Societal Metrics

Disclaimer: Again, Heavy Stuff.



Part of growing up is the ability to ask questions with the intention of feeding your reasoning. A lot of things we do are out of practice, than necessity. At a point in life I have realised that the practice itself has become a necessity, to continue to remain in the society. This is a common thought, at least among the current generation.

We do get carried away with this thought and at times start branding people who belong to the “other” as barbaric, narrow minded and so on.

We have seen this happening throughout history. Whenever the British entered a country, they called the natives barbaric or uneducated. WHY? because for them to be literate, is to be educated. To worship what they worshipped, is civilised. This is not uniquely British, but may be an acquired human nature because of our other nature – We humans are social animals.

Just because some one is not ok wearing what most others are wearing, that person is branded as narrow minded. So to avoid becoming an outcast, most of us do what most of us do. This spills over to even what we think about. So much so that we start feeling guilty if we think or look at things differently. I don’t know how anybody can be called selfish if they do 90% of things for others. (Anyway I would like to discuss the term ‘selfishness’ in one of my articles in future)

Sure there will come a day when every person does what he/she wants to do and feels good doing it, and the person next door has no problem with it as long as it is within the country’s constitutional boundaries.

Anyway, this is just a random thought out of my mind. I just felt like writing.

-- Satish