It’s quite astonishing to see how the human race has evolved over the years. The realization came over me while reading a book where it was written that “we all dig up temples and mosques and dead people and dead ideas, and bring all the old trouble and mix it with the new trouble and make it all into bigger and bigger trouble.” This made me brood over the whole human-evolvement thing. The question is that whether we were better off then, without the advancement and the development that we have made over the years; or now, when we have in our possession the better of worst things. A lot of people will say that we are but of course better off now, in concord. But come to think of it I am not very sure that if it’s really true.
It is said that ignorance is bliss. If we turn the pages of history we see that a few decades back we had lesser complexities in our life. Since development has and always will be a step by step process, therefore a lot of dazzling gizmos couldn’t be seen at that time. We had made way less development for the society and the humankind in the yesteryears as compared to all that we have today. Technology was never as advanced as it is right now or as it will be in the time to come.
Various electrical equipments have made things a lot simple for us; television and newspaper keeps us up to date about divers happenings not only beyond our small world but also across the vast expanse of land on the entire planet; computers and robots have developed a brain of their own through Artificial Intelligence (AI); life saving drugs and surgeries have found miraculous cure for diseases which in themselves had been a mystery for doctors; and the list goes on. Every passing day scientists the world over come up with newer better inventions which makes simple things even more simple. So, is ignorance really bliss.
Definitely not from this perspective; but with time we have also made destructive developments on the pretext of constructive ones. Development in military, for one, is a classic example for the same. With it we have unearthed a unique way of showing supremacy over weaker nations. The number of wars and conflicts has drastically gone up and it’s an ever-increasing number. Another example would be the emergence of life threatening diseases like Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) which was transferred to the human race through Chimpanzee’s- curiosity, they say is the mother of invention…. And so we invented a completely new problem for us. Then again this list, just like the previous one, is also quite long.
In the quest of unlocking the wisdom of our mind we seem to have opened Pandora’s Box. The neatness in our life disintegrating bit by bit as we vanish into a world of endlessly opening doors, teasing riddles and lives without boundaries.
The truth is that the wisest men are those who knows the limits of their wisdom. We definitely are wise but do we know the limit of our wisdom; now that’s a thought worth pondering over.
It is said that ignorance is bliss. If we turn the pages of history we see that a few decades back we had lesser complexities in our life. Since development has and always will be a step by step process, therefore a lot of dazzling gizmos couldn’t be seen at that time. We had made way less development for the society and the humankind in the yesteryears as compared to all that we have today. Technology was never as advanced as it is right now or as it will be in the time to come.
Various electrical equipments have made things a lot simple for us; television and newspaper keeps us up to date about divers happenings not only beyond our small world but also across the vast expanse of land on the entire planet; computers and robots have developed a brain of their own through Artificial Intelligence (AI); life saving drugs and surgeries have found miraculous cure for diseases which in themselves had been a mystery for doctors; and the list goes on. Every passing day scientists the world over come up with newer better inventions which makes simple things even more simple. So, is ignorance really bliss.
Definitely not from this perspective; but with time we have also made destructive developments on the pretext of constructive ones. Development in military, for one, is a classic example for the same. With it we have unearthed a unique way of showing supremacy over weaker nations. The number of wars and conflicts has drastically gone up and it’s an ever-increasing number. Another example would be the emergence of life threatening diseases like Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) which was transferred to the human race through Chimpanzee’s- curiosity, they say is the mother of invention…. And so we invented a completely new problem for us. Then again this list, just like the previous one, is also quite long.
In the quest of unlocking the wisdom of our mind we seem to have opened Pandora’s Box. The neatness in our life disintegrating bit by bit as we vanish into a world of endlessly opening doors, teasing riddles and lives without boundaries.
The truth is that the wisest men are those who knows the limits of their wisdom. We definitely are wise but do we know the limit of our wisdom; now that’s a thought worth pondering over.
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