There is an alarming growth of irrationality these days in the social sphere. Sanity, good sense and plain rational thinking are taking to wings as fantastic notions, blind beliefs, prejudices and misconceptions rule the roost among an increasingly shallow citizenry rising to self-assertion on foundations of flimsy surface education. The politicians who govern us are representative of this decadent culture and are further complicating things beyond hope of easy redress, for their ignorance coupled with power is a force significant in the wrong direction that is taking us backwards as all sane individuals are agreed upon from their first-hand experience of the times.
The obvious antidote to this rampant regressiveness is to introduce effective reforms in education so that future generations are spared this ordeal of survival in a climate of unreason, false hope and bitter betrayal of everything that is worthy of being cherished in an enlightened polity. Upon our decisions depend our future. Upon our enlightened nurturing of our progeny depends the fate of humanity.
But how many even realise the dangers of the times? How many quite comprehend that we are standing on the edge of an abyss with problems of such monstrous proportions as the degradation of the environment, the threat of a cataclysmic atomic war and explosive population growth threatening human extinction? Those that do must quickly take stock of the situation and start a counter-movement based on the principles of pure science and pure spirituality, as opposed to doctrinaire dogmatic religion, that will target the growing culture of irrationality and help bringing a semblance of sanity to the way men think and act in accordance. Upon our concerted efforts rests the edifice of civilisation, upon our enlightened thinking depends the survival and future flourishing of civilisation. We must act now.
Written by Sugata Bose
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