Within the drape of civilization, humans are just like any other species of life. We are just clothed by a sheath of man-made attire, behavior, and lifestyle, beneath which, exists in us a natural raw instinct for survival. That's what actually drives us. We have created millions of jargons to present raw human instincts and tendencies as socially civil, polite and laudable traits. It's indeed a self-treachery and when this self-treachery tries to find an expression outside itself, it becomes 'treacherous acts' using which one preys upon another for self-survival. In a so-called civilized society, these acts are looked upon as modern and sophisticated, even as noble and traditional deeds, merely because they hide the real intent and show fabricated reasons as their motive. Humanity lacks the integrity to call a spade a spade.
Over centuries of existence, we have emulated this trait and numerous such practices, which were passed on from one generation to the next and to the next and so on to us this day. We too are making some revisions to them or passing them as they are to the upcoming generations. They can be anything from normal mundane activities to strange Utopian rituals. Somebody did them in the past therefore we are doing them now. We hesitate to reason the rationale behind many of these acts as they may find cover behind the hard shields of culture, heritage, and religion, or behind the alluring mirage of modern science and industrial development. Even not so physical things like mannerisms have been fed into our psyche and we apply them ritualistically. Smile, for example, can also be faked, as much as we may consider it as a social nicety and necessity. There are countries in which unsolicited smile is seen as a trait of the untrustworthy. Sounds cautious right? There again when this cautious perception is applied as a thumb rule without a fair judgment, a person may make himself untrustworthy in the eyes of others.
Blind application of any so-called human wisdom could only mean we are operating with a blunt instrument in an imagined reality. We may also remain mentally trapped in a space that doesn't exist in the reality of the moment. So the moment's wisdom to perform an action should stem from cognition and reasoning, not from wild assumptions and unsubstantiated beliefs. And what should govern human actions is not the outward progress of the hour, but a heightened sense of justice towards things and lives around them. For now, we may find ourselves upright by being critical of the society, but before that should we not be critical of all that is unrighteous in us? We can choose to remain apparently just, yet be pursuing unjust acts behind the scene or stage them shamelessly voicing man-made postulations to justify them. But can pretending to be right, make our actions legitimately right?
To be honest, we should be judgmental about every single thing that we do. And unless we do that our lives will remain as a mere revision of the past or even worse, we may simply be repeating our own history of errors. At every given moment in time or in its preceding moments, in real space, life brings us to inter-junctions that may direct us back into the cyclic inroads of the past, or lead us to progressive roads of the future. We may choose the former by justifying the past or the later by being ruthlessly judgmental about both the past and the present. We don't have to wait for challenges and calamities in life to reform ourselves or look up to some bogus teachers in designer outfits to lead us through a fantasy path. Our lives and its progress are in our hands. We simply have to muster some courage to reclaim them.
Over centuries of existence, we have emulated this trait and numerous such practices, which were passed on from one generation to the next and to the next and so on to us this day. We too are making some revisions to them or passing them as they are to the upcoming generations. They can be anything from normal mundane activities to strange Utopian rituals. Somebody did them in the past therefore we are doing them now. We hesitate to reason the rationale behind many of these acts as they may find cover behind the hard shields of culture, heritage, and religion, or behind the alluring mirage of modern science and industrial development. Even not so physical things like mannerisms have been fed into our psyche and we apply them ritualistically. Smile, for example, can also be faked, as much as we may consider it as a social nicety and necessity. There are countries in which unsolicited smile is seen as a trait of the untrustworthy. Sounds cautious right? There again when this cautious perception is applied as a thumb rule without a fair judgment, a person may make himself untrustworthy in the eyes of others.
Blind application of any so-called human wisdom could only mean we are operating with a blunt instrument in an imagined reality. We may also remain mentally trapped in a space that doesn't exist in the reality of the moment. So the moment's wisdom to perform an action should stem from cognition and reasoning, not from wild assumptions and unsubstantiated beliefs. And what should govern human actions is not the outward progress of the hour, but a heightened sense of justice towards things and lives around them. For now, we may find ourselves upright by being critical of the society, but before that should we not be critical of all that is unrighteous in us? We can choose to remain apparently just, yet be pursuing unjust acts behind the scene or stage them shamelessly voicing man-made postulations to justify them. But can pretending to be right, make our actions legitimately right?
To be honest, we should be judgmental about every single thing that we do. And unless we do that our lives will remain as a mere revision of the past or even worse, we may simply be repeating our own history of errors. At every given moment in time or in its preceding moments, in real space, life brings us to inter-junctions that may direct us back into the cyclic inroads of the past, or lead us to progressive roads of the future. We may choose the former by justifying the past or the later by being ruthlessly judgmental about both the past and the present. We don't have to wait for challenges and calamities in life to reform ourselves or look up to some bogus teachers in designer outfits to lead us through a fantasy path. Our lives and its progress are in our hands. We simply have to muster some courage to reclaim them.