Hello my dear friends,
Hope you are doing well.
I was discussing about moral bankruptcy today.
So the question that came to me was that,
Do you believe that there is a moral bankruptcy in the world?
I would rather call it in a different name called degeneracy.
There is degeneracy,
For sure.
The last 500 years,
Industrial technological boom,
And that kind of shifted our attitude and our connection with the world,
With the globe or with the nature.
This is the truth.
This has happened.
If you look at the history of mankind,
We started with a deep connection with the nature where we could understand every little vibrations of the nature to a level where total detachment,
Everything is unpredictable and human losses,
Material losses,
All these losses are happening because we can't understand or we can't predict or even we are kind of ignorant.
So there is a moral or ethical degeneracy associated with it.
Selfishness is the main degeneracy.
When human beings became too selfish,
They detached even their own kind.
This detachment is not a detachment with awareness.
It's a detachment because of selfishness.
It's a negative thing.
So degeneracy has happened.
Now today,
People are occupied with their mobile phones and their tablets.
That itself is a degeneracy because we lost eye contact.
And what is morality?
According to me,
There is only one morality.
Everything that is consensual is moral.
This is my view.
What is consensual?
What we eat or what we eat to survive or to keep the body should be consensual for the nature.
The nature should be happy to provide that to us.
If we murder or if we destroy a life for the sake of our survival,
I would rather call it not so ethical or moral.
Likewise,
Capturing,
Conquering,
Torturing,
Manipulating,
They are all unethical because they hit your conscience.
A life with conscience intact is a good life,
A healthy life,
An ethical life.
But when we live without any consideration for our conscience,
I would call it unethical or even immoral.
The degeneracy also happened when we pitched morality with sexuality,
With certain aspects of existence,
Certain dress codes and stuff like that,
Which are very,
Very small or ignorable compared to the larger morality where we as human beings,
As a species are supposed to express our inherent humanity.
When humanity is compromised in the name of religion,
Probably it's better to say manipulated existence or certain conditioning,
Which makes you feel small or controlled or contracted,
Means less.
That itself is a degeneracy.
Moral bankruptcy is in every aspect.
Corruption is one of them.
All the barriers that man created,
Man-made barriers,
They are all moral bankruptcy,
Like caste,
Creed,
Country,
Culture.
Racism is moral bankruptcy,
Racism is moral bankruptcy.
Looking at people,
Especially like animals or any other species as less than us is moral bankruptcy,
Ethical bankruptcy.
And classifying women as objects is moral bankruptcy.
There are so many aspects in our life,
In our society,
Which amounts to moral ethical bankruptcy,
Degeneracy.
Racism does exist.
Speciesism definitely exists.
And greed for the sake of profits exists.
And so many different aspects of society,
Which you can see as unethical,
Like for the sake of profit,
We sacrifice humanity.
That is moral bankruptcy.
It's not about anything consensual.
Like when I say consensual,
Even if you're cutting a tree,
The tree should be ripe and ready to be cut.
That means it should have had its full life,
Not a young tree and a tree which is like planted to be cut,
Just like an animal,
Which is bred to be killed.
This is all unethical for me.
When I say consensual,
Both the parts should have a full agreement.
That means when you are going to the tree,
You have a demand for its body and the tree should be ready.
That means it had its full life and say,
Okay,
This is fine that I'm ready to go now.
So this is okay.
Likewise,
If you look at the nature,
A tiger,
A lion and a deer or a herbivorous animal,
They have a kind of consensual relationship.
That means when a lion is hungry,
It will hunt,
Which the deer knows very well.
And lion will only hunt when it's really hungry.
It will not kill for pleasure,
Like we do.
We kill for pleasure,
We kill insensitively,
We also destroy things without thinking.
And we cultivate to destroy all these things.
So what I'm saying is that we can have a proper moral,
Ethical life and that can actually enhance our quality presence on earth.
Not like existing,
Living.
Living and existing are two different things.
Everybody exists,
But few people live.
Live means you're living with full satisfaction,
Contentment,
And also you're living with purposefulness,
Where you're not affecting,
Harming,
Destroying,
Conquering,
Capturing,
Torturing,
Killing any beings.
We must have a consensual attitude,
Meaning we should be communicating or we should be interacting with all the elements of nature,
Where you become part of the nature and every being starts accepting you because you are part of it.
Not like we detach from everything and then we look at everything as objects,
Including our species or various races as objects.
That moral bankruptcy.
If we look at anything as objects and if we feel that we can use them,
Manipulate them or utilize them for our advantage,
This is moral bankruptcy.
It's not the morality which the books sometimes talk about,
Where you can't do this,
You can't do that.
Your restrictions are not your morality.
Your acceptance is morality.
Your love is morality.
Confession and kindness is the right morality.
Nonviolence is the right morality.
When we don't express kindness,
Compassion,
Nonviolence,
Selflessness,
Unconditional love,
We have moral bankruptcy.
This is according to me,
Is moral bankruptcy.
So I believe that it does exist and probably this discussion throws some light into it.
We can discuss further,
But this is just some food for thought so that you could think about it.
This is something which we can change within.
When we change our attitude,
Life changes.
Life is always there to change or to transform,
But do we take the step towards it?
That's exactly the question.
I leave you with this thought.
Wish you a great day and a great future ahead.
This is Mohanji for you.
