What To Do Now - II
Engineer Protection Of The Motherland
Reengineer to classical standards the academic curriculum.
This will engineer protection of the motherland.
This is what to do now.
Since the early 1970s, the author labors to reengineer the academic curriculum to a configuration likely to produce reliably sane and competent people in all fields required by modern conditions. In other words, protect the motherland. By the 1980s I came to call it Quintivium: The Integration Of Inquiry (PDF). Its germ is Carthusian, Franciscan, and Carmelite: Divine Proportion and its related figures Pentagon, Spira Mirabilis, and Fibonacci Series. In 1994, our elder son used Quintivium as foundation of the WWW’s first Homeschooling Homepage.
The engineering principle for Quintivium architecture is the four conditions or struggles in life (Vedic varnas)1, the four duty stations, plus what I called Overview (Philosophy, Reference).
For many years after that I maintained and expanded our son’s website under a different name, Sri Sathya Sai Virtual Rishikul.
In 2021, I reengineered the Virtual Rishikul, using its elements, now worked from a different and IMO more abyssal engineering principle: the five professions2 essential to civilized living. This gave a new name and a freshening spirit to Quintivium: University Of The Professional Guilds.
The goal remains constant throughout this evolution of form and function: reengineer the academic curriculum to produce citizens useful to themself and to their motherland, their country. And specifically, produce citizens who protect their motherland by having hearts full of love, minds full of mathematics, and hands full of skill executing at the five professions.
The best teacher is the student themself. Education is a proportioned endeavor to build architectures comprising knowledge and practice, form and function, content and experiment. Knowledge does not have to be made. It is already, but it has to be found.3 However, knowledge cannot be found unless it is practiced. Finding and corporealizing knowledge, form, content proportioned with practice, function, experiment is the labor called education.
The ideal proportion of educational architecture is The Divine Proportion or Golden Section, Golden Ratio. This is expressed as a:b::a+b:a. A is to B as A plus B is to A.
For example: Knowledge is to Practice as Knowledge and Practice are to Knowledge. Again, Form is to Function as Form and Function are to Form. Or, Content is to Experiment as Content and Experiment are to Content.
An educated person is aware of proportions, not conclusions. A conclusion is just another partner of a proportion yet to be discovered. Proportions last and are stable because they are complete. Conclusions disappear and disappoint because they are proximate.
Education for proportionality in this way refines a person, teaches a person to be patient and careful while confident and cheerful. A person aware of existence as proportion is unafraid of what’s coming around the corner.
Dutschke and Gramsci and their heirs concentrate on political combinations as the outcome of de-engineered (deconstructed) systems of education. A deconstructed system of education, they believe, produces people who are not beholden to big banks, big industry, big law, big government, big church, etc., people who can replace avaricious with humane ideology, with ideology that benefits themselves. Dutschke’s and Gramsci’s theories were co-opted by those same bigs because . . .
ideologies are like bits of colored glass in a kaleidoscope. The pieces shift around incessantly to form new figures, none stable. Churchmen run against this phenomenon when they try to reform this or that practice by starting a new church.4 No one can hold an ideology in their mind for more than a few seconds. Deeper forces maneuver their way to the front and top. Again, the question of authority.
Dutschke and Gramsci did not understand and therefore did not appreciate the phenomenology of authority. Soviets took Dutschke for a Trotskyite — that is, a Bolshevik — which was accurate. Italian Fascists took Gramsci for a Revolutionary — that is an Anarchic Atheist — which was accurate. Both men had fine insights but were restrained from success by insufficient plumbing of the depth of those insights.5
Ideologies, like apologies, are a sign of weakness. Left, Right, Center, Fanatic, Moderate, Conservative, Zealot, Liberal, Libertarian, Communist, Socialist, Leninist, Stalinist, Atheist, Evangelical, Trotskyite, Religionist, Theologist, Political, Philosophical, Scientology, Mormonism, Atheism . . . whatever. It doesn’t matter. It’s an ideology meant to wall off some dimension of reality feared by its holder. Thus, it is weak.6
Why fear reality? Man is made from all of it, not part of it. Man includes all of reality, not part of reality. Why settle for a part when man is already the whole? It isn’t reasonable.
Let the ideologies mix and duke it out. Give them space to exhaust themselves on each other, even to recharge and go at it again. What harm can come of that? Only something an ideologue would fear and thus call harm. Let ideologues to their stupidities. If they get close to civilized people, then destroy them as far as at that time seems needful to uphold the architecture of equal and indivisible security. Ideology, like apology, is a sign of weakness. Don’t be weak. It’s cowardly.
Protection of the motherland is the objective. Dutschke had inklings of this as his years rolled by. Gramsci perhaps not, at least not clearly as such. However, protection of the motherland is the point of contact, the spirit of the day, the objective of men and women to whatever motherland (nation) they belong. Everyone knows instinctively that without their country, their motherland, they are food for worms. Without your motherland is like being without a home, without a refuge. The thought alone is terrifying.
Everyone belongs to a motherland. That bond is sacred. Who would snap or erase it is demonic. Equally, who would snap or erase the bonds citizens of other nations have with their motherlands is demonic. We each have a mother.7 We each owe her loyalty. We each must protect her in order to protect ourselves.
Our motherland is no less our mother than is our natural mother or mother nature. We each owe our brothers and sisters of other motherlands cheerful respect for them and their respective mothers to the same degree as we owe our own the same. Who’s to say their mother is less than ours? No mother or child is better or more favored by God, man, or nature than another.
The four varnas are: Teacher, Soldier, Producer, Worker. These are the jobs a group or society needs well-executed in order them to flourish as an institution or civilization.
Theology, Medicine, Military, Law, Pedagogy.
You don’t make a medical doctor. You chip away, burn, or peel away layers of distraction encasing the medical doctor inside a person as their own personal inner necessity, one of the purposes for which they took birth.
Intelligence agencies exploit the same phenomenon to infiltrate and co-opt to another agenda — a new formation of glass pieces, fleeting equally with the rest — all manner of ideological persuasions. Their goal / agenda, of course, is incessant change itself, because a country engulfed by incessant change, ruled by uncertainty, is easily manipulated, extorted, looted, massacred, whatever, by an intelligence agency and their friends and sponsors.
Gramsci, for example, figured out that enormous tax exempt so-called charitable foundations dangling money in front of government officials, groups, and individuals to entice their compliance with the founding oligarch’s and succeeding boards of directors’ wishes regarding macro-and micro-scale matters altogether drives the course of industrialized nations into immovable walls economic, social, and spiritual producing baleful outcomes. He wanted to prevent such catastrophe, as did Dutschke. Both men made catastrophes in other directions, however, because the very so-called charitable foundations whose activities they abhorred adopted their insights and solutions to their own purposes, against what Dutschke and Gramsci wanted to accomplish. This pas de deux — Dutschke and Gramsci with Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie — illustrates the value of ideologies. Zero, unless you want to harm your fellow humans and beasts.
Likewise with apologies. What’s done has been done. Neither it nor the feelings driving and engendered by it can be undone. Harm once done cannot be undone. It must be atoned, but that is another matter, and apology does not touch it. At best, a cause of harm is followed by an expression of regret and a sincere vow, assiduously followed up, not to repeat it.
Seven in fact: Mother Earth, Mother Cow, Mother Religion, Mother Scripture, Mother Language, Mother Country, Natural Mother. To each we each owe unshakable loyalty, even reverence.