Music of Photography: Sustainability of Life

There’s more to Life than increasing its speed.

– Mahatma Gandhi.

I was once talking about Nature’s sustainability and, in this case, of course, about Mother Earth’s capacity to sustain herself and us, and one thing I emphasized in particular was the ability of regeneration. I think, also, that this is true in our case, the human beings that inhabit this planet.

Right now I’m also thinking about our tendency of destruction that we have planted in our minds, like a disease (let it be read like this: dis – ease, as in restlessness) that does not give us peace. We are constantly thinking restless on how to conclude our accounts with this world, a limited and ill kind of thinking that does nothing else but to unbalance the scale of the Universe.. and then what? Where would we go? What would we do?

Sustainability is not survival, for this latter means cooperation with the law of entropy. Emil Racovita, the great Romanian speleologist said once “if a specie adapts itself to the environment has every chance to disappear”, which remained one of the greatest laws of genetics today. It is not about survival of the fittest, which is of course relatively true, but in reality there is no such thing in a recreational Universe which was created out of love and joy, and once we attune to it we feel these great values nurturing our Souls, but it is about excelency which is something not far fetched and not far away for mankind. Each and everyone of us have potentialities for geniality. It is only a question of whether we would harness it or not and it is our responsability to do so, especially in these times we live today.

In the previous article I wrote about what kind of ideas the television documentaries of our world spread throughout their shows and I emphasized the fact that they give their subjective and erroneous opinions as universal truths. They also seem to know more than the animals they film, do. They make us think that what they say is the case and they emphasize the idea of survival mostly in harsh, hostile environments and conditions. Apparently it maybe the case but the hidden message is very obvious to the one who reflects upon it: “survival in a world that it is not sustainable”. And then the obvious question comes to mind: when and how did us, humans, appear on this planet? What is our origin truly? They know nothing about it as they state this even today, in the 21st century. :) How ridiculous!

And this lead to the crysis that we all feel today: what do we do from now on, when all else failed us? Institutions failed us. Economies failed us. Governments failed us and they are hanging by a thread. Unique and revolutionary ideas are sprouting here, there and everywhere in our minds and we harness them, we make them flourish, we put them to work and so on. Churches failed us also and have started to do so for more than one thousand years. All of their decrepit ideas are dying and then what? As we all see today, that which we call the new came to us and will hold dominion over the world for a long time. This is the revolutionary era of cosmic, timeless ideas. ;)

And then, sustainability will be a fact. Regeneration is and will be a fact. By becoming aware of these two facts we can live truly.

What we call destruction, Mother Nature calls recomposition. We head towards an imagined dire end with a thousand miles per hour and I’d like to say that we like to kill ourselves because we think that there’s nothing else we could do. We do not see all ends, as purposes. This is existentialism in its criminal and self-destructive aspect. Now we know!

When I go out in Nature I see everywhere the power of creation that is timeless, eternal and constant. It does not stop nor it starts. It is just creating and creating again and again, as a continuum of time and space, of the cosmos. This is what I observe on our planet, a world which can sustain itself.