Suppose there are twenty friends, who approve of each other, who are very happy with each other. Then even the most meaningless jok...
Suppose there are
twenty friends, who approve of each other, who are very happy with each
other.
Then even the most
meaningless joke will evoke happy laughter. All get the happy relaxed face, the
enjoyment of benign synergy, everyone listening to the other and smiling not at
what one actually hears, but smiling in anticipation. The health of a society
can be gauged on the basis of the prevalence of groups that collectively laugh
and where one finds the members of the group whose faces wear a smile.
On the other hand
suppose the members are basically disapproving of each other. Then even the funniest
joke creates only a tepid reluctant smile. The smile will vanish instantly. In
such a group manufacture of any grievance, becomes very easy and one finds
agitations,vandalism,
The dominant fear in
such societies is the fear of disapproval. As a result one never talks openly,
but only tactfully.
Now where does one find
the carefree smile? We find it mainly in communities that live in nature, where
nature is blooming and prospering.
And where do we find
people who are neurotic, diabetic, suffering from BP, always anxious, unable to
sit relaxed but only in hurry. It is in our industrialized societies where
people get imprisoned in the concrete jungles with pollution spewing vehicles,
sounds of people quarrelling or marketing and bargaining...all propelled by
only one emotion---anxiety as a hormonal system. And we call this advancement
and development!!!!!!!
The deception called development
is made acceptable by what is called the increase in economic growth, now a
euphemistic adjective is also added to this phrase---the JOBLESS growth, a
euphemism for the loot of livelihoods and nature. In this model of development,
millions of employees become redundant,forests,rivers,
Can we destroy our geography
and prosper? We desperately need the blooming forests, rivers, the flora and fauna,
to create livelihoods, to create the songs, dances, music,...the sense of happy
belonging. Development or profit must mean profit to the environment, to the ecosphere,
to the society and most unimportantly to the trader. Our system of accounting
and book keeping must change to the holistic model.
YM
