1.Some of them are biased in matters of state they originate.In Kanhaiya case one of my learned friend came forward to say, "No the Bihari boy is not anti-national". I am sad to say why should you reach to conclusion on a matter just because he belongs to your state. Loving your state of origin is nothing wrong but while you are giving your opinion on a subject of national concern you should be only a thinker, otherwise your verdict can not be accepted as right.Be human being only on matters related to the whole society. Ridiculously this regionalism dominates brain of many so called literate people.
2. Some of them are biased towards the caste they belong.While arguing over Mahisasura, the giant killed by Durga, the goddess one of my friend came forward to say people make mahisasura look like adibashi (tribal people) and maa Durga looks like a person from upper caste .As I mentioned earlier mahisasura was a giant as per the Hindu mythology, hence his color and structure should match the nature of a furious giant. Our tribal brothers live in jungles hence their color may be a little bit black. Does that means you compare these simple and innocent people with a mythological demon ? Maa Durga is a goddess, hence she should look beautiful, that is it. While making idols carvers keep its nature in mind and make the idol. Why should my intellectual friend draw such a conclusion is not known. But such conclusions would are never do any good to our society, rather they widen the gap if any exist among people of various.castes.
More over it is a myth. There are crores of myths in the world. No one can either prove its authenticity nor disprove them. Then what is the sense of arguing over them ? You can not say the myth in my society or religion is right and yours is wrong and vice versa. Then let people to believe the thing they want to believe.
3. Political preconception is the worst desirable thing from learned people. People working for a political party or political leaders will definite back their party even in case it is wrong.They have a self or motive behind that. But why some intellectuals follow parties blindly ? They allow their intelligence to be corrupted by preconceptions They may be learned, intelligent people but I can not say they are either intellectuals or wise. Their intellect misguide those who listen and read them to know realities and facts. Illiterates are better than them.Undoubtedly illiterates blindly support political parties and rally behind them but they do not use their brain to temper the facts and figures in order to misguide others..They never take shelter under hypocrisy, rather they come direct and open. When you wear a colored glass you can not judge the color of a thing. But these so called intellectuals give their judgement wearing color glasses, ridiculous.
4. I have seen many news of racial segregation coming out from western nations.I am talking about apartheid , that is existent in many European, American and African nations.Undoubtedly they are two races coming out of different origins.But what is the sense of adjudicating anyone from his/her origin ? Are they themselves responsible for their origin ? Why can not we judge them by their deeds ? I saw disbelieves between the whites and the blacks. Some white people having a preconceived notion that the blacks are not worthy of trust or are of criminal mentality. These type of thinking is just a foolish preconception and is a big threat to a peaceful coexistence. May be more percentage of criminals are blacks but there are whites too among crimes.They need to see life and activities of Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama in order to have a broader notion about their brothers. People from literary world from both sides should be careful to not to pen such things which might widen the gap.Love is constructive and hate is destructive. What we need for our earth is construction, hence love among all of us.
5. Religious fanaticism is another example of preconception. Some handful of fanatic people develop intolerance towards other religions.Religious fanaticism leads people to participate in organised criminal conspiracy and militancy against people of other religions.They should know that a religion is nothing but a way of life. Various groups gave to themselves religions in different times in order to lead life on a particular disciplined way.History says that people fought over religious believes from ages.That happened due to ignorance and abhorrence injected systematically and deliberately in to their brain.
When a child born to a family of a particular sect or religion his/her brain starts getting feedback regarding religion and worship from the family and the society he/she or she belongs. That does never mean the group other than his/her is wrong. Let us keep a child born to a Muslim or Hindu couple with a Christian couple and in a Christian society, will he/she become devotee of Allah or Krishna until and unless he/she is guided that way?A child brain is like a blank hard-disk The society,parents, teachers, books feed the essential information to get it start.
The society at times may inject wrong conceptions, but it is education our own thought process enable us to clean the virus injected in to our brain.Some of them never use their brain to judge the things.They think and work on the same way as taught by the parents and the society.They need to think about the broad spectrum of human race and act according to expectations of everyone on the earth.To follow one's own ways, own religion is never wrong but to obstruct others in leading their ways is ignorance and intolerance.
6.In present day a lot of militant activities are related to the Muslim fanatics. This make some people of the other community to regard and doubt all Muslim brothers as militants or their supporter.This is ridiculously serious preconception. May be a handful of them from the Muslim community are in a wrong way but blaming all the other innocent people from that community is by no means wisdom.
7. I was talking to man from outside India. I watched his words. He was preoccupied with a preconceived notion of being racially better. This racial supremacy preconception is also foolishness.I would like to say one thing for those who think that way, "He who thinks himself to be wise oh heaven is a great fool."
Preconception creates mental block and disallow truth and facts to enter in to our brain. These type of people are always against innovative ideas.They may be learned but never intellectuals.The development and growth of a nation depends upon their number in the society, the lesser the number the more developed the nation. Their brain works the way it is programmed. The hard disk of their brain may contain more data but when t
hey judge things, the virus of preconception eats away the truth and flow out corrupted conclusions.I repeat illiterate are better than them for the society.
excellently worded and well thought out!
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