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CHAPTER 7. MAKE WORK A CELEBRATION
consummation – when a mother will not need to carry the burden of a baby in her womb for nine
months. A machine, an instrument like the test tube will do the job better. All the facilities that are
available to a baby in the mother’s womb will be provided to him, and he will be better provided for
in a test tube or whatever we will call it. And then it will be difficult to know the parentage of a child.
Then the whole social structure will have to be changed. Then all women will play mothers and all
men will play fathers to children who will grow up under the collective care of the community. For
sure, everything is going to change.
What I am saying has become necessary because of the way science is currently developing
throughout the world. But we don’t understand it because we continue to think in out old ways,
which are out of date. Now when a child is born to you, you consult the best possible physician
about his health and upkeep; you don’t think that, being his father or mother, you can treat your
child medically too. In the same way you go to a good tailor to have clothes made for him; you
don’t sew them yourself because you happen to be his parent. Likewise, with the deepening of your
understanding you will want your child to be born with the help of much healthier sperm than your
own, so that he is not retarded physically or mentally, so that he is endowed with a healthy body and
an intelligent mind. So you would want to secure the best sperm available for the birth of your child.
On her part, a would-be mother would not like to drag on for nine months with a baby in her womb
when facilities will be made available to grow a child externally in a better and healthier manner. The
function of parents, as it is today, will then cease to be necessary. And with the cessation of the
function of parents, how will marriage itself exist? Then the very basis of marriage will disappear.
Technology on one hand and the science of man’s mind on the other, are heading towards a point
when individual claim on children will come to an end.
This does not mean that all man’s problems will end with this radical change in the social structure.
Every new experiment, every change we make brings its own problems with it. It is not a great
question that problems as such should cease to be – man will always have problems – the great
question is that we should have newer and greater problems to deal with than what we now have.
The real question is that our problems of today should be better than those we had yesterday.
It is not that with the abolition of marriage every conflict between man and man, between man and
woman will disappear for good. But, for sure, the conflicts that arise from marriage – and they are
more than enough – will go. However, newer conflicts and newer problems will arise and it will be a
joy to deal with them. To live on this planet problems will always be needed, because it is through
our struggle with problems that we grow and mature.
In this connection it is necessary to take notice of a particular problem which comes our way again
and again. The problem is that we get used to putting up with the problems of the social system
we are given to live in. And so we are afraid of facing those new and unfamiliar problems that are
likely to come with a better and higher social system – even if such a system becomes necessary
and feasible. And thus we get stuck with a decadent and dying system, and that is what makes for
our real difficulty, our real problem. But it is the task of intelligence to understand that if newer and
better problems are available, in the wake of change, it is right to go for the change and to grapple
with those problems and solve them.
I hold that so long as love does not bloom fully in a man’s life he will not attain to the glory and
grandeur of life, he will remain lackluster. A life devoid of love is dull and dreary; it is a veritable
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