I had not a very pleasant occasion to
witness Thrissur pooram, tagged as world’s wonder by the incorrigible sickness of
exaggeration that is quite common with bunch that claim capacity to commune
with forces of universe at the shortest notice. Though I must add in my favor that
I left the celebration of vulgarism at the earliest possible occasion. Anything
that emerges from sanctum squatter’s frame will have to have value system
hinging on crude that so effortlessly percolates into herd population –who give
clear indication that literacy cannot really become education and that these
are eons away from any hint of wisdom. So much crowd (but kerala crowd are much
better than the crowd I have witnessed across the country –that has no shortage
of people for any occasion except ofcourse when quality and excellence is on
display, who always have potential to become mob) and high decibel noise, add to
it the sultry humid weather that you are not at all in the mood for celebration, it surely gets nauseating. But Indian crowd are sturdier lot, trained from
childhood to resign to fate, of waiting and longer queues that adds up to
nothing while the cleverer adept in bypassing these, then there are stampede,
pushing and jostling that adds to critical ingredient of chance, these then are
to be taken as normal while they get trained to carry eternal optimism in a fatalistic
sense having experienced the worst that is to offer on daily basis in their public
dealings. What is surely at display is not subtleties but orchestrated vulgar control
and dominance. The teeming crowd (mostly boisterous young male) are taken for
granted as facilities provided are rudimentary and careless, crowd management is
almost nonexistent except that people are contained in cordoned spaces (they
wait for major tragedy to get attention till then its about fate). The control
is also on display through elephants. It is quite saddening to see rows of caparisoned
elephants, 40-50 of them participating in day long activity in batches,
standing to the noisy fare adorned in heavy metal and chained in hot sun while
humans display glittering colorful umbrellas over them. These juvenile
exhibitions are much appreciated by the crowd and indeed is the highlight.
High decibel celebration and
showcasing infantile grandeur is the norm in this part the world. The framework
is always to awe strike rather than any hint of deeper appreciation or contemplation,
it hinges on tawdry as culture. These have been frozen in time, elevated as
tradition, while repeated every year without any creative additions or taking
in the dynamics and understanding of the age. It is common feature of religion related
nonsense that they are incapable to evolve, tends to get trapped in some dark
age medieval matrix though show no qualms in using modern gadgets (ofcourse seen as
blessing and not amazing efforts, ideas and value system working behind these inventions and innovations). As it is these are elaborate rituals that is
meant to create unthinking herds out of humans (the defining characteristics
of sanctum) as everything gets reduced to in this miserable society, even something
with immense possibilities and as enlightening as education. These when it gets
into Indian reality finds it mediocre base while blessed Indians celebrate
success in drab and inane (indeed useless indicator as marks/records) as achievement. The
reason why Indians don’t match the rigors and challenges of reality, hence
quite successful as replicators, indeed humble and enthusiastic replicators like
jovial hamsters in a running mill. Ofcourse there are occasions of incremental thinking
as also replicating with cheaper option these then are genius of this wanting
society. They happily exist in the mirage of entitlement and blessed greatness.
Hence everything has to be dumbed for them to showcase their achievements since
in exacting standards they woefully lack. Education as scoring marks is intelligence
(hapless children are earliest victims into the norms of the primitive society),
clearing entrance exam that may have nothing to do with inclination, like say, IIT
(indeed the struggle is for the brand!) or field of study MBA or career that
has nothing to do with relevance -power desiring feudal jobs-IAS/IPS/IRS etc. seen as blessing for higher purpose in life! Education is specifically meant
to multiply money, acquire power and influence, these then are cleverly worked
out to exhibit blessing. Art is dumbed down to amazingly mediocre and pandering
affair while exhibitors are referred to as artists. Sports, as game of wastrel’s
cricket, specifically meant to trap common people into self-defeating ludicrous nonsense.
The common thread here is to keep any attempts to the lowest denominator so as
to manipulate as also means to control fate hence firmer grip on narration, since
anyone with some basic skills can be very easily be exaggerated as artist or sportsperson
while in reality Indian sports and art scene is woefully lacking. This template
is attempted into every aspect. Look at the standard of journalism, quality of
engineers, priorities of doctors or even as critical function as being a teacher
(arguably attracting the worst of its kind, these representing values of putrid pit
makes it sinister). Indian scientist is an oxymoron while exceptions are despite. It is such a shame. What really gets me is this constant
rant of being specially blessed while neck deep in putrefying muck. The audacity
of it. The mainstream that is institutionalized through state power in the last
many decades is amazingly rotten infecting even the subaltern enlightening peripheral
thus quality becomes increasingly rare and rarer while values are compromised for easy gain,
meanwhile the mass is kept constantly mesmerized in self-consuming mirage. As the
society scraps the bottom market becomes the key arbitrator. Sanctum entrapment
strategies gets polished into GDP aspirations as artists and sportsperson set
out on original intent of catching eyeballs and sell knickknacks, jovially exchanging
careers and denominatored skills. They could do anything, ofcourse limited by their
own limitation than lack of trying. It is in this melee providence and good
fortune finds easy traction as these mediocres become devious tool to manipulate
the miserable audience into pliable excited people –who are consistently exposed
to cheap vulgar mediocrities that it becomes their benchmark of dealings. Lacking any discerning skills they hold the sacred belief, very much orchestrated by cunning arbitrators, that putrid pit is specially designed grandness.
Stuck in time warp the herd replicate tradition into celebration, then there is compelling narration
of nostalgia. The worst aspect of these festivities is use of firecrackers that
causes amazing levels of noise and air pollution, a responsible society would
scale these down and when it is in the name of religion it is crude, shows the
level of depravity and incapacity to provide enlightened empathy driven path to
society. Atleast show some concern for ‘ambala prav’ instead of restricting it
as motif for songs. These few minutes’ cringe worthy godly entertainments is so
very common place and stale while keeps herd populace in trance, entrapped as
they are in lowest expectation and least awareness. Many societies across the world from London to
Sydney to Beijing invite New Year thus. What kind of people are these? They are
incapable to evolve with time nor have the caliber for it indeed have any
concern. What is shocking in this society is that they are the arbitrators of
moral bearings. This ‘world famous’ celebration at Thrissur has everything from
animal abuse to environment pollution to patriarchy –lack of women in the celebration
ritual is striking, lacking any innovation hence staid affair replicated year
after year that keeps increasing burden on society while showcasing warped value system. Though
obnoxiously loud the percussion rendition (chenda vadyam) slowly grows onto you
and stays forever, and being exposed to these from early childhood it has
pointers that excites senses and can have a profound impact if experienced in leisure.
That is the only possibility in this crowded loud and messy fare on a muddy day
that one can very tenuously connect with, ofcourse the colors too are mesmerizing.
While staying in literate putrid
pit the angst positioning news outlet run by castetva have been expressing
anguish against hindutva at every conceivable occasion meanwhile dexterously promoting
caste agenda. So nurturing high posturing casteist columnist comes natural
as also align with the deep nature of disgusting society thus exciting opportunist
marketeer to sponsor. The article titled “A paralysis of thought is marginalizing
Left” by casteist essentially mediocre columnist with exaggerated self-worth, and as
expected easily slips into pontification. Apart from juvenile views she writes “…the
party in kerala is energetic, popular and successful, even after it was
involved in a fight that was dangerous enough to derail its politics, because it
plunged the CPI(M) into confrontation over religious practice and change over Sabarimala
issue”. This Bengali woman clearly fed on the hypocritical elitist narration of
Bengal commies and very possibly fed on british fluff's angst posturing (that
has fed commies into oblivion in Bengal) doesn’t know that fighting demeaning rituals and
resisting despicable religious practices is how Kerala communism grew and gained
acceptance among common people unlike Bengal commies who ensconced to putrid pit, associating
with british hypocritical values and fooling common people. Liberal posturing
craps like this woman must be given a short course on kerala history. Ofcourse kerala
communists will have to pay for hypocrisies in other matters as also blatant
violence unleashed meanwhile castetva congress hypocrisies are being persistently
encashed by hypocrisy ridden hindutva. Phew. The despicable politicians aptly representing equally regrettable population.
Another defining characteristic
of castetva posturing -as savior of beleaguered minority, as they scoop up gravy
while anchoring hedonistic bearing and wanton lifestyle was on display when an
intellectually challenged british columnist was given space in this same pretentious
media outlet not ironically on the same page. This fellow worked out to even
question UN report on species extinction. He seems to singularly incapable to
understand dire projections and logical extension into future (while IUCN is credible fact on these matter, indeed IUCN need to update now on much regular basis) as various data
points to serious problems. Lacking knowledge is bliss but not spreading this lack, and what to say about mediocre Indians who promote this here in Indian newspaper... May i suggest this buffoon to pick up 'The Sixth Extinction' (by Elizabeth Kolbert) as a starter. He concludes his con work column “No doubt our ‘way of life’ does pose
a threat to some species, even if it’s not as many as the climate alarmist say…”
Our British man (these morons do get heavily paid) –incidentally a well placed white man -so very uncommon(!!), is posturing as entitled sane voice (like caste gandhi was while dealing egalitarian anti-caste ideas).
These people are fed and fattened by the system. Beware of these posturers. We need to seek their carbon footprint.
