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The meaning of political science is often restricted to the state, government, and everyday politics. However, it goes beyond that. We as humans share various relationships. What do we do when conflicts arise in these relationships? How do we resolve them? The Socratic dialectical method or Habermas’ idea of deliberation provides a solution. It says conflicts are better resolved through dialogue rather than domination. Hence, it tells us how to talk in a dialectical manner. It is the process of reasoning together. For instance, when your father asks you to aim for a government job, but you want to become a content creator, you do not totally oppose each other. Instead, you engage rationally: Why is a government job important? Maybe because it provides security and financial stability. But being a content creator might give you creative freedom. So you decide to take a government job but also start your creator journey simultaneously — maybe by vlogging your day as a government employee...
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Culture of demise gaining supremacy over culture of life

 

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Culture of demise gaining supremacy over culture of life. 

The world is made up of different countries and countries are made up of different societies and societies are made up of different families and families are made up of individuals. So the individual paves the way for any cultural shift. Actually the individual is forced to act as per the situations created by the big forces. The forces like capitalism, industrialization, liberalization (external) and globalization are the main reasons responsible for this culture of demise. 

Capitalism which supports an open economic atmosphere is making humans more self-centric and profit-minded what Marx calls it “annihilation” leading to the decay of humanity. Industrialization paved the way for capitalism. And when one sets aside humanity s/he supports euthanasia, degradation, humiliation, human cloning, self-absorption, apathy, etc.

Living in a too materialistic world leads to the loss of willpower and degradation of spirit. That’s why the western world is now looking towards India for spiritual lessons and the irony is that Indians are more passionate about the western lifestyle. And this is the same reason that people start believing in spiritual leaders too fast. Because of too much materialism, we are facing a sustainable cultural loss and subsequently, people don’t read our mythological past which teaches us the values of life and how to live a pleasant life. For example, Geeta gives an explanation of one of the most searched questions of our time I.e. how to live? It tells us what should be one’s way to live life. 

John Locke’s theory of liberalization on which almost the whole world works today is explicitly externally oriented. It only talks about removing external barriers but not the liberation of self. So this external freedom is making people’s minds more corrupted and self-centered and that is why they support abortion, humiliation, human cloning, self-absorption, etc.

Globalization which gains a lot of respect for the free flow of information is taking the materialist and capitalist ideas of the west to the east and thereby corrupting the minds of people who were once spiritual and more concerned with self-liberation. Capitalism fully harnesses globalization by creating the needs of people and making them more desirous. One can go to any extent to fulfill his/her desires. 

Thus the culture of demise is gaining supremacy over the culture of life and this has happened very slowly and gradually that the humans have not been able to identify the changes in their thoughts and ultimately accepted these new set of ideas.


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