Man Is Born Free But Everywhere He Is In Chains
Man is born free but everywhere he is in chains: it is a quotation by Rossueau, which holds a great truth
in human life. Rousseau was under the opinion that we are born free meaning without biases, without the burden of acquiring property etc but eventually due to the society he/she lives in, loses his freedom .A child born in a rich or a poor family comes into the world with complete freedom. When he grows up,he is chained in different fetters .As a child, he dreams of getting the moon, but he cannot. On gaining consciousness, he realized that his dream cannot come true.. That is a set back to the freedom of a child. Then he is unwilling to go to school but by force is sent to school for getting an education. That too is a fetter on his freedom. As a grown-up human being, man desires to have many things in life. But life turns him to a great tragedian when he finds himself living in a fool’s paradise, where he can dream and aspire but nor realize his aspirations because of the paucity of resources. The resources he has at its disposal are far too inadequate to realize his all dreams at a time.
He is compelled to choose between different competing ends, and that is a blow to his freedom to achieve all that he aspires for. A beggar can desire to own a big bungalow but he can’t have it because he does not possess economic means to translate his wish to reality. An industrialist can desire to have a vast industrial empire, but he cannot make his desire effective due to the scarcity of economic resources. When he cannot do so, he gets a setback and realizes the fact that he can talk about freedom but not have it in the real sense. People in the third world countries are prisoners of poverty. They want freedom from hunger, squalor, privation but they are bound so tightly in the grip of poverty that they cannot break the bound so tightly in the grip of poverty that they cannot break the shackles. They wish to breathe in an air of freedom but they cannot.
Man is enslaved by the connections of society; some chains injured this soul and few chains restrain him from proceeding towards injury. The chain of work, poverty, class, sect are really a mark of ugliness on the face of this beautiful world. The third world is connected by the chains of slavery challenged on it by the economically developed peoples in different forms.
Racial discrimination is added difficult chain in which mankind is enslaved. Man is born free but professed civilized society ties him to the chain of superior or inferior race consciousness. Sometimes the passion of loyalty exceeds the limits and injuries the sense of righteousness of nations that they fight wars with one another. The chain of patriotism hurts the feelings of other nations. Man is also enslaved in the chains of poverty, illiteracy, superstitions etc. All men in all nations are born with freedom.
Prof. Manisha
LKC, KPT.
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