By Ayush Jain
In the modern capitalist state, the truest of all truths is that we must
be more than the status quo; a higher position; a higher salary
package; some more power. With all said and done, a person is
either an societal outlier meant to be seen with suspiction or a
success based on the capitalist idea of growth. This is not a critique
of capitalism or modernity, nor is this a justification for living a
shredded life of self loathing, blame and misery. Its an observation
of the pervasion of a fuctional concept into our psychological and
societal framework.
Many of the current generation think of the lives theirs homemaker
mothers lived as one of incompletion. A life without ambition or the
zeal to make one self big. It’s as tough for them to justify an action
without adequate reciprocity as it is to understand a life spent
devoted to caring for someone. Doing something just to make
someone smile, have them enjoy, or simply take care, need either a
societial/artistic/philosophical/miscellanous backing. Every action
needs a good enough reason. To make a spouse smile is “good”;
friend “okay”; a stranger “noble deed” – something to be done with
“spare” time.
Morever the capitalist growth is not growth for the sake of what can
be done with it. The mechanisms of fame/money/power/position
which can be used for purposes that a bring a mass improvement. Its
a growth that must be driven by the modern drivers. A higher
position/more money/ power/ fame, all because a person must keep
striving for them. A person must be a greater individual than what is
he, with the definition of the individual, neither a person’s own nor
fluid.
The modern times give us a questionnaire/ an interview/ an
examination/ a task list with a clock set.
Questionnaires/interviews/examinations/task lists that need not be
filled/given/taken/checked off.
By Ayush Jain
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