Institutions, media and academia all enforce blind surrender to elite-centred thinking. Toxic conformity is not wisdom but a product of inferiority and social servitude.
Eyram Hamid Khan
Freedom of thought and conduct is something that everyone strives for. Despite being born free, humans rarely live that way. This is due to the fact that society expects both individual and group obedience to a significant number of norms, standards, and regulations. The general consensus is that social harmony and order depend on this compliance. History, however, attests to the fact that social structures and the values that underpin them are scarcely organised around the welfare of the group. The majority of the time, social hierarchies and psyches are manifestations of premeditated agendas intended to provide long-term support to the wealthy and powerful. Therefore, inclusive benefits and comprehensive social development are scarce in such communities. One striking illustration of such a society is our own.
The results should not be surprising because the structurally underpinning norms that enjoy implicit or explicit acquiescence control the functioning characteristics of institutions and activities. Our society has become the core of the poly problem as a result of the colonial legacy’s tacit adoption, a skewed history, state-sponsored fallacies and propaganda, persistent elite capture, a traditional and polarising educational and pedagogical culture, and a compliant bureaucracy. Viral mental inclinations that continue to slash at the hopes of an inclusive society have infiltrated our social psyche as a result of well-crafted toxic narratives and regressive socioeconomic, religious, and political institutions. The fundamental rules of our collective societal thinking have been revealed to be insecurity, compliant public behaviour, dishonesty, hypocrisy, judgmental mindset, intolerance, and jealousy and fanaticism.
As a result, society and each individual work together to thwart anyone who wishes to escape and embark on a life journey on their own. Even those who dare to break free from systemic mental and social servitude are confronted and constrained by the poisonous rumours. Blind surrender to the elite-centred social mindset is mandated by the majority of our institutions, laws, leadership, curricula, media, academia, and intelligentsia. Any questioning or disobedience to historically promoted half-baked narratives is viewed as delinquent, and as such, it is defied on all fronts. Anything that challenges the fundamental standards of the status quo is considered taboo. This is how anthropology, philosophy, rational conversation, critical thinking, civilised discussion and dissent, and innovation seldom receive the recognition and space they need.
Unlike civilised nations, the majority of our society works against us when we want to do something significant. The much-discussed topic of “Chaar Log Kya Kahenge” (what people would say” is a small example of this. Toxic remarks and discouraging rumours are used by these four individuals to police the lives of others, even though socio-psychological limits may be fully implemented. Rarely does their superior intelligence, selflessness, or unselfish spirit lead to a dominating attitude. Rather, they are the results of a self-made inferiority complex, social servitude, passivity, envy, and a sense of worthlessness that they attempt to force on others. They serve as both extensions and brand advocates for the systemic social enslavement that has gripped the nation for the past 75 years. These personalities may differ in quantity, but they attack everything that defies unjustified conformity.
The only actual entity and leader among the four is the one who continuously comments on our ideas, plans, and actions, in contrast to the three who are figuratively represented. Such individuals turn to absurd rumours intended to deter, if not denigrate, the hardships others put them through rather than offering helpful criticism.
In addition to wasting our time and brains, the poisonous conversations take our focus away from the things that are important to us and toward things that are not. On a personal level, we ought to disregard harmful social rumours. Comprehensive social reform is necessary to break free from the bonds of mental and social enslavement. We would be able to break free from the corroded bonds of social conditioning with the help of selfless leadership and institutional and educational changes.
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