Finally IAS mains exams are over and I have joined back to my "not-so-interesting" job. But then, a man has to earn his bread and butter. Now as I have come back to office thus my interaction with normal mundane earthlings has started and I have started to have a glimpse of their "World View".
Yesterday I was having a talk with my subordinates and they were talking to about the Area under my authority and in the same vein were trying to describe few of the people residing in that area. During their discussion, they had described few peoples as being Achchha Admi (Good Person). Their continuous labeling has made me think and abstract what exactly they were referring to. I realized that all those people who abide by the social mores, customs and sanctions are considered as “good persons”. The other qualifying qualities are, he should follow the social hierarchy and most importantly this “good man” should act in a manner that is beneficial to the other person who will later label the person as a “good man”.
In nutshell, in order to qualify as a “good man” one should not challenge any social phenomenon and should provide some benefit to the person. On the other hand, all those who question the decadent social customs, challenges the old, regressive and oppressive social hierarchy and act according to their reason and rational were labeled as “sanaki”, eccentric or sometimes as “social misfits”.
Thus through this the society exerts control on independent thinking as every one wants to called as “Good Person” even if that means sacrificing independent thinking as being a “social automaton”
Now the question is “is this a fair price, loose identity for being labeled as good?”
In my opinion, I’ll take my chances by being applying for a social misfit title rather then being a puppet in society’s hand.
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