Breaking the cycle of humiliation and promoting a life of dignity.
By what means can we ensure migration from
humiliations into a leading a life with dignity?
Humiliations do not go away
by mere projections.
“In the end nothing less than the whole of everything
can be the truth of anything at all”- William James
All present turmoil and
future wars may be happening, if we have
the luxury of over generalizing or over simplifying,
1. Physically due to lack of
justifiable distribution and sharing of resources-either natural or developed-
and
2. Psychologically and socially due to over emphasizing identity venerations-be they
regional, religious, linguistic, economic, socio-cultural etc.
Here I am confining
humiliation only to the realms of real, tangible disparities, poverty and lack
of accessibility to resources that every human being is entitled to and all
these leading to lack of dignity.
Many ideological outfits have
been portraying a narrative in reams and reams of written records and through
multiple other modes like films and documentaries.
This is a must to create awareness
among people who are otherwise insensitive or indifferent to such humiliations.
At the same time humanity
must also realize that mere projection and portrayals of victimhood and blame games
have not, in reality minimized leave along eradication of multiple forms of
humiliations.
Unfortunately, instead in
some cases it has created a breed of ideology peddlers who make business out of
projecting humiliations.
The projection and propaganda
of poverty, victimhood etc have become business unto themselves.
Unless and until, we make the
larger humanity to get proactively involved to change the situation of
humiliations beyond mere awareness of them through some positive measures these
problems will continue as they are.
Certain basic things must be
addressed without any bias like we all share this planet –all human beings and all
other species;
Every issue must be viewed in
contextual relevance;
All issues must be addressed non-violently,
sanely, rationally, scientifically with proven empirical authenticity, taking
into consideration all socio-cultural, religious, traditional, regional, linguistic
sensibilities and sensitivities of all the stake holders with total tolerance
and complete compassion without trying to take out the minds from one identity cage
into another identity cage, but try to evolve methods that operate beyond all
forms bias based on some identity.
Unloving criticism, political
blame games, blind ritualistic and religious beliefs and political ideology
venerations have not and never can solve the problems, if so; the whole world
will not continue to have the same problems for so many centuries.
They all may have had their
relevance at particular times in some specific contexts and situations but we
cannot commit the mistake of extending and extrapolating the same frames of
reference to deal with present day problems.
“In the end nothing less than the whole of everything
can be the truth of anything at all”- William James
Life and every aspect of every
social structure and all economic activities inherently have multiple
dimensions and each dimension has its own multitude of dynamics.
Besides, nature operates on
its own dynamics unmindful of the survival of any one species alone.
Planet earth is not merely
human centric.
Evolution in all aspects
starting from biological to socio-cultural factors functions on its own
metamorphosis and changes.
That’s why it is imperative
that many traditions and cultures in most fields to effect a transition and
transform as per the emerging needs and trends.
So, it is only obvious that
all these together can get further complex [not complicated] when all
dimensions operate with their multitude of dynamics in a wholesome interplay of
interrelated activity of constant churning called life.
These get further fuzzy when
churning happens in varying cauldrons of different regions, professions, fields
of activities, cultures and containers of different identities.
Therefore, life and everything connected with life will be the
manifestations of the interplay of multitude of micro activities operating
simultaneously.
We need to pay attention to all possible micro details
and enable macro solutions through knowledge based social engineering to
reshape and to create sustainable economic structures which are comprehensive,
cooperative and compassionate in nature.
Scope of opportunities must not be ignored by
magnifying and focusing disproportionately only on the following: -
psychologically appealing and social sensational victimhood peddling; poverty
projections; over politicized blame games; selective indifference; ignorance
and under utilization of science and technology; dominating the discourses only
with deficiencies; prioritizing projection of problems without properly
perceiving and providing solutions.
“I
think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of
ignorance”. ~Reuben Blades
“Society is always
engaged in a vast conspiracy to preserve itself - at the expense of the new
demands of each new generation.” ~John Haynes Holmes
“The
things that are wrong with the country today are the sum total of all the
things that are wrong with us as individuals” ~Charles W. Tobey
Finally, institutionally
implemented intelligent solutions can influence and impact positively the lives
of the humiliated and may improve their life and lead to
dignity.
“When
we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We
reverse the process for our own time”. ~George Boas
“Most
of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of
favor” ~Robert Frost, "The Black Cottage," North of Boston, 1914
We need to observe life in its totality, in all its
details with all its facets with intense totality and total intensity and
create an awareness of impact and influence of various solutions available at
micro, meso, macro and meta level of
social structure because humiliations of various types are spreading like a
contagious disease and so everyone must be concerned to prevent it and not
contribute to it with greater media publicity for any mileage because being a
contagious disease it can also spread by any group rendered irrelevant be it
paid media persons or otherwise insignificant and ignored political vultures.
I wrote two posts recently which I think may be of
relevance to the topic of ‘breaking the cycle of humiliation and promoting a
life of dignity’.
