Justice

The comments on injustice regarding the article about how the universe knows when to send us children, prompted me to write this text.
Let’s start with the fact that no one ever knows anything. What are we, where did we come from, and where do we go after life’s over? We could converse about this topic for as long as we’d like, but there would still be no evidence to support any of our theories. How was the world formed? Yes, the big bang theory might have had an impact on its formation, but before that, what actually happened? These are all rhetorical questions….

Religion was invented to ease the sharpness of such questions, even a little bit. It was exactly the religion which somehow removed many questions. Let us recall that before the organized belief in GOD, shamanism, animalism and other varieties of paganism flourished on the planet. As soon as countries and nationalities took shape and reached a new level of development, a more advanced form of justifying peace was demanded. Today, we are not talking about religion, and moreover, it is practically a taboo topic in my writings. Today, we are talking about the world’s injustice. The world’s cruelty and unfairness provoke the rejection of religion by many individuals. A reasonable person of the 21st century is not just a biomass endowed with consciousness, but a subtle and sensitive organization that, in addition to performing its human functions, acutely feels INJUSTICE on planet Earth, and it’s all the fault of our advanced consciousness, the developed world with the principles of humanity, the fight against racism, the defense of women’s rights, etc. Defeating and confronting segregation… The world, society, humans evolve and become responsible actors at their own stage, not just mindlessly performing rituals of worshiping the sun, God, etc., but transforming into thorough thinkers as well those who are able to analyze and calculate their actions.

About 50-70 years ago, when my great-grandmother, Shura, resided in the Ekaterinovka village of the Kursk region and witnessed children who were born in batches also die in batches. After such days, she would endlessly cry and wash down all the sorrowness with moonshine (although she did not drink at all in ordinary life). Shura kept repeating the “hellish phrase” which was “God gave — God took”, and then she would go to the field to reap. Shura gave 11 childbirths in total. Out of the 11, 5 healthy infants survived and reached adulthood. There was also one child born numb, then another one blind, and another one with some sort of defects.
Thank God, my Raya turned out to be a super resilient lady, and, praise the Lord, at 86 she still remembers all the phone numbers by heart. Why am I sharing this? The story of my great-grandmother, Shura, is the story of most of our great-grandmothers, which could only happen to them. This cannot happen to us (thank God). Can you imagine a modern woman losing a child right after birth?! This is a direct path to a psych ward, or at least to severe depression, or to any other mental illness. And now we reached the main part of our conversation -JUSTICE. I wonder how many times in her life Shura thought of this topic. Did she think about it during times when her child died, when her husband was killed in the war, when a cow died and the post-war famine began??? How many times in her life has she said the word INJUSTICE outloud??? I believe not once. I believe that justice simply did not exist in her life, that’s why she had no idea what it was or what it’s supposed to represent.

Nevertheless, times have changed, the world has changed, yet, based on multiple factors, still injustice has remained. And now we have different reasoning. Forgive me for saying this, but why do “declassed elements” — “the outcasts of society” become mothers, such as alcoholics and drug addicts, and non-drinking and non-smoking women cannot get pregnant? Why are children sent to those who do not need them? Why does the universe send children to the people, who then get deprived of their maternal rights, and their children end up in institutions? Why do these children have to face life without loving parents, care and warmth? Where is the universe’s justice for these children? There is none. Although, in fact, there may be no such thing as justice at all.

We can try to delve into this and contemplate further. Most likely, the universe would not be able to deprive all alcoholics and drug addicts of the opportunity to have children. But in vain. By the way, it would be nice if there were no drugs and alcohol in the world at all. Yet, they are offered to society as a tool for the evolutionary process. The strongest will survive. The strongest move the world. The weak would get destroyed and devoured by vices and addictions. They would be weakened physically and thus unable to be responsible for the human race. However! The opportunity to have children cannot be taken away from them, because people should be divided into strong and weak, healthy and sick, beautiful and ugly, thin and fat, clever and stupid. The world would cease to exist if everyone became smart and healthy overnight. Who invented the world this way, we will never know. Just like we never would have to find justice.

I am very cynical about everything stated above. Unfortunately, this is my only method. Moreover, I love to brainstorm and come up with my own versions, despite what the topic is. Yes, I admit that from the traditional point of view of all norms, I am most likely a little “cuckoo”, but it’s easier for me to live this way. Therefore, to me it seems that our planet Earth is just a big reality show for the universe to enjoy.

Author: Masha Lopatova