It’s a constant endeavor of controllers of institutions and narrations to convert human being into
herds. The more unthinking they are the better it is to manipulate and control.
This then takes the society away from social realities and contemporary crises.
There is a reason why the power structures across the world have failed to
address the urgency of climate crisis. There is a reason why media till
recently tried to undermine, obfuscate and divert these existential crises (I was
expecting the high-end British media like TheGuardian -that has wider audience due to colonial advantage
and narrative control, to fail when it came to understanding movies like Don’t
Look Up. And boy didn’t they mess up. The arrogance was typical). Self-assuredness
of grip over herds and easy manipulated binaries leads to complacency. They really
didn’t factor climate crisis would be this disruptive (likes of BBC taking their
sweet time as they survey the scene for control).
They are incapable to sense
the reality of the situation since they are too preoccupied to manipulate the
narration for control, as also showcasing themselves as some kind of saviour in
this little world that they try to bludgeon us in. Facts becomes victim to narrative
flair of emotions. Every news therefore becomes an occasion to control and
manipulate, to give it the needed narration that seeks to undermine the reality.
Systems that are hinged on this make-believe world consolidate the fake. Influencers
like market feed this chicanery while religions ask us to strive. When you
undermine the reality critical faculties of human beings get undermined. When senses
are weakened, or told not to trust, the mind gets confused. The perpetual
insecurity that follows is an indication of humans losing their grip into
herds or are atomized as frustrated lives into escapism. They lose their capacity
to use their intellect. As social landscape gets manipulated and sculpted in isolation it loses
its vigor to face the reality. Systems failing to face the contemporary
challenges is a clear indication of how much reality has shifted while herds
are kept occupied in binaries of absurd and inane entertainments. There are reason
why indigenous people -who are deemed primitive, are aware of the urgency. It isn’t
a coincidence. Their society may not be as sophisticated to get the science and
technology to travel to mars or edit genes but yes, they are
well attuned to sophisticated world and natural systems that we are indelible part
of. They know the waft of the dung and mind of the bird. It shouldn’t
therefore surprise that science began its journey with this searing probe into
reality. Somewhere down the line technology gave the herd their collective
will. Its been downhill since. If we don’t become humans again, dismiss systems
that dehumanize, and assert our humanity, reject vehemently and vociferously
each and every attempt to undermine our being then it’s truly over for us. It’s
a wake-up call.
