By : Professor Jahangir
The curse of cannibalism is considered a phenomenon of primitive period when
man lacked logics and resources to satisfy his hunger, there was no mysticism, no
civililzation, no social norms to stop him from committing the act of eating human
flesh. At that time, killing the other human beings was not thought a cruel act but
justified a sole strategem to survive splendidly and stay safely on this transitory
planet of illusions.
After a long evolutionary process, man has touched the peak of horizon and depth
of oceans, acquired the knowledge of morality, rationality, sentimentality and
spirituality, but the tragic aspect of this prosperity is the presence of cannibalism as
an unresolved conundrum in the existing world. One can observe that medical field
is introducing biological wars, media instigating sentiments of hatred and anarchy,
leadership provoking feelings of negativity and turbulent intolerance tending to
unimagineable upheavals, beaurocracy instead of using science for human welfare
creating hurdles in the way of decreasing sufferings of mankind, the climax of
clashes of civilizations, education instead of refining man’s intellect is developing
dilemma of division, alienation and separation, all these things indicate that the
curse of cannibalism is still present in our society just with a bit transformed shape.
The journey of many millenniums towards the ease of life and decrease of
cannibalistic approach shows that still the curse of cannibalism is penetrating in
our lives more violently and swiftly, this cruel act seems to annihilate the whole
fabric of humanity. After attaching our all belongings even breathing with
economics, now the lords of the world can easily implement the spirit of
cannibalism in any society. One can clearly observe that just by a single act of
increasing petrol prices, inflation starts to rise rapidly, the basic commodities of
life are getting out of the reach of common man, life turns into a disappointing and
suicidal span to spend. People lose the battle of life by becoming the victim of
depression, brain hemorrhage, heart attack and many psychological disorders.
Don’t you call it cannibalism just by affecting the financial issues of masses? In the
past the act of cannibalism was committed on a few individuals but now the ruling
powers can crush the commoners with sugar coated systems or slogans, for
instance without developing economy, infrastructure, education system and social
justice, the simple people are inspired by the fascinating slogan of attaining
freedom and avoiding slavery, but how this objective can be achieved without
basic requirements, no one is going to seek answer, so that cannibalistic motives
could be accomplished comfortably and the leaders propagating such philosophies
are being thought completely thoughtlessly philanthropists. What a pity!
Then, the differences of ideologies, cultures, languages, geographical boundaries
compel the crafty men in all regions and races to stimulate the simpletons start
slaying one another in an organized way and considering it a divine act leading to
some heavenly bliss. So, wars are a kind of civilized cannibalism, quite difficult to
perceive for those having sentimental sort of senses. One can easily mark this
conundrum even in the concept of gender differences which inclines to prove the
weaknesses of females as it is indicated that women are delicate creatures, cannot
compete with men physically, mentally, emotionally and psychologically , in
reality all these are the tactics to keep women low economically so that they
remain dependent on men folk who can use them as their property or a commodity,
ultimately women have a ruined , suppressed and ensnared peronality, so we can
say that females are also victim of cannibalism from every point of view.
The existing economic system of capitalism curbs the developing and backward
countries to come forward as an emerging economic power, resultantly these
financially weak countries remain exploited economically by the giant gruesome
powers who never allow the weaker countries to be independent with sufficient
resources, so this capitalistic approach is, in fact, a fascinating face to keep
cannibalilsm flourishing forever. And, last but not least, in the future world, the
cloning of homo sapiens will also devalue the beauty of human life, ending,
creating and recreating life will become quite insignificant then the clutches of
cannibalism will be more cruel and humanity will be hampered, hindered, and
helpless in front of inhuman ferocious forces.
In a nut shell, we can pray and hope for the best that the conundrm of cannibalism
should be overcome with an iron hand and visionary contemplation of how to keep
the beauty of life intact not with narrow and selfish thinking, otherwise this
problem will engulf the whole planet and lead us towards the dooms day by
bringing unpredictable catastrophies.