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THE CONFLICT OF DISCONTENT

The men of the 21st century seemed to drive the necessity to embrace the greatest contrast that men

of a century ago had never had. It is generally acknowledged that this age is an age of a great

paradigm shift. Men as conscious beings live in the world of thoughts and venture forth in the ocean of

doubts finding life in any distinguishable way. It is a clear acknowledgement to emphasize that man is

always in the state of unrest or discontent where he revolts against common assumptions and to rise

above commonly accepted traditions, customs, and modes of beliefs. Now, it is mans vocation to fill

and to satisfy his own discontentment. As a conscious individual, he cannot be simply manipulated,

inclined, and determined as science does. For this reason, it has something to do with human free

choice.

With choice, there is now a great shift in pattern into which and out of which men view the world and

mans own world that he lives in the same world with the co-existence of others but perceives the

world in different levels of reality. History tells us that the unscientific man was concerned mainly on

what was good resulting to right joyful actions that satisfy the universality of men. But for now,

everyone goes anywhere and chooses anything in the apex of the tree of evolution. Most men

commonly view life in strange and more often ridiculous manner which differs from one another. It is

an undeniable fact that men in the Middle Age or in the medieval period focused on their grandfathers

grasp regarding the idea of an existence of a greater being and the recognition of the powerful Creator

and their religiosity viewing themselves as immortal spiritual beings. I stand as an observer of the great

contrast when compared to our modern day ideology to which men revolt against the assumption

associated to the past. The unconscious mental mechanism of man which is discontentment leads him

to have an inner force capable of neglecting common old ways of living and presents an advanced

development law characterized by changes as a lavish product of gradual thought processes. A law or

principle that compels men to question what was accepted by his predecessors and to look for

something else where he can find satisfaction in its own essence derived on his own point of view or

perspective. Triggered with intellectual dimensions, men of today have access to change through the

power of creation and alteration by the web of reason to make new concepts in making other

philosophical frameworks which shape the way men live. Modern men have the power of

deconstructing what once appeared in their consciousness thereof the making of new things lies in the

breaking of the old one.

There is so much knowledge to be known and therefore, I am on credible and firm ground to say that

there are still ideas that have yet been born and a stage of life that have yet been reached and I am

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hoping to be one who is competent in baptizing them. I have a fear of my incomplacency that someday

men may wish to live with their choices in a great contrast that may devour the whole human life.