While everything may look placid on the surface, we are actually witnessing the decay of our social structure

LET us analyze the situation we are facing, regarding our social values. Let me warn you, it is not a pretty picture. While everything may look placid on the surface, we are actually witnessing a decay of our social structure based on our ethical and moral code.

Our society is crumbling bit-by-bit. The path towards decline caused largely by external influences. In fact a complex exists within our society which is attracted to and acomadates western influences. This is in the form of the constant need to be something that we are not. An inferiority complex about our own value systems is inculcated by elements within our own society. We are constantly tempted by the so-called liberal Western ideals.

Those who keep temptation at an arm’s length are eventually branded as inferiors, stringently boring people, men and women who do not know how to have fun.

First let’s look at the complex of inferiority: we point a finger at the person who refuses to pick up a glass of wine considering him a prude, a person who is non-liberal and doesn’t know how to have ‘real fun’. When we do this, we forget that we are the ones contributing to societal decay. We stubbornly ignore the fact that we have been programmed by the magical media and that the meaning of entertainment has been given to us by them, a concept we refuse to deviate from. We feel that one cant have fun unless one’s head feel like it weighs a hundred pounds and is buzzing like a bumblebee! If someone prefers to stay home on a Saturday night instead of going out to a flesh exhibition and an orgy of intoxicants otherwise known as a “party”, we call them inflexible, and backwards.

Since the late sixties, the West has started turning everything into something of a pop-culture, even their wars have become an excuse for people to practise emancipation and ‘free love’. Remember Vietnam? Everything from the excess culture of Hollywood, to their widespread international operations, have been patronized, glorified when presented by their state of the art media. And we, very conveniently, have opted to indulge ourselves. Why? Because of our inferiority complex and the constant need to match our lifestyle with that of the supposed superior race. Are we that deprived of our own culture and do we have no self-respect that we find solace and esoteric comfort in thinking that their level can be matched and the inferiority complex thus removed? Where is sagacity in all this? When wisdom exists in the form of self-discipline, we mock it with tremendous scorn.

Many young people, these days, are fond of numbing their senses with alcohol and other intoxicants. This clearly indicates that they are becoming more susceptible to ‘programming’ and becoming less capable of thinking on their own. After all the blood of the decadent rulers of the sub-continent is still running in our veins.

We want to pretend that everything is alright and will be alright because the CNN tells us so. We also want to pretend that the wars will not affect our enjoyable lifestyles. But the dilemma is that they already have affected us and their propaganda is being expediently shoved down our throats. We feel safe and unthreatened as long as ours is not one of the names on the ‘list’ that the Pentagon presumably has. We feel sad as we watch Iraq being pulverized, Palestine being raped and Kashmir unwittingly caught up in a mayhem, but only for as long as the footage lasts.

We feel that if we practise our faith, we would be bound. What we fail to realize is that it opens closed doors, offers solitude, peace of mind and the drive and eagerness to move forward.

The tools of temporary escapism, must be avoided and only then, will the masses be able to see and think clearly.