It was shocking to watch a short
movie titled ‘innocence of Muslims’. The
title had, as far as I am concerned, nothing to do with the so called ‘a short
movie’. It was neither a documentary nor a movie in the technical sense of the
term. It was not a documentary because it never stated any facts, it had no coherence, and it was not well presented. What one sees in the movie is the
hatred towards a particular religious community while praising or attempting to
praise Judaism.
One man in the United States had
produced such a devastating movie irresponsibly deceiving even the actress in
such a way that it is a movie on some clash between some clans in ancient Egypt. If this is what he had done with
making of a movie, one can understand well how the movie itself has lots its credibility. Although a
particular country cannot be held responsible for one man’s fault, it is high
time that a country such as the United States revalues and redefines its
understanding of ‘the free individual’. It is not only for the United States
but also for other countries which are attempting to replicate the U.S. Model
in their own country.
A
lot has to do with the historical events and the development of understanding
the Individual. One can see it in differences between the Europe and the U.S.
Model. There are lots of differences between the two in many respects. The main
one that is often noted of Europe is its secular character understood in terms
of the rise of unbelief. The majority of them are not believers in the
traditional religion, and more not active believers in any religion for that
matter. On the contrary United States has more active believers statistically. The
former, in spite of having less believers, respects the believers and their
system of beliefs that give value to the individual, whereas the latter in
spite of its religious character at large displays hatred towards other
religious beliefs. It does not mean that I favor secular contents and want to
promote secularization.
What I see much more important is the difference
between the conception of the individual understood in terms of rights. While
the element of sociality is still operative in the Europe although very mildly,
even the milder connection between the individual and the society is cut off in
the U.S. Model. One could say that it has taken the path of extreme
individuation where sociality is almost invisible.
[I who am neither an
European nor an American acknowledge that I may be wrong and I need to
substantiate it with facts, for now it may be seen hypothetically.] Freedom has to be understood as an "Exercise concept" as Charles Taylor puts forward.
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