HUMANITY: A product of Civilization

 

This blog is a little different from my other blogs, it's just a way of perceiving our live and our existence. 

Tracing back the history of humans existence, we go back to early man- back to million years ago where survival was the prime motive of life. Human behaviour was quite different from today but also somewhat the same- if you look close enough. For survival early man would kill another man, dominate, steal from other. Marking territories and bordering, the implicit rule of ‘not entering the territory of another’. If we look closely to all this, we still have the same kind of behaviour but we show it in a civilized way.

If we look at the present, we have laws and orders to keep us from killing each other, or stealing from others and for many more behaviours. If humanity was embedded in us, we wouldn’t need rules and laws. But they are here to control our innate behavior. A system was made to tame humans- democracy, dictatorship, monarchy- all these form of government was made by ‘humans’. If we look at it closely, it’s a form of dominance, even in democracy- there is dominance of a leader. The leader is trying to control others or influence them, there is power in that leadership. In top of all there is United nations, a body which controls all the other nations. Countries trying to the member of the UN Security Council to exert power over others. All these were ideas of humans and all of it corroborates closely to early human behaviour.  If we talk about 'morality' where did it come from? The word itself was created by humans so the 'moral code of conduct' too is a human made. it's not natural. Like Nietzsche, a philosopher believed that morality is like a barrier to humans true nature. The concept of right/wrong is itself created by humans, it could have been created to favor a particular class or group of people. Everything that we know of is a product of humans so nothing is natural except from need for food, water and sex, everything else is just a creation.  

If we look at the wider picture, the nations are fighting with each other over territory, both of them clamming that it belongs to them and then going into a war to win that piece of land. We have soldiers 24*7 at the borders so that the other nation people do not trespass our territory as we claim it to be an illegal activity. We need to get a passport, then a visa to move around the nations, some nations do not permit us to enter their land. Can’t we compare it to the old times of territory marking?

Most of us would have experienced ‘losing control’ during aggression. It is very common and in that state we do things we thought we were not capable of . Then a dilemma arises- are we really innately evil? A part of us is always dark and latent- probably in our unconscious and surfaces rarely which is probably why we aren’t aware of it. As Carl Jung, a Neo-Freudian said that we have darkness and light (good and bad) both in us- we are combination of both and we strive for individual (good and bad together, a balance) not dividual (good and bad separably). Jung initially worked with Sigmund Freud who believed that humans are innately evil. We are always taught that we are good but the latent evil part of us is never talked about. We get to know about it’s existence when it’s no more hidden and then we don’t know what’s next. We should rather be taught about the reality no matter how dark it is. We should learn to control that evilness we have in us so that the evilness doesn’t control us. Control is something that makes our specie different from others. Maybe we always had it or we acquired it, either way we have it now. With that control we need to find the perfect balance of both the parts in us and embrace both of them. Like there is no light without darkness and no darkness without light. The moon shines at night because it needs darkness to shine. They co-exist and because of one’s existence the other one exists.