Rationality and My Blog

I have been blogging for quite a bit of time. But, I never explained why the title of my blog is 'Quest of Rationality' and web address of it as 'evolved monkey'. I guess it is imperative for me to explain the significance of it. Both the title and the web address are closely connected and signifies important message. Which, I usually try to convey through my blogs.

Generally my blogs are on current affairs and I strongly believe that rationality is sorely missing in today's world. Either we don't understand the surrounding or we don't want to understand. We are so engrossed in our little personal life that we are increasingly becoming myopic towards the social problem. As globalization is increasingly taking hold of our lives, each individual of the society getting woven tightly, thus, problems faced by the society as whole undeniably affects each person directly or indirectly.

Liberal market economy and democracy provided fairly prosperous life to western countries and for many of emerging economies. But sadly it also sends the society into lull and oblivious to the surrounding situation, and makes them instant prey for manipulation. A democracy becomes less democratic and adds fanatic capitalism to that and we have perfect recipe for highly educated but extremely ignorant society.

The folly of market economy is that it emphasizes so much on objectivity, virtually defining everything in terms of numbers and statistics, in that process people ceases to be people and merely become number. In this race of objectifying everything, society as a whole looses its focus, facilitating individuals to immerse in their own world and there by loosing what ever rational they have.

When I say that today's world is not rational, I don't believe in mawkish and utopian ideas of peaceful and happy world. I don't intend to achieve that initiative, because one, it is impossible and second it is utterly useless. Without friction there will no energy that means no more progress. But, as we are making great strides in making our lives more comfortable, the scientific and industrial development are becoming malediction to our spiritualistic and mental progress. We are increasingly becoming short-sighted and the future look rather bleak at this point.

Blogging rationally, I want people to understand that seemingly jargons of international issues are not that complicated. All we need to do is not get manipulated and in order to do that we need to think rationally, that is, think like evolved monkey.