Thursday, October 1, 2009

Book thought to be non-conceptual by the west later appreciated as relevant

Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by kniaz Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin

I purchased the book from Land Mark Chennai and got quite absorbed in reading this small book.
this seems to be relevant in our talk on Tamil Brahmins.Cooperation and flocking together for security reasons were a sociological necessity. The book was published in early years of 20th century...many have taken the concept for group work and cooperation and coexistence.Indians follow this concept like the animals as stated by the author.
Thus there is an important genetic orientation in the flocking either for a religion or cause or a dogma or even simple mutual assistance. Even self help groups are born out of the disposition in the evolution.

this important factor is followed by christian groups and even Muslims by namaz etc.Hindus celebrated in groups in temples but did not further the concept into action.They kept walls of separation like "anti-bonding orbitals of the covalent bonds" in chemicals.
Tamil brahmins observed some rituals using sanskrit as language to further the distnct separation from local masses who were for survival non-vegetarians.the Sanskrit they used was evolved out of local intonations.The Sanskrit spoken by the north Indian brahmins and southern Tamil brahmins differed in content and even pronunciation.
These are because of preservation of a different genetic direction for survival of ego and a feeling of superiority as if they were god-heads.

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