When the apple fell from the tree & Isaac Newton discovered gravity the age of reasoning started & human species moved from superstitiousness to reasoning & that led to today’s time where science has almost become a religion which means anything that doesn’t meet the scientific criteria it is not considered to be reasonable because it doesn’t make sense & with this scientific mindset human race have achieved astronomically in so many walks of life. However, this process of discoveries is not absolute it keeps changing & replacing with new discoveries which indicate whatever today is a fact (verified information) will not be the same tomorrow.
So reason has become a cornerstone of our decision-making on the basis of that we make our choices & anything that isn’t reasonable doesn’t have any value & as a reasonable being we make & amend laws & discard everything that is not reasonable OR that doesn’t have any value & which we apply on almost everything. Like since this person can reason so he/she is valuable.
Whereas nature can’t
reason like animals, ecosystem even for that matter when we are children close
to nature we can’t reason. We take so pride as reasonable being hence assigning
value to only those things that are reasonable & eliminating the rest.
But this realistic mindset creating not problems but predicaments for
human-race which doesn’t have any solution. The significant result of this
reasoning is global warming which actually taking its toll because of the
choices we reasonable being making like deforestation, waste & carbon
emissions by these giant corporations. We have even gone one step ahead by planning to completely wipe out our opponent by dropping atomic bombs. Whereas other species
never think or behave like that.
As you might have noticed In the name of effectiveness & efficiency we are ripping this planet apart & have got the license to abuse nature, animals that could not reason back to us this is because realism is a process & we evaluate the process based on its results. What sort of outcome we desire is determined how established our perceptions are within ourselves. Is our conscience (Inner voice) participating in it OR not it doesn't really matter.
Now in order to
comprehend fully, we need to make a distinction between true & THE TRUTH
Let’s dig into that the difference between True & THE TRUTH is that you are reading this piece of writing right now. It is absolutely true & there is no doubt about it. However, it might not be true tomorrow so true is clearly bound to time but THE TRUTH is timeless because it will not change or shift & it has same application to everyone or everything for example as a creation we all have to die it is THE TRUTH whereas our pragmatic approach is based on the trues of every day that we believe to be the truth.
For example, if we consider today what is beneficial for us but after 10 years it is going to be different from what we perceive at this is point in time so our true OR perception of reality is not absolute it keeps changing. So a pragmatic approach is very subjective based on NOT what is the reality or THE TRUTH but rather what we find to be true & why we suffer our own truth because it is not ultimate it changes as we move along.
This is why in the
name of reason we make laws that don’t include other live species who can’t
reason back & we lost the track of totality of life. So by applying pragmatic approach
we only think of what benefits us & that is why this mindset impacts the
larger reality that we are oblivious of & we are so caught up with our
perceptual world which is created by our own self.
Hence realism and pragmatism all are perceptions of reality but they are not reality themselves. Therefore pragmatism is a very safe ground for intellectual discussion for proving your points but nothing can ever grow on that barren ground you can never plant a seed on that ground. So what life is all about & what gives meaning to our lives is that instead of creating our own versions of truths we need to discover what absolute TRUTH is. If we seek clarity in life we have to be Naive because we can hope all we want to find the truth but it is very rarely we consider how much we really want to find the truth because it costs us to make different choices in life.
Irrespective of everything we only suffer what is internal it is our perception of what it is & how it should have been this is what we suffer. So how can we reconcile between being a little practical or being not too rigid about implementing THE TRUTH. All we need to honestly ask ourselves whatever we are doing not because we know what needs to be done in its entirety but this is the only part of the truth we can handle or face right now however if you really wish to seek THE TRUTH the first thing you need is to upset your own life that what THE TRUTH demands it doesn’t demand anything less.
So, in short, the journey of finding the truth is not easy but whenever we are making choices in life we need to incorporate the consequences of those choices on various aspects around us. But remember we can never reason with absolute TRUHT because THE TRUTH will slap us right on our face.
