Thursday, January 18, 2024
On the home stretch
Monday, January 15, 2024
Free will and nature of reality
There is/there is no/ free will.
Do we decide what we do? Ofcourse, we do. We are also
responsible for what we do. We are not primitives decided by fate or herd
manipulated by systems or animals driven by instinct. This question is seen as
an insult by most, and affront to their self. There is though complexities
involved. Is what we decide decided by us? Human beings pride themselves for
free will unlike animals who are motivated to action by desires and instinct.
Humans have intellectual capacity to pause their instinct to deliberate and to
choose with their free will. The question though is: Is this decision really
based on free will? Answer is as complex as life itself. Many philosophers
assert that there is no such thing as free will. It is an illusion. We are
driven by chance, or atleast choices are significantly shaped by forces that are
outside our control. While scientific insight into human neural circuitry
points to decision already in action before our free will -that is our mind,
has even decided. We feel we have decided but a subconscious process has
already begun before conscious self claim the free will. Brain activity can
predict a choice before conscious decision is taken. Indeed, UN has even
created framework to protect neuroright as human right. Brain data is valued.
Schopenhauer, one of the world’s prescient philosopher whose
ideas have influenced thinking of best minds over centuries, asserted that
humans have no free will. Human decisions are determined by body’s reactions to
stimuli and causes, and motives. Schopenhauer famously wrote that “we can do
what we want to do, but we cannot choose what we want”, and what we want is
determined by our nature, evolutionary pressures and contexts, causal factors
beyond human control. For free will to exhibit it must be determined by nothing
at all. Since that seems an impossibility does that mean that free will is a
lost cause, and that we are, for all our pretentions, predetermined? He however
adds that with deliberation relative free will is possible, which brings about
a relative freedom from an immediate determination to action. Even one of the
most vibrant mind Einstein admitted “I
claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as
the end, by forces over which we have no control”. Einstein adds “I
believe in intuition and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do
not know that I am”. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited while imagination encircles the world. What emerges from brief analysis
of these two brilliant minds is that free will is restricted and needs nothing -no
influence, to exhibit, while intuition and imagination better approximates what
is expected from free will in a given situation. So, although free will is
controlled by forces beyond human control a combination of knowledge,
imagination, intuition, and awareness of nothingness, makes the probabilities
of thought overlapping free will a high possibility, hence human assertion over
unknown factors to decipher the nature of reality.
This gap between
decision and free will is the fertile ground that determines how human mind
evaluates the world and assert its indelible presence. It is difficult to know
whether decision is based on free will, we can only intuit, we feel “we are
right” and only know when the decision is made. This decision is free will. If you
intend to know free will it vanishes. The intention destroys the free will. Since
we know that there are unknown variables, indeed unknowable variables -as the
world is limitless, but we also are aware that these variables are quantified
or addressed when the decision is highest estimation of reality. Free will is
what we decide. At quantum level the world is made up of probabilities of event,
binaries are exhibited when we observe. Non quantifiable reality vanishes in
this observation. To grasp reality is therefore essentially play of words. We
don’t take decision through matrix of binaries but complexities of increasing
probabilities for free will to align to the intricate realities we face. This kind
of high probable estimation of reality can happen when subconscious is
cultivated in nothingness, what Schopenhauer refers to as “determined by
nothing at all”, -so that all fiction driven reality denying externalities of
culture, tradition, influences, habits, reactions so on are negated. You have
to keep an open frame of mind receptive to senses, knowledge, and imagination
that ensues. There are no goals, as goals create intent hence influences the
reality into narrow frame thus away from nothingness that compose much of reality.
It’s an awareness of not trying to get anything out of life. What saint Lao Tzu
-a constant source of wonder for best minds, keep emphasizing wei wu wei
-do not do. In this fertile purposelessness there is an awareness that acts
without acting, action by inaction. (Hindu seer’s ‘detached action’ is coopted into devious overwhelming
degradation without meditative quality or deeper meaning with nothingness -it
works in the frame of ‘duty’). Meditation equips to connect deeper nature of
reality, and all the wise people beginning with Buddha have emphasized on leaving
mind in its state with nature. The presence. Here and now. Just be, the being
that is human. Shoonyatha. Lack of desire must be understood from this context,
and not negation of life. “Don’t try”, you don’t try to create, write a poem (Bukowski)
or work your imagination. Creation originates from accumulated thoughts,
actions and experiences, but can near aesthetics of art and expression of
creator in stillness. Scientific/technological/philosophical/artistic
expressions of quality nurtured in this vacuum before finding
practical/objective ways of expressions (this intent of action is the appearance of objective reality or goal, it collapses all the possibilities into action in awareness). This is also how species evolve. More you travel without purpose more
you are aware; it is an iteration for deeper self with reality. Aim of music is
to listen. Art is to watch. Dance is to dance. Sing is to sing. There is no
goal, not winning or to be best, it limits, the moment it is judged it is lost,
loses the presence hence cannot produce. It is a quantum reality. Miraculous Kabir
looks beyond nothingness, the observer is the ego, the observation tarnishes
the reality with its projection. To have goal is to conform your will thus reducing
your humanity -this precisely what systems like market and religion has done. Religion
tries to equate awareness into its staid futile ways by obfuscating the
semantics of faith and fate into rational and vibrant. They create fear of
‘unknown’ and manipulate immense as ‘power’. They degrade humanity into its
lowest denominator. Power creates and controls binary of success and failure, hell
and heaven, leading to predictable and replication of past. It grants
favour/boon/blessing to control fate denying the everyday complexities and surprises
of life. Goal degraded market value system create hierarchy of merit to pander
and perpetuate the system/program without adding anything meaningful. Striving
for narrowest estimation for highest gain. These impresses herd into limited
controlled imaginations hence overwhelming mediocrity.
So how to have awareness
and senses attuned to give high probable estimation of reality for meaningful
response or decision or as Einstein says “I sometimes feel that I am right”. A
society that intrinsically value excellence will be better placed than an ignorant
malevolent one. Russell proposes an ‘intellectual culture without emotional
atrophy’. Intelligence needs to be cultivated, it is alert curiosity, an
aptitude for acquiring knowledge, an open minded and inviting mind. He values courage
as “impersonal outlook on life”, that something which takes us beyond self
without effort, where instinct is free and intelligent is active. “Perfection
of courage is found in the man of many interests, who feels his ego to be small
part of the world, not by despising himself, but through valuing much that is
not himself.” Love, knowledge and art holds possibilities for impersonal life. Pleasure
of being alive and inquisitive to surrounding will by its very nature make it
easy for objective study of situation.
Truth is eternal to the approximation of our reality. It is not flawed but not entire. We can only attempt to understand. This humble realization is the wisdom on which we strive everyday reality and the possibilities, and very likely, awareness of better future, a larger truth that encompasses more. A deeper pattern of reality, a better understanding. Perceptive writers like Szymborska refer ‘i don’t know’ as an emphasis to our eternal humility, an apprehension of mystery that we are part. Camus brings in vacuousness hence the beginning of awareness of human condition, the absurdities that create path for comprehending complexities. This moral vacuum is what modern human faces when ‘god is dead’ hence an opportunity to explore emergent reality using critical mind without restrictive priori.
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Wednesday, January 03, 2024
Matter of aukat
Aukat is a term that loosely translate to status or stature in english which is as expected inaccurate since it removes the derogatory intent and sociocultural value system. Aukat is much depraved as it carries the debauched context of primitive society hence loses the meaning in translation, and so caste cannibals easily take patronizing western fattened fluffs for bull ride of egalitarian oasis blessed by mahatmas and pandits. Few centuries back aukat was ordained by devious squatters from sanctum and distributed to bidders. Nincompoops posing as rulers queued up to be authenticated by wastrels so as to control the herd by playing on their faith and insecurities until ofcourse reality struck and were eviscerated in attack, sanctum ransacked and squatter hung on the nearest pole while people went about their fate. Britishers encouraged this crave for ‘intelligent equals’ hence to get into the colonial system, it also kept substantial population of youth from revolting against racist colonizers -they needn’t have worried nincompoops had already placed themselves into elevated next to white people over common people. Caste cannibalism had much in common with racism, they sought parity and pride. It was easy for racist brutes to play on the egos of primitives through titles and cheap sundries hence extend control without much resistance. Aukat was now distributed by racist colonizers. Bureaucrats, as carrier of colonizers legacy, were deemed as having high aukat that expected common people to supplicate. Mere cog in machine who were expected to implement policy, on whom intellect was lost, were valued as intelligent and knowledgeable by primitive society.
These have percolated into the degraded society. Hence dimwit egoist bureaucrats are marker of intelligence for hapless people, unathletic cricketers as sports, nepotistic mediocre movie makers as artist lacking aesthetics or sense of exquisite or deeper meaning, producing art as sentimental to nurture superficial thinking, fickle minds and loose values, cronyism and consumerism as business, herd controller opportunistic cheapskate as local leader. There is least concern for common good but ulterior motive and greed. It is all neatly packed as wonderous diverse society. Meanwhile humbleness is practiced as competitive sports with scores, slights and mishaps keenly recorded as defining factors for future dealing. Humility is not for desire to respect but self abasement to acquire credit, sharpening hypocrisy by falsifying basic human instinct. Self obsessed essentially mediocre in attribute and gross in attitude most are acutely aware of their lack hence stampede for power, position, money, award, records…to authenticate their aukat over teeming herd.
In an evolved society intelligence
is inquisitiveness and awareness for better world while bureaucrat minor facilitators,
sports display of athletic prowess and delight of physical possibilities and
not money manipulation for lowest denominator herd entertainment, artistic
expressions hold meaning and insight, innovation in latest technology is
business model, enlightened ways and empathy is representation. Aukat hinges on degraded pattern of crude that salivates for more power, more money, bigger records, higher position, glittering awards…constant
salivation, fear of oblivion, ego and pride as meaning of life and transactional human relation as attribute. Highest, biggest, largest, tallest, richest… are
aspiration model. In the aukat defined world even size of chair is a defining
moment and essential lesson to the herd to keep them in their place i.e. aukat.
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
On meditative stillness
So I was
trying to find some good writers to read. Reading is an investment of time, presence
and effort; hence you have to choose carefully as if your life depends on it or
else do not read, go for a walk or hang upside down, just don’t degrade
yourself by reading mediocre nonsense that forms much of writing these days. Crass
stampede to get attention, they demean the medium as also devalue humanity. Your
presence is important to life don’t disregard by participating in the orgy of degradation,
the sickness that invades the soul if you are not discerning and vigilant. Your
attention is precious to your being. As I was meticulously flipping through website
to anchor on to the best of writers I was in presence of remarkable human being
and a brilliant writer. I really haven’t heard of Harry Martinson before, and
so here I was trying to find more of his writing. Harry Martinson was a Swedish
writer and poet. He was an orphan who had a tough life, while a teenager he ran
away from foster home and picked up odd menial jobs. He eventually got a job as
a stoker labor, shoveling coal into the boilers firebox to power the engine of
the ship -the same that was used in steam engine of railways that some of us
have seen in old movies. This one of the poems that I happen to read:
Meditative
stillness is unique evolution of human mind and relatively rare communion of
society. It is not chance or providence but unique characteristic that is
patterned in ideas, freedom and expressions that leads to stillness, a deeper
involvement with life. Political and economic stability plays a significant role
but isn’t the defining. Ancient Greeks and Egyptians are examples in its varying
and unique expression of thoughts and aesthetics that survived in unique
strands to emerge as and when society stills and individual meditates. Societies
were not egalitarian but majority enjoyed spaces that had access to meditative
stillness. This stillness is not satisfaction but absence of crave. It is inquisitive
awareness of human condition necessarily hinged on compassion. Primitive
societies survive on fear and crave, they herd to exist. Even with material
comfort and economic security they are trapped in their pathetic life of want
and control. Individual minds remain putrid pits while society becomes sinkhole
that attract the worst. Much of world is trapped in this vicious state, and any
number of opportunities of modern technologies and egalitarian options is
wasted. Their occupations are daily struggles of negation of life and possibilities.
Their crude expressions and stale ideas nurture crass entertainments of want
and inspiration for crave.
Much
of framework for human enterprise and progress stems from meditative stillness
that seeps into all forms of human expressions and thoughts. It needs constant strive
to reach this luxury of stillness. For hundreds and thousands of years nature
provided this stillness for life to thrive. This created brilliant expressions
of biodiversity. With consciousness human mind reach meditative state. Very few
regions of the world have achieved this evolved state that a self-taught man living
in worst of condition could produce such astounding expression of subtlety and
finesse. Such spaces are precious. Ofcourse in the last few years virtual world has created such spaces that is accessible from all across the world.
Harry Martinson also happened to visit Bombay (now Mumbai India) in 1920s while his ship was docked for few days. His observation in those few hours that he spent in Mumbai is a testament to sensibilities that I rarely find in Indian writers who spent lifetime in putrid pit lacking compassion or connection with life except as patronizing or self-justifying redemption of miserable life cloaked in blessing. Martinson writes “Sometimes my whole being shudders at the inconceivability of the throng, at the unimaginability of the multitude of sights”. There is poignant mention of his witnessing ‘dancing girls’ on the streets, compassion as he documents his observations. “Small groups of dancers, the youngest of the dancing girls not more than five years old at the most, wild, tormented, ecstatic, most of the time commanded by an old man, continuously shouting and threatening, ugly and repulsive: a sensational and upsetting contrast to the slender beauty of the whirling little dancers” Martinson writes “Bells are ringing wildly on the ankles of the tiny ballet dancers. He, the ugly one, shouts when the dance shall go over into acrobatics, and the tiny ones go backwards on their hands and feet, their bellies pointing up towards the sky. He shouts, as if he wanted to kill them, and they throw their legs up as they dance on, standing on their hands while he, with a murderous expression, plays on a monotonously humming string instrument; with the form of a fish and the appearance of a museum specimen, prehistorically evil”.... “What if John Bauer had seen you, dear little heart. How happy he would have been. John Bauer was our great fairy tale painter. He drowned in a long, spool-shaped lake called Vättern. He would have painted a dark picture of you, deep as a fairy tale. You would be sitting on an enormous lingonberry tuft within the woods of Holaved, blinking with your eyes, as dark as a wood-mere, so that the mere itself would rumble like thunder down in its mud, rumble out of envy”. Martinson pays money to the man to stop the exploitation, and writes that he wanted to hurt the man but avoided such a confrontation as he was concerned for the girls. “I could never be that cruel, not even if I was so angry with both the entire Brahminism and the vast constipation of the English lord system”. With this prescient line he was able to put his finger on the pulse of this degraded depraved society that generations of mediocre Indian writers nurtured to control narration lacked in moral capacity. And if you glimpse through the literary awards, you will see this urge to control narration as also nepotism of squatter camaraderie breeding the most mediocre but with high sense of self-worth of blessed gift. Like everything else most Indian writers are embarrassment. That they couldn’t sufficiently appreciate writers of caliber, like say, Mohd Basheer speaks of beggar minds haggling for next meal while stampeding for power and connections. Here artists are cheapskates who create slum cakes while marketeers define art. Mediocre nurture crass to justify itself.
Sunday, December 17, 2023
Friday, December 08, 2023
condolences
Immense loss
They're looking for victims and poets to rent.
They represent me without my consent.
Steal our souls and make their documentaries.
Inform daily on our community.
Without Black suffering they'd have no jobs.
Without our dead they'd have no office.
Without our tears they'd have no drink.
If they stopped sucking we could get justice.
The coconuts are getting paid.
Thursday, December 07, 2023
A minor news
Indians will know the nuances and
all the intricate depravities hidden in the news. Western fattened fluffs will
be least aware, the imperial laziness affliction in colonial comfort, and
ofcourse squatters have already swarmed their little mind space to interpret
and indeed represent, to efficiently suck out the patronizing goodies of
colonial angst and victim binary. For last many decades charlatans and their
litters have spread out across the west to represent us Indians and accrue
immediate benefits, and yes, simultaneously -as a posture of great concern, our
local guardians against specially carved out evil forces that we common people
based in India are least aware -indeed too low intelligent to even comprehend.
They perform their entitled role as some kind of great personal sacrifice for
highest morals that keeps the fattened fluffs stupefied to match. It has
reached an influx point. We cannot take it any longer. Fattened
fluffs-squatter arrangement mutually benefited in an insular world. Moving a*se
as sign of debating point discomfort, noting the wonders of turn of sentence,
haggard desolate expressions, were how crucial issues dealt, and agreed with
orgies and immediate schemes to pass it on to litters. Internet has opened up,
and this devious alliance of wasted western fattened fluffs and caste cannibals
to contain Indians in a narration for mutual benefit will not be allowed. We are
not your fodder.
So, coming back to the minor news,
what really happens when “used plate touch” someone? Is the fear about
infection? Hygiene? Rest assured it cannot be hygiene. Caste cannibals as a
characteristic trait are low on hygiene, but high on purity. Purity has nothing
to do with hygiene. It is a squatter tutored mental illness, infection of soul,
that is passed onto society. It is the beginning of depravities. It is how
caste system works and grades. Interesting word here is “used”; it
doesn’t even carry minuscule sense of what it intents in english. Caste
cannibals therefore have benefited from this loss in translation, nor could
they find reason for a suitable word considering that they gleefully introduced
‘pundit’ and ‘pariah’ with the help of racist colonizer. Alien language lack
the nuance to carry complex meanings of the origin. In hindi the trigger word
is “jhoota” that can tizzy squatter balanced world of depravities into utter meaninglessness.
Words like “jhoota” carry context of barbarian culture hence cannot easily be
translated nor understood. The other word that needs attention here is “touch”.
Note it doesn’t mention that the food spilled or cloths got spoiled but the ‘used
plate’ touched. This touch is where purity line is drawn. Squatter scums had
scheme and list of ‘touchable’, and they still squat in sanctum as a c*ntdick
right while equally depraved scale highest moral grounds in west into
multiculture orgasm.
So the inanimate object -plate,
becomes carrier of demon incarnate appearing to vandalize pure blessed world with
its touch -accidental or not -this distinction is meaningless in the context of
breach. Purity is as fragile as squatter’s hold on the world and this is passed
on to fate driven herd hence the bewildering reaction that is valued in life of
hapless man. The beleaguered man working as a waiter -by its very logic is ‘not
blessed’, hence further adding to the idea of impuring the blessed people and
pattern of caste cannibalised world, furthermore gravity in debilitating incursion
into pure blessed world that must be stringently dealt. And like the racist christian
nutcase American ready with gun to defend from hallucination caste cannibals
pounce with all ferocity on to a likely malnourished harassed man trying to make
out a living. They kill him, dump him and move on. Human sacrifice to keep the
world pure and blessed.
Fattened fluffs in west will be
conveniently translated to see this as minor skirmish nothing systemic of
diseased mind nor caste cannibals complicit. They don’t really matter anymore. They
nurtured monster mullahs and caste cannibals and unleashed ecosystem of uncouth
under their influence across the world. They
will not be allowed to control narration, nor patronize. They don’t really measure
up to the challenges of contemporary world.
Tuesday, December 05, 2023
Sunday, December 03, 2023
Unethical brands
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
Saturday, November 25, 2023
Wednesday, November 22, 2023
Climate culprits
So, although huge carbon
footprint of parasiting billionaires in West must be publicized the stark cruelty
of rich people in poor society need to be dealt with equal seriousness. In a
company the salary of CEO is compared with the lowest paid to get the
comparison. Similarly, in countries with lowest per capita carbon footprint the
rich people’s carbon footprint must be put in context to common people. This will
bring out the horror of irresponsible wanton consumption while playing victim
at international forum.
Unbecoming of an aspirant
politician
There must be decency in public discourse. Personal attack, if ever, must be to highlight nepotism or corruption. To mock a leader -that too PM, for failure of cricket team, and that his presence has brought bad luck, has in the context of society sinister intent. Associating people or person with bad luck -ashubh, has hoary past. It ticks on baser qualities, and attempt to bring the mob in herd. It is a dog whistle for street chuckle that sane people will find disgusting and an alarming breach of conduct. Political parties these days use trolls to keep the social media active, which then is reflected by fomo market media, but when a leader becomes a troll, it is a new low and reflects poorly on the leadership qualities. Superstition, fate, assigning bad energy/good energy, proposing solutions/rituals by pleasing is how charlatans cannibalize. Unacceptable and unbecoming behavior of politician aspiring for bigger role. Climate change -the heat wave, can have a debilitating impact and has the potential to crash all grand plans. It will not be bad luck but incompetent policy making.
Monday, November 20, 2023
Please not another one
Sunday, November 19, 2023
Saturday, November 18, 2023
When is it hate?
*The above cartoon is defining characteristic
depravity of herd; they have been so dehumanized that to maintain the system
they even indulge in self harm. A region that has abysmal air quality- also horribly
noisy, decide to celebrate their festival without care or concern, meanwhile
asserting their herd identity as they snarl against and compare depravities of competing
herd (religion). Such horrible carelessness and incapacity to enlighten themselves
must be ridiculed in every possible way. Rule of law must’ve been strictly
imposed. The lack of rule of law shows how primitives are emboldened with
increasing numbers and using common people as fodder. Millions of vulnerable populations
suffer/die because of this wanton crime of celebration. On a personal note, I am
thankful since I moved to spent time with nature from these horrible irresponsible people.
In the context of degraded world,
the above cartoon will be classified as hinduphobia. Thanks, patronizing fattened
fluffs in west. It is victory of narrative control of lexicon sharpened by
hypocritical left. Ah the beleaguered minority.
Tuesday, November 07, 2023
Wednesday, November 01, 2023
Stormtroopers of narration control
It is always exhibition of power,
and wanton greed, that use common people as fodder. There are no effective
multilateral agencies nor efficient mechanism for synergic response to
safeguard against transgressions, most countries are ruled by authoritarian
leaders with almost no democracy while others are ruled by hereditary despots
using religion or controlled by army or feudal ways to control the herd, and
those that are democratic are mostly controlled by greedy psychopaths trying to
amass their influence. In such scenario we can only be appalled and hope for
better sense to prevail. We can only pray for unfortunate people who face worst
of the world, and also feel fortunate for not being in such situation. In the meanwhile, we can also respond by
making every attempt at our disposal to see that power that sustains such
dehumanizing systems are weakened, people presented with egalitarian choices
and enlightened ways so that they can assert and protest against transgression
on their liberty and freedom. They get educated and understand the importance
of being a human and not reduce to herd. They become vigilant compassionate humans
and not compliant segregated herd (snarling and vandalizing only for ‘our’ herd
and ready to kill ‘other’ herd). There are devious forces trying to trap human
being to frozen histories, fixed identities, and classify for benefits and
control.
In the aftermath of barbaric
attack on Israel -that saw massacring for more than thousand people within few
hours, the scale of brutality should shudder any human being. But what we saw was
appalling display of people in support of this horror. Primitive societies
nurture brutal people, and that is the norm, and always a threat to the world,
more they grow more is the threat. But what was shocking was that these parades were happening in
democratic societies that values liberty and freedom, and as always compromised
Britain leading the way. These appalling celebrations of horror were also seen
in many cities that pride in liberal values, accepting environment and egalitarian
spaces. That some people, despite all the opportunities provided by open societies,
think that brutalities against other humans is to be celebrated is a horrible
statement on values nurtured. It is a caution and a lesson. Each and every
person who supported/supports hamas must be weeded out and face full force of
law (indeed in Australia -of all the place -indicating how things have
degraded, some people were seen shouting ‘gas the jews’). There are videos
available, liberal societies cannot nurture such people among its midst they
are termites, they eat from inside. This was hours after innocent people were
massacred and kidnapped by barbarians. Ofcourse now scene has changed. Brutal bombardment
of Palestine and massacring of civilians has become serious concern, and those
in support of plight of Palestinians -and against Israel state, are on the side
of humanity. What also need to be understood is that terrorists have created
massive underground network in gaza against Israel and are using civilians as
shield. There are complexities but what cannot be denied is that civilians,
specifically children, must be given safe passage to leave the area and
extended all humanitarian aid. Meanwhile Israelis must revolt against state,
and demand complete stoppage of war on Palestine. They can eradicate hamas but
they leave vacuum for increasingly hostile people like what they did in Iraq
and Afghanistan. Death of single innocent human being is a colossal tragedy on
life. Netanyahu has no moral right to be the prime minister.
There is another sinister presence
that needs to be identified and dealt: The leftist intellectual. Let us make
one thing very clear. Marxism is a powerful and liberating idea, and it has
contributed much to the understanding of dynamics of society and power matrix
within. It is an insightful presence and a check on crony/neocapitalism, wanton
consumerism and feudal control through neo colonial agencies. Communism in a
democratic society is a pitch towards socialism and distributive justice. It
has nurtured and consolidated democracy through grassroot social movements all
across the world. Grassroot consolidation leads to high level of literacy hence
awareness of rights and progressive values, efficient public health and
distribution system leading to better quality of life and possibilities. Kerala
is an example of grassroot consolidation of democracy significantly through communist ideas and
socialistic values (ofcourse entrenched feudal ways, corrupt values and lack of
ethical contexts have severely limited the progressive intents). While Bengal is
an example of failure of communism, a failure due to lack of grassroot democracy.
Bengal remains low on social indices but high on left intellectuals and amazing
level of hypocrisy that it breeds. There is a reason why communism in Bengal
was uprooted without any trace. It is a study on depravities of left
intellectualism. Abstraction into theories that alarmingly loses any connection
with reality, essentially an ego ride, so much so that humans are abstracted
for elitist indulgences -the kind that has roots in Britain. In some market
driven circle it is also fashion statement, and with gandhian mix it becomes extremely
virile power display for the sake of proletariats.
So, although Marxism is an incisive understanding on society it is flawed as model for governance and can only complement within the democratic framework. Leftist intellectuals worked on binary narration of society as class, and as they abstracted these into spheres of dealing in their zeal (and characteristic indifference) they abstracted humans too. So in the absence of individuals empathy had no value. Theory and control over narration was the game. Unique context of human condition was systematically ignored in favour of the narration. Left thinkers are therefore perpetually trapped in the binary narration of historical dialectic. For them every contemporary event has to be controlled and evaluated through this narrative prism. They already have semantics abstracted to fill narration, carefully abstracted words that is used to compress class wars from history to the present, hence presenting a neat version of contemporary that they parrot devoid of the complexities. With this characteristic positioning, that essentially lack empathy, they can easily side with barbarity since it suits the leftist narration. Like capitalism, which only values humans as profitable cog in the system, communism has created binary of collective where human is lost in abstraction. This abstraction is now their only concern, to work their narration, and since leftist intellectuals almost always emerge from feudal frames with all the benefits and regressive values intact, a high level of sense of entitlement over fellow human being, they work their abstraction through comforts of debating clubs and increasingly narrower coterie of writings and dehumanized esoteric arguments dangerously disconnected from sense, this then is applauded by the group. Enthused they pretend to be in the pole position as moral arbitrators on all critical issues. They eventually get trapped in the hypocritical justification of their own loop of narration. Abstracted ideas and narrative control becomes more important than basic ethics or even decency. A normal human being will shudder at brutality on another human being but for leftist intellectual this is a paradigm justifying moment, they do suppress their winning smile though -a glimmer of humanity. Meanwhile any deviation from prescribed narration is taken as a personal failure, an affront on theory, and lacking compassion they hedge their emotion on ego. Thus, what we get is a boorishly rude person as left intellectual, lacking empathy or concern for contemporary or compassion for human predicament but ever ready to elaborate with high sounding words and exceeding articulate performance that do charm the youngsters. Idealist youngsters are susceptible, and by the time they unravel the layered chicanery they have already compromised their soul. Ofcourse, I do agree deeper involvement with ideas are important and a necessary stepping stone to understand world better. Or else there is always the herd hauling abyss of religion and mediocrity of market capitalism. Marxism is a compelling viewpoint to evaluate the world. It though is woefully limited and dangerously insidious like religion and neoliberal values. In the end it too is virulently dehumanizing and segregating. What is sinister is that it poses as an anti-thesis to market and religion, and glimpses a better world -that is a mirage. Communist atrocities that have led to mass killing and misery are rarely condemned by left intellectuals. It is not about compassion or reevaluating their worldview or position but a personal failure to communicate. Dead people could easily be explained with abstract words into abstract humans. Hence it is about chiseling the ideology, against the binary of imperialism. What they don’t realize is that they are increasingly the worst side of the coin. Leftist intellectuals have made Faustian deal with power. Be very concerned.
As thoughts get sophisticated words get evolved to express the nuance of the complex world we live in. Ideas get evolved and consolidated through words. The problem is when it loses connection with reality -importantly with humans and environment that are essential part of it. It is a passion devoid of humanity or habitat. It therefore becomes sinister manipulation to sustain their position in the argument. You will see how least concern left intellectuals are when some humans don’t fit their narration -even when they are brutalized or killed, concern is to articulate the logic. Since marxian world is a historical struggle of binary, they will also rarely show any concern for environment -it is not something that is factored, and like its adversary capitalism, nature is an exploitable means. Abstracted human as an agent is their concern everything else is usable for bigger cause. They see human as an abstraction in historical progress -struggle. This also makes them extremely sensitive about history. The use of abstract words and thoughts are therefore not for awareness of contemporary reality -the complexity of which has miniscule connection with history (past is exaggerated by devious forces to work the status quo of misery and trap humans for power struggle). There are therefore ‘colonial’ forces. If Israel-Palestine conflict is frozen as ‘colonizing’ -that is sought to go back to early last century, then there are many colonial angsts all across the world. Hindu herds will say it was colonizing forces that divided their land, it was an injustice that they would like to rectify. And they have ample history to prove their claim for pure land, extending from whole of south Asia and beyond. So why not invade Pakistan and rectify colonial injustice (some nutcases do hold this view, as an unfinished agenda). Vice versa, muslim herd from Pakistan would claim that India is part of their pure land, since muslim king ruled for centuries. So they have compelling reason to attack India and free their pure land. What kind of ridiculous arguments are these? Left intellectuals are notorious for working history to bring their besotted godforsaken dangerous narrations. Abstracted human herein is no longer struggling against historical exploitation but is a conduit to power that nurture herds into their pre assigned ascribed roles to repeat and replicate historical dialecticism. Intellectualism essentially boils down to ego ride of psychopaths who use humans as fodder for narration.
It is through semantics of
abstracted meaning that we try to understand, and then attempt to deal with the issue.
Words helps us to understand the complexities of the world we are in. We really
need to therefore critically analyze these crucial words that keys the issue as
also the power play within. Most thinkers, in their growing phase atleast, are
influenced or have engaged with left -since left had deeper involvement as
their concern is collective struggle against power, so words gets accepted and
with that the context. Now this is problematic. When you control the context of
the word you also control the narration and intricacies of engagement. The
narration of abstracted collective lacking humanistic concern, as a mass of
people evolving in the binary struggle. History therefore is the lynchpin of
context from marxian viewpoint. Historicity their weapon of choice to cleverly
work into leftist narration of struggle against power. The problem here is
history is always incomplete, manipulated, controlled, and significantly, has increasingly
limited value (indeed nuisance) to understand the complexities of contemporary
-we live in an increasingly complex world with catastrophic challenges that
were inconceivable even few decades back. Since historical dialecticism is the
foundation of marxian history, history is the wound that has to be kept
festering. This is how you work the binary of us and them. The way left
intellectual look at the world one would think human beings are divided into
two unrelated species. And the one with which left intellectual sides are
essentially human while the other has to be destroyed -far left doesn’t rule
out violence the reason why they must be contained within democracy and strict
rule of law.
Since the world is complex, and with profusion of technology and comfort as also social media and easy access to global world, individuals have found their voice and have become assertive to express their reality. Simultaneously lacking deeper engagement, or nuanced approach, to whatever is there to deal. The world is increasingly attention seeking, superficialities rivet. This is where words become even more important. People are not reading long incisive articles and insightful understanding but throwing words at each other which carry deeper meaning -many a times without realizing it. Words that invoke history is what we need to be beware of since it brings in fracture of the past that surely has no, and must not have, relevance to contemporary. Systems that invoke these words are persistent threat to the world we live in. Communism and religion are systems that seek relevance from past. They really have nothing much to offer for the contemporary. The binary -us/them, segregation, dehumanizing values lacking compassion or concern is how these systems consolidate. They persistently bring words from the past to degrade the present. With words they bring the context of dead past as festering wound, and so the world loses much of humanity. So, eventhough communism steadily lost its influence across the world due to its incapacity to abstract human for their collective dialectic they are able to control the narration through the words used that percolate into common parlance and claims of historical wrongs and counter claims -that use same semantics of deal devoid of contemporary context.
Communism spread in 20th century and held hope for better world but very soon major flaws were apparent. In the last few decades, it has failed or had to morph from core ideology to garner support. Failure to abstract human for collective dialectics is a fall out of the changed world. Technology leading to individual assertion and increasing awareness of nuance of world we live in -individual context and human condition. Communism though has much left to offer against work place exploitation through unionizing collective voice against neoliberal neocolonial power structures spreading through market capitalism and their nefarious attempts to control through insidious technologies. Socialism remains a significant understanding for public policy. Technology, and easy access to world, has also led to lack depth in dealing and understanding. In this superficial, and increasingly fake and manipulated, world human seeks collective -being social animal as also dreading loneliness, isolation or incapacity to face frightening human condition and absurdities of life. Superficial values of unthinking minds find juvenile premise of religion comforting, its assured association with other compelling. There is also primal subconscious angst for known that get satisfied, as also fear of unknown assuaged through fantastical claims and grand stories. The reason why religion despite its anachronistic degrading values gets primacy. Laughable claims that don’t stand basic scrutiny is found acceptable, and in complete horrifying dehumanization are ready to kill another human to justify the absurd. Such absolute lack of connection to reality of existence and faith in fantasy is what religion presents. More the number of herds increases more it stands as a challenge to humanity.
The paradox of lacking followers
but firm control over narration is where left intellectual workout their
devious plan to establish their entitled self on the world. Instead of high
stand of abstracting humans for collective struggle they now find readymade
collective -albeit herd with entirely different concern but equally dehumanized
and segregated. So, the left intellectual doesn’t have to dehumanize people
into abstract human collective, herd is already dehumanized and incapable to
think. The binary of imperial forces, colonial atrocities and fascist agenda
are words that are freely used. Herd has to be a victim. While herd controlling
state is the aggressor, indeed, imperial fascist force. There are no
complexities. Period. Left intellectual has his or her work cut out. And in the
luxuries of feudal trappings, they pronounce the verdict in spellbinding
semantic flourish that encompass vistas of history to how we landed into
the present. This is the danger we face.
The essential and abiding identity
of human being is to be a human, a vibrant life with all unique possibilities. There
is providence of race and gender which shouldn’t matter if societies have
evolved. Any other identity is a choice. It cannot be imposed on people, to classify
and segregate. Ofcourse societies can be primitive, individuals insecure and
crass, but that is not the reason to dilute progressive thoughts and evolved ideas.
Being a social animal human being must have the all the option to associate
into collective of their choice and identify as they wish. What matters is
humanism and understanding, and a connection with reality of life. If you
persistently classify people -and piece of land, under religion then you take
away the choice of being a human -it is an assault, and ofcourse also the absurdity
of branding land as a claim for religion. These absurdities are deviously worked
into history, and then into contemporary to create recurring loops of misery
and wasted future. It places humans as replication of past generations and as
such lack faculties to think or express, or the capacity to identify with vibrant
present. It is an attempt at negating human, and bracketing into preconceived
identities. The reason why progressive societies must actively remove religion or
its influence from education space that impress young minds. Education is meant to
equip to be a human and assert one’s unique individuality.
To relegate crisis to past -the history,
as definitive reference is to trap people in a sinister loop wherein devious narration
control act as arbitrators and moral authority. The claim of history can easily
be challenged since it is based barbarism of past -which shouldn’t be a
reference for present. To claim victimhood from past is spurious attempt at obfuscating
complexities of present. Victims were in context to time and space in which
they lived. Their choice were denied. The claim of victimhood from history is based
on the fallacy that you represent the victim and that you don’t have choice, or
that past is about you. What is needed is to deny the past, and attempts to
invoke it. What is needed is to see that systems that denied choice in past is
relegated. Feudal structures and regressive values that denied humanity is dismantled.
Democratic ideals and institutions are nurtured, freedom and liberty asserted.
Recently there are calls made to apologize for colonial atrocities of past from british monarchy. This is precisely the ridiculous level to which narration are controlled, without any care for contemporary. Where do you draw the line of where history ends or begins? Or to whom do you apologize? Where the societies democratic with each individual enjoying freedom before western colonization? As we stretch history back in time the list of apologies will grow. Similarly, many religions and faiths controlled land over centuries, and much before that early human settlers from hunter gatherers. If anybody has claim on land then it should be early humans, much before any contemporary religions existed. Where do you freeze the line of history, and why? And who decides? This invoking of history is dangerous and futile. There is no doubt that monarchy is a regressive presence and sustains feudal values and carries the fractures of past and must be dismantled. Its continuation is an insult on each and every human being on earth. Colonialism is a source of festering wound across the world. It is however failure of society to blame the past, it shows incapacity to deal with the present. Many societies, specifically in east Asia, were poor swampy regions only a few decades back but through investment in education as also progressive values are able to reclaim. Britain need not apologize for its past, it is absurd. It must surely apologize for the present.