What Change do we Witness in History?

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 is the people and their humility and sincerity that are instrumental in changing the course of history. Materially, we are prospering, technologically we are innovative, but when it comes to our psychological dimensions of life, human beings are too obsessed with their egotistic ambitions that all their investments in their self obsessed images are bound to be counterproductive. We are serious consumers of images and thoughts. Our revolutionary zeal won't change anything, unless we care and feel the suffering of every form of life, unless we are mindful of what we do, what we feel and think, and how we act. Our mindful life can expose us the unconscious drives of human beings and their quest for power; their indomitable spirit to dominate and exploit each and every aspect of life; to condemn the agile spirit of earth as “standing-reserve” (Martin Heidegger); to subjugate every relationship as dynamics of domination and humiliation (Michel Foucault). I have seen enough prophets defending the fortress of power and enough crusaders fighting for the march of liberty and equality on earth. Between the middle of masters of order and suspicion, the human’s violent and acquisive nature saves them both in the political structure of domination and subjugation, therefore the persona only changes but the substratum of politics remains opportunistic and scandalously exploitative. Who else is to be blamed than me, the so-called myself, the dignified rational animal who agrees to surrender his autonomy for little utilities, who trades off the “life divine” (Aurobindo) for little greed of name, fame, and power. Everyone seems to be running after others. Who the “other” is is still unknown. Because otherisation is nothing else but an introjection of the persona of its unfulfilled self. We all can agree that our disgust is the true guide to tell us about the self superimposed on us and we take it very seriously. However, we run everywhere to hide and bury ourselves. We blame everyone for our unfulfilled life. We think, the institutions were once the perfect Garden of Eden and they are falling into a nether world which can be saved by the wisdom and passion of homo sapiens. Such historical escapism is key to understanding our psychological imperative to flee away from the moments either in the glorious or inglorious past or hopeful or may be pessimistic future. Every movement only changes faces, but the structure of power remains intact. The true change cannot come from the standpoint of an imagined ideal. Our life tests the logic of life with the uncertain  and tumultuous experiences of history. The latter must be taken very seriously, otherwise our escape from freedoms is inevitable as prophesied by Erich Fromm and Jiddu Krishnamurti.