Naseem Javed: The age of tolerance cometh
How did we arrive here, so suddenly? Let’s go deeper…
During the age of curiosity; mankind struggled with its primal senses of touching, feeling and sniffing out whatever was deemed necessary for survival. This is where survival strategies created the best of the best major innovative roots that are still being deployed. Few examples of this are Electricity, Railroads, Cinema, and Aviation. Mankind innovated the most ever during this period and created breakthrough life altering solutions that are enjoyed today.
During the age of scarcity; mankind had already acquired the taste for appreciation and almost everything became a rightful and immediate need. Access and usage became the measurement of class. Mankind invented duplication, replication, and automation to spread the accessibility and commercialisation of thinking. Satisfying instant need with cheaper access became the norm, and the mind started the entry into the comfort zone. Being ‘cool’ about things and being lazy in the ‘grove’ became the mantra. During the age of abundance; the last few decades, mankind appears to be losing curious anxiety and rather has become decadent in a very sluggish posture. It is becoming oblivious to the original roots of wild creativity and is now lost in the safety of the past discoveries. True we have
new innovations by the seconds; there are 100 million apps on a single Apple iphone platform alone and a million new types of software application are daily lined up on the computer platforms. However, these are mostly extensions of prime inventions that grew from the age of curiosity. Passing through the Age of Decadence:
Today we are in a new era of incompetency. This is at least true on the economical development front, where lingering boredom is tabulated as innovative performance. The confusion is embedded all around, while the outcries are becoming audible as distance thunder. The deafening sound of the disgruntled citizenry creating sharp pungent stinks in the political corridors is now seen and heard around the world.
Here are five new signs to recognise the now passé of the age of abundance:
The Decadence; when originality dies, obscenity and profane layers are added to already dead ideas. The Incompetence; when old thoughts become totally useless, but they linger in the name of tradition. The Governance; when masses reject being blindly governed over being fairly managed. The Resonance; when the calls of billions fall on deaf ears and silent majorities change regimes. The Tolerance; when dogmas dominate progress and a new age of tolerance starts to appears.
Today, Age of Abundance is a useless notion:
The fact that there is too much replication of inferior ideas now overflowing and drowning us in mediocrity, the age of abundance is a useless notion. It’s not the abundance of news; it’s same news million of times over. The overly educated are out of synch with entrepreneurial business and global age commercial realities. The national innovation agendas are primarily lips service and made to appear timely creating photo ops while the hard core realties are buried under fake news. It’s not the annual gala award nights, but the absence of substance with a constant repeat of similar circuses that create the illusion of abundance. It is in fact the absence of real truth.
The Age of Tolerance:
Mankind on the other hand, as a call of nature, is hardwired with safety devices to slowly and instinctively evolve out of darkness and continually adjusts in order to come to its own senses and create its own survival. Ancient ruins are the witness of this and living proof. Otherwise we would still be in caves fighting over square-wheels.
The collapsing socio-economical and political failures of the last century have pruned and matured the human brain and programmed it to appreciate tolerance as its upcoming survival strategy. This fact is clearly visible in open minded countries where millions of folks of all colors, races, gender and beliefs mingle daily and enjoy progressive living. Nations that fear this tolerance and their citizenry to remain brainwashed with fake news will have a hard time discovering the beauty of tolerance. The new global age world is far more tolerant and diverse than where it was a few decades ago. For global age friendly and openly connected and communicative nations, they see and hear this loud and clear.
Nevertheless, this reality is still a serious uphill challenge in the farthest corners of the world. The human race is strong and for every dark era, it comes out shining more brightly after the darkness. We are entering a new era of human understanding and mental enlightenment. Deniers can scream.
Let’s revisit this again a decade from now!