THINKING MEN, WHY ARE WE UNHAPPY?
There are those who do not care about any damn thing! They are happy.
I know several of my friends who have never read a newspaper or watched the idiot box.
If I say India is doomed, they will retort: Can we help?
Most people are busy attending to their home or business, unconcerned with all else. I envy them and all those who sleep soundly, through the night.
I worry about those unfortunate men and women who are jailed in lunatic asylum, home for old people, children in Anathalayam (orphanage), under-trials in countless jails etc. Who will hear their voice?
People who do not think, get easily excited about any issue and are manipulated by unscrupulous politicians. It is these innocent category who cause mob violence
Lay people are used by politicians to create vote banks so that they can rule, not for doing any good, but to amass wealth. Hindus and Muslims are made to fight each other, so they can get their votes. They are exploited by all religious leaders, who manage to become rich.
Thinkers are fascinated by the stars in the sky. If you watch the sky regularly, you will start recognizing them and notice changes in their position in the sky; thus astronomy was born. Naturally, numbering became necessary and mathematics was the result.
Among common people were adventurers, who developed navigation and sports. Unlike in our times, there was plenty of leisure in those days. Some began drawing forms in the cave walls and started using natural colours obtained from plants, for painting them.
Singing and poetry developed as the earliest form of literature.
Commoners had nothing to do in all these diverse fields; they tended cattle and tilled the land and produced food. Their manual labour was exploited by the thinkers and artists.
Thinker started questioning the very purpose of life itself.
Why are we born?
Why should we live? Is there any purpose in life? Thus religion and philosophy came into existence almost simultaneously. Philosophers were ignored by all; but commoners found solace in religion, which has some hypnotic effect, and calms the mind, at least temporarily.
Thinkers do not like chaos. They try to find some sort of order, or invent it where none exists.
Philosophy is the result, including theoretical physics. Newton, Marx, Hegel…….. there are thousands of them who tried in vain to crack the secret of nature and our existence.
Agnostics believe that truth cannot be revealed to Man.
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