Evil Infection

Numerous diseases and viruses spread around this world since the existence of human beings. Through civilization, humans are progressing aggressively towards building a better life. People are getting smarter or perhaps “smarter” with the helps from machines and technologies. But at the same time, viruses and diseases are getting more terrifying and almost impossible to detect. Till here, probably most of you are thinking of chronic disease and incurable viruses such as HIV, H5N1, mad-cow, etc. Getting infected by these diseases or viruses is scary because it might cause death to us. But, what I am talking about are the viruses and diseases spreading from mind to mind. It is the virus of evil that root in our mind since the beginning of human civilization.

The more civilize we get to be, the more evil exist in some of our minds. Besides improving our science, astrology, technology, literature, culture and so on, civilization is about leading the world to become a “free society with morality and ethics”. Human should have the freedom and right to speak. Human should have the right to voice out to bring improvements. We are free to support or go against what we think is right or wrong. However, an unframed civilize society should be guided by some morale teachings and religious ethical thinking. Civilization is about bringing human to a state where less and less rules should be implemented to control negative behaviors. Civilization is not about implementing rules to restrict human rights and freedom.

Few decades ago, this country had implemented rules to restrict undergraduates’ right and freedom. For me, restricting the growth of country pillar, it is the synonym of saying “stop” to civilization. Since then, civilization is no longer define as an advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development in human society, marked by progress in the arts and sciences, the extensive use of record-keeping, including writing, and the appearance of complex political and social institutions. Inversely, it is a stagnant state of intellectual and human fighting for better life. The advancement in technologies and science is very surface thing. What about our thoughts and spirit?

On 17th of March 1971, most of the highly educated people in this country feel the pressure from the spread of evil thoughts. The “missionary” of these evil thoughts is through restriction on activities fighting for right, freedom and better life by undergraduates. Slowly, it show effects and they success in spreading this evil virus by putting undergraduates into “I just want to study”-dilemma. At first, the virus will restrict us from doing things they do not wish us to do. At the chronic state, those who get infected will resist to do though without restriction. Phobia in facing reality and solving human right and freedom problems lead to the wide spread of this evil infection. Until now, they are still slowly eliminating those who protest against them.

So, look at friends around you. Are they infected? How to continue the civilization process which had been stagnated for long?