Are all our ideas political in Social Intercourse?

Human ideas are immense. It is the idea of human that has ruled the world, how to use natural resources and everything on the planet earth is much predetermined by our ideologies.  Not every idea may bring in benefit; some ideas are experimented and then implemented. Some implemented ideas produce good results and some ideas produce fairly bad. If every idea were thought to be productive and enhancing the quality of living creatures and nature around us, there would not be any debate on the ideas produced by humans. There would not be any issue of politics embedded in any of human accomplished ideas and activities. For example, there would not be much of environmental degradation and crisis that every creature on earth is facing today mainly due to human induced ideas and activities.

In this connection, sometimes I come across and ask myself -Are all human generated ideas political in social intercourse?  How are human ideas perceived as political? Are these ideas based on the prejudices of science and religion? How do we define that our ideas are scientific in nature and how we come to conclude that modern thoughts are detached from the religion? If we believe in science, scientific beliefs are every changing with time and new discoveries. For example, for many years science believed the earth was flat and it became a huge debate worldwide and it’s not been so many years, science started believing earth as round object or a planet.

We live in the society of democracy. Democracy better works in building majorities. The ideas deemed fit by majorities are implemented and put into action, sometimes even without any pretests and pilot programs. These ideas intended to serve people and nature around us yet do not work as expected. These ideas fail to bring happiness to majority of people who supported those ideas. At this time, the norms of democracy are criticized. We start to believe that nothing is scientific in democracy. Here, where the politics comes into play. Political motives sometimes bring in fame for short period of time and disappear when people come to realize that the ideas they supported in favor of majority, did not work for what they had supported. Such ideas don’t sustain long. People are deceived. Yet, Most of us  feel democracy is "far better than aristocracy or autocracy where a small group of people, monopolize all the resources, protect their monopoly with brute force and do very little for the country" in particular and human society at large.

In pre-historic times, religion was a dominant mode of authority. Majority of the ideas were intended to make god happy. At that time, science was recessive and scientific ideas did not make any great impact on people’s living and culture. Religion laid the ideas. It was not until industrial revolution in Europe, with human society progressing towards so called “science era” with industrial boom new scientific discoveries and innovations, that laid to   dominance  of science in every sphere of life, implementing scientific  ideas and reasoning  and continues to do so even today.

Science has truly been the hot topic of the century. Now, the religion is recessive. However, we face continued debate on - is science boon or curse?  If we were to argue on this topic, it’s never ending. Science technology has made an immense impact on nearly every sphere of daily life. My personal feeling, metaphorically, science is like a knife. A knife can be used to cut fruits and vegetables. The same knife can also be used as a lethal weapon. In the same way, science can be used as a tool for the development but like every coin has the other side, science, when it is in wrong hands can be abused. The exploitation of science supported by majority of people in democratic society can result in several disastrous consequences like, deadly environmental pollution and devastating bloodshed which the society has already experienced. I feel that that these activities are much motivated my political moves at the time when we are knowledgeable about what and where goes wrong, when human created nuclear wars continue to destroy life on earth, continue to destroy living environment around us. But, our nature of political dominance over one another in the foundations of science makes us forget what is right and wrong and we tend to use our ideas for bad deals. Thus, the science which has bestowed us with development, progress, expansion and growth has also brandished us with destruction, violence, ruin, devastation and annihilation.  Due to the advent of science the longevity of life has greatly increased. But, this is paving the way for over-population and population explosion, too. This has resulted in mass deficiency of land in most parts of the earth. Today, the ideas are being generated, thinking of auctioning of land even on the moon!

At this time of the day, there are people around us who have strong faith in god and religion. They strongly believe that faith of human and entire life on earth and above all the life of earth itself are predefined by strong coherent forces of active god. So, these people believe that whatever happens on earth is as per gods will and act therefore; god will take of care of good or bad deeds. In this case, my personal feeling is not to generate ideas that are entirely bad for human kind and life on earth. Let’s our personal ideologies not solely be acted upon god’s faith but with self-realization of our potential and capacity to understand what it means to be good or bad as  the result of our actions.

As we discuss on how our ideologies are categorized and defined, my personal view is against the liberals whose conscience put individuals above all. At this point, I argue that with human greed and selfish nature, the ideologies of individuals who seek to benefit themselves may not reach our expectations of sustainability that we as an environmentalist always talk and debate on. Our expectations of sustainability are for future generations too, for those who will have fortune to see and experience what our mother earth has to offer them; in the same manner we experienced and took advantage of. But, what makes things sustainable and remain in equilibrium is also questionable. Our thoughts and how we define equilibrium may bring in new insights and debate when we think that equilibrium brings everything to death and disequilibrium brings everything to life. My opinion is that we should have optimum use of natural resources that neither brings total death to entire ecosystem and resources. This also bring into notion of our debate about bringing order and disorder in society. It depends on whether our ideas are directed towards creating ordered society that brings a difference to it or creating disorder in society that brings in sameness around us. Let the ideology of democracy sustain long as long as we believe it but for the better causes and results around us. Though democracy is politically motivated, conscience of politics should not always be embedded in every ideology that we tend to put them into action. If it is possible somehow, let’s try to keep politics far in some instances and think wisely and consciously for making this world a better place to live in. Let our ideas not every time be directed by our political ideologies but by our ability to understand them and use for producing sustainable and efficient results, more of work than the waste.