Verbosity is on the rise today and virtue on the wane. Culture is in precipitous decline as mediocrity rules the roost. The Peter principle operating in society is promoting people progressively to the position of incompetence and this is eating into the vitals of the cultural life of the nation where even in pre-eminently spiritual organizations offices are being held by less than competent persons leading to inevitable and sharp decline in the standards of performance erstwhile in vogue. Editorials somewhere have become a mockery in management as spirituality plummets and compromise with societal standards becomes the norm to garner support for a lost cause. Truth is being sacrificed so often to suit material ends, promises broken, ingratitude for services rendered becoming commonplace and arrogance supplanting sublime same-sightedness that ought to be the attire of the renunciate.
But this is the refined end of a decay which is otherwise rampant at every level in a far grosser form and therein lies our responsibility in setting things right. As population explodes, education proliferates and talent dwindles. In a market of mass mediocrity the man of marginal ability makes his way up the ladder through material perseverance while the gifted, ever dwindling in number, fall by the wayside in the absence of the eagle eye of patronizing expertise. Thus, quality suffers as culture colludes with commerce to make a sham of civilization and this is the prevalence today. If there be any natural law that the sum total of manifested human energy at any point of time is constant, then a wide dispersal of knowledge is bound to lower cultural standards. If again, the totality of human energy increases, say, in arithmetic progression of a very low order and proliferation of education among the masses increases in arithmetic progression of a higher order, then also culture suffers from the same predicament of invading mediocrity.
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