Drawing Nearer To A Time When Everything Is Good

Inspired by the film Quills

I had this thought that our time line, based on goodness and badness, has a shape of a triangle. At the beginning of time everything was good, then slowly it climbs up into a slope as time progresses. It reaches a certain point--a time wherein there was a lot of bad things in the world--then it slopes down again, back to its original level of absolute goodness.


I have to explain what I mean by goodness, as well as badness here. A time of an abundance of badness is when there's a lot of things that can be considered bad at a certain time. And a time of goodness is when very few things in what people think, do or feel can be considered wrong.


There was a time when the first men, in order to fill the world with human beings, mate with their kin without hesitation, and even the Judean God said that, it was good (The multiplication I mean). Also, in the bible it wasn't only once that a tolerated incest occurred uncriticized. Almost exactly the opposite of this, there was a time when by mere words laced with suggestions of things properly restrained in private could cause such an outrage and even bonfires or rolling heads. And we can witness in our own time that this is no longer true or that the reactions to such actions are less passionate as in the past. I can cite a catalogue of other examples illustrating this point if I put my mind to it, but here are some which came without effort: we started as cavemen with very skimpy clothing, then somewhere in the time of manners, as if in a hysteria of shame covered almost every inch of our bodies, particularly that of the female species, but now, it's as if we only wear clothes to bare what's supposed to be hidden (particularly with the female species). In most cultures in the past, the women are the stronger gender in terms of religion and in some cases even in matters of state, but somewhere in time it became a bad idea, and the men dominated this arena, and everyone was comfortable and considered it as the only good way of doing these things. But now, not only is it good for women to do anything that men can do, but it's slowly becoming not bad for women to leave the care of their families, their traditionally good function, for their careers, which is now becoming firmly rooted not only as their right, but a renewed tradition.


This may sound like one lazy generalization, for not all of us may have necessarily experienced the same sloping up or down of this triangular time line simultaneously, depending upon kindred factors like beliefs, culture, religion, geography or economy, but it doesn't mean that this did not happen to other cultures significantly distinct from us. This happening earlier or later, doesn’t matter.


What matters is everything is slowly becoming good nowadays, regardless of what it means. It sounds like a twisted approach to a false paradise. Will incest be tolerated again, as of women empowerment? Or would killing a thief or a plunderer or an adulterer , without incurring bad karma, as stated in the Vedas, inspire people to do so? Will everything be good in the future, and the only thing that will be actually considered bad would be calling something as un-good?