The
Discovery
Everything is known and understood, comprehended and visualized.
This is the 21st 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?