Though the title
is catchy as questioning positive thinking actually what it questions, rightly
so, is a puerile attempt at homogenizing thinking and living and claiming such
methods as a panacea.
The craze for
homogenization and the claim of panacea are the ills that have marred evolution
of human excellence to a very great extent.
These two are the
result of presumptive psychological fixations.
The former is
pushed ahead with various justifications while the later is pushed forth out of
some presumptions, mostly ethnocentric pride due to indoctrinated identity based
on some ideology predominantly either religious or political.
Nature is
variety and variety is natural. Denying and defying reality cannot work always.
Though no one
can afford to deny or defy the importance of anything or anyone but at the same
time expecting or presuming all to be the same or similar or act similarly is
not correct in all contexts though such a behavior is preferable in certain
contexts for the convenience of social
cohabitation.
There are no stereotypes
in any species, especially human beings.
So, uniformity,
homogenization and any single philosophy, application, concept or methodology cannot
be applied everywhere and to everyone at all times.
These two sickening
tendencies have been in human psyche for a long time with various types of
manifestations at different times.
This
is one more instance of incurable sick obsession of the western psyche, namely,
homogenization.
If
we glimpse through the annals of history, we can observe this and the several
ways in which this has been carried out:-by indoctrination, by force, by
cultural invasions, by wars and so on.
Throughout
history it has failed miserably.
Be
it the Roman Empire’s greed to spread its tentacles; be it the attempt to
homogenize religion which failed with Spanish Inquisition; be it Nazism or
Colonialism; all have failed.
Once
these attempts at homogenizing cultures, beliefs, political ideologies have
failed, now, the West is trying it in Trade and Economy.
As
before, it is bound to fail. But what we must learn from history and guard
ourselves against is the heavy price that humanity may have to pay for facing
and overcoming these attempts emanating from a few individuals charged with
fanatical obsession in terms of Religious wars, Nazism, Colonial mind set,
labeled economic models like capitalism, communism, label and nurtured
political ideologies like left, Right and all these have their destructive manifestations
and delimiting aspects.
The
impacts of the previous obsession were restricted to specific geographical area
as they collapsed before they could successfully spread everywhere.
But
new and emerging obsessions of homogenization can become a dangerous mass
hysterical obsession or paranoia or putrefy everything.
Most
unfortunately this malice pervaded even domains like language.
For example last
year there was an attempt to modify French spelling to make it convenient. I
wrote this don't worry everything except the title are in English.
On Panacea I
had written earlier
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