Anish Ghimire

The concept of law and order was propounded before any major scientific inventions or discoveries. Humans felt that there was a strong vitality of stability in our lives before we went on exploring, discovering, and creating.
A stable and sound working of human behaviour is essential to create peace and coordination. That is what law and order are for. With time, the concept of stability expanded. Countries, organisations, schools, children’s parks, etc, everywhere we go, we are somehow under the gaze of law and order.

Best Way
In a perfect world, this seems the best way to bring humans together and create a sustainable functioning of human society. Yet, if we lift the curtains of reality, the opposite is true.
While the concept of stability expanded, the other concept also expanded in modern society, and that is Individualism. Some souls refuse to obey the collective system designed by their state.
It is so, because being an individual in a complex society, they feel threatened if they do not only think about themselves. For such people, the personal benefit comes before the welfare of the state.
And hence, as you guessed it, law and order are ignored. If by breaking some portion of the law, one earns double of what they normally do, their drive for individualism is higher than their concern for collective stability.
In their mind, they think, “this state does nothing for me, so why should I do anything for it? I prefer to earn money for myself that worries about the law.” Such people, if we make a list, it could go on forever. We have a huge amount of citizens in different sectors of the country cheating the law and filling their bloated stomachs.
We not only have law cheaters. We also have people who exercise law to their benefit. Apparently, for people owning authority, staying in line, or being patient enough to abide by the law is too much of a task.
They need everything done fast and hastily, even if it means sacrificing their shamelessness. We have concrete evidence in many cases that individualism has threatened stability. Mainly, in my view, there are two types of people in modern society- the illiterate and the ignorant. The illiterate have no education whatsoever.
But ignorants carry certain education and awareness, yet choose to be ignorant about it. They know what is right and wrong, yet they choose to befriend wrongness for their benefit. You tell me, which is worse? Illiterate or ignorant? It’s quite obvious which is worst here.
In a general sense, it’s not uneducated who are the major culprits, it’s the people having utmost awareness of their sinful task, and yet choosing to continue them. These people wake up to break the law like they did yesterday, will do today, and continue forever. For them, law and order exist only in paper. Sanity and stability are only parts of the constitution, which have zero value in reality.
Collectivism works if people keep their state affairs above their personal affairs. If law and order aren’t being seriously acknowledged, and people largely engage in selfish individualism, then the country is bound to go in ruins. An example of that is right in front of us.

Ultimate Solution
So, what is the ultimate solution to put an end to this culture? How can we get people to put faith in collectivism over sinful individualism?
How can we convince people that individualism is not bad, but using it only for your benefit with disregard to state affairs is bad? How will we bring stability to our state? I am not going to list vague solutions that will never be followed. The solutions to bring stability will be ignored the same way people bring law and order.
If they were to somehow obey my solutions, wouldn’t they just worship stability in the first place? But, what I do want to say at the end is, the ignorance of the law is at the roots of our system. From students to officials, everyone loves breaking the rules. From childhood, a hideous habit gets in our system and that is to break the rules.
Maybe, because it was cool to break the rules. But now, as I have gravitated towards the reality of our state, I can confirm that fracturing stability is not cool. Disobeying fruitful collectivism for the betterment of our country is not cool.
All in all, running after individual needs and disregarding a country’s affairs will never bring law and order into the light. If this continues for long, we may never get to experience what living under stability feels like.

(Ghimire is currently pursuing higher education)