Enlightenment?

Gone are those days of naivety when I used to think so highly of those graduates who have gone through years of supposedly intensive religious training from highly reputable universities from abroad. Far from the initial objective of those universities when they were first built, which is directed towards the inculcation and propagation of humanistic values, graduates of today are simply pleased with themselves after being conferred that degree, with having not a single idea what their responsibility is thenceforth towards humanity.

I simply wonder if these graduates had actually gone through any process of analysing and thinking critically about the problems of the world and the social predicaments each and every society and community are facing. Or are they actually taught (or allowed) to think at all? “Regurgitate what you were taught in the lectures, read only those pages from only those books that you are instructed to read, and resist the temptation to question.” It is no wonder then that we see disgraceful ‘products’ coming back from those institutions bringing along with them disgraceful ideas that will eventually drag the society down to the abyss of material as well as intellectual and moral poverty.

The worst of these defective ‘products’ are those who, not only without any ideology, but are bereft of self-esteem and self-motivation, only to receive ’self-enlightenment’ after listening to and reading the works (which only the sensible human mind will find disgusting and ludicrous) of those blood-sucking capitalists who have no regards for humanity or even a concern for the poor. And it is utterly disgusting to hear their simplistic analysis, along with diagnosis, of the problems faced in their own community – that the solution to family disintegration and failed marriages is by making lots of money and getting wealthy. And they even have the moral cheek to hope that they will be able to help the community bring their achievement level higher. And how? By attending motivational talks and seminars that they will organize, which cost a person a hundred over dollars to attend. Thanks to the American millionaire and the local “self-made millionaire”, these ‘enlightened’ idiots would not even know (or even care) that some people out there are still haplessly living on a $2-per day budget, struggling hard to make ends meet because of the oppressive capitalistic system they are under.