"Two phenomena occur in nature called dwarfism and gigantism. Let me explain the phenomena a little:
When large animals, such as elephants, tigers, and lions, start living on small and isolated islands, their size gradually decreases. The body, brain, hands, and feet, all gradually become smaller. Because the abundant food needed to maintain a large body is not available in small forests. As a result, in the desire to survive, from generation to generation, the size of the animals decreases, so that they can survive longer with less food. Large giant animals turn into small animals.
On the other hand, small animals, such as mice, shrews, and lizards, continue to grow in that environment from generation to generation. Because on small islands, although there is less food for large animals, there is plenty of food for small animals. There is also less fear of predators. As a result, small animals can consume the necessary food without fear. In this, from generation to generation, small animals turn into large animals. In animals.
For example, Madagascar, Sardinia, and Mauritius can be mentioned. There, rats, lizards, Komodos, these animals are gigantic, but elephants, goats, hippos, these are dwarfs.
In any of these areas, the smallness of large animals due to lack of nutrients is dwarfism; and the largeness of small animals due to abundance of nutrients is gigantism.
This wonderful concept of evolutionary biology can also be applied to culture, philosophy, literature, and art. If we look deeply, we see that gigantism and dwarfism, like the animal world, are happening every day in society.
If the audience for great literature, great philosophy, great art, great scientific thought, high political thought, in any area decreases, or appreciation disappears, then the number of talented and great people in that area, gradually, from generation to generation In the generations, it decreases. As a result, the size and influence of everything high and great gradually start to become small and insignificant. High art and high culture are reduced to low-quality meth-art and meth-culture. High civilization decays and takes the form of dwarf civilization.
The food and food of culture are mainly the residents of the society. Culture survives in the activities of the residents. Philosophy, art, literature, science, their development and expansion depend on their taste. High literature, high philosophy, high art are responsible for high taste of people. When the average taste of people in society goes down, when the brain to appreciate high art and high thought is lost from the head, there is the development of low literature, low philosophy, low science, and low art. Secondary subjects start to prevail as the main ones. Low culture gets the status of high culture.
What is culture? Lord Raglan used to say – Culture is what humans do and what monkeys do not do. But in Bangladesh, it seems that the work of monkeys is the main branch of culture. People are taking on the bodies of humans, taking on the minds of monkeys. Not the sensible monkeys of reality, but the foolish monkeys of imagination; because what we are doing, the monkeys of the jungle do not do.
The cowshed is called a university, we call Scripture science, and we call madness politics. If Aristotle had grown up in this society, he would have had to make a statement on behalf of the Prime Minister. Bertrand Russell would have been seen in the stupid position of the Teachers' Association. Rabindranath had to be on good terms with the OC of Shahbagh police station. In other words, cultural dwarfism is evident here. The talented are reducing their talents in the desire to survive. High culture is losing its value and turning into a short culture. And in this gap, BCS Guide, Spoken English, Hero Alam, Ahmadullah, Ayman are rising headlong. Sadiq, religious war, motivational speech, etc. These are now the mainstream gigantic animals in this jungle."
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—Mohiuddin Mohammad
Pages 13-15, Book: Murtibhanga Project
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