The Impressionism and evolutionary biology

When artists and scholars talk about Impressionism they fixate on the artist understanding of colour theory and their bold attempts towards rendering light. I for one appreciate these aspects plentiful and humbled by the master class work of art by Monet, Van Gogh and Edgar. But I believe these artists had a clever understanding of human biology specially the knowledge of psychological and evolutionary aspects of human eyes and brain coordination towards perceiving an image or a scenery.

Impressionistic artists created their masterpieces with bold and striking brush strokes understanding that human eyes are trained well enough to understand as a wholesome picture. Checking their art closely creates an immense sense of carefully colliding fragments of abstract paintings and from a distance it’s marvellous and realistic.

In placing the right colours in the right way these artists tapped on the psychological aspect how our brain interpret the information from eyes. Any visual information passed to brain through our eyes are most complex understanding of what we have been seeing throughout our life. So in someway impressionists let us fill out the bits and pieces of their painting by us the viewers as it would make the painting personal to us. It in a deeper sense it’s a fragments of pixels from our life filling in to show you the complete almost realistic picture that you see.

In starry night with curved yellow lines Van Gogh made you see the stars shine,

In the vivid crimson circles Monet unveiled a poppy field in front of you,

In a cloudy white strokes Edgar made a ballet dance rehearsal around you,

In a way whenever you indulge in an impressionistic painting your eyes and mind becomes the tools of the artists.

They made you and your mind as their work of art too by harnessing these amazing potential of your eyes and brain, so when you appreciate yourself, as you deeply appreciate their work!!!

I submit to you this perspective to make you notice one more aspect of these artwork you might not have noticed.

The vicious cycle

The business around the Western medicine industry has grown so much all over the world. Eventhough the vitamin supplements doesn’t have any benefits to adults, it gets marketed all over the world. This industry spends alot on marketing, ironically a medicines’ value should be from its effects not by gimmicks. The system around it became too big that stopping it or funding an alternate to it, is out of the question. Do we know the regulations are air tight? Do we spend enough time to understand the negative stories about it? This game never ends. Although, alternate of prevention and being healthy is simple enough by proper exercise and lifestyle changes (in case of vitamin tablets)

The system of medicine and the industry around is getting bigger and it is almost impossible to get an
undamaged solution off of it.
Atleast the life saving medicines manufacturers shouldn’t be privately owned companies. Alternatively Government funded industries only should have the licenses. In this way, fair chance will be given to all the people not only the rich. The key to a healthier society must be  controlled by people. In the current system we pay higher for the same combinations of drugs and same grams of chemicals in accordance with the brands. We end up paying more according to our doctor’s prescription or more marketing it has. “The poorer you are the lesser your life value becomes” is the motto of the industry.

The biggest democracy’s nuclear decision

What drives the Government in bringing in the harmful nuclear power plant?
– When the world just witnessed a FUKUSHIMA.
– When Wind energy “the renewable” has proved to be more productive
– When most of the world superpowers are revisiting their stand on Nuclear energy.
– When you have local fishermen protesting for more than two decades.
– When you can’t measure the slow but steady damages it could infiltrate to the eco system.
It was 1988 the first ever paper has been signed on Nuclear Power Generation by the then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and the Soviet head of state Mikhail Gorbachev, for the construction of two reactors in Kudankulam, TN , India (8.1679 N,77.7123 E). On account of the dissolution of Soviet Union, India and Russia again joined in the mission of executing the agreement after a long delay. After series of protests against it got muted, the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant Unit-I has started its commercial operation on Dec 2014. It generates 1000MW of clean energy which gets distributed to Tamil Nadu (562.5MW), Karnataka (221MW), Kerala (133MW), Puducherry (33.5MW) and an unallocated 50MW.
The objective of NPCIL states Its motto is ‘safety first and production next’. I can’t help but notice the irony of the motto that if safety is the first thing they want for the people, how nuclear energy generation is a rational solution? Understanding the risk and still wanting to proceed is like an action of the mindless. The needs will grow exponentially for electricity in a developing, populated, democracy like India. So, the solution has to be sustainable for long term. Even though the wind energy plants are costlier it is renewable and doesn’t harm the environment. Similarly, for domestic consumption India can rely on Solar energy. In the case of nuclear energy, getting the nuclear fuel up and using it is one thing but managing its waste is another quite complex process. As of now Kudankulam nuclear wastes are being stored underground with all possible safety measures. Maintaining of nuclear wastes will carry a risk for millions of years. After all that the nature gave to us what we give back is this?
The Pressured Water Reactors uses sea water to cool the reactor’s core. The loop of water after cooling the reactor’s core will be released back into the sea increasing, there by the temperature of sea water. In the case of Kudankulam this hot water is released at an area near by the Gulf of Mannar which is the home for 32 sea weed species. This is cutting the food chain at its start, which can create unimaginable consequences for future generations.
It is unfortunate that the humanity had to perfect nuclear fission models, while watching the natural prototype of fusion reactor is shining on us every day.  Knowing that the fission reactor core damage will take 100,000 years for the earth to heal, why the world is still pursuing the option of nuclear power? This question extends itself to the mesh of money, corrupted politics and capitalism. Whatever may be the reason it is not too late to act on it.
We can still endure!
We can still fight against such a drastic decision against nature!
The revolution to come is not about making the world a better place to live but about realizing that it already the best one there is! And let’s take care of it.