Civilizations under Rapid Upgrade

Things are happening, phenomenally substantive and rapid, almost on monthly basis. A month of our times may dwarf a century of the bygone ages in terms of the changes it brings. Since people live with it, generally they don’t realize that they are undergoing almost a fresh revolution every day. One of such revolutions is the rapidity of the expansion and quality enhancement of the services people in growing numbers receive through apps. All these have very comprehensive and deep implications for life in general. The peoples would undergo dramatic changes in their worldviews and habits very soon. All these have political fallouts too. Certainly the devilish folks would rush in with their spanners and the good citizens therefore need  to be cautious about such vitiating evil elements. 

Niraj Kumar Jha

Freedom Is Not Fun

Freedom, people think, is all about merry making. It is assumed to mean to do what one likes. This is a great error of perception. Basically, freedom is all about responsibilities. Being free is, in fact, not even a state of being. It is only continuous striving, intellectual and physical, personal and collective. The fact is that only slaves have the benefit of being free of responsibilities. Enjoying life is a legitimate goal of life. But despite our indulgences, even in the best way what we can imagine, there always remains an inexplicable sense of void, an irritant feeling of something not being to our liking. We try more and more to fill the void, to remove the irritant, but it simply does not go away. Why is it so? The simple answer is – we are not free. In fact, we have a wrong perception of freedom. It is because our indulgences replace of strivings. 

What is freedom then? Freedom is about one’s dignity, and of others’. It is what the people of devious instinct distaste. And, it thus becomes our unending endeavour – holding on to our dignified existence in association with others. In dignity we have freedom. 

Clarifications: 

1. Merry making is not bad at all but it should not be at the cost of one’s or other’s dignity. 

2. Why do we have bad people? We have it. 

3. Rights are responsibilities, and responsibilities are rights.

Niraj Kumar Jha

My Fundamentalism

Our all collective commissions and ommissions are either capital generative or capital destructive. If capital destruction crosses a certain threshold, it's only miseries all around.

Niraj Kumar Jha

It's Social Sciences v. Genetic Coding

When we indulge in social sciences, we address the millinnia of genetic coding in human beings.

Niraj Kumar Jha

Human Dignity

One fights for human dignity not because people are crying out for it. It's for the opposite reason that there is hardly anyone caring for human dignity. The crisis, however, has very ominious implications. In fact, the people bereft of human dignity are behind most of the social ills.

Niraj Kumar Jha

Theocratism and Ideocratism

I distaste theocratism and ideocratism not for the obvious reason that they resort to pseudoreasoaning, but for the reason that they vulgarise disciplines and in turn brutalise life itself.

Niraj Kumar Jha

Poverty of Pedagogy

Our pedagogy is mostly an exhoration for every pupil to attain greatness. It fails to explain that heroism and heroes are mostly about chances and circumstances respectively. And, it ends up demeaning very normal people, in general.

Niraj Kumar Jha