Philosophy often leads to
rational investigation of questions about its existence, knowledge and ethics.
I do not mean philosophy can go beyond personal belief or the compound of
doctrines. What we perceive, wish to hear or feel mostly becomes our
philosophy. These type of practices need not necessarily be constituted to old
school of thought. One such philosophies developed in the modern times are
nuclear families.
It is not very surprising to
see conjugal families paving way to nuclear families with the emergence of industrialisation and capitalism. Some
adrift without direction and rest are totally aimless. Larger families have
undergone substantial social reform so to speak that they no longer exist. I
have seen people sighting difference in opinions and claim they require higher
vetoing power in order to sustain this paradigm shift. Extended and larger
families no longer exists in its true sense.
Some say that they have moved
on from the traditional practices sighting pragmatism. I am somewhat convinced
I have moved away from typical family traditions for the sake of convenience,
luxury or lavishness. This is often sighted as sumptuousness. I quite agree to
it.
As we drift into practical
matters, I started questioning the very existence of tradition and rationale
behind it. The fundamental reasons or logic behind these traditions are hard to
explain. Just how we relate lucrativeness to sizeable profits, moneymaking and
remuneration; we tend to cripple traditions due to absence of social ideas or
system.
During my formative years, I hung
onto a coniferous tree just because my forefathers planted it. Neither I was pragmatic
nor had to courage to question by forefathers about the practice that I was
asked to follow. Something does not feel quite right. As I grew older, I grew
into oblivion. It is difficult to explain your compeers about your social
patterns, likes and dislikes. You are often disregarded or forgotten. Albeit it
means very little in this context, you still linger to find out what is
happening on the other side of the divide. This curiosity often kills the cat.
Whilst we hover around, leave
slowly and hesitantly; someone else is making unfavourable criticism or find
faults of your shortcomings. Traditionists are sometimes stubbornly
conservative and narrow-minded. Being prudent does not mean you circumspect the
situation with discreet. This is precisely what happens to those who swim
against the tide. Then you moan in despair and dismay. Somewhere you reach a state
in which all hopes are lost or assume they are absent.
I am often confronted by traditionists,
often facing hostile opposition for the same reason and I think otherwise on
their practices. The most hilarious thing is when they drag science into it and
fail to exhibit the relation between the two. Science examines the questions posed
by scientific theories and hypotheses whereas tradition is an inherited
pattern adhering to traditional views. I see no science in it unless
science proves it otherwise.
You have been living here so
long undisturbed, dream of the time when you were free and undisturbed
and suddenly you are encompassed into these traditional practices. You no
longer pick those pieces, put they away. Several nuclear families today are
formed as an oppression to these traditional views and illogical relations to
the practical matter. With the retrospection on how families lived, none of
them went any further to question the society in which they lived. For sure,
this is an ordeal of the past if not trial by fire.
These are hell's perpetual
fires for the years and decades to come. I am more profoundly concerned about
the changes we live in. Lot of modern day nuclear families are more dynamic, affluent
and well planned. However, this does not mean they are sound in their
judgements. The older generation continue to claim they are the realm of the
occult but that may not be the case in all true sense. If you look at the
sizeable combination of both conjugal and nuclear families, there is an element
of truth on both sides. Practical living is often mistaken to being correct or
appropriate. You need to ratify in order to ascertain the truth or the fact
behind it. The tales are twisted to the need of the individual and thus nothing
ascertains the practical examination of the fact.
We all agree as far as we can
see. It is just the way of the world. Nothing comes out as surprise than
blatant ignorance. The formation of nuclear families not just lies with difference in opinion or compatibility. It is far beyond driven. In some cases,
they are strong and a sudden outburst. Someone who can make clear distinctions and
find the subtle difference between one another will know for sure that system
has failed.
In the years to come, there
will be more nuclear families rising from East to West, North to South and
beyond the horizons. People will be grossly blasphemous towards what is held to
be sacred, religious and what is cited as traditional boundaries. This in turn
becomes exodus and the new pattern may follow.
With the course of every
sunrise and sunset, there arises a person questioning the rationale behind the
traditions, religions and practices we followed. Life goes on!
