Repurposing Human Life

Automation is tending to be optimum, and humanity's prime role of one serving the other is diminishing day by day. As communities have yet to redefine human roles and redesign life itself, there are severe disruptions everywhere, which are going to be graver with each passing day. Its negative outcome, as seen in the developed parts of the world, is the growing charm of socialist ideas and formations. The fact is that technological advances promise the best for human life and would bring conditions better than ever utopiated (the act of imaginative articulation of an ideal future world), but right now things are perilous. The world needs to overcome its imagination lag or deficit; the sooner it does, the better it will be.

Niraj Kumar Jha

Socialism

 Different variants of socialism were revivalist projects of religionism following the enlightenment era. They were exactly like any religion but without the invocation to the otherworld as the idea of the otherworld had lost favour during the enlightenment age. The idea of the otherworld was replaced by a utopia to be realised by the adherents. In the like manner, it sought to utopiate the masses in place of opiating them. 

   India has been a land of many religions in a sense as different sects or cults were akin to religions with their fixed deities, doctrines, and rituals. But, all these flourished under the greater umbrella of Dharma, which on the whole invoked mindfulness in prescribing do's and don'ts and upholding the greater order to functionality, fairness, and humaneness. And, the Indian genius found a fine balance between otherworldly beliefs and this-worldly practicality. What the West devised as secularism was an old practice in India in a very refined form.  

  When India got independence, the fascination for leftism was raging, particularly in the post-colonial world. India fell for it and lost many decades in processing recovery. This was a colossal tragedy in that the Dharmik people went for a disruptive, conflictual, and destructive ideology while putting aside their own far superior wisdom. 

Niraj Kumar Jha