THE AGE OF REASON

Life comes with it's contradictions, but no human age was ideologically so contradictory than ours. "Love yourself" or "Self Love" is the motto of this generation. And may I say, the drug, the ultimate opium. In this blog, let's talk about the economics of self love.  Why do we want something? When we do not have it. Why we do not have love for ourselves. Because, from the beginning, from the time we are born, we are not the most spectacular thing around us. Human society assumes the existence of life and specially the existence of any single human being as given and tries to build an infrastructure of additional desires on it. Who are you? Just a human? Everyone here is a human! Be something else! Be something more! If you want to be human, be an empathetic one, be muscular, be manly or womanly and so on. Be a doctor, be a scientist, be an engineer, be an architect.  Manufactured want This creates a split in human which makes a wish to create a unique ident...

Humanity today deals with a number of problems which demands a solution. And I have not increased any knowledge by starting from this point. The point however remains that this is indeed a truth. To count the problems that Human species face requires a very thorough categorization into different facets of human life. One such Categorization would be simple:  Individual problems and Collective problems.  Individual problems deal with the problem of a human being with itself. A single human is a contradiction in itself. It has a fragmented being. What do I mean by this? Suppose I ask you if you will call yourself Kind. You might say yes. Most of us are in fact Kind in our day-to-day life. But, say, someone starts misbehaving with you on a daily basis. Will you be kind to him in that scenario? maybe not. You will let him taste the flavor of his own medicine, won't you? So, it means your kindness is conditional, right? We do not stop here. What if that person is a family member? Y...

 Human beings live in a symbolic reality. This symbolic reality has many facets. Reality, which is not just out there. Reality which is much more in motion than a continuously moving hour hand of the most accurate clock. What are the symbols we are talking about? These can be anything. Anything at all. Words, most of all, words. Objects, gestures etc. We need to understand something before we jump to the conclusion which I have asserted here as an introduction. This something is the Historical accumulation of meaning.  We define something. What do we mean when we state a definition. Something which is new to the world. When we give it a name and then define it, we are basically demarcating boundaries of meaning unique to the word and at the same time, stating its features. But is the meaning of the word or object defining it all? Common sense says yes. But Here is an example which will give you the next better perspective.  Do you know what the word "Sachin" means? Most o...