Science has taken over the world. It is in our lives in every way – our phones to communicate, our watches to tell us the time, our computers to make things more efficient, our television to bring us some entertainment. These major advancements could not have happened if it were not for reductionists – whereby each individual part is much more important than the sum of its whole. This is pretty much the opposite of holistic thinking.
It is important for a reductionist to take everything by its pieces. Cells, electrons, waves and individual symptoms are all fields of interest for such a person. A definition is the foundation of the principle and thus the science. He cannot move forward until he finds a place to categorize it – to lock it into its rightful place.
The question is, are we as humans just a very long essay describing our very nature of cells? Or do we have more than our grouped tissues and organs with a greater synergy capable of doing much more? Surely, it would seem easy to agree on the latter. Yet, the way we live has generally not reflected this thought.
The byproduct of living with reductionism is that we feel the constant need to judge, to blame and to isolate. We feel the importance of having to put a clear approval or disapproval on something, and to weed out the uncommon based on labels.
Technology has thus brought us up in terms of what we are capable of, yet has pulled us down when it comes to assessing a complete view of people, nature and the world. It is something that a machine cannot be brought to understand. A vision of emotions, energetic colour and a view of God in our life.
People are losing their way, we keep going round arguments that focus on reductionism, when we need to look back at things in a much more combined way. This will restore the energy in the world, and every one of us.