The future of values

It is a sensitive and topical issue, haunting the minds of the billions of people in the first and third worlds, most of whom are not articulate or analytical enough to get their bearing from the ersatz international leadership gone haywire.

Truth sticks and takes root, while hybridization, fashions and plurality create cultural insecurity in the islands of civilizations. One is reminded of the old maxim --"The East is East, and the West is West, and never the twain shall meet". Note how the ICT (information, communication, and technology) Age has widened the communication gap amongst the modern and the traditional minds. The political leaders, who lead the media limelight, are unable to handle the future of Values. The base of virtual reality is strengthened, needing lethal arms for control of the human minds.

I watch (amateurishly) my society from our capital, Dhaka. It is not possible to decode the sense of direction. The sense of values is changing, making the situation all the more confounded. Values are crashing on collision courses; too many at too short intervals.

Political news and views dominate the pages of the print media; while, as a voter, it takes (me) only a couple of hours to cast the vote. The implications of the voting (machine) are staggering. Too much debris on the path(s), and the garbage content exceeds the weight and mass of selected items. We have been conditioned to live with high systems losses. No lighthouse to indicate the nearness of the port (goal). No guide in the Sunderbans (the beautiful forest). Too many traffic signals and controls at the metropolitan political points; but how to get out on the highway, and use the fifth gear (overdrive)? What we observe are the accelerate-and-brake drivers of the nation who break all the rules of political driving, and create some new ones.

Insecurity prevails on the cultural fronts. Even the secretary general of the UN had to point out the demerits of imposing democracy on foreign soils using arm-twisting methods (Iraq). Plurality means loss of meaning? The clash of values is propelling all towards the clash of civilizations.

This type of musing has no ending. Better pause here, for the other readers to catch a breadth.