If some
people find it difficult to feed them and their families, in spite of naturally
available resources for the use of the entire human race, it, definitely, is
the fault of human greed and the weakness of the society to contain that greed.
It also points a finger towards inadequacy of the right kind of religious
intervention in the society.
If this disease is neglected it
is bound to infect the entire human race causing degeneration of societies, one
after the other, ruining the human race itself. Since the time immemorial the
man had been experimenting with various political systems to protect the human
race and keep it together to look after itself, but none of the systems have
ever been successful to empower a reasonable majority of the human race to live
a happy life making use of the available natural resources.
From the history of the mankind,
it appears that none of the political system so far ever focused on the reasons
why the weakest are the weakest and the poorest are the poorest. All the
political systems functioned at the top of the society and collected their feedback
from those who were close to them. Had any political system tried to go deep
into the affairs of the weakest and the poorest, it might have, perhaps, found
a way as to how the human societies must deal with the natural resources so
that the majority of human society uses it more productively to provide food,
clothes and shelter to all.
A self-restrained democratic
system to deal with the problems of the poorest and the weakest, with a view to
finding a productive solution, with no element of charity involved in it, can
help the entire human race. Just as the general weakness of the body becomes
more pronounced in the weakest part of human anatomy, the conditions of the
weakest and the poorest in the society reflect the weakness of the entire
society. We must remember that if the world economy today does not promise a
safe future for the mankind, it is because the weakest and the poorest in the
world are in bad shape. If the ‘life force’ from nature is not reaching the
poorest and the weakest, there, definitely, is something wrong with the ‘circulatory
system’ of human endeavor that keeps the humanity alive.
In the end, we must dump the
idea of charity for the poor; it can neither help the poor and the weak, nor
can it help those who are not that weak and poor. We all know that the man can rely on
the charity of nature, but never on that of the man.
PROMOD KUMAR SHARMA
[The writer of this blog is also the author of “Mahatma A
Scientist of the Intuitively Obvious” and “In Search of Our Wonderful Words”.]
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