lunetic

The English word lune or lunetic, meaning "crazed" or "crazy," comes from the English word lune, which in turn comes from the Latin word luna, meaning "moon."

Many ancient philosophers, physicians, and even the great Aristotle have said that the full moon increases the madness of some people. A modern psychologist has proposed a theory (Journal of Affective Disorders, 1999) that the moon's rays affect those with bipolar disorder. Recently, the influential scientific journal Scientific American, in its February 2009 article "Lunacy and the Full Moon," did not admit the fact, but could not completely dismiss it.

Writer Humayun Ahmed loved moonshine very much. I do not know what effect that moonshine had on him, but there is no way to deny that his popular characters were lunatic or lunatic. For some reason, the idea of ​​​​infectious moonshine comes to mind when you look at the actions of many of his fans.

A few days ago, a Facebook friend commented on one of my posts, "Brother, I have been following your posts closely for the past few days, even the comments. After reading them, I also had the same thought. How can I stay connected with such (crazy) people so that my inner peace is not destroyed?" Although I gave a strategic answer to his comment about what to do at this time. However, there is no way to deny the depth of the paradox inherent in his words. That is, what I say in many of my posts, and those who speak against my position - it is not possible for a third person to accept these two statements with a healthy mind.

Today's educated youth with sticks and knives are mob terrorists, and the nation is shocked to see them, but the basis of this is the widespread blind faith among inexperienced young women who have not even started life. But before this blind faith, they had just blind faith about many complex matters of life. We have started a new culture of perpetuating superstitions about everything, education, cricket, love, society, government.

Humayun and Milner are very popular among the parents of these terrorist youth. Such writers think with emotion. They present the complexities of life in their writings with cheap emotion. Their readers also think with emotion. This light emotion-based culture creates simple superstitions about the complexities of life. For example, "police are bad", "government is useless", "politicians are thieves", "India is taking over everything", "West is angels" etc. When these simple superstitions face an existential crisis for the first time in their lives, they surrender themselves to religious or other superstitions.

But what is the reason for this simple superstition? The reason is the inability to think about abstract matters. Not being able to understand the deep and complex issues of the reality of life. Then the solution is to put an end to thinking and believe in conventional blind thinking. This is the cognitive disability or subjective alienation of the brain. Despite this disability, they can achieve extreme success in any technical subject or in higher education, especially as teachers or in writing, where complex abstract subjects are not practiced.

In the case of some people, this partial alienation is pathological, meaning a physical defect in the brain. But the fear is that even a person with a completely healthy brain can be infected with this partial alienation if he lives with partial aliens for a long time. If his cognitive efforts (inner thoughts) are not valued, if he is regularly humiliated and ridiculed because of his own different thoughts, then he can stop thinking differently and logically and the same partial alienation that is influential in his community can develop in him. Then he either has to leave that society or choose a lonely, isolated intellectual life of struggle - which is difficult for everyone to bear. In this way, our mainstream education, intellectual pursuits, and cultural world can become a breeding ground for blind religious beliefs from the depths of ignorance.

“It is the very error of the moon.

She comes more near the earth

than she was wont. And makes

men mad.”

—William Shakespeare, Othello

Sirajul Hossain