Monday, September 10, 2007

Call For Conscience

Sometimes I get the feeling that our demands are too much materialistic and instead of loving our objects of desire, we tend to get infatuated with them. And then, true to the nature of infatuation, our attachment with the coveted object is gone with the wind. What actually do I want ahead of and apart form the usual mobile and automobile?

Well it's just a better world to live in. I don't remember when I last saw the front page of any newspaper of the day devoid of news on bribery, robbery, rape, accident, murder, abduction or the like. And we care a fig for what's happening around as long as they don't explicitly affect us. The thing is that even in this 'happening' age, we lack the vitality to prevent things slip from our grips.

In this age of communication and information boom, can't we act in unison to demolish the deep- rooted superstructure of corruption? When we are thinking in the lines of doing away with the quota system, here comes the union government unitedly led by the self-proclaimed 'progressive' allies to arrange for fifty per cent seat reservations on religious basis in a university. However, thankfully, very few are lending their support to this move. Then again, when the same government takes a truly progressive step in banning onscreen portrayal of smoking, people are raising a hue and cry against the social reform measure. They are just flooding the mass media with their vitriolic vituperations against the move. The bitterness of their satire would seemingly arouse the jealousy of Juvenal and Alexander Pope, thus far lying in peace in their far-off graves. It's a wonder what makes literate people buy packs after packs of cigarettes, when it's clearly mentioned on the packs that cigarette smoking is injurious to health. Perhaps people are losing on the urge to live long. And death was supposed to be a fearsome proposition!

As population is increasing by leaps and bounds, the sense of competition is eating into our finer humane sensibilities. We are fast becoming cold-blooded escapists.

What we need is to take a break from the daily dose of drudgery, and sit back and think. I have great faith in the human brain and equally great respect for the human heart. We are too intelligent not to find any worthwhile remedy to the social sickness. And then we need to implement those ideas. We are too enthusiastic not to do that. Since the healing touch should always come from within, we need to take the initiative and the world will be with us. There is nothing to jeer or sneer at.

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