We call ourselves civilized...??
We, as a race, pamper ourselves with theories and discoveries of how we evolved over other species and how we have grown to be the most dominant one.
The elaborate societies we have developed along with strong cultures and technologies, supposedly supporting and strengthening our existence.
But is it really so..???
The first trait of civilization and development should be the elimination of the threat to survival, if not completely from outside then at least from within !
But the popular notion of 'survival of the fittest' based on which we 'the humans' have come thus far seems to be at play, on a bigger stage, within the race as well... which is to me - Sad and Disappointing!
Because as I see it... within the society the weapons for survival are not just forged from biological superiority, but goes beyond to intellect (mildly acceptable) and stoops low to the the prevalence of circumstances, accumulation of wealth and support, and developing, what we have so heartily accepted and advertised, social networking!
Why...???
I ask, Why can't we, as a race, as a society, as a developed and civilized species guarantee, in the least, that all members will have equal opportunities or lesser still that members won't have to put up a fight against other members?
That my success wouldn't or doesn't have to mean the downfall of another?
That I do not have to keep proving myself to others, time and again, that I am fit for survival.
That I do not have to look up to other for their permission for survival!
For what we, as a race, have achieved and developed thus far is for US.. ALL of Us!
Just that the 'Society', as it appears to me now, doesn't function for all.
But so intrinsic has it become to our survival that man has truly become - 'a Social Animal'!
We, as a race, pamper ourselves with theories and discoveries of how we evolved over other species and how we have grown to be the most dominant one.
The elaborate societies we have developed along with strong cultures and technologies, supposedly supporting and strengthening our existence.
But is it really so..???
The first trait of civilization and development should be the elimination of the threat to survival, if not completely from outside then at least from within !
But the popular notion of 'survival of the fittest' based on which we 'the humans' have come thus far seems to be at play, on a bigger stage, within the race as well... which is to me - Sad and Disappointing!
Because as I see it... within the society the weapons for survival are not just forged from biological superiority, but goes beyond to intellect (mildly acceptable) and stoops low to the the prevalence of circumstances, accumulation of wealth and support, and developing, what we have so heartily accepted and advertised, social networking!
Why...???
I ask, Why can't we, as a race, as a society, as a developed and civilized species guarantee, in the least, that all members will have equal opportunities or lesser still that members won't have to put up a fight against other members?
That my success wouldn't or doesn't have to mean the downfall of another?
That I do not have to keep proving myself to others, time and again, that I am fit for survival.
That I do not have to look up to other for their permission for survival!
For what we, as a race, have achieved and developed thus far is for US.. ALL of Us!
Just that the 'Society', as it appears to me now, doesn't function for all.
But so intrinsic has it become to our survival that man has truly become - 'a Social Animal'!
3 comments:
threat to survival can never be eliminated, however advanced a civilization might be...because one can choose how to live a life but one can not choose to be or not to be...
however, you can choose to do what you want to do...if you have courage and strength to follow your convictions, you would not feel the necessity or burden of proving yourself...you can always choose how to exist if not the existence itself... :)
and yes, about the equal opportunity, how would you have felt working in the Literary committee with people other than those with whom you worked...the question is, 'did the committee deserve you and not others?'...i will tell you one thing...this doubt about competition arises when there is a difference between who you think should be in a system and who actually are in that system...but this of course takes into account that the system makes you think about it...if you don't care about that system, nothing about it will worry you... :)
Agreeing to your second comment would simply mean my affirmation to - "Ignorance is bliss!"
After going through it again... it's hard to make sense of both... what I had written and what you have written...??
heheheh....
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