When
humans first came up with the idea to stay in groups, it stemmed from a genuine
need for survival.
Another powerful way people organized, was in the name of God and faith. Religion transcends boundaries. It brings people together because of the fear of the almighty and the greed of a good life, before and after death.
When our forefather collaborated, they never fore saw their idea of forming groups will grow into this intricate system of societies, castes, religion and nations. Today there is a social order to societies and nations, too.
However, this has long stopped being the need for safety and is now a petri dish to multiply and groom the darkness of human nature. The high of power and wealth, the greed, the intolerance, the oppression and apathy for others, the rule of fear, the need to fake social hierarchy... all find multiple examples in today's world. There is actually a list of countries which are governed by dictators. There are research organization still dedicated to develop more lethal weapons by superpowers who do not face any real threat of wars.There are numerous religious heads and evangelist with unlimited money and private jets.
Today the biggest reason for death, fear and human suffering is the overwhelming need of humans to protect or push boundaries and propagate religion.
May be we should look for small nurturing communities, self sustaining societies and believers being faithful to all faiths. May be we should re-calibrate and reorganize, find reasons to live instead of finding excuses to kill.
2 comments:
Vasudeva kutumbakam. A erstwhile concept which vanished due to all the points you mentioned in the post. Awesome timing of the post actually. At an age when family is a fading virtual concept, communities bond only on need to do basis. What you wrote is the prologue of the transformation in human society. Boundaries were and will always be imaginary every where else but in human mind. As darwins theory on survival and the fact that we are all gullible define the fallacy of presumed state of intellect continue to be proven right, we choose to ignore , thanks to our very own arrogance of superiority which now defines a new boundary preventing us from evolving as a community. We forget that even newton was scammed in the south sea bubble.
Another curious observation is, that though we are the result of evolution, somehow we are very incapable to changing lanes to the path of our well being. for example climate change, extinction of flora and fauna, deforestation.... these are global problems with the power to erase mankind. but instead of being alarmed and taking remedial actions, we are still pondering and adding cat videos on social media.
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