Serving each other, not cheating, robbing, and fleecing others, is the prime inclination of civil people. Barbarism relies on violence and craft, and barbaric people seek to enslave and despoil each other and anyone. The market is the mechanism through which one serves the rest. Democracy flows from this natural tendency of civilized people. Liberalism is the coin of which capitalism and democracy are two sides. Liberalism is the highest stage of civilizational evolution so far.
I have used the term civilization here not in the sense of the racial-religious geographic regions of the world but in terms of the distance any individual has travelled away from their barbaric primality both historically and psychologically.
What drags the civilizational march of humanity backwards is their primal instincts DNAed in them by their far longer existence in the wild. The herd mentality, natural to the primal human folks for surviving in the jungle, undyingly informs human thoughts and leads to the production of collectivist ideologies, ironically, even through scientific methods.
Liberalism in the last quarter of the twentieth century reemerged to be the default protocol for humankind as being the logical way to human good. The dismantling of the Berlin Wall was the most momentous occasion of the civilizational advance when ordinary people ripped the mighty menacing wall to rubble with their bare hands.
We should avoid being the generation that would lose the legacy of the sagacity and sacrifices of the people who suffered and fought against the most barbaric regimes and orders ravaging humanity in the last century.
Niraj Kumar Jha
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