No contempt, please!

Ages have passed since the existence of the earth, but human folly has remained - as a legacy. From the times of slavery to racism to colonialism, we successfully stood our ground—as a matter of survival—but human madness lived on. The only difference that remains is that we were engulfed by primitive dark urges then and civilizational—faulty—thinking now. That’s disappointing!

Not so long ago, social media was flooded by a video of famous YouTubers -- Ranveer Allahbadia and Samay Raina et al. -- in which they're seen letting vulgar words off their lips directed at some woman in a well-framed hall. Exchanging crude words humorously, with smiley and laughing faces sticking out, they set an unprecedented example of how far a human being (rich and famous) could go if left to themselves: no rational thinking as to what ought to be said given any space.

It generated a backlash, with people demanding apologies from the You-Tubers.

But dig a little deeper; are humans, seeing from the broader perspective, that way? Do human instinctual motivations characterise a part of our personality? Can we do away with human nature as such? Louis Stevenson, in his 'Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,' warns us of the pitfalls of repressing our base desires: Two entirely different personalities (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) of the same person: one as being politely good, the other aggressively bad. The point for argumentation is the human duality as a natural order in human beings. If one were to comprehensively grasp and visualise a human being as a rather complex composition of two halves of positive and negative, one should learn the thoughts and experiments of Carl Jung, Alan Watts, Sigmund Freud, and Jordan Peterson, backed by literature, experiments, and logic. They unfold each layer of the human unconscious and let you see what resides within—to our shock—resentment, dominating dispositions, and all the darker and darker features. Remember—Hitler, too, was a human being.

Repressions don’t die; rather, they have a life of their own—craving coming to the fore and proving them. More than humane elements, there is a malevolent edge to us. To be precise.

Back to the point, letting out a stream of invective (as in Ranveer's case), curses, jealousy-filled remarks, and even an intense urge to get involved physically doesn't need immediate contempt and rejection. It never helps. What's wrong today may be called worse years in the future or vice versa. Human standards differ according to the exigencies of time. But what remains is understanding, which sticks out like a diamond. Instead of cancelling everything suddenly, can we ask ourselves if we are better than others in the deepest personal capacity?

Civilising the dualities (bringing them to equilibrium) smoothly follows comprehensive understanding of them in the first place. Having done that, we would not dare throw brickbats at one another for exhibiting negative forces, however, grave they may be. We will have gotten the deep-seated reason to love each other, educate each other, and bring the unconscious, animalistic tendencies to consciousness and be really civilised. No place for immaturity.

Tailpiece:

If you ever see someone drinking or fist-fighting or cursing, etc., don’t exhibit Kashur's way of mending them with verbal assaults or engaging in fistfights from your end, too. Calm the party down and dissect complex human nature. Will it lead to better results? Maybe. But will it be a good step toward making the earth a beautiful place to be? For sure.