Sir Ken Robinson
Using this excerpt from Sir Ken Robinson as a take off point, allow me to present the little acknowledged, but the common societal catastrophe: The ubiquity of superficiality in people, or the Hypocrisy as the Lifestyle syndrome.
We might have acknowledged this syndrome, i.e., in others; But most of us wouldn’t dare to evaluate ourselves, to see where we personally stand on this scale of self treason.
Deriving pleasure and gratification out of the work we do is as irrelevant in today’s world, as the expectation of honest and earnest governance in today’s pseudo-democracies. The unfortunate trend, which has percolated to become a trait of the society is : We’d know it is wrong, but wouldn’t bother to better it, because supposedly everyone does it that way!
We bury our natural urges and talents deep down, piling the routine of hypocrisy, confusing mediocrity to be excellence, and pseudo recognitions as results. Few moments of exalting happiness is what keeps us going, when there’s a life full with exalting gratification that goes wasted.
A friend of mine says, “All our priorities are screwed up! They’re nonsensical”. And I so agree with it.
We emulate others, while we lose our authenticity; Worst of it all, we feel no remorse about this self betrayal. Starting from our desires, passions, culture and lifestyle everything has one common factor: Pretension!
After cribbing about this syndrome to this extent, I shall end it optimistically by remembering the few true humans I know: People who are, what they are, and others would only want to emulate them.
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| A depiction of the so called transition |
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