Sometime saw the movie titled ‘Planet of the Apes’ - about someone’s journey to future when the World would be ruled by variants of apes.
Besides the technical marvels and cinematic oeuvres what startled me more was its strong allusion to a graver fact…..it unobtrusively spoke of our imminent tryst with barbarism….and metaphorically referred to a time when our basest traits would come fore to rule……reversing the evolutionary course!
No, we may not look like apes…but will definitely start behaving like them.
Besides the technical marvels and cinematic oeuvres what startled me more was its strong allusion to a graver fact…..it unobtrusively spoke of our imminent tryst with barbarism….and metaphorically referred to a time when our basest traits would come fore to rule……reversing the evolutionary course!
No, we may not look like apes…but will definitely start behaving like them.
Now, what exactly incites these self-deprecating grumbles?
A smug shop-owner, upon being refused a glass of water by a minor boy - who happens to work in his shop, gagged and tied and put him inside a gunny-bag as a gentle measure of punishment for his refusal.The act evinces a host of bitter facts. We all lend ourselves to baseness in varying degrees. Some rule them … and some are ruled by them!
I cannot oppose child-labor, as often the child happens to be sole bread earner for a family where asking him to give up working may take a social movement to fruition but would tantamount to effacing a family. There is nothing wrong is asking someone to work on wage, the way in which you treat them and their work makes the difference.
Affirmation of our anthropological superiority is, somehow, closely incumbent on the faculties like love and tolerence. I understand, the shop-owner would have trouble acknowledging that!
A smug shop-owner, upon being refused a glass of water by a minor boy - who happens to work in his shop, gagged and tied and put him inside a gunny-bag as a gentle measure of punishment for his refusal.The act evinces a host of bitter facts. We all lend ourselves to baseness in varying degrees. Some rule them … and some are ruled by them!
I cannot oppose child-labor, as often the child happens to be sole bread earner for a family where asking him to give up working may take a social movement to fruition but would tantamount to effacing a family. There is nothing wrong is asking someone to work on wage, the way in which you treat them and their work makes the difference.
Affirmation of our anthropological superiority is, somehow, closely incumbent on the faculties like love and tolerence. I understand, the shop-owner would have trouble acknowledging that!
1 comment:
about the child labour ....completely agree with you. before making the laws against the practise we should secure the food for the chid and the family. still wonder how long we should act blind for the duties we need to complete
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