~ by BABY KATTACKAL
Kerala, India
SOCIETY?
AN OFT- HEARD NAME, A GROUP OF HUMAN BEINGS,
DISCIPLINED, COMPASSIONATE, VIRTUOUS, SELFLESS,
SACRIFICIAL, WITH PURPOSES THAT SERVE MANKIND.
WHERE RULE OF LAW PREVAILS,
WHERE RULE OF LAW ENJOYS
GENERAL ACCEPTABILITY
AND COMMANDS RESPECT AND OBEDIENCE
AN INFIGHTING GROUPS OF PEOPLE
CANNOT BE CALLED A SOCIETY,
THEY ARE NOT WITH HOMOGENEOUS GOALS
FOR THE COMMON GOOD, COMMON WELFARE.
WHERE RULE OF LAW IS THREAD-BORN
TITULAR, ANY TIME TO SNAP OFF
FOR THE PEOPLE TO TAKE THE LAW
UNTO THEIR HANDS.
GROUP INTERESTS CANNOT ALWAYS
BE CALLED SOCIETAL INTERESTS,
THEY ARE INTERESTS OF A GROUP ONLY,
AND SO SELFISH ONES.
IF THE INTEREST OF A MINORITY OR A GROUP,
WITHIN THE SOCIETY, HAPPENS TO BE ONE THAT PROMOTES,
OR CATERS TO THE INTERESTS OF THE ENTIRE SOCIETY,
THEN IT’S IN THE INTEREST OF THE SOCIETY.
DIFFERENCES OF OPINION IN A SOCIETY,
DO NOT MAR IT’S SOCIETAL STATUS.
BUT INFIGHTING GROUPS SCRAMBLING
CUTS INTO PIECES, THE SOCIETAL STATUS.
CROWD? EASILY EXCITABLE,
A MOTELY ASSEMBLAGE OF UNWIELDY MULTITUDE,
INDISCIPLINED, SELF- SERVING INTERESTS, VIRTUELESS,
WHERE THE PRESENT GENERATION IS CONTEMNED TO LIVE IN.
NOMADS WERE THE HUMAN BEINGS, ONCE,
WITH SIMPLE, LIMITED PURPOSES OF LIFE,
GROUPS MOVING,
FROM PLACE TO PLACE.
SIMPLE CONVENTIONS GOVERNED
THEIR INTERACTIONS, SMOOTHLY,
SOULFULLY,
WITH UTMOST HUMANENESS.
TIME NEVER WAITS…………….CHANGES CAME TO PASS…..
MAN STARTED TO SETTLE DOWN,
A CHANGE FROM HIS NOMADIC LIFE,
THE NAME OF THE GROUP CHANGED INTO A SOCIETAL ONE
THE SOCIETY OF SETTLERS.
NOTHING WRONG IN CALLING THE SOCIETY OF SETTLERS,
THE MOTHER OF ALL HUMAN SOCIETIES,
FOR THE SOCIETY OF SETTLERS MARKED,
THE BIRTH OF THE CONCEPT OF SOCIETAL LIFE.
TIME PASSED………MODERNITY DAWNED…..
FROM ITS LIMITED WANTS, THE SOCIETY GREW, SLOWLY,
THEIR NEEDS AND GOALS,LIMITLESS,COMPLEX, DIMENTIONAL,ASSORTED.
ASSUMING A NEW MODERN NAME,
A SOCIETY OF HOMOSAPIENS.
THE TRANSITION FROM THE MOTHER SOCIETY
OF SETTLERS INTO THAT OF HOMOSAPIENS,
WAS SMOOTH AND SIMPLE, BELIEVED
A FACELIFT FOR THE EARLY SOCIETY.
THE HANDI WORK OF THE FLUX OF TIME,
HAD MORE TO IT THAN MEETS THE EYE
BUT MUCH MORE THAN THAT, PERHAPS,
FOR THE WORSE.
IT’S NEEDS, MULTIDIMENSIONAL, NOW,
SACRIFICIAL NO MORE,
HUMANE, NO MORE,
SELF-CENTRIC, SELFISH, ALL THE MORE.
CONCEPTUAL CHANGES, SO MANY,
CAME TO PASS, UPON THE ORIGINAL MOTHER SOCIETY,
IN THE PROCESS OF ASSIMILATING
MODERNITY, DETESTABLE ONES.
THE MOTHER SOCIETY OF VIRTUES
BASED ON SOLEMN PRINCIPLES.
WAS RENDERED, A NAME’S SAKE ONE, NOW
OF TITULAR EXISTENCE, THE PRESSURE OF MODERNITY.
FROM THE UNITY OF MAN,
THE MOTHER SOCIETY TOOK BIRTH, IN THE PAST,
FOR THE SECURITY IN HIS LIFE,
THROUGH MUTUAL HELP, CARE, AND CONCERN.
MODEL TO ALL, IN UNITY,
TEACHING A LESSON,
THAT UNITY IS STRENGTH,
AS AGAINST DISUNITY.
TIME PASSED ON…..
A SPURT IN THE GROWTH OF POPULATION
IN GEOMETRICAL PROGRESSION,
THAT CAUSED THINGS TO GO AWRY
TOPSY-TURVY.
THE GLORIFIED VIRTUOUS,
GIVE AND TAKE CONCEPTS OF THE PAST,
FAILED TO FIND A FOOT-HOLD,
IN THE BUILDING UP OF THE MODERN SOCIETY.
THE NEEDS AND GOALS
OF THE MODERN SOCIETY,
TURNED ASSORTED,
A DEVELOPMENT FROM WITHIN,
ITS PRESSURE, FROM WITHIN,
ITS FORCE,
CARRIED THE MODERN SOCIETY,
TO THE POINT OF AN IMPLOSION.
SELF- INTERESTS, ITS FORCE,
CAUSED DISUNITY WITHIN THE SOCIETY,
BOILING WITH OVERWHELMING HEAT,
TO THE POINT OF BOILING OVER.
THE MODERN SOCIETY
NO LONGER A ROLE MODEL,
SANS ANY VIRTUES OF ITS OWN,
FOR OTHERS TO EMULATE.
IRIDESCENT GROUPS IN THE PLACE,
OF SOLID HUMAN COLOUR, STARTED PLAYING,
THEIR STRATEGIC TRUMP CARDS,
SO MANY MINISCULE GROUPS, HUMAN COLOUR, LOST,
BUT RICH IN COLOURS, STILL
THE COLOUR OF CASTES AND CREEDS
WITH COLOUR OF FLAGS
VALIENTLY VYING FOR PRE-EMINENCE, THEIR VANITY,
ENDORSING, ENFORCING THEIR SELFISH GOALS,
STAKING CLAIMS UNREASONABLE,
TO THE PREJUDICE OF THE REAL HUMAN
WITH HUMAN COLOUR,
WHEN GROUP INTERESTS TURN SIGNIFICANT,
THE HUMANE INTERESTS ARE IGNORED
FORCING THE HUMAN TO SACRIFICE
HIS HUMANE INTERESTS, FOR THE GROUP INTERESTS.
MANY GROUPS ANTAGONISTIC,
OF CASTES AND CREEDS
BRIMMING WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK,
OF THE MOTHER SOCIETY.
AWAITING AN OPPORTUNE TIME,
THE RIGHT TIME,
THE APPROPRIATE TIME,
FOR A BREAK-OFF.
THE MOTHER SOCIETY GREW SIDE BY SIDE,
WITH THE GROWTH IN POPULATION,
A STEALTHY GROWTH, ONLY IN ITS BULK,
ITS HUMANE PRINCIPLES STUNTED, IGNORED.
.
LOOKING BACK NOSTALGICALLY……..
DURING THE PERIOD OF MAN’S NOMADIC LIFE,
WHEN THE CONCEPT OF A SOCIETY WAS UNKNOWN,
SMALL GROUPS WERE MOVING THEN,
HAVING ONLY LIMITED AIMS TO ACHIEVE.
THE AIM OF GATHERING FOOD FOR THE DAY,
AND FINDING SOMEWHERE TO SLEEP,
CONFINED TO EACH GROUP OF HUMAN BEINGS,
THE SMALL SIMPLE AIMS OF GROUPS OF NOMADS.
THEN THE EARLY SOCIETY HAD NO BROAD VISIONS OF LIFE
WHEN IT WAS A NUCLEAR SOCIETY INITIALLY
WITH SIMPLE, SELFLESS, NOBLE GOALS TO ACHIEVE,
WITH NO ASSORTED GOALS FOR A CONFLICT.
THEY WERE SACRIFICIAL FOR THE HOMOGENIETY
OF THEIR SOCIETY, FOR ITS VIRTUES
FOR A VIRTUOUS SOCIETAL LIFE,
THEIR SOLE MOTTO, THE WORLD OVER.
COMING TO THE PRESENT………
THE GROWTH OF POPULATION, ITS IMPACT,
HAS A DIRECT BEARING UPON THE INTERNAL IMBROGLIO
SIMMERING WITHIN THE MODERN SOCIETY OF GROUPS
LIKE A TIME BOMB SET TO DETONATE IN CONGENIEL AMBIENCE.
THE PROGRESS OF SOCIETY THEN SIGNIFIED
THE GROWTH IN POPULATION,
NOT IN PRINCIPLES,
NOT IN VIRTUES, A PROGRESS DOWNWARDS.
ITS HOMOGENIETY DOWN THE DRAIN,
WITH CONFLICTS INSIDE, TO EXPLODE
AT THE SLIGHTEST PROVOCATION
LIKE A VOLCANO, FRETTING, AND FUMING.
.
THE POPULATION GREW, FURTHER,
UNWIEDY PROPORTIONS,
CAUSING AN EXPLOSION,
THE POPULATION, EXPLOSION.
THE EXPLOSION CAUSED AN IMPLOSION
WITHIN THE MOTHER SOCIETY TOO,
FOR SO MANY MINI SOCIETIES CAME INTO BEING,
RENDERING THE MOTHER SOCIETY, ALL THE MORE INSIGNIFICANT.
THE INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF SOCIETIES,
THEIR INTERACTIONS AND NEEDS, COMPLEX, AND ASSORTED,
THE SOCIETY THEN SPLIT AND GREW IN NUMBER
ON ITS OWN, SANS ANY POPULATION EXPLOSION, FURTHER.
LIFE WENT ON…..AND ON…….,
THE POPULATION GROWING, IN GEOMETRICAL PROGRESSION,
AS IF THE ONLY RECREATION OF MAN,
IS PROCREATION.
NOW THE WORLD IS SURFIETED,
WITH UNWEILDY NUMBER OF MINI SOCIETIES,
THE SOCIETY’S GROWTH,
‘DOUBLY RE -DOUBLED’.
AND THE CONCEPT OF ‘GROW AS THEY SPLIT,
AND SPLIT AS THEY GROW’,
RULES THE ROOST, NOW,
IN THE PLACE OF SOCIETAL HOMOGENEITY.
IN THE PLACE OF THE HUMAN COLOUR,
THE BASIS OF A SOCIETY,
A TOTALLY DIFFERENT CONCEPT
CAME INTO BEING, FOR THE WORSE.
COMMUNAL, POLITICAL, COLOURS, BROADLY,
FORGETTING THE HUMAN WITH HIS HUMAN COLOUR
ONCE THE BASIC UNIT OF A SOCIETY,
THE BASIC COLOUR OF THE HUMAN SOCIETY.
NOW THE SOCIETY NEEDS
CLASS AND GROUP ALONE
A CLASS OF CASTE WITH COLOUR TO PAMPER
OR CREED WITH ITS FLAG’S COLOUR TO FOSTER.
THE PRESENT MINISCULE SOCIETIES
SURFIETED WITH A CONGLOMERATION
OF GROUP OR CREED COLOURS,
OUSTED THE HUMAN WITH ORIGINAL HUMAN COLOUR,
FORCING HIM TO MERGE
WITH THE COLOUR OF CASTES AND CREED
IN HIS EFFORT, IN HIS STRUGGLE,
TO HAVE A FOOT-HOLD IN THE MODERN SOCIETY.
AND WORSE…..
THE EXISTENCE OF MINISCULE SOCIETIES,
ENGULFED THE MOTHER HUMAN SOCIETY,
GROSSLY INTO INSIGNIFICANCE,
AND ITS PLIGHT ALL THE MOR DEPLORABLE.
NOW THE MOTHER SOCIETY IS LIKE A SPIDER,
CARRYING, LOVINGLY ITS YOUNG ONES IN AN EGG, BENEATH,
AND WHEN THE EGG HATCHES,
THE YOUNG ONES TURN BACK UPON THEIR MOTHER
AVIDLY GORGING UPON HER BODY
LEAVING BEHIND, FINALLY,
SOME DEAD SHREDS OF HER,
SOME DEAD LEFT-OVERS OF HER.
NOW ISN’T THE PLIGHT OF THE MOTHER SOCIETY
AT PRESENT, SIMILAR TO THAT OF THE SPIDER?
HAVING BEEN REDUCED TO SOME DEAD LEFTOVERS
BY THE MODERN MINISCULE SOCIETIES?