The Discovery

Everything is known and understood, comprehended and visualized. This is the 21^st century and all activities and emotions are provided in dosages and compartments that are suitable to a lifestyle.

So where is the discovery?

There is none as the word ‘to discover’ would define. The discovery is what has just been written. That it has been discovered. So where is the challenge? Outer space, inner space, in between space. All these spaces are charted out and it’s a matter of time when we get there. Which means that the discovery agenda has been programmed to be delivered as per schedule, in keeping with predictable advances in technology and culture.

So where is the discovery?

Would it mean in terms of better lifestyle, or monetary benefits or political wisdom. But then, all such programs have been known to move with a given speed and direction and can be predictably expected to appear and disappear, within a said timeframe. Maybe it means to lookout for distant lands and habitats. There aren’t any left that we don’t know about. Maybe it means to create a habitat. This has been done and deserts have been converted into European gardens. Surely, discovery is discovering what isn’t discovered yet. Correct. That’s what I am trying to understand. What hasn’t been discovered? Where is it? What is that domain that isn’t known? Is discovery knowledge? That which is known? Then that’s discovered too. So what came before discovery and what comes after it? Can we rediscover? Yes we can, but it won’t be the same thing as time moves on and therefore the genus of a discovery can also be charted.

So where is the discovery?

A mother gives birth to a child in known circumstances and raises the child in another. Both these circumstances are within her scope to accept or reject. Scope is knowledge and therefore is known, so is there nothing new that the mother will tell the child? A killer knows that he may be tried for criminality for his activity and may accept or reject the outcome, by being repentant or not. In both cases it’s a willful act and devoid of discovery. Are people in search of discovery and therefore speeding along a super highway of desires that lead someplace that they do not know? When Ferdinand Magellan, decided to circumnavigate the globe in a ship, he truly didn’t know what lay beyond his vision. Such voyages were leaps of faith, for some reason or the other. What would be the equivalent of this voyage? To the moon and back, maybe. But then its result are well known. So is a trip to Jupiter. Yes, a trip to Planet Zargo112, (tell me where that is?) that’s a billion light years away cannot be completely predetermined, besides saying that if the nearer planets are such and such, and the galaxy is such and such, therefore the entire flimflamflom must be that and that and when we need that and that, we will evolve to getting to Zargo112.

So where is the discovery?

When we go the supermarket, or to the local grocery shop, or purchase off the sidewalk, we engage an existing structural activity that was not too different from the hunter-gatherer period and therefore must presume that many more years forward, it may evolve to smoother systems, yet the same structure of in and out. So, there must have been a checkout system earlier and will remain so later. Unless, we stop eating to live, let’s say and just exist like amoebas, without an agenda. Amoebas eat Amoebas, by the way.

So where is the discovery?

A clock runs forward, I mean its hands; so what would have happened if it had run backwards? Would time change? Would knowledge change? The clock presents a system that’s discovered and we live within that system. Its presence itself means that we have discovered all, since time alone cannot be stopped or frozen, but can be made to reveal, which it does very well. I seem to be getting close to something. I have just discovered time cannot be stopped or frozen, it just goes on. So, if time could be stopped, or reversed, would that be a discovery? A mammoth discovery. Surely yes. Imagine the benefits. All mistakes erased from recorded presence. History would cease to be a word. Would that be a discovery? Maybe not, since if it was reversed or changed, it would still operate with the same predictables that it marches forward with now.

So where is the discovery?

Indian scriptures speak of a modern societal existence much before the advent of modern civilization. Maybe it’s true, maybe not. But surely, the facts have stayed constant enough and been with us before we discovered them. Example, an Indian discovered the Zero, thousands of years ago; but we had to wait for time to find a need to use the Zero and then rediscover what was discovered and recorded already through verse and culture.

So where is the discovery?

No one knows who God is. No one knows who the Creator is. We have theories that propound the Creation of the Universe. Anyway, now we know who God is as well. It’s so simple; that just may have been the last bastion of discovery and we have done that as well. So who is God? All that is not here! If this was God, we wouldn’t be searching for him. That’s great, we know him and can assign him a number.

So where is the discovery?

The Creation of time, is something else. Philosophy and scientists talk of the time before time.   A-priori. So there has to be an A-priori, before A-priori? Or, there has to be a time before time and before that as well. As Messala, on his deathbed, tells Ben Hur: ‘the race goes on.’ So it does. But for what? Discovery? That’s already been discovered, so what’s the race for? Just a minute, is the race towards something, or is it away from something?  Is it away from the knowledge that the past provides. That known actions will produce known results. So are we in denial? Is that a discovery? If we weren’t in denial, there may not be wars, strife, imbalances, etc. Denial blocks an opinion. An opinion that could save a situation. Maybe that’s the discovery to watch out for. But then everyone knows what denial is about and still practice it.

So where is the discovery?