Before throwing any light or before passing any conclusive
comment on “CULTURAL PERVERSION”, we are to get it understood what
culture signifies and how perversion is identified. The word culture is
originated from the Latin word ‘colero’. Colero means to cultivate. So culture
interprets the things received through cultivation. When we talk of culture we
come across different opinions from different angle of thinking. Bubbles of confusion
and contradiction come upon our mind and we become perplexed to draw a
conclusive concept on culture and tradition. It is not at all unusual because a
definite formula is required to solve a particular sum and that very formula
must have certain science and a logical explanation. It is not sweet to hear
that in most of the cases we expose our biased views and thinking appearing not
tenable while justifying those. Unjustified and illogical views never stand on
their strong foothold.
To be very honest, culture is a very broad term and can hardly
be explained in a single signatory line or excerpt. Culture includes all that
man has acquired in his personal and social life. It incorporates our walks of
life, our attitude and modes of behavior, our ethical senses and philosophies,
our morals and mannerism, our traditions and customs, our virtues, our
socio-economic and political status and so many others of human activities. As
so many considerations are taken into account, culture is therefore not a static
element with a definite shape. It is dynamic and is frequently changing with
changing circumstances. It undergoes a constant change and those changes puzzle
us to formulate a clear conception of culture to be accepted ages after ages as
a compulsory mandate.
As the world is always changing with upcoming philosophies very
much applicable to the changes in social science the coordinate of culture also
shifts from one point to another in quick succession. Different inventions on
science and the resultant developments in technology have made obviously
certain significant changes in our traditional culture. We are undone but to
accommodate these changes without ignoring the main stream of our culture. As
for example, if original and traditional stream of culture is taken up as the
thesis, the present trend of cultural form is obviously the antithesis as it is
not compatible to the form of traditional culture in many ways. So we should
chalk out a golden mean while talking of culture without any gross violation to
the ethics of the traditional culture and this is called synthesis. Yet culture
is an immaterial phenomenon, a matter of thoughts and meanings of habit.
Now we should discuss on the basic characteristics of culture to
be learnt in an abbreviated form. Discussion may run pages after pages in many
forms of debates but that may lead a reader to the breakeven point of patience.
Culture is the capacity of symbolic communication that can touch our heart. Every
individual is interested in transmission and communication of culture. A
culture can never be created but cultivated because it is the continual trend
of our traditional culture in existence. Every cultural being is evoked from
the bed of the society as social elements, attachments and commitments are the
principal recipe of culture. Culture is closely associated with the demand of
the society. It is handed down from one generation to other with the
undistorted theme of it. It also mitigates mental appetite. Culture transmits
certain ideals and norms and the society accepts them without showing any
reservation. It is well integrated and consistent too. Culture differs from
society to society as soil of the society builds up culture and social elements
shape up its nature. Adaptation of culture is also a factor to count because
elements of culture migrate from one place to other for the interest of social
want. This is called the admixture of culture in social need. So the concept of
culture is well spread and is dependent on different society bound variables.
Though there exists a regular bonding with cultural elements,
perversion in culture is now well felt and we are agonized out of it in deep
trauma. Perversion of culture stands for culture misdirected and misinterpreted.
It pollutes and spoils the ethical and moral values of culture. A culture never
generates, by any truth, its own perversion as a way of bounced back action. Decomposing
brain with a steady contamination of moral and ethical values by social malice
originates perversion in culture. The blueprint of cultural degradation
initiates from decomposing brain. Brain once decomposed because of the
contamination of social meanness and narrowness always breeds such elements
that grossly contradict the values of the main stream of culture.
Now the question is who is benefited out of the steady
decomposition of human brain and cultural perversion. What is the interest of
those forces trying every now and then to spoil our ethical and moral values?
Who are the conspirators to play ducks and drakes with the social harmony out
of intricately bonded culture accepting the changes in culture? Immaculately
bonded culture fortifies smooth functioning of a society in absolute fervour
and orderly manner.
A society on the track of decadence gives ample opportunity to
the vested interest people to gain much non-virtuously from the bed of this
contaminated society. They are very much inclined to exploit the society by
plundering moral values and ethical composition. If the culture of a nation is
destroyed the nation loses its way in the sand of dreary desert and as a matter
of fact, the nation runs in recession subject to development and prosperity. It
is enough to destroy a nation implanting cultural perversion in its own
culture. The main stream of culture is upheld by a section of thoughtful men.
So attack is coming down on those people, termed as opinion maker in renewal.
Those who promote colonialism and imperialism are the main spokesmen of this
unhealthy concept. Once the cultural heritage of a nation is broken down that
nation is sure to be the rubber stamp of colonial and imperialistic forces.
Liberalized market economy demands cultural decomposition of a nation so that
it can plunder the natural and human resources of that country ruthlessly.
India is now the worst victim of cultural decadence. The nation
faces tough challenges in every field of its functioning. We are trying to import
the rhythm of western culture openly, ignoring completely the main stream of
our own culture and this is a greater conflict to our own culture resulting to cultural
perversion. Just as a fish cannot live without water, so a nation cannot
survive with its cultural perversion. Blind imitation of a new culture does not
create an isotope bonding with the cultural heritage in existence. On the other
hand it promotes cultural perversion in total restlessness. In my
consideration, there should no prejudice accepting the good elements of
different cultures. But before doing that we should deeply ponder over the
compatibility of that to our traditional culture. We ought not to pamper
anything that acts as a catalyst poison to our own culture.
It is happening invariably in case of India. Indian traditional
cultural is perilously endangered because of steady intrusion the elements of
perverting culture in the main stream of our culture. The more it not be
intercepted timely with remedial approach, the more our nation will leap deep
into the horrified zone absolute nihilism and that is the point of no return.
So it is now the call of time to stop cultural perversion at the cost of any in
order to save our nation from the grip of cultural decadence.