Let's face it. For years, we have lived through one of the most incredible act of nature. Act of nature, because, nowhere else in the civilised world have so many people earned so much, learned so much, and gone on to rise in life, without doing as little as all of us in Mumbai have.
Thus, it is only in Mumbai that a man can delight in the steadily appreciating value of his house for no rhyme or reason, and consequently, shut his eyes to the steadily rising hell around him. We have learnt to see a positive in just about everything. Anything to avoid contributing our time and effort, you see. Thus, when people start living in shanties not too far away from our house, we take it, since it becomes a new supply of domestic help, and keeps the wages down. When an illegal store opens opens up, we bear it, doesn't it make life a little bit more convenient now?
Or when a car garage comes up close by, which releases all its effluents untreated, we close our eyes to the environmental damage, after all, now we have a mechanic too nearby!
Slowly we have lost all sense of civilised, planned living, only looking at everything from the prism of utility. For that we are suffering today.
