The world around us has been promoting disciplinary culture for years, knowing well that such promotion might not be able to provide solutions to the biggest problems facing the mankind. By disciplinary culture, I mean a culture that encourages one to follow a path that has been defined by others. Yes, people get to make choices, but these choices are from the collective paths under disciplinary culture.
One of the best example of how people are forced to follow disciplinary culture is the way Galileo was treated. We all know, this free thinker never followed the disciplinary culture and promoted free thinking, rationalism. He was murdered for doing so. He was not adored when he deviated from disciplinary culture, but later it was realized that his free thinking that acted sprouts for new stream of knowledge served mankind better than the disciplinary culture of the time. But unfortunately, though the entire world has accepted the importance of free thinking, the practice of promoting disciplinary culture is getting even strongly en-rooted in our psyche.
Our education system encourages us to act as disciplinary shoulders of the system. We are loved to be seen as students who follow the curriculum with utmost of discipline and the increasing competition, may time due to lack of opportunities for all, ensures that students don't devote enough time other things as they have to read, re-read, revise, re-revise the curriculum to emerge as winners of the competitive space. Increasing cost of education is acting as a catalyst to make the system more disciplinary.
Gone those days when people used to stand for values, beliefs and more importantly for other people. In a free-market economy devoid of free thinking people prefer to stand for materialistic life. Money has become the yardstick of success and with this yardstick its rather easy to make people follow disciplinary culture as they know its only disciplinary techniques that could ensure growth in the path of higher success and higher materialistic achievements.
On a positive note, there will always be some free thinking people who will prefer to move out of the disciplinary culture and these will be the people who will contribute the most to the environment around us.
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