Materialism embodies all men giving importance to matter in their life irrespective of their faith in God. For a materialist, God acts only as a promoter of material comforts. This trait of the human species has emerged essentially due to evolution of communalism among the men who adapted cold, harsh and highly competitive environment for thirty thousand years in the higher latitudes. Since intelligence was of little consequence in their pursuits, it remained a shadow area of evolution till a few thousand years ago.
A human community migrated to Europe from Western India around 31 Ka. These slender built light people weighing around 45 Kg and with no loss of body heat in tropics and no requirement of a shelter either, added weight fast when exposed to severe subzero temperatures as they needed very large quantities of food. Shelter was also essential to sustain themselves during the last ice age of Europe. Figures by the cavemen suggest that during Perigordian period of Europe, besides swift runners like horses and stags, large mammals like bulls and woolly mammoths were common in the forests and were hunted. Their hunting was carried out more successfully by healthier and more powerful men. The psychological set up of the population under these circumstances promoted establishment of a colonial mind-set favouring males with robustness, ruthlessness and aggressiveness. In consequence, a society emerged which accepted aggressiveness of male as a respectable trait and their first maxim of life was "might is right". Western communities have gradually expanded this theme in their life style since first wars were fought in Europe for snatching away caves and driving out their earlier inhabitants. Display of valour by the Third Reich during the Second World War is an extension of this activity nearly thirty thousand years later.
In tracking down the original home of such an aggressive society, one is in a position to link them with Indus Valley of Western India. Language relationship suggests that these migrations have been in two phases.The first when Basques migrated to France as a Mundari or Khasi population around 31 thousand years ago (Ka) carrying the original pronunciation of French like Sekhpein or Bogdo; and , then subsequently when the same word transformed as serpent reached France via southern Mediterranean coast of Africa and Spain. This latter migration through Israel-Eygpt-Spain route is around 18 Ka. North Europe attracted population from the Black Sea region in large numbers.
In their cultural, spiritual and religious pursuits, respect for the dead is high among the later Paleolithic settlers in Europe. Some of the bodies have been painted, reminding of painting the dead among the Andamanese. Influence of Andamanese vocabulary is seen in the Latin-Greek segment of Europe and their contribution to ‘painting-culture’ is conceivable. What seem to be an important development in Europe during the latter Paleolithic is the care for physical beauty and ornaments. A grave of young lady contains here ornaments too besides routine materials.
The initial pattern of religious communalism in the European population gave way to materialist communalism in the highest strata of the Upper Paleolithic. Whereas the former is depicted by abunbant carvings of deties of the latter may be inferred by most command carving and figures related to hunting and paucity of divine forms. The girp of colonial megapsyche established early settlers in Europe was accelarated because people had to focus their mind on the harsh external world for food, hunting and comfortable caves.
Around nine thousand years ago, when men in Europe were still cave-dwellers, habitation in Turkey had quickly progressed the first city settlement and organize a bigger domain of agricultural prosperity. A small city of conjunct houses of unfired bricks and without streets was built in the town at Catal Huyuk in Turkey. There is no written word to communicate the life of these people but the record in the material discovered during the excavation suggest that the city state had a wide influence in the area and administered the nearby territory. Language, trade and governance formed yet another higher order of communalism besides the preexisting ones like religion, trible customs and family ties that are referable as III, II and I order colonial traits respectively.
The Neolithic and historial periods have contributed to two distinct developments in the western society. Firstly, it was knowledge building and secondly an invention of monotheism to subjugate the population and force them to follow a single God, adopted by the ruler. The monotheism being a part of rulership, also falls under fourth order of communalism.
The knowledge for the west is synonymous with information gathering, and its expansion commenced with expansion of trade in Mesopotamia and Egypt. Traders moving to the different lands, gathered information about the people there and their exploitation potential. Again, the trade brought the system of counting and totaling; and since the traders were not very intelligent people a device for counting developed in Susa around 4.2 Ka Owing to the very method of their knowledge building and training in the specific direction the western mind has no potential to go for introversion of consciousness, required for sadhana of brahm, enlightenment and moksh.
To help strengthen the rulership, religion took a new turn in Egypt about three thousand and three hundred fifty years ago. The king of the land designated himself as Akhenaton, the worshipper of sun-God, and abolished all the other Gods worshipped in the country forcing the subjects to put their fate in God supported by the state. This tradition was followed later in the occident, forcing on the people faith, religion or God of the ruler. God of the west was, thus, nothing to do with the God attained by the inner self or introversion. It is a purely political creation, as good as communism.
The organisation and development of the western physical materialism continuing to the present century has done immense harm to the human consciousness, of late. The children of the last century are established to be more intelligent beings than of today; the moral in the school education has sunk down to the distribution of condoms; and, dishonesty is being educated through the life-style and conduct of the school teachers. Its repercussions are also being reaped by the society. A considerable population, a survey shows, has become neurotic in clinical sense in Sweden, England, Canada and elsewhere.
The pattern of evolution in the west
has left individuals in the worst and most helpless situation. Every man
has now become a complete community-conditioned-entity. An analog of this
image has already evolved once in nature around 220 million years ago.
It included the insects and their colonies during the Triassic. In the
colonial mind-set individuals have no right to think beyond the interests
of community; and, that is where the west has taken us today. What a magnificent
fall of a brainy species!