BEING AND BECOMING

William Blake, Newton (1795 ) Roland Barthes reminds us, looks us back from his grave, and constantly warns us about the mythological character of human life, our society, and the relationship of human with the life-systems, whereas symbolic profusions outweigh rational contemplation, emotive appeals are strategically manoeuvred for the deceptive promises and considerations, rhetorical narratives are deployed to symbolize the virtue of unbounded eloquences, significances, and exemplifying extravagances of meanings, ritualistic and mechanical productions of narratives, and seductions towards efficacy as instrumentalised worldview have relegated human relationships to the status of mechanization and technocratizations. What is so significant about the mechanisation of thinking and ritualistic institutionalisation? If not the loss of humanistic elements in the human relationships and the relationships of human species from their nature, ecosystem, and the life-systems itself. What is so p...

Society always witnesses the transition of being into becoming. Some authority is built only to be destroyed. Some perception is nurtured only as a momentary narrative whose relevance is short-lived in the history of ideas and ideals. However, every narrative is pursued with a hardened conviction, as if nothing can destroy its solidity. What makes one so convinced of his invincibility? What inspires one to forget a future which makes every success a failure, every seriousness a mockery, every truth a falsity, every wisdom a stupidity, every adventure a foolhardiness. History is taken seriously not to take a lesson and to be humble in pursuit of a good life. To the contrary, the people in public life are so obsessed with their successes and failures that they hardly notice the other side of the moon. People who are guarding the fortress of power and people who are fighting for the same, both fail again and again for the simple reason that institutions don't make a society great. It ...