Culture and Cultural perversion

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.