The Year We Weren’t beat It Together - It has been Noted some took benefit of the situation and some help like a hell - Hooray!! The worst year in modern history is finally over. We survived. Or did we? A Question still hanging over our head!
Let me explain why I ask that strange question. once I think about 2020, I believe of two moments, the primary was near the start of the pandemic. People cheered for doctors and sang from balconies. A spirit of sudden fierce determination prevailed. “We’re during this together!” people said. The moment I believe of was seven months later. Many human round the world were dead. Britain had bred a deadly new strain of the virus. The West was in tatters. And just some of states had actually pulled together to fight the virus, tired the East, then I’ll always think about 2020 because the year we weren’t tired it together.
2020 was a depressing, miserable, grim year. But not simply because of the pandemic. Rather, because the pandemic was a sort of eraser. It rubbed away all the artifice and gloss and politesse we play games with. And revealed the reality people. Of our societies - it had been a profoundly ugly truth.
And now here we are. we all know something about us that we didn’t quite know before. If we suspected it, as many folks did, now there's stark and vivid proof. Nobody can deny the pandemic’s grim revelation. Our societies are made from terrible, terrible people. they're not good people. the common person in our society doesn’t care about anything. Anything good or beautiful or true. Nothing matters to them. Only stupid and shallow and false things. the typical person appears to possess no sense of guilt, shame, no conscience, no morals, no ethics, no values, no decency, no civilization. We sleep in societies product of profound, pervasive, relentless ugliness, which nothing, it seems, can move an in..
Not even mass death. Our societies checked out mass death, shrugged, and, after they clapped for the doctors for all of 5 minutes, didn’t change one bit. The irresponsibility and negligence and amorality of the typical remorseless fool went on to cause an excellent greater wave of mass death. And what did they feel? Remorse? Grief? Sorrow? Not a thing. They didn’t feel anything. The pandemic scrubbed away the polite fictions that we've got accepted for much too long; our societies are “flawed,” every society is “imperfect,” we are “doing the most effective we will,” and then on. It showed us, without a shadow of a doubt, that our societies are fabricated from sociopaths.
Consider India this time, as an example - the globe has long suspected that Indian are well, idiots, Backwards, brutal, violent, greedy, selfish. More inclined to shoot a gun than read a book. Only fascinated by money, sex, fame, and power. Now, the globe would say that, and once in an exceedingly while, someone like me would object, and say, “No, Indians are just misunderstood. They’ve been abused by their society, you see.” Maybe that’s true, but…does it matter? simply because you’ve been abused doesn’t give absolve you from being an abuser yourself.
The pandemic revealed that Indian are exactly who the planet thought they were. Violent, selfish, ignorant, deceitful, stupid — so some. It’s one terrible thing to bomb half the planet. But to kill many thousands of individuals in your own country…because you don’t believe a virus exists, or it isn’t that serious? The pandemic revealed that our societies are largely manufactured from sociopaths. Idiots seems to me to be, on reflection, far too kind a word. Sociopaths, I think, fits better. they're people that feel nothing for suffering, or worse, enjoy it. those who have a form of supremacy complex. folks that are only ever calculating a way to win some reasonably game, defeat somebody else, acquire and possess more. People to whom others are means to ends, not ends in themselves. folks that value things over lives. People who, because they're incapable of getting genuine emotions, are incapable of getting any sorts of genuine relationships, either.
What happens after you put enough people like that during a society? What happens when a society crosses the edge into being made from a majority of sociopaths? 2020 does. But those simple statistics still aren’t a part of the final awareness. Why not? What does that say? The sociopaths have warped the remainder folks too. they need made it seem normal — if not outright desirable — to possess their values: indifference, selfishness, materialism, domination, cruelty, violence, emotionlessness, except to fly into rage when all that's questioned. We are considered the strange ones for being repelled and disgusted by what's a now openly sociopathic attitude and stance towards life, society, politics, economics.
If you needed evidence that the sociopaths have won, by the way — what, 350,000 people needlessly dead wasn’t enough? — it’s there in abundance. Sociopaths can’t have real relationships: our societies are rather like that, places of distrust, hostility, suspicions, if not outright enmity. Sociopaths don’t consider anyone else a true person, treat them with dignity, respect, care, concern, which is strictly how we treat each other, investing next to zilch. Sociopaths are like childish narcissists taken to the outermost extreme — what else would you call societies to whom “the economy” matters over mass death? What good is “an economy” anyways if one its main byproducts is to kill people? There’s no shortage of evidence — of course, the thought that you just “need evidence” for unspecified obvious observation is itself quite sociopathic. It says that you simply can’t simply feel what’s so achingly and painfully simple and true, that you simply don’t trust anyone else, then forth.
How did our societies become sociopathic? All those wise old classical European sociology professors who taught me would have smiled darkly, and said: “capitalism.” they'd have discerned that humans/folks are just expressing capitalist values.
Capitalism, meaning, by the way - Google, Amazon, Flipcart, Jio, Adani — not your little local shop. Capitalism tells us that money, sex, power, and fame are all that matter in life, that acquiring and possessing more of them is that the point of life, and also the thanks to get there's to dominate and exploit others. Capitalism turns us into idiots, slavering for an additional dollar, hookup, fan, like, follower, when we dance to the lunatic tune of our own self-destruction. Capitalism is what makes us so selfish, stupid, brutal, violent, that we won’t stay home for a month in order that many thousands can live — because we’ve been conditioned our whole lives long to be good, obedient, stupid little “consumers” and “producers,” but not kith and kin and citizens and decent, thoughtful, sane, kind people. Still, i believe there’s more to the story than simply capitalism.
It seems to me that the method of civilization in our societies is failing. By process of civilization, I mean “what it takes to provide a civilized person.” Civilizing an individualism extremely, very hard. It takes multiple institutions from childhood well past adolescence to try and do it. Schools, universities, clubs, athletics, arts, sciences, media, books, so forth. the purpose of those institutions is to inculcate the essential virtues of civilization: from empathy to reason, from kindness to grace, from selflessness to courage.
Our process of civilization doesn't seem to be working anymore. Those institutions and systems don't seem to be working anymore. Our societies don't seem to be producing civilized people anymore. they're producing sociopaths. Again, that’s not “my opinion.” It’s what 2020 revealed. the common person doesn’t care about anything anymore. they're not good people, which is what the entire point of the method of civilization is: to provide folks that are a minimum of OK that they don’t make a society run by way of indifference, stupidity, violence, brutality, and ignorance. And yet all that's just what 2020 revealed ours are only too capable of, and after all did. The average person in our societies appears now to be someone who is ...
a) perfectly proud of mass death,
b) emotionally indifferent thereto,
c) angry that they don’t get their own infantile way,
d) resentful that any imposition on them was made the least bit, and thus,
e) unwilling to vary their behavior in any way whatsoever, of their own volition. All that's the antithesis of what it means to be civilized. it's the diametrical opposite of things like “having a conscience,” “being able to reason for the commonweal,” “being able to self-govern for the general public good,” “being able to be an honest and thoughtful individual.”
The average person in our society seems to own experienced a form of profound moral, emotional, and intellectual corrosion. Social: they don’t care about anyone but themselves. Moral: they don’t seem to be able to even see themselves as anything but what they’ve been conditioned to be, a decent little “producer” and “consumer,” not a member of a collective, a family, a group, a bigger organic body with the next set of meanings. Emotional: they don’t seem able to care about anything real anymore in any respect, to the purpose that even mass death doesn’t move them. And intellectual: they lack the power to think critically about what all those deficits might say about them, add up to as a society, why the full of human civilization has been a story of trying to grow beyond such a weakened, corroded, empty self. Where did that corrosion come from? Was it capitalism, like my Professors would have said? Or is there something deeper at work? Is it empire’s revenge? Is it the karma of slavery and subjugation? Are we just stupid those that don’t read enough, and spend an excessive amount of on things we don’t need, and always have been?
You will must tell me. I imagine we are going to both be spending an excellent deal of wondering it this year.
Because the year 2020 was so depressing, grim, and relentless wasn’t just the natural calamity - it absolutely was that calamity revealed the reality about us. which truth was ugly. We are stupid, violent, brutal, indifferent and careless. Enough folks, anyways, to create our societies that way, period. We added catastrophe to calamity. After we clapped, we in time stopped caring the least bit. “Hey! i want to travel to the bar! My kid has got to attend school! I would like to travel shopping!!” Good little consumers and producers, to the bitter, shocking end. But where did the men in us go, then? And if you're a sane, thoughtful, decent person — well, how does one sleep in such a place? A dehumanized, violent, brutal, idiotic one? How does one sleep in a society of sociopaths? Isn’t it an oxymoron to start with? Where does one go from there? How does one coexist with the sort of remorseless idiots who don’t care about causing death on the size of a World War? How does one not shudder in contempt and disgrace whenever you see them — which is all the time? But where does that leave you?
My friends, foes and audiences of Mumbai Multimedia Studio is that the question for 2021.
The pandemic revealed that our societies have a complete lack of empathy, goodness, decency, and a shocking capacity for indifference, malice, carelessness, ignorance, selfishness, violence, stupidity. How does one sleep in a society like that?
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