Man’s Search for Meaning 14
Roti , kapada and makan have been the basic needs of Homo sapiens from
the stone age… then the priorities changed…
Come 20th century
with all types of inventions and “progress’’ human beings are not content with basics,
they looked towards the transcendtal… first stop was drugs….
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The hippie culture of the 70s
and then there was an avalanche of law defying actions across the globe.
Definitely India cannot be far behind… so our youngsters also took to all those
“ remedies”
wholesale.
·
First the children of the
rich were the target. Then it even penetrated to rural background.( I am aware
of one from a farmer’s family of modest means took to drugs some forty years
back, in his engineering days and even today is existing as a mere vegetable
depending on others)…so much for momentary kicks…
Some took to alcoholism with great gusto… most
of the movies then used to show drinking as an escape route…Such that today drinking
has become the greatest menace for Indian families across India.
· A case was reported from AP recently, where a man chopped his wife’s
nose due to her repeated complaints against
drinking and neglecting the family.
· An elder brother of a family was beaten to death by his younger
brothers due to his drinking excesses.
Just a couple of reported
cases… how many more will be there….
There is an organization
called AA where many are taken for detoxing….
Coming back to our theme… people who are rising from poverty with some
job or other get into drinking, drugs, gambling etc. such that they ruin
themselves and their families irreparably…
Then youngsters want to
express everything openly often defying social norms, if not legal norms.... they
then quote from foreign countries… in West kissing in public is permitted. Then
why not here?
Kiss of Love protest was a
non-violent protest against moral
policing which started in Kerala, India, and
later spread to other parts of India.
The movement began when a Facebook page
called Kiss of Love called forth the youth across Kerala to
participate in a protest against moral policing on November 2, 2014, at Marine
Drive, Cochin. The
movement received widespread support with more than 154,404 followers on its
Facebook page. After the initial protest in Kochi, similar protests were organized
in other major cities of the country.
It received opposition from various religious and
political groups like Bhartiya Janata Yuval Morcha, SDPI, Vishva Hindu Parishad, Shiv
Sena, Bajrang
Dal and Hindu
Sena.(wiki)
So, the moral of the story is that people are itching to show everything in public.
- Take the case of fashion shows (Fashion TV) or the beach costumes in foreign countries… (even GOA?), where the people want to shed their clothes… but for the legal bar, what will happen only God knows.
I remember a news item from
Canada a decade back… where they announced
the first 50 people or so coming in NUDE to their shop will get some item free
or something to that effect. Then there were people to take that offer…
- Today is the age of pornography…. even rich and famous are caught in the nefarious game (though all such will escape one way or other) leaving the vice behind for generations to come… like drugs… where are we heading…
That is 21stCentury
in India or abroad…. On the one side millions are not having sufficient cloths
to cover themselves and on the other hand people want to shed clothes as much
as permissible…. where have we reached…in the name of progress and freedom…
where indeed??
All are searching for meaning
in life… some are questioning… if animals can be free why not us…. only law can
give an answer…. Even that is neutral on many matters across the world….
So, the learning is … raise
your SQ--- watch as a witness or close your eyes… that last option is always open….
Is there a meaning for life
at all? One wonders.
Be happy. Be safe.
ॐ
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