groupism...
I think one of the sources of phoniness is groupism, it makes you want to 'fit in' and in the process takes you away from what you are. Groupism is something worse than peer pressure, for the latter affects your public life like academics/profession, but groupism affects you as a person for it embodies friendship. groupism is worse for it is all pervasive, it ruins the individuality on the pretext of loyalty...
US has become what it is, because it could divide the world into groups. So we became the third world, and the group of the great 8 became our caretakers, even though they sucked their resources from us.
Nearer home, britishers ate into the vitals of our society by selling groupism to us. so some became moderates and the other extremists. some gandhians and others violent revolutionaries.
I am not including groupism on the basis of religion/caste/region etc., stuff we are born with, coz those may be called camaraderie..or whatever. although even this is groupism for me, and thus also, a source of phoniness. Come to think of it, the various interpretations of koran to justify Jehad, which most of the times are contradictory, is an example of phoneyness that groupism breeds. it makes you defend your stance as a part of the group irrespective of what 'logic' or 'reason' says.
Being a groupie makes life easier, you have people to stand by you, you buy loyalty by selling yours.Its the best way to escape criticism. Thus there is no place for ethics and morality in groupism, it is, simply put, an agreement, of convenience and by convenience and for convenience. Thus it leads to shallow thinking and living.
It might sound cynical, but pure logic says that groupism can be dangerous. without ethics and morality as benchmarks, and reason and logic becoming immaterial for 'loyalty', it sure can lead to and has lead to disasters.
Jehad is one example, for there is no specific aim or ideology to back it. theres only the loyalty factor, groupie factor. so jehadis of hamas will support kashmiri militia for the reason as 'heavy' as loyalty to cause of killing in the name of Islam.
USA and Britain are groupies, are able to legitimize mass killings by signing the pact of loyalty to each other's misdemeanors.
sometimes groupism is harmful because it might suppress the opposing individual voices. such oppostions are inherent to a democratic world and suppression of the same can be extremely harmful. During freedom struggle, such a part was played by the Indian National Congress, which even though, had innocent intentions, became such a powerful group, that it drowned the alternate views. somewhere, formation of the muslim league and turning of the tide for jhinna can be attributed to this congress groupies.
Groupism, which means, to the exclusion of others is extremely sick in its very concept. It thrives specially in a competitive environment, where the reassurance of being good and being cajoled is seeked by many. Although groupism provides this kind of reassurance, because of the pact, that i talked about,it leads to wastage of talent, for it kills true competition. it leads people to believe in a safe and unadventurous life, for it makes them believe they are good enough, and all that is fake, for the reassurances are fake. it gives ppl false impression of success and contentment and makes them complacent and unadventurous and wary of treading and exploring challenging grounds.
But the sad part is, you never realize that you are a groupie. its become so inherent to our lives, that non-groupies are tagged as loners/non-conformists/aberrations. But we fail to realize what most people who stand out in the world, who make a mark for themselves..are...they are non-conformists, they are non-groupies.
also they are loners, for the place at the top, is only for The One.
US has become what it is, because it could divide the world into groups. So we became the third world, and the group of the great 8 became our caretakers, even though they sucked their resources from us.
Nearer home, britishers ate into the vitals of our society by selling groupism to us. so some became moderates and the other extremists. some gandhians and others violent revolutionaries.
I am not including groupism on the basis of religion/caste/region etc., stuff we are born with, coz those may be called camaraderie..or whatever. although even this is groupism for me, and thus also, a source of phoniness. Come to think of it, the various interpretations of koran to justify Jehad, which most of the times are contradictory, is an example of phoneyness that groupism breeds. it makes you defend your stance as a part of the group irrespective of what 'logic' or 'reason' says.
Being a groupie makes life easier, you have people to stand by you, you buy loyalty by selling yours.Its the best way to escape criticism. Thus there is no place for ethics and morality in groupism, it is, simply put, an agreement, of convenience and by convenience and for convenience. Thus it leads to shallow thinking and living.
It might sound cynical, but pure logic says that groupism can be dangerous. without ethics and morality as benchmarks, and reason and logic becoming immaterial for 'loyalty', it sure can lead to and has lead to disasters.
Jehad is one example, for there is no specific aim or ideology to back it. theres only the loyalty factor, groupie factor. so jehadis of hamas will support kashmiri militia for the reason as 'heavy' as loyalty to cause of killing in the name of Islam.
USA and Britain are groupies, are able to legitimize mass killings by signing the pact of loyalty to each other's misdemeanors.
sometimes groupism is harmful because it might suppress the opposing individual voices. such oppostions are inherent to a democratic world and suppression of the same can be extremely harmful. During freedom struggle, such a part was played by the Indian National Congress, which even though, had innocent intentions, became such a powerful group, that it drowned the alternate views. somewhere, formation of the muslim league and turning of the tide for jhinna can be attributed to this congress groupies.
Groupism, which means, to the exclusion of others is extremely sick in its very concept. It thrives specially in a competitive environment, where the reassurance of being good and being cajoled is seeked by many. Although groupism provides this kind of reassurance, because of the pact, that i talked about,it leads to wastage of talent, for it kills true competition. it leads people to believe in a safe and unadventurous life, for it makes them believe they are good enough, and all that is fake, for the reassurances are fake. it gives ppl false impression of success and contentment and makes them complacent and unadventurous and wary of treading and exploring challenging grounds.
But the sad part is, you never realize that you are a groupie. its become so inherent to our lives, that non-groupies are tagged as loners/non-conformists/aberrations. But we fail to realize what most people who stand out in the world, who make a mark for themselves..are...they are non-conformists, they are non-groupies.
also they are loners, for the place at the top, is only for The One.
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