The Rotten Era Syndrome and Ethical Blues

When you are no more, you are measured by the vacuum you have left behind. - Anand

- DR. JERNAIL S. ANAND

To err is human' states a fundamental truth of human life. That it is born out of a grave mistake which our ancestors committed. The disobedience of tasting the fruit of knowledge was followed by divine punishment. The lengthening shadows of that punishment are still clouding the destiny of mankind. The more we try to engage in polemics and try to justify ourselves, things are going amiss and the end result is: today we find a visible decline in man, and his divine stuff.

The fall of a man not a personal affair. How he conducts himself in society, and with other beings of nature shows us his true character. The ideas of goodness, kindness, love and compassion put together, form an ethical code for mankind by which they must act, to remain above board so far as their conduct vis-"-vis gods is concerned. If we find the entire world suffering today, it is because of the original error [knowledge] which has multiplied over centuries.

HUMAN INTELLIGENCE VS NATURE'S ORIGINAL SENSIBILITY If man is very smart, intelligent and wise, can we conclude that animals and birds who do not attend any school or college lack wisdom, or are foolish in the conduct of their daily affairs? I am rather tempted to think that they learn existential wisdom by mother wit, whereas human beings who appear to be mentally retarded, need external supports - teachers, schools, universities - to gain bare minimum lessons in existential ethics. Surprisingly, the opposite happens. Education alienates them from the basics of life, and as a consequence, they violate the General Will and disturb the Harmony of the Universe, and come to grief.