The matryoshka effect

“I am the eye in the sky, looking at you;

I can read your mind.

I am the maker of rules, dealing with fools;

I can cheat you blind.

And I don’t need to see anymore to know that

Refrain: I can read your mind (looking at you)

                I can read your mind (looking at you)

                I can read your mind (looking at you)

                I can read your mind (looking at you)…”

This song entitled “The Eye in the Sky” is composed by the British band Alan Parsons Project and was first performed in 1982.

The lyrics of the song highlight man-made up-down power, the hegemony of powerful nations over less powerful ones, and the control of posts and statuses over less potent individuals.  What can be inferred is:

                ‘I am the satellite in the sky, looking at you;

                I can read your mind.

                I am the mighty nation that makes the rules;

                I can cheat you blind.

                I am your boss at work, dealing with fools;

                I can read your mind,’

     and so on so forth …

People are ruled in their professions, in their civic lives, in the political and economic patterns of their countries, and in many other radii where each radius is contained within a larger sphere, on a trajectory where the bigger is continuously circumventing the smaller.  The stronger nations and the significant positions are the driving force of the contemporary world.

The reigning power of this modern world is the man-made power that is dominantly unjust.  In the name of the potentiality of progress, of civil expansion, and of human development, the actuality of regression has been steering the globe.  In the year 2020, famine, poverty, slavery, injustice, sectarianism, racism, sexism, classism, wars, greed, and many more still prevail and still define the reality of our planet.  Humanity has carried these notions within its folds from the time of Adam and Eve until today.  So, what is wrong with this man-made power that has failed miserably in conquering its flaws but has succeeded extensively in controlling its Earth cohabitants?  How close are these man-made laws to the natural law?

The natural law thrives from the inside towards the outside: a seed metamorphoses in growth from the nucleus out, a sperm cell and an egg cell meet to emanate life, the sun spreads outwards its effulgent light; The Big Bang theory of creation expanded exponentially outwards.  The nature of life, as well its law, flourishes outwards.

Gottfried Wilheim Leibniz (1646 – 1716) explains how we live in “the world of monads”. Life is made of monads.  Monads are individual ethereal invisible entities that are not destroyable since they are not material.  From these tiny unseen worlds, the entire universe is formed, so from these monads, ‘Being’ spirals outwards.  This is the power of growth, and it is true because it is not breakable, not dividable, cannot be brought to or out of life.  It is there, not created nor destroyed, juxtaposing with how Antoine Lavoisier (1743 – 1794) describes the true nature of existence where, “Nothing is created and nothing is destroyed.”

However, the man-made motion and notion of power are the exact opposite.  Man’s definition of power involves “looking down” for the purpose of ‘reading the mind’.  Man’s power functions downwards for the goal of gain, it creates itself for the target of added value, and it eventually gets veered since it is created.  Nothing created can withstand change, and everything created will eventually be uncreated.  The only unchanging “unmoved mover” is God, as Aristotle defines the creator; the unmoved mover is the Final cause of existence to which everything purposefully moves. 

The contemporary world is subdued by the direct and the stealthy annexation powers of affluent nations.  These are the nations of convex powers, the powers that bulge a nation out (convex).  With their appetitive measures, they take over the less enabled countries, the concave.  And with both, the convex and the concave powers, reality is distorted.  But, when the entire world moves viably from inwards out, instead of upwards down, it will be in synchrony with the system of the universe.  Being harmonious with the universe means being peaceably evolving, without pretentiously reading minds and boastingly believing in the illusory artificial man made power and hierarchy.   

Injustice is another highlight to man’s power “looking down, I can read your mind” attitude.  For the sake of fake power and its lame hierarchy, Socrates was sentenced to death, Jesus Christ was crucified, and myriad examples can testify to the limitations and the artificiality of man-made power.

The flower blooms inside out, not stifled by any convex or concave deficient power.  Its blooming is full because it is far from the hubbub of daily life and from the snarling realities of so-called powerful nations. 

The Russian doll, the Matryoshka, encloses the other figurines, all the way to the tiniest one.  The man-made power may read the Matryoshka as the leading immanent hierarchy.  But from the perspective of the law of nature, the biggest Matryoshka must fall off to lead to the smaller one, and the smaller one splits respectively, all the way to the miniaturized figurine.  The greater powers must bend and break for the sake of reaching the smallest characters. These minute characters are not lined up to break or to divide; they are to truly grow outwards unlike the artificial man-made system of hierarchy which is ultimately unvaryingly changing, falling, and always missing the core: the essence of outward motion.         

The Matryoshka breaks to reach the nucleus while the nucleus expands to reach the universe.

                                                                                                                                                                             Suha Naimy