Saturday, May 19, 2012

Being civilized is not an absolute concept...!!!

 Foremost of all the popular human pursuits is the conditioning of our behavior in terms of commonly accepted codes; so that we can call ourselves as "civilized", contrary to the feelings generated by the word "savage". The paradigms which define these "codes" undulatingly keep changing like  a maiden's attitude toward a nouveau riche neighbor. Can we trust the veracity of these rapidly evolving "reference levels"; if yes then to what degree and if no, then why it should not be supplanted with something else ?

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