We are probably the only species that can be accused
of hypocrisy. Often our drawing room conversations are about topics that make
us sound intellectual, secular, and sometimes even leftist but when we move out
of the drawing room to the road of realty we follow the path of me first. We will
fight for equality of we are the ones getting the advantage but as soon as we
are the ones losing our slogan turns to be each one for himself. We are the
species that respects no boundaries. I have heard stories that animals define
their areas and sometimes battle for it but once decided they respect the
boundaries. But we are the gifted species we have the gift of greed. We want everything
for our own consumption.
“The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough
for everyone's greed.”-by Mahatma Gandhi is so true.
The culture where everyone every moment is running the
marathon called BEST. I want the best dress, the best school, the best college,
the best job, the best holiday, the best blah blah blah, all this nonsense
without having any idea about the best. Why can’t we be simply enjoying every
moment with what we have.
It’s always good to improve and to compete with one’s own
self but to run behind a mirage called success, or BEST is a waste of time,
health and energy.
Interesting historical incident comes to my mind. The Government
in one country (I don’t want to name the country coz the news channel news
could be biased) wanted to bring equality in society by introducing equality in
education. So all the neighborhoods had government run schools. Simple assumption
would be that as all kids go to government run schools they get to mix with
kids of all backgrounds in their school and the playing field will be leveled.
But it did not happen so. Eventually people started realizing that some schools
had better results. Reason could be any maybe a few teachers were better and
schools that had those teachers were lucky. Now everyone wanted their kids to
go to those schools where results were better. Eventually the property prices
in those areas began to rise because of the demand for houses in the areas. And
the society segregated itself into rich and poor neighborhood. Again we had a
situation where kids of rich people went to a particular school and got better
results creating inequality.
Unless the fundamental frame of human mindset changes inequality
is the bitter truth we will have to learn to live with.
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