What is success? What is happiness? What is real education? What
is reality?
It is actually good and fortunate that these debates about
what constitutes happiness? What constitutes success? What type of education is
real education are fortunately floating around.
It is all the more welcome trend if these are debated
seriously in the realms of scholarly academic circles involving psychologists, psychiatrists,
besides, of course politicians,
economists, entrepreneurs and all other concerned leaders, mass opinion molders
and other manipulators of social perception who involve in social engineering
for various purposes and all these invariably spilling onto social media as
well.
Even if nothing of great
worth or value emerges out of all these questions, at least they reflect our
inclination and inquisitiveness to know something else or something more than
what all these terms like success, happiness, education have been referring to
so for.
Besides, these debates inevitably lead to rethinking and
reworking many out dated models and also they try to remove fixed definitions
of certain concepts which are loosely and carelessly used without realizing the
influence and impact that they have on especially impressionable minds and the
injury that they inflict to those who are unable to fulfill the deemed correct definitions
of these terms-which incidentally lead to many major psychological, neurological
and social problems.
The worst symptoms of all these terms are the labels that
get appropriated and assigned unmindful of the social and psychological impact
that they can have.
I have written on all the three above referred terms, namely
Success, Happiness, and Education at various platforms at different times,
sometimes these terms do not pop up as they are but they are injected in
certain other versions through a clever usage of plethora of thesaurus of
terminological tirade which flushes down all nuances of life forms on its way.
The social engineers of various hues and colors mostly
politicians, religious leaders, media persons, business houses to name a few
who deliberately define these terms to suit their agenda.
The following three quotes I find hit the nail more
effectively.
"The simplicities of natural laws arise through the
complexities of the language we use for their expression."- Eugene Wigner
"Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy
answers, and to begin to think multi-dimensionally, to glory in the mystery and
paradoxes of life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and
consequences that are inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact
that life is complex."- M. Scott Peck
“An array of
coordinated genes is required to explain even the minutest human phenomenon.’Discoveries'
of a 'gambling gene' here and an 'aggression gene' there are derided by the
more serious and less publicity-prone scholars. Yet, it would seem that even
complex behaviours such as risk taking, reckless driving, and compulsive
shopping have genetic underpinnings."- The Selfish Gene – The Genetic
Underpinnings of Narcissism
I wrote the following for a detailed article and debate in a forum
of global education the topic was the myopic one ‘Growing up and settling down’
[Life in its very essence means lively so it
cannot settle down. Settling down is a loosely used and well accepted
terminological contradiction.
Life
has neither a pause button nor is it a pass it on baton.
Everything
is part of life and not apart from life and therefore cannot be kept apart for
a future date or an assumed future condition.]
I need to search for some of my old articles on Happiness and success,
invariably very long ones and need to load them too in my blogs.
However, you may find a lot of Education and Reality in my blogs.
