The society perceives us as more than mere
humans. Or rather, sees us as mere pawns in its inexhaustible game of
class-based chess. Right from our birth, our movements and actions are
controlled by society in the guise of its class-based norms and stipulations. In
that, we are all restricted and controlled, our freedom only to the extent that
society allows or deems fit to bequeath us. We may like to think otherwise, but
no matter how extensive and elaborate our arguments, our calls of negation will
always be overruled in the end. Simply because, even amongst us who talk
against prejudices in the name of class, there are those who silently wait for the
catcalls and the agitation to subside so that the supposed superior classes get
to take their rightful place in the societal hierarchy.
The rationale behind the existence and the
continued sustenance of societal class is quite convoluted. Where in some
countries, religion and race dictates the prevalence of societal class bias, in
certain others, it is monetary profuseness that stipulates the divisions of the
societal sects. And like any evolutionary concept, even these bifurcations
adapt and evolve to encompass the contemporary generation. It thus becomes a characteristic
that renders the whole paradigm of societal evolution moot.
People move to newer lands for better
opportunities or in some cases, even to avoid the discriminatory prejudice that
society puts them through. In case of the latter scenario, what potential
immigrants fail to realise that no matter where in the world their transition
could and would take them, societal differentiations won’t necessarily stop. On
the contrary, these differentiations would present themselves in a new picture
thus further subjecting these immigrants to onslaughts more venomous and demoralising,
than the bouts of indigenous verbal whipping could ever be.
Each and every one of us wants to make his
presence felt in the world. Every person wishes and aims to do bigger things,
achieve the greatest heights of success. But how much do we all wish to escape
from this never-ending miasma of discriminatory fumes that holds us all captive
in one form or other? Or to put it in a different context, do we get to escape
the volatility that society presents before us? Death for those trying to go
against societal prejudices, backlashes for communities that defy dogmas
created by class-conscious groups and forcible exoduses of masses just because they
failed to conform to ludicrous norms and stipulations. These are occurrences that
happen in the new millennia, not in the so-called medieval times and are
rampant all over the world rather than being isolated to some third-world
country. Where then, begs the question, lies the difference between developed
and developing, when both evolved and evolving societies are reduced to such
social derogation?
