The Fourth Monkey
Human beings are often described as hypocritical. This is not a moral accusation, but an observation.
Good and evil, preservation and destruction, generosity and jealousy coexist within the same body. The real question is this: Is this contradiction rooted in human nature, or does it arise from the caprices of the self — what we often call the soul?
To explain itself, humanity frequently turns to the Neolithic era. A past of roughly 25–30 thousand years is invoked as justification.
Killing was survival.
Jealousy was protection.
Deception was a matter of power balance.
“These were natural,” we say.
But here lies the problem. We no longer live in the Neolithic age. Yet we continue to legitimize the same behaviors by calling them “human nature.”
The Divided Human
Modern humanity must be understood not through the past, but through the sociology of the present.
Contemporary society produces categories: blue-collar and white-collar, doctor, engineer, civil servant, rich, poor, ultra-rich, educated and uneducated, insider and outsider.
These distinctions are not merely economic or sociological. They emerge from the human need to position itself.
A human defines itself by placing an “other” in front of it.
Yet the human being is only a form. What changes is not the form, but the self. The same soul speaks differently in abundance than it does in deprivation.
Prosperity, Deprivation, and Attraction
In some countries, life is comfortable. In others, even basic needs remain uncertain.
In prosperous societies, young people think about comfort rather than survival. In societies shaped by hardship, young people understand that knowledge and education are a way out — and they cling to them.
But there is an irony.
No matter how much they develop, many eventually migrate their minds elsewhere. From places where the light barely turns on to places where it never goes out.
Light attracts.
What appears to be an individual choice is, at its core, a sociopolitical consequence.
The Transformed Self
Modern humans no longer live themselves; they display themselves.
We live in an age of self-marketing.
Likes.
Clicks.
Visibility.
It is no longer important to dream, but to sell dreams.
Shelter, nourishment, reproduction — the most fundamental human concepts — have become elements of an algorithmic showcase.
The self has changed. Human beings now construct themselves not from within, but through external validation.
Four people in one house.
Four screens.
Four silences.
Fingers on keys. Eyes in the virtual.
The Fourth Monkey
At this point, the human irony is complete.
We know the three monkeys: see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
But they are no longer enough to explain the modern human condition.
The fourth monkey is this: the one who knows and still chooses silence.
Eyes exist, but the gaze is blind.
Ears exist, but hearing is selective.
A tongue exists, but words are consciously swallowed.
This is not a deficiency. It is a choice.
Perhaps the past did not invent this symbol for today. But humanity has always been this way.
What changes are not generations, but modes of awareness.
Human beings did not change. They only learned how to remain silent more effectively.
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