The Modern Paradox: When the False Outweighs the True
Our world feels upside down. We live in an age of
perverse arithmetic, where negative values inexplicably outweigh the positive:
Ø Rusted
relationships now hold more sway than trusted ones.
Ø Hate
echoes louder than love.
Ø Enmity
is a more active force than friendship.
Ø Debts
burden us more than investments sustain us.
Ø Reels
captivate us more than what's real.
Ø Filters
are preferred to natural faces.
Ø Plastic
smiles are exchanged more often than genuine ones.
Ø Jealousy
trumps appreciation.
Ø Greed
endlessly expands beyond simple need.
The supreme irony? We are a species buried in
scripture. We have millennia of spiritual wisdom from the Buddha, Vivekananda,
Socrates, Confucius, and many others. Our shelves groan with sacred texts
preaching compassion, integrity, and inner peace.
Yet, what we witness is brutality. Endless wars.
Cruel sanctions and tariffs. The killing of children. Unending scandals. Our
stage is dominated by power-mongering politicians, profit-obsessed parasites,
and polished business brokers—impeccably attired on the outside, yet
notoriously hollow within.
As Napoleon Bonaparte starkly observed: “The
world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people, but because of
the silence of the good people.”
Our silence, our complicity in this false
arithmetic, is the fuel. The least we can do—the essential first step—is to
stop taking convenient sides. We must find the courage, in a world of
illusions, to simply call a spade a spade.
M.L.
Narendra Kumar
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