Avoid the roots

There are various layers in which unity is possible. The unity that has lasted between cultures, genres, ideologies have all taken time. A good seed needs time to take root. In fact all good seeds do not take root. It needs good soil. Even a combination of good seeds and good soil do not see the seed taking root. It is the ones on the right side of statistics that actually take root. And that is just one plant. That plant to grow to a tree, then have some other plants around it, from the droppings of the birds, birds of different sizes coming in, the smaller plants growing around it, some large, some small. Then some new birds coming, some exotic seeds coming in their droppings, some statistically favoured ones taking root and growing. These take time. It takes time for a garden to evolve. 

Till then we did not see anyone. There are many men who walked around looking at a barren land and said, 'O, good for nothing'. But when the tree comes and more trees come, they see a need to bring in some structure, some uniformity. Some don't like the bees that make hives. Some don't like the leaves they shed, the messiness they create. However, they themselves enjoy the benefits of the tree. They enjoy it till they grow to a certain level and then they find the need to do something. Then they call someone and chops off all the trees at a certain height. Their sense of order is more important to them than the natural sense of the wild. They cut some of the plants that climb on these trees coz they look not so attractive, and they grow uncontrolled. Flowers they have for sure, but well, they look wild and unharnessed. You can't enter a best garden competition with that. Oh yes we grew with some benefits of this wild, but now we are more civilised. It doesn't fit us. It looks kind of un orderly. So we bring order. 

We grew up in a milew of variety, a cauldron of festivals, colours, mud, ordinary children, some talking sense and others talking rubbish. We grew up listening to noises all around, either from a temple or a church or a mosque or a political campaign, or the sale of lottery tickets or the sale of new sarees from some town in Tamilnadu or the campaign to raise some funds or an invitation to the public meeting in the school nearby, or the total cacophony from the school youth festival. The list goes on. We were noisy, untidy, we liked some, we cursed many more. But we lived. We emerged. We look good now. 

But now, we love to have some rules, in the apartment community we live in, in the street we live in, in the church and temple and mosque we go. But why? Well, we have evolved. How can we live without these rules? Suddenly order looks pretty! 

There is another side to order. Order can bind us superficially. Order does not need depth to connect. The top of the trees cut bring order. At the surface of superficiality and frivolity. That's enough. Order seems nice. Never go to depth. That's annoying. Deep engaging discussions between peoples, cultures, communities. That's tough. That takes time. Who has the time. We are all so busy. Haven't you seen us on the road? We are all in a hurry. Can't you see the progress the world is making because we are in a hurry? 

Oh, if you don't, you are a barbarian. 

Superficiality is a great starting point and breeding ground for extremes to grow. Depth is difficult to tackle. It needs time. Surface level is easy. This is why religiosity trumps spirituality. Vocal national pride trumps deep rooted work of good nationalistic spirit. The religious leaders, the priests, find it easy to bind people on superficial rituals. I don't know enough about other religions, but I know how church from before the days of Jesus Christ and beyond have used the rituals, the religiosity, the order to enslave people. Well, why else would Jesus Christ be crucified? He was not crucified by the Romans. He was led to crucifixion by the Jews, his own people! Superficiality and Frivolity and religiosity and conformity to rules and Facebook wars are all cheap to the leaders and the Followers. They redefine the depth by sucking the sap out of deep stuff and making ghosts out of them.