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Sunday 4 October 2015

23.Civilization is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta!

Civilization Is travel of Man from his own own history to present. It is man's capability to accumulate, preserve and enrich what he had in name of civilization. But things were not the same and easy for tiny man. His own collective efforts, accumulated knowledge , risk taking behaviour and above all curiosity and vision to win nature made him superior being. In primitive life he was restricted to basic instinct but gradually used to satisfy his higher need like psychological ,social and spiritual. He became civilized in his own context which was also his creativeness to be progressive towards his own set goals. this desire of being civilized,was motivating force behind man's continuous and incessant efforts to exploit nature for his own good.Man became greedy and forceful. Increasingly he exploited nature for his own comfort and sustainability.
when he started harnessing environment beyond its capacity to recover itself ,problem started. Problem was not natural but created by Man.It is called Human excreta,human waste which can not be revived or assimilate in nature automatically. Pollution and city garbage of every kind is one form of Human excreta .Man ,though, did not justified each of his step and tried to stop the monster by his conception. he thought what is right and what is wrong. He developed values which are essential and imperative for humans to sustain and survive for long. He made rules and norms to follow so that human excreta can be minimized. He also developed technology and scientific means to fulfill his needs efficiently. But uncontrolled population and his increasing needs left all efforts futile. He became civilized when came in society. But man's internal conflicts,inequalities and struggle for same resources made him greedy,irrational, valueless. He initiated a monster to whom he himself can not stop.
Unmanageable city wastes Like E-waste, nuclear waste, pollutants of all kinds causing environmental degradation, pollution and rendering nature unsustainable. This all human excreta is like our civilization as we conceived it. It is accumulating day by day. what A civilization is for us ? At a short distance or even within society uncivilized world prevalent.We never dreamed of such a condition. In real , condition is more dreadful and horrible. Natural resources of basic human needs are going to finish in near future. This limited nature of resources created another problem of civilized world. Inequalities prevail in world specifically extreme poverty in developing country. Poverty ridden people and primitive societies are of means to be civilized more by exploiting them for so called civilized Part of World.
In developing country like India, Constitution is small accumulation of our history,culture,tradition and thus of whole Civilization in terms of Values and guide of Society. But it has not been so successful in its mandate of Equality of society. Unequal society cannot come to consensus to manage wastage with wisdom. Let us take an example of Open defecation as a parallel to Human excreta. Which should be managed and dumped properly to avoid harm to oneself and to others.But despite previous government efforts and Swachh Baharat Mission by current government we are not yet successful to eliminate this evil from society. Because a large part of society cannot afford such basic necessity. They even face shame ,insecurity and unhygiene. In reality we can not be called civilized untill every evil is eliminated. But If the civilization is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta. then it should be changed. Man's conception of Civilization,then ,is nothing but his hypocrisy. It is not the distance but proper management of his excreta to be the integral part of Nature and his civilized world by recycle,reuse and recovery of human waste. This is the way of sustainable and civilized way of Human life and its worth.

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