The World of Contradictory Beliefs

“Justice always prevails, because the winner always claims justice”. The statement might be a little difficult to grasp at the beginning, but once it hits you, it takes a hold. Throughout the history, we have always seen winners claim that the righteous side has won, that justice has been served and similar thoughts along that line. But are these statements backed up by enough evidence? Maybe, maybe not but that seldom matters. Throughout history winners have been seen to rewrite history. Had the Nazi Party won the World War II, would Hitler have claimed that injustice have won? Of course not. The war generals always think that they’re fighting for the right cause and try to convince their soldier about the same. Something on the lines of it’s “us” or “them”. The war maybe armed, political, social, economic or otherwise. The truth is, more often than not, there is no right or wrong just varied people’s version of the story. The world isn’t black and white. It’s not even the shades of gray many times, it’s all colorful. Is blue better than red? They are incomparable. It’s the matter of perspective. A war criminal for one country can be the war hero for another.

We often hear two ideas to be two sides of same coin, but the thing about coin tosses is that it’ll give different result each time. And just like coin tosses, some ideas suit better to a particular need while the opposing idea might come in handy the next time. We don’t have to stick to an idea for the rest of the life or century or millennia. And certainly not in today’s ever changing world.

We often see discrimination based on Race, Sex, Religion, Caste, Sexual orientation, locality and what not. If there is no reason, they can go to an extent to create one. People not willing to accept fellow individual because they are a little different or hold a different belief system. Well, if everyone had the same genes, wouldn’t the world population be wiped out by a single epidemic that can affect only that gene? It is the diversity that makes us strong, makes us human otherwise we’d rather be robots. Thinking, feeling and acting the same way. Where is the fun in that? Different languages, cultures, upbringing and choices result in varied ideas. Diversity is beautiful. If everyone had single answer for a problem, there would be no innovation. And what if that idea falls out? We need competing ideas, the out of box thinking, even the ones which seem like crazy sometimes. Many of them won’t stick out, some of them would and the world will evolve for the need of better solutions even sometimes the ones that felt stupid in past.

Accept that we might have been wrong in past. Question the truths taught by society until you find a convincing answer. There might have been a reason for such truth in the past, but do those still hold true or necessary? The Royal Society, the birthplace of many scientific theories on which the modern society is based had the moto “Nullius in Verba” translated in English as “see for yourself”. Experiment, research, collect data and draw your own conclusions, make your own belief system rather. These answers might come from a very different source than the ones where you started and some might not be ones we wanted to believe. But Embracing the change, evolving with it that’s what make us sustainable. Change is the only constant in the world.