Srimad-Bhagavatam 01.02 - Divinity and Divine Service
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Democracies are unabashedly commercial and practical. This is probably as it should be. It is futile to demand that creative curiosity be the hallmark of democracies, or to imagine that the modern life has reached a level of rationality in both thinking and practice adequate to allow the transformation of society into an intelligently organized community of active thinkers living in illustration of a natural fellowship ennobled by friendship. Practical success, whether for oneself or others, is the social passion on which the attention of the great mass of people is riveted. A good many of us draw life’s motives and inspiration from the appetite for external or overt action which status and material anxiety excites, and the anxiety about ignorance and knowledge is scarcely felt by us. Yet it is difficult to resist wondering, if the habits of the well- born would have to be similarly circumscribed. Must we assume of them no more than the common run of interests? Is the opportunity of leisure for active thought denied to them, because of a lurking natural compulsion admitting of no intelligent control? Both common sense and reason appear to suggest otherwise, suggesting thereby that the well-born are not doomed to spend their days, like the rest of us, either apathetically or in a cycle of toil and recreation or rest, having no breadth or interest left for active thought.
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How The Well-born Have Been Failing To Ennoble Our National Character By the operation of already existing social privileges, it has always been easier for the well-born to cream to the top in the practical life than it has been for the lower classes by the operation of sheer hard work and determination. ... |