HOW ‘PLASTIC’ IS HUMANKIND?

Sir,

I have all along been under the impression that humankind could be changed through knowledge into upright societal beings. As is a plastic moulded into a plastic basin, I thought people too, could be moulded from unacceptable behaviours into good ones. However, recent incidents tested my philosophy. Many lives have been lost as a result of partners beating their loved ones to death.

This sordidness provides a kaleidoscope of the misery women endure from men who abuse them knowing that they can escape their ill-deeds by crawling into the womb of cultural traditions. A man’s role is broad in that it transcends the husbandry one to that of a knight. Such misconducts worry me since they continue to provide an obvious happy hunting ground for those who are always  pointing at men for much of the domestic abuse around. Since no branch of knowledge constitutes a cure-all for the ills of humankind, it means we are at cross-roads.

Many voices have in the past urged women to do away with the ‘sengihlalele bantfwabami’ tag, but the outcomes of such campaigns are bare for all to see. Honestly, we cannot hold men for much of the abuse. Women are to blame. Why do they continue to stay with monster partners?

Even present day Christianity cannot pretend to be the whole panacea of our ills, though it comes closer to it than any other discipline. Or, should we turn to anthropology, which provides a scientific basis for dealing with the crucial dilemma of the world today? It has been anthropology that has explored the gamut of human variability, which searched for man’s most remote ancestors, of why some people are ruled by a king and none by women. Things like these hold us back as a nation since we should be devoting ourselves to matters of national development.

K M

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