A regressive progressive society (p2)

Perhaps I was a tad unclear before, but just so that I can put this into perspective of what I mean.

I feel there is always some sort of opposite, opposing ideal to every facet in life. Whether it might be the miniscule physical properties of compressed particles; or be it the institution of marriage. This is what I liken to balance. By this logic, one can conclude that as society progresses in both intellect, reason and nature. By the former defintion; our moral values (family or otherwise) and our fundamental principles regress by the same factor.

This phenemenon is what I like to call systematic desentisization. We continue to draw allowances to perspectives which in stagnant situations would have been impossible to fathom.

That is why it is so easy to be caught up in subjective, emotionalism - in which a person confuses logic with religion, destiny with fate, freedom with oppression, right from left, compassion with malice.

Of course this doesn't happen at the individual level. No. There must be some sort of condoning or acceptance in large numbers- whether it be APATHY or IGNORANCE. That alone ignites this domino affect, where individual thought is subjugated into collective thought where it is easier to integrate beliefs (this is where you and I are deemed USELESS).

And here is why collectivism is dangerous. I'm sure all of you are familar with the Ahmedabad riots in India. I want to actually focus my thoughts into a single man - Hindu by faith - a kind and gentle hearted individual who had a wife and three kids. Yet, infused with a collectivism that we call "Mob", he alone brutally raped and killed five Muslim women. Forget the fact that he wrote a powerful repentance piece a few years later when his morality caught up with him, the simple fact of the matter is that societal forces compelled a simple family man to commit vicious actions which in ordinary, "stagnant" circumstances would even be inconceivable.

The society we live is not a violent mob that lasts for days. Owing to its complexity in nature, it is the undertow of our perception of thoughts. It has always relied on the mob-type theology, but this sort of collectivism isn't as drastically obvious as the violent ones. Nor is it as brief. It has lasted for centuries and has relied on the masses to be frightfully ignorant and/or embracers. (Surah Cow anyone?)

Of course this is all symbolic. The man to me represents our collective apathy/indifference/"shrug" to issues which perturb us. We are a vast mob of sheeps who graze on the fields of deceptive optimism, self-imposed acceptance and pre-conceived idealism. There isn't, and there won't be a shepherd (like the ones before us) to lead us out of this carefree abandon.

Til then, we continue to graze.