Nature, Nurture and Snowpiercing

The debate between nature verses nurture is an old one. The nature of individuals can't be changed really but it can be modified into socially positive traits, and that can be done with any element of nature. The reverse of this is true too, nature can also be modified into socially negative traits, and in common terms it is known brainwashing. An idealistic person can be brainwashed into becoming a terrorist, while at the same time he can be groomed into a human rights activist. It is here, good education plays an important role. I would suppose, with the experience I have had, that nurture gets imbibed into the nature and expresses itself into the next generations. An evidence of it I have seen in dogs, as offsprings of well trained dogs retain some amount of training within them and it gets better in further generations. A very specific example of it I have seen in a dog which is a cross breed of a Labrador Retriever and an Indian indie. The pup had been well behaved since the start with no training despite having indie genes. When given food, the pup, and even when she grew up, didn't show any greed and waited patiently for her food to be served and only ate when told to eat, and mind you this was with no training at all. So, it can be assumed that manners are genetic too. And that leads us to the consequences of terrible education in this country. When one realises that people in this country don't have basic manners, and even toilet manners, and when seen in the light of things that we have just discussed, we know that situation in the future is only going to be worse. I'm basically an optimist, but I'm a realist too, and I have seen the external and internal socio-political setup of this country in detail in the past decade. The fight for survival is tremendous and it's a crabs in a bucket game with no rules. The situation can be explained through the metaphor of a train, there is first class compartment, there is second class compartment, there is third class compartment, fourth class compartment and there is the general compartment. I have travelled in all of them and so I know the reality of the situation. Expecting dignity of life here is futile. In this situation a honourable man should try to keep doing his job, keep paying his taxes, and should know that his fate is metaphorical equivalent of a man bleeding out in a corner smoking a cigarette. Smoking the cigarette, again, is his choice, a majority doesn't even get the cigarette while they are bleeding out.