Watched " The Last Man on Tower " today. A wonderful movie and equally beautiful acting by Manoj Bajpayee. The film shows human relationships in their most naked form. It shows how greed takes over years of relationships and how ambition turns people into demons. What has propaganda done to society? I don't think human societies have ever been founded on love. We have seen it since time immemorial. If that were the case, Kaikeyi would not have asked for 14 years of Vanvaas for Rama. Had it been so, the Kauravas would not have conspired to kill the Pandavas in Lakshagraha. When greed and ambitions take over, relationships become meaningless.
I also don't know how an old person gathers the courage to stand alone. Probably he has nothing to lose. But what do we have to lose? The mental stories we have built around something or the other? The hollow materialism, or meaningless relationships, or the fake self-image? We hold them tightly to our chest.
I somehow actually doubt whether society has made human beings grow or has made them fall. Societies provide a toxic comfort to their members. Once we get used to this comfort, we become weak. We find it almost impossible to stand alone. So many fears come to our minds when we think of being ostracised. That's why most people think and do what the majority believes. How can it be growth? If we have to drop the most fundamental things, such as freedom of thought and speech, just to stay part of the herd, I don't see that as growth by any standard. Freedom, liberty, and love are very fundamental to human existence. Probably, in our race to get more and more health supplements, we have compromised the body's immunity.
It's hard to hear birds chirping in a society full of noise, deafening music, vehicles almost crushing the roads, and people talking rubbish all day. Where is the scope to look at the stars when the roads and colonies are full of artificial lights that are on throughout the night? It's obvious that people willing to look at the stars and listen to the chirping of birds have to stay alone. But these lonely people can also come together and form their own community where they have freedom of expression and speech. Where they are not being judged by the contaminated mind. Where they are free to explore all types of thoughts, and nobody forces them to conform to any norm. Yes, this seems like a utopia because most organisations, communities, and spiritual organisations are founded on the principles of conformity. Yet I believe free souls connect with each other in the open sky, and I often feel this while attending the Sunday dialogues at J Krishmurti Foundation and discussing it with friends.
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