• The evolution from Homo sapiens to Homo faber
• Human Dignity vs Human Abasement by the Machine
• Chaplin’s Modern Times and Huxley’s Brave New World as twin warnings
• The double-edged nature of machines (lawn mower, vacuum, computer, auto-rickshaw)
• The AI question and the Pope’s warning about human control
• The call to keep Homo sapiens sovereign over Homo faber
• The final personal challenge: “Am I using this machine to deepen my life, or is it using me to thin it out?”
Tag Archives: Aldous Huxley
“THE MISTS OF MANIKARNIKAA”: A Drama in Two Acts— featuring Aldous Huxley and Sri.Tiruppaan Azhwar
by M. K. Sudarshan August 29, 2026: Chennai, India An imaginary 2-act play exploring Aldous Huxley’s “The Doors of Perception,” where his ghost finds final redemption through Ramanuja’s Visishtadvaita Vedanta and the vision of Tirupaan Azhwar at Sri Rangam Temple PROLOGUE (To be spoken by a Narrator in front of a closed, dark velvet curtain.Continue reading ““THE MISTS OF MANIKARNIKAA”: A Drama in Two Acts— featuring Aldous Huxley and Sri.Tiruppaan Azhwar”
“kaarpannya dosham”: Acedia of Arjuna and the cowgirls in “Tiruppaavai” – Part 2 of 3
It is rather too facile to translate the Sanskrit word for the mental affliction of “kaarpanya-dosham” into its near-equivalent Tamil, “மனத் தொய்வு” which, again in a very facile fashion, gets often roughly translated into the English “despair“, “mental depression” or “faintness of mind”. Overall however, as the Tamil literary doyen and my revered friend, Sri.Continue reading ““kaarpannya dosham”: Acedia of Arjuna and the cowgirls in “Tiruppaavai” – Part 2 of 3″