Reality Of Society
As things are now, bureaucracy has to be there because people are absolutely irresponsible. There is no way to suddenly drop the bureaucracy and the court and the law and the policemen. There is no way because you will not be able to live for a single moment. It is a necessary evil. One just has to learn to live with people who are not alert, who are fast asleep; they are snoring. It may be disturbing to you, but nothing can be done about it.
At the most, the one thing you can do is not to enforce the same stupid behavior that has been forced on you by society. Don’t force it on anybody else. You may have your wife someday, your children someday, but don’t force it on them, on your friends. That’s all you can do. But you have to live in society and you have to follow the rules.
Man is born in the society, he lives in the society. He is a social animal. You are born of two persons’ love affair. Society was there even in your birth. Your mother was following a certain rule, your father was following a certain rule; husbands and wives, and this and that. Because they followed certain rules, they brought you up; otherwise they would have thrown you into the river. Why bother? Who are you? Why should you disturb their life and become a burden on them? They followed a rule that children have to be looked after.
So the game has to be understood and if you want to play the game, you have to follow the rules. If you don’t want to follow the rules, don’t follow the game. It is simple. And you will unnecessarily create trouble. Now if you don’t have a passport, the police will catch you. If you don’t have the right papers, you will be thrown out of the country. So how is it bringing you freedom? It will destroy all your freedom. So don’t do that.
There are stupid rules, but that’s how things are. We have such a small life that we cannot hope to change the whole society. So it is better to be wise and to simply follow the rules. You will be freer if you follow the rules. If you follow the rules perfectly, you will be completely free. The moment you break a rule, you are caught.
So a wise person simply follows the rules. Be a Roman when you are in Rome and just follow the rules. You will fit there, and nobody will create any trouble for you. They can create trouble because the power belongs to them. You are a tiny individual. What can you do? There is no point in fighting, because you will be fighting against a brick wall. You will hurt your own head.
That’s where the anarchist attitude is wrong. Anarchists are perfect in their insight that these rules are just bogus, but they don’t understand that they are needed. The bigger the group, the more rules are needed. When you are alone, no rules are needed. When two are there, a few rules; three are there, more, four, more. And the world is populating itself so fast that more and more rules will be needed. Otherwise there will be chaos and madness.
So don’t just condemn things. Try to understand. There are many evils that are needed; they are necessary. The choice is not between right and wrong. In real life the choice is always between a bigger evil and a lesser evil, a bigger wrong and a lesser wrong. The choice is not between right and wrong; otherwise it would have been very easy. The choice is of the lesser evil.
There is a possibility – but that is simply a possibility; it is not going to ever happen – that in some future time there will be a society of enlightened people. Then there will be no rules because they will be so responsible. But that you cannot, in fact, even hope for. It is a utopia.
This word utopia is beautiful. It means ‘that which never happens’. The very word means ‘that which never happens’. It is just a dream.
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At the most, the one thing you can do is not to enforce the same stupid behavior that has been forced on you by society. Don’t force it on anybody else. You may have your wife someday, your children someday, but don’t force it on them, on your friends. That’s all you can do. But you have to live in society and you have to follow the rules.
Man is born in the society, he lives in the society. He is a social animal. You are born of two persons’ love affair. Society was there even in your birth. Your mother was following a certain rule, your father was following a certain rule; husbands and wives, and this and that. Because they followed certain rules, they brought you up; otherwise they would have thrown you into the river. Why bother? Who are you? Why should you disturb their life and become a burden on them? They followed a rule that children have to be looked after.
So the game has to be understood and if you want to play the game, you have to follow the rules. If you don’t want to follow the rules, don’t follow the game. It is simple. And you will unnecessarily create trouble. Now if you don’t have a passport, the police will catch you. If you don’t have the right papers, you will be thrown out of the country. So how is it bringing you freedom? It will destroy all your freedom. So don’t do that.
There are stupid rules, but that’s how things are. We have such a small life that we cannot hope to change the whole society. So it is better to be wise and to simply follow the rules. You will be freer if you follow the rules. If you follow the rules perfectly, you will be completely free. The moment you break a rule, you are caught.
So a wise person simply follows the rules. Be a Roman when you are in Rome and just follow the rules. You will fit there, and nobody will create any trouble for you. They can create trouble because the power belongs to them. You are a tiny individual. What can you do? There is no point in fighting, because you will be fighting against a brick wall. You will hurt your own head.
That’s where the anarchist attitude is wrong. Anarchists are perfect in their insight that these rules are just bogus, but they don’t understand that they are needed. The bigger the group, the more rules are needed. When you are alone, no rules are needed. When two are there, a few rules; three are there, more, four, more. And the world is populating itself so fast that more and more rules will be needed. Otherwise there will be chaos and madness.
So don’t just condemn things. Try to understand. There are many evils that are needed; they are necessary. The choice is not between right and wrong. In real life the choice is always between a bigger evil and a lesser evil, a bigger wrong and a lesser wrong. The choice is not between right and wrong; otherwise it would have been very easy. The choice is of the lesser evil.
There is a possibility – but that is simply a possibility; it is not going to ever happen – that in some future time there will be a society of enlightened people. Then there will be no rules because they will be so responsible. But that you cannot, in fact, even hope for. It is a utopia.
This word utopia is beautiful. It means ‘that which never happens’. The very word means ‘that which never happens’. It is just a dream.
Thanks for Reading
kumarsumanabhishek4@gmail.com
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