Humanizing Humanity

Humanity. It encompasses everything under the sun that concerns and revolves around man—from language to culture, from kind of work to man’s way of life, and any other things where man is involve. In humanity, man is both the subject and the agent.

The 21st-century-humanity is, I think, somehow dehumanized. Everything is done for a particular someone’s own benefits. In commercial advertisements, women are exploited and used to boost number of sales of a certain produce, thus, resulting to profit and gain increase in that industry; and resulting to dehumanized women.

Television series also dehumanize human worth and values. It neglects the sacredness of sex within the Sacrament of Matrimony; and establish the idea that sex out of marriage is a requirement of love—a dehumanized love.

Another example of a dehumanized here-and-now humanity is when you walk in the busy streets of Metro Manila. Sometimes, during the morning rush hour, I try to isolate myself and observe the context of the intersection of Kamias Road and Kalayaan Avenue with every other thing observable. One would realize, as I have realized, that almost everyone, including I, are only living to do each one’s affairs.

Thus, a dehumanized society is condensed in just one word: individualism. An individualized society concerns only one. But humanity concerns every human person with his/her nature.

Humanity must magnify the different colors of human experience taken collectively as one and never individually. Human experience is necessary in order to create humanity and through these human experiences, man can clearly define man himself/herself, thus, humanizing humanity.

(C) 2008.

Ayaw maniwala nung teacher ko na ako gumawa nito. I was dehumanized. Haha.