In vast cities like New York New, Delhi or London etc., you will find a civilised man. I do not know what the word ‘civilized’ means, but I am sure we both are on the same page about its meaning. A civilised man in my opinion refuses to adopt himself to the environment. On the other hand, this civilised man adopted the environment to suit him. For instance, he built roads, machinery and made automobiles to save himself from the labour of walking. He built power lines to run his labour-saving machinery. Somehow, he did not know when to stop. The more he improved all these so-called surroundings, the more complicated he made it. In these complicated surroundings survival became an impossibility! Man began to realise that training and education are compulsory for his children to equip them with the know-how of the ability to survive. So, his children are now sent to 10 to 15 years to school just to learn how to survive in this complex and hazardous habitat they were born into.
Thus, the civilised man who refused to adopt to his natural surroundings now finds to adopt and read adopt himself every day every hour of the day to his self-created environment. For instance, if the day is called Monday and the number 7:30 AM comes up in the clock on the table, he must dis-adopt himself to the surroundings of yesterday find read adopt himself to different surroundings. At 9:00 AM everyday he must look at busy. 11:00 AM says you can stop looking busy for 15 minutes and at 11:15 he must look busy again. Thus, the civilised man’s day is chopped into different little pieces. And it each segment he must adopt to a new set of circumstances.
The civilised man thus alienated himself successfully from the very nature. This has caused imbalance in every aspect of his life. In his eagerness to adopt re adopt and to again adopt he has ignored his life, forgotten the joy of living! Simple things became complex in life, making his living to come to a grinding halt.
He has walked so far that ‘turning back’ became a no option. The more the civilised man walked to win over his surroundings the more distant he became to the very nature. Today, the civilised man and the nature are contradictories. They cannot survive together.
About the Author
Dr. K. Raja Gopal Reddy is a seasoned internationally qualified Insurance professional. What you are reading here, may not answer all the questions we have, but has the absolute power of asking unsettling questions which increase the interest in the strange world, and show the contradictory wonders lying just below the surface of the commonest things of life. Look at this disturbing but beautiful thought of Friedrich Nietzsche “God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him”.
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