All men descended from monkeys.
I am not saying it. It was told by Charles Darwin(1809-1882) long long back in his "On the Origin of Species". To be honest I have not read it. Any bulky book except Ramayana and Mahabharata scares me.
I am sure he must have mentioned somewhere in the book that though intellegent, monkeys are imitative. Remember the story of handing over shaving razor to the monkey? Imitating is aping and monkeys are apes for good.
During the process of evolution, men learnt a lot including walking on two feet with straight back but somehow remained embedded in aping that is imitating.
If we look around us, we find this nature of our imitative culture everywhere. Our way of living, way of thinking and even the way we want to die-all are influenced by what others do, not what is good for us. Since we are litter better off than our ancestors, we do it on larger scale - Larger bungalows, larger cars, larger wedding pandals, larger gatherings. You know what I am saying.
The lively example is found in political rallies. The loud echo of Jindabad! or Murdabad! we here on the streets is the fine example of our imitative nature. The slogan mongers do not even know what it means or why it is being done. They have been asked to imitate the voice of the leaders. I asked one such fellow and his answer was 'who cares' ?. True, who cares.
I am not saying it. It was told by Charles Darwin(1809-1882) long long back in his "On the Origin of Species". To be honest I have not read it. Any bulky book except Ramayana and Mahabharata scares me.
I am sure he must have mentioned somewhere in the book that though intellegent, monkeys are imitative. Remember the story of handing over shaving razor to the monkey? Imitating is aping and monkeys are apes for good.
During the process of evolution, men learnt a lot including walking on two feet with straight back but somehow remained embedded in aping that is imitating.
If we look around us, we find this nature of our imitative culture everywhere. Our way of living, way of thinking and even the way we want to die-all are influenced by what others do, not what is good for us. Since we are litter better off than our ancestors, we do it on larger scale - Larger bungalows, larger cars, larger wedding pandals, larger gatherings. You know what I am saying.
The lively example is found in political rallies. The loud echo of Jindabad! or Murdabad! we here on the streets is the fine example of our imitative nature. The slogan mongers do not even know what it means or why it is being done. They have been asked to imitate the voice of the leaders. I asked one such fellow and his answer was 'who cares' ?. True, who cares.
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