“We” Versus “They”

J. J. Baloch

All humans belong to one ancestry of humanity. Basics of life are common in them. All take birth. All die. All live on same one planet earth. All live their life in accordance with certain principles limiting their lives for sustenance and survival. This is but natural, acceptable and understandable for all. This is what they are destined-origin and the destination is the same and the one. But despite being the same, why all have never ever been the one? Why are they divided into “we” and “they”?

Very pestering question for human beings all along has been knowing and understanding as to whether the divisions on the basis of race, colour, creed, gender, caste, age, region, wealth and culture are natural or artificial. Are these divisions inevitable? Can humans live without divisions? Can we not sustain life on our just being humans? What strength and power come from our being Arabs and non-Arabs or for that matter Aryans and Dravidians, or White and Black or Man and Women or Eastern or Western? What kind of pride is this which forces us to stay blatantly divided?

We as humans are told very interesting stories of our not being only humans. The builders of the cage called society make us believe in shallow senses of being beautiful, wealthy, elite, superior, martial, ruler and the master. Silver spoon brands nurture the tales of elitist births and royal grooming. While the slaves of reason construct their narratives of self-making. Strangely, the victims of the ignorance advocate their innocence. However, the have-nots mourn the pangs of their poverty.

The disadvantage of any kind is ascribed to destiny while the advantage is credited to the system which human mind and wisdom produce. The unseen controls destiny. The seen one claims the controls of the system. Unseen is blamed for injustices, inequalities, disparities, incapacities, and all disadvantages beyond human control. Who is born where in what conditions and what belonging is the game is said to be the game of unseen while what someone achieves in the world is attached wisdom and work.

Who blames whom and why is something humans have failed to determine perhaps because of the human limitations. Their artificial divisions and their conflicts on the basis of their divisions, they kill, destroy, devastate, disturb and make their life on earth a hell. They kill not for equality, justice, and peace that all should share equally but they do all this to sharpen and deepen the divisions on a different basis. They kill their fellow beings for land, money, pseudo honours, pitiable pride, annoying arrogance, virulent vengeance, aggrandisement, projection, publicity, promotion, and so on.

Humans keep conflicting and fighting. All humans systems have outlived to stop any kind of human fight for things that actually belongs to none nor yet anyone takes anything when he or she leaves this mortal world. Science and Art are yet to guess the level of human greed. Human culture is hoodwinked by the human desire for recognition and fame. Reason blocks emotions. Power enchains conscience. Desires zip truth. Criminality overpowers humanity and devil invites evil. Life becomes a hell.

Life value starts varying on different grounds; it no more remains equally valuable. The global refugee crisis in the wake of insurgencies and wars is a glaring example of how humans treat humans in trouble. Your problem is yours and my progress is mine; they cannot be exchanged in the name of humanity. Your sufferings are justified because you are you and not from us. We write for us, not for you. We are right in our own right. you are wrong because of your own wrongs not because of my rights or my wrongs. You are you and I am me.

Your words are not my words. My voice is not your voice.  Your tone matches not my tone.  We convert you into bones because we are power-clone and you are poverty drone. We will not even offer you what we think is our own.

Humans appear to have never lived in peace. The system they have developed has been very taxing on humanity. The eternal wars of destiny and systems have destroyed everything human on earth. Even human discourse has become very inhuman. Literature and philosophies are yet to take a leave from the circles of the system they are produced and they have produced in. The architects of destiny pity on the claims of the system which is the product of human mind, ideas and cultures.

However, this virtual war of the system with destiny is still to be over, the human life keeps crawling its worldly ways. In modern times what sharpens the differences between “we” and “they” is the same old struggle for power and pelf which is bound to continue until the universe faces the big bang.

The bitterest of all tastes or cruellest of all tests of human civilisation remains to get rid of “we” and “they” mindsets. The success of anything whether a team, a firm, an organisation, or an institution cultivating the unity on whatsoever grounds of common interests could save all members of that particular group of people from falling apart and from getting ruined. If we as humans have failed to remain human, at least we can retain as robots of the uniform system under one rule working with unity to achieve common ends.

Let us be The one as we are the same humans. We are with same faculties, same features, same origin, same destination. Only different interests and different ways of living on the basis of culture, creed, and geography should not blur our vision of humanity. Togetherness is the answer to our all questions. United we stand, divided we fall. We are perhaps the fallen ones. Only the feeling of “we are we” can save us and retain us what we are in the literal as well as the figural senses of our superlative value of being humans well welded in the eternal union of humanity.