Letters to the Editor

Modern culture and modernism

Cultural integration into the social psychology and modernistic ideology has been nowadays the apogee of rational development in the human beings, countenancing the ism that human development is hugely incumbent upon what magnitude of cultural education they have steeped themselves in. Development --- both rationalistic and epistemological--- in human beings could only be expedited, says Roger Scruton in his mind-provoking book "Modern Culture", through cultural education, by which they can patently look at and into their inner lives and get to know their true credentials. It is really very intricate and somewhat uncomprehending to plumb the matrix of our mental constitution, upon which the standard of our moral lives depends--- to put it simply, it lets us know where we stand as human beings! It is a very perilous journey to set out for finding out the harbour of our mind and read it. But, as rationalistic, but biological animals-- specially when we think that we are better than any other animals on the earth--- we do have to ascertain the apparently inexplicable mental condition and existence just to be sure of our status as human beings.

Definition of culture is not limited to what we learn and understand from society, rather it is colossal and one needs huge range of intellectual properties to understand it.

Once you can fathom out the inexplicable, but ineluctable reality of your life, you acquire that mental enlightenment. You become free of your mind and only then , much-coined pairs of words, "Free will" can play its role in germinating a true sense in you. This sense is culture. The traditional postulation of modernity is just an illusion--- a temporal phase that germinates more woes and pains unnoticed and unbeknown to us. To sum up, we can say, a true modernism is a construction of our ethical life and culture is the pillar that laces that construction with aestheticism.

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