society, somewhere and sometimes it is volatile and overt otherwise it is taking place gradually and beneath the surface

What does climate change mean to you?

It is a reality and is our own doing. It is a result of our irrational (against the contemporary potential and capability of holistic reasoning) and self-centric thinking and doing. But we can definitely do something about it if we are able to evolve the 21st century holistic human rationality and consciousness, which is possible today for contemporary man to do.

What does peace mean to you?

Peace will be a concomitant and an integral part of dialectic of harmony...the logical destination of the unified (encompassing micro and macro) process of Nature and its logic. Today the emotional and intellectual capabilities of man and the complex and extensive knowledge fund that he has accumulated over the period of civilization have reached a stage where he/she can observe and understand the unfolding process of Nature's own evolutionary process and the contemporary stage that it has reached and can discern how Nature has traveled from the random process to programmed process and has now entered the phase of intelligent process and evolution. Or in other words it has been journeying from a dialectic of contradiction to a dialectic of harmony. And a restructured human mind which would have evolved a contemporary human consciousness will be the main vessel or tool of this transition. So it is certainly possible for contemporary man to create the conditions for real and not temporary or superficial peace, both within his mind and outside of it. So peace for me means a minimization of conflict and contradiction (in both the individual and social dimensions) and maximization (qualitative and quantitative) of harmony and happiness (this includes discovering new qualities and shades of it).

What does community mean to you?

Various groups of restructured (emotionally and intellectually) individuals who want to make and own the future. They will make a new culture and eventually a new civilization. For me community is all these groups (which are not divisions on the basis of any cast, creed, intellectual or emotional disposition, etc but groups engaged in different works and areas). Their broad direction will be common and clear and the specifics will be different, diverse but within the framework of the larger direction and its basic framework of ideas, concepts and paradigms.

What does politics mean to you?

The social dimension of the above explained culture is politics for me. Politics has to flow from the new mental framework which man will evolve today. The existing paradigms, assumptions and theories of politics and the frameworks of its applications have exhausted themselves. Actual implementation and its results and consequences are a clear evidence of this. So we definitely need new politics today, the politics of contemporary rationality and not of partial rationality, which has in fact become irrationality today.

What does money mean to you?

It was one of the creations of modern man. Created in a certain phase/stage of the growth of civilization to meet its new and growing needs but today it has become an anachronism. The best of human intellectual and emotional capabilities have become subordinated to it. Contemporary man is actually no longer free. He has an illusion that he is free. His mental agenda (priorities, feelings, objectives, goals, etc) is actually dictated largely by his material dimension (which became possible after the invention and acceptance of money). It was originally just a tool but has today enslaved the best of man's capabilities.

What makes you truly happy?

At present i think true happiness lies in the distant future. I feel one must start working towards it from today. Some small steps and achievements in that direction will result in some form of happiness definitely. Currently i do experience these moments of happiness sometimes related to specific situations, things, people etc and sometimes generally.