Divergence

Divergence

Syed Jamal Shah

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

             Divergence plays a vital role in shaping human life, changing their behavior according to needs, yields racism, class division and product of economic misbalance. Today, our society is passing from an era where aggression, intolerance, extremism, hate speech, irrational narratives are traits. Countering the above issue are endemics when groups and individual are busy in their personal gains for material things. Divergence is force designed to push people into society for the roles waiting to be occupied.

          Social status isn’t just about the cars we drive, the money we make or the school we attend-it’s also about how we feel, think and act. This is a process of looking for options, new ideas to explore and find new things. We are living in heterogeneous society, where the line of thinking, ideologies, style, fashion, colors, linguistic, education, selection, employment loaf of bread, citizenships is different in individuals or groups. These elements have divided mankind groups & individual in various quality of level in said elements, some are good, half are average, remaining are poor, each class has their own set of rules or custom for a criterion. Combine they are unable to cross standards; the standards of measurement in society to obtain Targets. Although with the passage of time these elements shape their personalities, culture & behavior of individual or groups in society.

         Divergence is breathing in their social circle but they are slumbering & unaware of the root cause. due to it, conflict can happen in groups, when one person is diverging and another is converging, the end result is that they are going in different direction, the crisis is getting birth, splitting them into classes, discouraging their positive potential, kills enlightenment & stops their advocacy will to do good. In conflict, the interests of group intersect at certain points of their need.

PRESTIGE IS THE SHADOW OF MONEY AND POWER IN SOCIETY.

           Notwithstanding, according to the spectrum of knowledge of Sages, Saints, Yogis, eastern as well as western philosopher’s considering & labelling divergence as ‘Beauty’, Also, they give references from monotheistic school of religions, if we observe deeply the history, beliefs and holy scriptures divergence had added flavor’s & color’s to life in monotheism. According to Abrahamic religions, everything exists in pairs Adam and Eve, angel and evil, sagacious and cheater, virtuous and sinner; one against pagans; tranquility is in good not in bad evils. So; knowing & highlighting positive & negative is the atmosphere of divergence.

          Nature is the best example of divergence e.g., if a crocodile is a big fish in the pond then the shark is bigger fish in the sea, furthermore, animals in nature are available in groups of reptiles, amphibians, herbivorous, carnivorous, vertebrate, birds same in plants. Diversification exists before mankind landing on Planet, giving us clear signs of divergence that Creator likes variety.

       However, in the course of human evolution divergence lies in different aspects. The rural environment has different life style compared to an urban life style. In the beginning height then skin colour then nationality then religion now classes, brands, pre-industrial and post-industrial. Some claims our history and culture is the best, while others say we are enjoying blue sky with adequate facilities and the remaining group are chanting in poverty, that now, we are the one who have ransom for everything which they need by doing harsh hard work, their narratives oppose each other consensus. The elite by definition has power over the rest but the economy is not so simple-- there are some who are more elite and have more power, some who are less. Economic power is a combination of wealth, income, status and occupation, access to education and health care, connections, and geographic and social mobility. Class struggle in capitalist ideology is as important as we need to breathe for living soul. Freeman & slave, Patrician & Plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, oppressor and oppressed stood in constant opposition to one another. In spite, communist ideology is against capital belief, Marxism preaches that everything will be on equities based, no class struggle required to live a normal life, no privatization, no money, no public property, no rich, no poor, state will own everything. The roles in the economy put some people in power over others; the economy divides people into groups with differing interests. Systems of social organization exist to fill some human needs.

        The Global Village has certain issues like employment vs unemployment, Literacy vs illiteracy, privileges vs deprived, war vs terrorism, extremism vs liberalism, narratives vs counter-narratives, religious narratives and intolerance. We have a society divided by class: what I would call two classes of winners (owners) and one class of losers (workers, including the unemployed). Recently, keeping this matter on forward-facing United Nation has introduced MDGs (Millennium development goals), but still, it is not growing as UN projected.  Many other social organization’s working on it too, thus with the empty hand going in different directions.

             According to Professor, Paul Piff, Ph.D. in his research, ‘As people reconstruct their days, it’s clear that in every single decision they make a class, class is an essential feature’. Class affects whether someone is going to be accepted into a particular kind of school, their likelihood of succeeding in that school, the kinds of job they have access to, the kinds of friends they’ he adds. The degree of status & power people enjoys or lack in their daily lives. Lower ranking has fewer resources and opportunities than those of relatively high rank, those who enjoys more resources and greater class status live in the context that enhances their personal power and freedom. All relationships are marked by class scrutiny in society.

            A 2010 paper in Psychological Science by KRAUS report that less educated people are better than more educated peers at identifying emotions on faces. They are also more accurate at reading strangers emotions. People with less income and education are more generous, trusting and helpful than their wealthier educated counterparts.

     ‘To be compassionate, you have to carefully attend to other people too –what they are thinking, feeling and saying’. Patience, if group or individuals are ready to kill their desire then society can lead to prosperity. Education in true means, where old generation can build future for coming generation, moving forward to stability is to listen to each other calmly. If we human beings, consider ourselves the favorite creature of the Creator. Having economic power or elite status is being in an exclusive club. People with power do not give it away out of morality or a sense of justice. Instead, they use the means at their disposal to maintain and extend their power. They hand out jobs and positions in society and have the power to discriminate based on race (and sex) and create the kind of pyramid they want. Culture is at least as much about communication as it is about identity. To counter poverty society needs to create jobs, raise the minimum wage, access to health care and economic security.

         The society that only knows the culture of receiving and not giving promotes social exploitation. For the creation of balance society, freedom for the individual, Equal Opportunity, Equal rights. The balanced society would not seek to change human nature but to limit the effects of such behaviour. Within the balanced society, there must be room for all.

The Only Thing That Will Redeem Mankind Is Cooperation

(Bartend Russell)