Good person or successful person!!!
The social fabric of every society revolves around a few concepts. Some are fundamental while others are secondary. However, all these concepts are interrelated in such a way that a change in one concept leads to a change in another. This change can be positive or negative.
When the solid environment of a society changes, human behaviors change, indicating that the central concepts or ideas of that society are changing. The problem with prepared societies is that instead of looking for the causes of the changes in the central concepts of society in society’s central ideas, ordinary people look for them in social institutions that are themselves the products of those central ideas. For example, the ongoing crisis in our society is sometimes attributed to the instability of political institutions, sometimes to social slavery, sometimes to dependence on others in science and technology, and sometimes to the deterioration of the educational situation. This perception is common that if we correct the functioning of all these institutions, our society will start to resemble paradise. In my opinion, this is a simple, if not foolish, perception.
In my opinion, the cause of the ongoing crisis in our society is not the failure or malfunction of those institutions, but the real reason is that our concept of humanity has changed. We have rejected an ideal concept of humanity and adopted an imperfect concept of humanity, whether we admit it or not, but that is the truth. The debate on the concept of humanity is somewhat philosophical, but since some of my readers complain that my columns become too heavy, I will try to present this discussion in simple words as much as possible.
It is believed that in our society, the idea of a “successful person” has replaced the idea of a “good person.” We need not good people but successful people. Parents, siblings, friends all aim to make society a seeker of successful people. A successful person is an ideal person.
Generally, when one central behavior of society replaces another behavior, it first rejects it before replacing it. Until it can provide a logical basis for its existence. But here in our case, this did not happen under the concept of humanity. The concept of a successful person replaced the concept of a good person but was not rejected. This is why there is so much mental turmoil here. It is human nature that one cannot remain mentally stable and healthy by being associated with two similar central concepts at the same time.
Here you can ask that we first said that the concept of a successful person has become prevalent in our society, while in the previous paragraphs we said that we are associated with both good and successful people. What does this mean? In fact, what I mean is that although practically we have accepted the concept of a successful person, but since this concept has not rejected the concept of a good person on philosophical or logical grounds, it is also present as a concept in our minds. The mental turmoil of our society is fundamentally caused by the tug of war between these two concepts.
The short story is that the concept of a successful person has become prevalent here. Here it is necessary to explain that by a successful person, I mean a socially successful person, in which the economic aspect is of fundamental importance.
The yeast of this successful person rises from competition and rivalry. The concepts of victory and defeat are born out of competition. In competition, someone’s victory is born from someone’s defeat, and someone’s defeat is born from someone’s victory. The winner is successful and the loser is unsuccessful, meaning the determination of the importance of a person is from victory and defeat.
You may know that when hockey started, the team that had the most physically powerful players used to win. The rules and regulations of the game had not yet been set. Therefore, the player who was physically strong used to push the players of the other team and score goals. But gradually, this game developed its rules. When the rules were made, the attention of the players shifted from strength to skill. Thus, craft was born in the game, but this process took time.
Since the game of success and failure is new here, its central principle is also strength. It is legal to push someone down and move forward. As Nadia Fazli says:
No one shows you the way here If you can fall and move forward, then go It is possible that after some time this game will also create its rules. But experience shows that in those societies where this game has also created its rules, even there the era of peace in human life has not come because fundamentally this is an inhuman game.
Now let’s look at some other aspects of this issue. The issue of a good person being less or more good. There is no arrogance of victory or defeat in it. However, happiness and sorrow are obtained from the struggle for maximum goodness and failure. But this happiness does not come from someone else’s defeat and this sorrow does not come from someone else’s victory. The competition is with oneself, not with others. His thought comes not from conversation but from self-talk.
You will think that if you want to bring about change in your society, change your concept of humanity. Since I am not eligible to do so from any aspect, I request the learned scholars to please try to see if our society’s “concept of God” and “concept of religion” are the same as they used to be? Or have we made a change in it too.
#SocietalChange #SuccessCulture #ConceptOfHumanity #PhilosophyOfSociety #UsmanAyub
