User:Mrunalkanta Panda

''Should society control us? Should we allow society to control us?''

We, all, are only second-hand thinkers. There is no certain and tangible boundary to control a conscious entity with a fully functioning brain inside a protective skull. Still an individual’s action and fate are mostly controlled by other entities who don’t leave any space of freedom for others.

Why do you should belief in any action that other tell you to do? We can take the very simple examples. When a child is born, no one asks him or her to cry. Does anyone? No. By time, when the child grows and becomes few weeks old, his only task is to cry when ever there is a need, in hungry, when he made the bedsheet dirty and wet or when he needs the cozy-ness in his mother’s arms. And after a few months, the society starts to dump in their own ideologies, their own sense of good and bad on him.

The society reasons why it should raise the child under its influence, because ‘‘it doesn’t want an animal to be a part of them’’. An animal, an animal with intellect, who could be able to question their pre-established belief system, raise doubt on their both written and unwritten norms and rules, animals who can tear of the societal harmony behind their white lies.

The child will grow and start to take initiatives to satisfy his curiosity. People in his vicinity will answer his ‘‘what?s’’ & ‘’how?s’’. Then the child will ask ‘’why?’’. Then they will respond correctly to only them which has a logicality in it and a major portion of his curiosity gets hindered with the response of ‘’because everyone else did and do it or believed or believe in it as it is”. Here comes a halt to is natural curiosity. A particular path is set anonymously behind his mind, what kind of questions he should ask and which types of questions are not allowed to express.

Society’s sole purpose is to keep its harmony maintained. To keep this harmony stable, it has to kill the natural curiosity in the minds of men and build its artificial curiosity.

Once a camel gave birth to a calf and it was in a separate shelter other than the general paddock. The calf could run here and there freely in the shelter. When it got little strong after a few weeks, a cameleer took it to the paddock, where several camels were tied to wooden poles. In morning in the following day, the calf went out with other camels. When all these animals returned, older ones went one by one to their respective poles and waited till the cameleers tie them. In a few couple of days, the calf followed the same behavior.

Men of society also follow the same behavior. Just like the calf, man denies to its own ability. Like the camels who could not see beyond the food that the cameleer brings to it, when the child grows to a man, he denies to see beyond a good image in the society. When a camel is not tied, by any chance, the animal tries to steal other camels’ food and if it finds the door of the paddock open, it sneaks out. Similarly, man sneaks out for pleasure which the society prohibits. In such pleasure he finds his freedom. But, is it true freedom?

To gain the true freedom, man has to be brave. He should not deny to his abilities, he shouldn’t be dependent to keep up a glamourous image, he has to question, he has to reason and he has stand against the illogicality. Seeking the truth makes man free, rather than sleeping under a cozy blanket of falsehood.