Mongolian person and Zeitgeist
Nov 17, 2014
November 17, 2014
Why do Mongolians get lost today without realizing their Zeitgeist? Why are Mongolians not being able to build their zeitgeist and still lingering in their old familiarities?
Other languages directly use the concept of zeitgeist without translating. Zeitgeist is a concept which means intellectual spirit of that time. Then today what is intellectual spirit of a Mongolians? Is the zeitgeist of a Mongolians certain? The most important three sectors supposed to influence zeitgeist of a Mongolians deteriorated to minimum. First, the most uneducated people became politicians. Second, the most uncultured people are artists. Third, the most immoral people are monks and pastors. Uneducated politicians do not have the ability to govern a country. Former political cadres are not beyond their old stories like some Russian diplomas and spent a year or two in the United States. All the troubles from uneducated politics has become feudalism, therefore limits between rich and poor widened more and more and I guess, the goal of privatizations seem to be achieved.
Uncultured artists are still stuck in their animalistic behavior, unable to move away from their natural form and into a cultured form. An animal spends his days in the natural senses without thinking. If one can become a cultured person, one’s mind works and thinking develops. Mind without thinking remains within its natural state, the life of the cave continues and there is no opportunity to come out of the cave and see the light and become enlightened. Theatre of Drama isn’t playing drama and Theatre of Children has become unable to educate the children.
Immoral monks are leading and together with pastors from new generation, they oppress, humiliate people, turn people into superstition with no future and make them do empty prays. Religion has never helped anyone; they only gave explanation and inform people. Predicting one's destiny is not a religious task. Religion was established to only give explanation of birth and death. Rather it isn’t their mission to treat, heal, help and support. Maidar cannot do and create anything. Maidar did not write a single book and educate the people at all.
This is how Mongolian man and his zeitgeist are. Uneducated politic slipped out of control and lines of uneducated people keep expanding. Uneducated artists are not able to educate human feeling. They are tied to their unconsciousness without being able to encourage goodness and keep advertising immorality. As long as it is false and dirty, it is counted as art here in Mongolia. Immoral monks destroyed human senses of seeing beautiful things and kindness. They are only playing with fears, by being hassle on growth and development of young generation through the superstition victims including mothers, fathers, grandfathers and grandmothers.
Instead of educating the younger generation to learn and work, it seems to have become a new way of life to take their children to the monks and hold them hostage to superstition.
Uneducated old and young politicians made Ulaanbaatar polluted city in the last 20 years. Citizens of polluted Ulaanbaatar are breathing and smelling pollution, but they keep living bullied by political parties. Indeed how can a mind which always smells pollution be awake? Pollution, which politicians have no will to clean, reached its goal and made a Mongolian man a polluted man. Before going abroad, a Mongolian man’s will to leave his pollution fails, takes off in a foreign airport with his pollution and reveals his country by his smoke smells.
Why haven't young and old artists who have full of state awards in their chest, learn culture? Why streets in Ulaanbaatar are filled with snots and spits? What culture is this? What culture is it, when people smell of sweat and strange odors after conference or concert? Everywhere there is trash and garbage and crooked. Isn’t it opposite of aesthetic theory? Why artists keep living with wrong understanding of aesthetics? They say they teach aesthetic but artists are the most unaesthetic people of all. Why didn’t they bring aesthetic to society?
Immoral monks have a long history. The pitiful history of a Mongolian man, who took out his children from monastery and brings them to school, is just 70, 80 years old. Monks keep explaining wrong and backward about many professions from math, physic, chemistry, biology to astronomy. From philosophy to sociology to anthropology, how much do Mongolians need these good professions of humankind? Monks also act as if they understand them and together with superstitious people so called university professors, they still degrade it as “arga bileg”, “bilegdel”. Important social knowledge and professions such as humanism, classic, modern, avant-garde keep losing their value.
According to religious doctrine, a person who does not like celebration the most should be monk. According to religious doctrine, monks must the hungriest people who fast. According to religious doctrine, monks must be the most greedless and generous. According to religious doctrine, monks must be the cleanest person. According to religious doctrine, monks must be most disciplined and ordered. By looking at a monk, humans are meant to hold back their desire and greed. However, Mongolian monks have lost their morals and degrade reputation of religion in the society. Especially, around “Gandan” monastery, it is filled with trashes and there is nothing sacred. Monks, who serve with money not with spirit, turned Buddhism into a place of darkness not a place of enlightenment.
Mongolians and their zeitgeist seem to have come before new beginning. If you want to feel the time and become a Mongolian of the 21st century, it is time to get rid of the old, outdated, ancient, and ancestral and create the possibility to look forward. Harms of uneducated politics, the delusion of uncultured artists, and the crimes of immoral monks have robbed the zeitgeist of Mongolians. There is a lack of a society to determine the stolen time.
Mongolians need two things to construct their zeitgeist. First, frustration second, devotion. Everybody can move forward by being enough frustrated. New society can be created with devotion of everyone. Nothing will move forward by saying everything is okay or we are doing fine. Criticism makes a person optimistic. Without criticism, it is to go downward.