gkkeeda
  • Home
  • Current Affairs
  • Quiz
gkkeeda
  • Home
  • Current Affairs
  • Quiz
  • Home
  • Current Affairs
  • Quiz

The cat concludes world is dark by just closing its eyes

April 3, 2023 3 Mins Read
479 Views

UPSC CSE IAS ESSAY: The cat concludes world is dark by just closing its eyes

The cat concludes world is dark by just closing its eyes - UPSC CSE IAS Essays

Introduction:

Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer.

Background:

  • We interpret the world, not research and discover it. We understand it based on our judgment not based on what is actually true.
  • We close our eyes and think the world is darkened because our judgment is the way we see and feel the world. This is called ignorance.

Cases of such ignorance:

  • Ignorant people do not know the existence of many great things, a leopard that loves solitude doesn’t know the social nature of elephant life, and a modern Gen Z kid doesn’t know the value of a joint family, What we don’t know we comment that as untrue.
  • Superstitious do not know the lake turns red due to eutrophication but believe god killed the devil which led a bloodshed.
  • A man does not know the suffering being undergone by a menstruating woman etc.
  • Atheists do not know how the universe came into existence and disapprove of god, religious people never saw a god with 12 hands but they believe it as true.

Why we do so?

  • We believe in our logics and imaginations that whatever majority tells is true not what is true matters e.g. GDP growth is primary since the majority tells the pain suffered by displaced tries is immaterial.
  • We can’t learn everything, our capacity is not unlimited, so we learn is alone fullest truth.
  • We are not tolerant, we are not receptive to alternative thoughts.

What is wrong with that?

  • Being judgemental leads to wrong decisions – Buddhist Jataka story in which a mother judgementally kills a mongoose on the presumption that it killed her baby, while the truth is the mongoose saved her baby from a snake.
  • This leads to prejudices and stereotypes like black is not beautiful or men can’t cry.
  • Also, this causes disagreements and dogmatism. Fundamentalism is a case in point e.g. ISIS says Islam is only true religion by closing its eyes.
  • We see only a part of the truth thus we never grow e.g. for a blind man understanding an elephant story. This leads to misdirected life e.g. our ignorance of interlinking between us and nature caused climate change.

Who do that mostly?

  • People who lack one mind and full of ego are intolerant to both criticism and disagreement e.g. Stalin murdered every activist who disagreed his collectivist project.
  • People who like ignorant e.g. ignorance is bliss.
  • Person who lack emotional intelligence to understand a situation completely and then come to a decision e.g. In Ramayana Lakshman was restless and Rad had temperance, in many ways Lakshmans decisions caused trouble mainly cutting nose of Ravans sister.
  • Flip side – being ignorants is also good sometimes, ignorance is bliss.

Is it a systematic failure? Yes, to not strive for truth or to lack intellectual integrity are problems caused by,

  • wrong parenting – imbibing superstitions;
  • Lack of critical thinking in education;
  • Society that lives in ignorance e.g. Ambedkar observation of villages as den of ignorance.
  • Plato give his allegory of cave idea to prove how we live a fake life. He said reality is a shadow of truth, so we misjudge shadow and real.

Todays times

  • Today ignorance of human nature is not the only problem but we wilfully deny our true nature to respect environment, follow one health approach, think beyond self. Guru Nanak said “like misjudging rope as snake, we are thinking our actual limited selfish nature as truth”.

How to overcome this

  • Promote love for truth, before that build tolerance;
  • Nurture mindfulness through yoga and psychotherapy;
  • Promote integrity to avoid hypocrisy;
  • Spreading literacy mainly financial and digital literacy which may create new oceans of illiteracy if not addressed.

Tags:

UPSC EssaysUPSC Essays Paper
Next
December 22, 2024

Current Affairs Quiz 20 December 2024

Previews
March 16, 2023

No State can grow by dwarfing its own citizens

John-F-Kennedy-Quote-No-State-can-grow-by-dwarfing-its-own-citizens

No Comment! Be the first one.

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Current Affairs Quiz

Current Affairs Quiz 5th & 6th January 2025

Current Affairs Quiz 4th January 2025 – MCQ Q&A

Current Affairs Quiz 3 January 2025 MCQ Answers

Current Affairs Quiz 1st-2nd January 2025 – with Answers

Current Affairs Quiz 31st December 2024 UPSC

Current Affairs Quiz 29 & 30 December 2024 MCQ with Answers

Current Affairs Quiz 28 December 2024 MCQ

Current Affairs Quiz 27 December 2024 with Answers

Current Affairs Quiz 25&26 December 2024 MCQ

Current Affairs Quiz 24 December 2024 with Answers

General Knowledge Quiz

Ancient History

Medieval History

Modern Indian History

Art and Culture

Indian Polity

Indian Economy

World Geography

Indian Geography

Environment And Ecology Current Affairs

Chemistry

State GK Quiz

West Bengal

Jharkhand

Bihar

Rajasthan

Uttar Pradesh

Madhya Pradesh

Haryana

Punjab

Odisha

Assam

Jammu and Kashmir

l Contact us  l © 2025, All Rights Reserved l Privacy Policy l