Wednesday, January 31, 2024

Education that murders

 

Youngsters all across the country face severe stress through what was expected to be fun filled fulfillment of awareness of the world and nurturing of critical thinking and compassion. Literacy is easy, education is difficult. Education needs commitment for better world. It needs ever evolving collaboration between educators and students to create individuals with conscience and inquisitiveness to strive for truer perception of reality. Education is an attempt to create better human being. Over the years best minds across the world have delved on it. Despite these efforts education system in much of the world is stuck in worst of possibilities, trapped by devious minds to create compliant individuals and an instrument of indoctrination. It has worked as supply chain for greed and puppet for bigger use. While primitive religions want to capture impressionable mind into its dehumanizing horror with a meagre claim of morals, market is hunting for cogs to fit for productivity. One elderly industrialist even wants youngsters to work more than 70hours per week. What is this work and how it impacts well being of individuals is not his concern. Like life education can never really be goal oriented -this goal oriented nonsense is spread by crass market and devious religions to trap humans into narrow frame of dealing so as to control. It is designed to keep plebs occupied in narrow frame. Goal removes the possibilities of education. Uninhibited learning, and indeed delearning, understanding and further research in areas of interests, is the intend. So that young mind discovers his or her inedible presence in the diverse world and an increased awareness of intricate life giving systems as also possibilities of latest technologies and wise understandings from thoughtful people. This vibrant mind then can be attuned to narrow purpose as and when needed -and shouldn’t be mistaken for goal, it is an iterative awareness of what is needed to be done. Thankfully new education policy has removed words like examination and fail from its vocabulary. Continued flexible student centric assessment and analyzing learning is being suggested.

Unfortunately, the beggar minded society values education as a means for acquiring money, power and security, and not as an outcome but the very reason to educate. For majority of desperate people, in this unjust nepotism driven corrupt world with acute poverty and characteristic middle class insecurities, this surely is true and they end up as dehumanized lives chasing little world they are eternally trapped in. When this becomes defining parameters of society is where the problem is. Education therefore becomes goal oriented for gains, and the worst of people pose as motivators to attune impressionable minds and hapless people into this crude value system as eternal calling. Exams are conducted with much fanfare -the absurd nature of these competitions doesn’t really check the innate strength or ingenuity (indeed the best educationists have questioned the stupid questions they ask, as also the exaggerated IITs are tech coolies striving for status quo world and gaining from opportunities herein to write success stories for herds back home. It is the worst evaluation of education where humans are reduced to pawns. Ofcourse there are some who gain from better education understanding in West). The failure of education, and with it potential of human, has much to do with this increasingly crass control that is encroaching into core of humanity. The beggar minded society stampeding to authenticate itself through increasingly meaningless competitions ties itself in knots and strangulates itself. The beauty of life is taken away and the confused alienated youngsters are evaluated on ugliness of society. Either they systematically degrade themselves into this ugliness and goal orient for power, prestige and money, and keep striving as best of herd and act as role model for crass world, or else face the most important question there is: whether to live? The goal oriented values and crude education system doesn’t really factor the awareness of vastness of life and essential existential absurdity. Sisyphus therefore has to suicide.  

What is truly heartbreaking in this suicide note, apart from the soul wrenching innocence, is that the teenaged girl has chosen to write this extremely emotional last message to loved ones in a language that she is evidently not comfortable in. It points to deeper alienating factors, including likely lack of communication with people around. The desolate last line “this is the only option left” -a matter of fact evaluation of life by young mind, is a failure of society at many levels. It should shudder human conscience.     

Monday, January 22, 2024


 A nation awaits

...there is a mirthful contentment in this ethereal face. Hope it brings the same to millions of believers and make the world a better place. Om shaantih. Let there be peace.



 द्यौः शान्तिरन्तरिक्षं शान्तिः
पृथिवी शान्तिरापः शान्तिरोषधयः शान्तिः ।
वनस्पतयः शान्तिर्विश्वेदेवाः शान्तिर्ब्रह्म शान्तिः
सर्वं शान्तिः शान्तिरेव शान्तिः सा मा शान्तिरेधि ॥
 शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥
Om Dyauh Shaantir-Antarikssam Shaantih
Prthivii Shaantir-Aapah Shaantir-Ossadhayah Shaantih |
Vanaspatayah Shaantir-Vishvedevaah Shaantir-Brahma Shaantih
Sarvam Shaantih Shaantir-Eva Shaantih Saa Maa Shaantir-Edhi |
Om Shaantih Shaantih Shaantih ||

Meaning:
OmPeace is in SkyPeace is in Space (between Earth and Sky);
Peace is in EarthPeace is in WaterPeace is in Plants;
Peace is in TreesPeace is in Gods (presiding over the various elements of Nature); Peace is in Brahman (Absolute Consciousness);
Peace is pervading everywherePeace alone (which is outside) is in Peace (which is inside); May you be (established in) that Peace (and make your life fulfilled);
OmPeacePeacePeace.


  

Thursday, January 18, 2024

On the home stretch

So there is a realization by pretentious controllers of narrations that charlatan's "election lie is working" or, in a carefully calibrated sentence, "lie has become an article of faith for his supporter". Is there a surprise? Isn't it the same framework for religions? That you create system of belief with little bit of profound thoughts -by enlightened souls in the limited context of the times they lived that seek answer to spiritual yearnings, insecurities/unknown, an attempt to ameliorate miseries of common people, some bit of empathy, but much load of crap from the context of cave people, primitive values of barbarians, adamantly elevated as ultimate unquestionable truth to degrade contemporary reality. These are then nurtured by devious herd controllers as sacred right while uncouths eat into liberal values and humanistic concerns, as also negate evolved sensibilities of the contemporary. Feudal values and ascriptive entitlements feed the worst to degrade the society so as to cleverly take attention from themselves or furiously position as stabilizing force against chaos of ‘democracy’, as benign presence overseeing humanity at a terrible cost. They systematically solidify foundation of nepotism, cronyism and hypocrisy that persistently work against liberty and freedom -ideals that enrich democracy and liberal values. They trap people in cunning talks using semantics of high concern and emoting appropriate emotions all the while amassing power, money and clout. "Lies that work", indeed fantastical fiction, through miracle books, scriptures, holy texts, self-righteous moral sickness, "articles of faith" -all of which essentially comes with amazing level of nuisance to create misery to common people while seeking to guide, encouraging them to be unthinking, preventing awareness of evolving reality or atleast be empathetic. They create sociopaths with grand views of the world and essential exceptionalism of being the best followers or that their god or godforsaken holy books/faith/tradition are the best, religious supremist viciously compete.

With foundation of hypocrisy, they tarnish best of intentions, whether against racism or encouraging diversity, by playing for gallery -that they usurped as woke. Their concern is always to win debate and appear from the woodwork on every occasion to play unsolicited savior to consolidate gain at the expense of common people. It is the deep sense of hopelessness and anguish which they leave in their wake that charlatans like Trump are able to capitalize. It is a matter of grave concern that likes of Trump are belligerently usurping space of collective insecurities of societies across the world while decrepit Bidens of the world arrogantly cling to power, trapped in their own version of grand past as a poignant metaphor for collective helplessness of collapsing world and real time horror show for humanity (Biden is a nice man, he must realize the gravity of the situation). Nothing seems to reflect the diming reality or existential threats faced by common people, in the turn of sentence there is entertainment value but no attempt at discerning the truth, in the competing binaries they have fallen through the crack of debating points. Like headless chicken they cluck towards anyone who excites their emotions and keep their illusion intact.  

 With feudal values they nurtured nepotistic control -that is reflected in religion and neo liberal capitalism, entrenched hypocrisy degraded semantics of dealing which was easily usurped by devious charlatans to impress people. Words like ‘liberal’ ‘diversity’ so on, even facts, don’t mean anything -and we wait with increasing trepidation on what form of assault latest technology is going to unleash into this context of degrading dehumanizing world, while egalitarian values and democratic intents are no show and hooted out as boring. Charlatans play the high decibel entertainment of fantastical fiction that religion impressed and neo liberal extended. Isn't market capitalism the same 'lie that is working'? It is becoming increasingly clear that nature is no longer able to take this lie that is embellished in the fantasy of unlimited choices in unlimited world of luxury. This lie doesn't include majority of people nor is it based on values that encourage critical thinking or sustainable living or empathy. The lie of hedonism and wanton consumption packed as liberal values and democratic choices hinging progress and development. Tenets of capitalism, like religion, has become “article of faith” that cannot be questioned as the world spiral into doom. Indeed, there is an urgent need to modify capitalism to fast evolving reality, and how nations are valued for 'development' and investment, and individual evaluated for worth. This seems to be more urgent than IPCC CoP meets -that is seriously compromised by market capitalism and neo liberal assault. First sort out the system. If you are going to work within the same system that seeks consumption as well as conservation then it really cannot work. Simple use of intellectual faculty will tell that these are contradictory. Most sane people know that urgent action at international level is needed but the system will not allow it, they cannot even agree on ‘phase out’ fossil fuel. Unless something like "sustainable capitalism", oxymoronic it may sound, is worked out then this is really the home stretch for much of humanity while psychopaths amass to control and detach. Economists and policy makers must come together to evolve the economic system -that is breaking the living world, anew into a generative economics with life systems at the core. We cannot have economic system that reflects the destructive ‘growth model’ of 20th century and expect to face emerging challenges that has absolutely no precedence. If the core is rotten no amount of COPs matters, they will fail terribly. The fixation that economic stability is what that matters for political or social stability is being seriously questioned. Unless economic system reflects what is valued the make believe will collapse. Resilience of biodiversity is reducing with degrading habitat and vanishing species. Life cannot bail out.   



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




These days I die everyday
 
Have you decided to be
Not to be
Close your eyes
Close your mind
Close.
Pause. 
Each person is a memory erased
From collective, from your life
From breezy stillness of the afternoon
From chatter of the weekend.

From Ukraine, from Gaza
From pain on the streets and homes
Fresh memories and old stories
Life is no more future
It is paused to past
Reason don’t hold
Love not in meaning
Anguish missed by the audience
They seek distraction from every desperation
That falls from the sky.

Settling smoke
Engulf
What is left of life.
(they will appear they say, in thoughts, in dreams, in memories, in their favorite dress, requesting desired meal or prepare it for you and ask you to wait while fret for missing ingredient, saying chosen lines that kept them happy, glad and alive)

  

 


Wednesday, January 03, 2024

Matter of aukat

 

Social media is ignited by arrogance of a dimwitted Indian bureaucrat. The cog of the system created by racist brutal colonial masters as an efficient mechanism to exploit and control the people and land. So while the lawyers and left out feudals (desperately trying to capitalize on angst as conscientious souls) played freedom fighting many youngsters of the depraved society lacking ethical context were trying to get into racist bureaucracy to be conduit in colonial exploitation and lessons from racist values of exceptionalism to equate caste cannibalism and authenticate blessing -meanwhile in S.Africa a cud chewing purity seeking lawyer cringe even groveled to the racist colonizers to not club his blessed self with African black ‘indolent savages’ -in his infected mind native brutalized Africans had less "aukat" compared to white skin racist exploiters.

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:  


The Cable Ship

We fished up the Atlantic Cable one day 
between the Barbados and theTortugas,
held up our lanterns
and put some rubber over the wound in its back,
latitude 15 degrees north, longitude 61 degrees west.
When we laid our ear down to the gnawed place
we could hear something humming inside the cable.

"It's some millionaires in Montreal and St John
talking over the price of Cuban sugar, and ways to
reduce our wages", one of us said.

For a long time we stood there thinking, in a circle of lanterns,
we're all patient cable fishermen,
then we let the coated cable fall back
to its place in the sea.

His poems reflected deep humanism and care for nature. One of his noted works is an epic poem, a profound science fiction titled Aniara -a spacecraft in which people are escaping to mars from a destroyed earth and is knocked off course into deep space oblivion, it has been adapted into opera and recently a movie. What is remarkable about this poem is profound ideas of science and technology into human frailties and a prescient understanding of life. What is much more remarkable is that Martinson was self-taught, didn’t have much schooling nor stable childhood, indeed after working in ships -that took him to far off  places, he suffered from lung problems and had to abandon his job and ended up living as a vagabond on country roads, he was even arrested for vagrancy. That he was able to produce high quality work of evolved sensibilities points to not only his remarkable resilience but also the context of society that nurtures best ideas and expressions despite worst of circumstances.

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





Rain dance

All the gods are dead and dying
They murder each other in astounding spectacle
Collections of stone tools to silicon tools
Array on mourning scenes
The shifting facts and fictions
Folklore don’t hold the sensible
Bushman writhe in pain
His skin burns with koalas
His legs scorch into bones of kangaroos
It doesn’t make any sense
The dead and dying
Puebloans raise to dance
They thump their legs in great rhythm of the lives
They invoke the gentle dead in rain clouds
They rise through the trees
To keep the world safe.

Friday, December 08, 2023

condolences

 Immense loss


....
The race industry is a growth industry.
We despairing, they careering.
They're looking for victims and poets to rent.
They represent me without my consent.
...
They take our sufferings and earn a salary.
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.
... 

("The coconuts have got the jobs" Benjamin Zephaniah)

This interview clearly points out vast world of difference between african immigrant/black refugee to UK and south asian feudal/caste cannibal migrant to West.

Thursday, December 07, 2023

A minor news

 

This is a minor news that I happen to read among many such minor news that happens across the primitive society -in most cases it may not lead to death but severe debilitating injury, or deep humiliation and profound dehumanizing response, for what seems to be minor mistake. Unimaginable worst atrocities have happened for decades while cunning castetva forces created template to morph these as insignificant law-and-order issues, desperate to classify these as personal skirmishes without anything more to it. India was already a british authenticated beacon of nonviolence, and with effortless ease -indeed entitled, moral compass to the world with gandhi, and clinging gandhians, awe the world with beatific smile and ethereal contented bearing as they sharpen the technique of using common people as fodder for highest moral ground.

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



Bowerbird makes the world a better place 

You must pick words 
Like bowerbird picks blues
Of all shapes and sizes
Nuggets of stolen thoughts, berries of wisdom
Bit of litter to cover the lack
Arrange in short and long sentences
To shelter ideas that connect
And help shift your world into a better place  




Sunday, December 03, 2023

Unethical brands


 A British organisation Ethical Consumers investigated 82 brands of chocolates and found that only 17 followed ethical standards. These were primarily investigated as to whether they ensured farmers were paid enough to live on. About 60% of the world’s cocoa comes from west Africa, and about six in 10 cocoa-growing households in Ghana are estimated to use child labour, with four in 10 in Ivory CoastLast year it was found that 10-year-old children were using machetes to harvest cocoa destined for Mondelēz’s supply chain -which produced Cadbury. Report also states that "buying chocolate from brands such as Fairafric, ’57 Chocolate and Chocolat Madagascar was expensive and could be hard to get hold of but they were good “as a treat or a present”, while Tony’s Chocolonely was widely available in supermarkets and “really trying to change the chocolate industry”

Please avoid buying these brands in case you like chocolates, and yes children must be made aware of these ethical lapse so that they are aware and become responsible citizens and compassionate human being. 

Saturday, November 25, 2023



The old tree

Here like a sentinel and a pause
I can retell stories of scars and seasons
Invading armies plough the land
Pilgrim’s procession of suffering
Wise leave trail in the folklore
I can tell the secrets hidden in crevices of unknown
Conscious that floats forever and settle briefly
To catch the colors of rainbow     

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Climate culprits

 

The other day per capita carbon footprint of richest people was published and discussed. Disinformation spreading toxic media controller Murdoch is right there. This fellow is really a criminal, ideally one shouldn’t be happy about someone dying but yes people like Murdoch will do a big favour to the world by their death. Each moment they breath they take lives. They make world a worst place. There are many extremely rich toxic people who spread misery as they live, and then we also have not so rich down the pecking order emulating and aspiring to be richer and equally toxic -a statement on system that nurtures these people and crass reality of existence. About a decade back reducing carbon footprint became a conscience movement. Everyone, including this blogger, made efforts to reduce. Very soon it became clear that these efforts don’t really matter much unless there is a systemic effort. System -and greedy arbitrators, was parasiting on common people.

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


 Argentina is a large south American nation, and to see it go down like this is deeply saddening. That this fellow is elected by large number of people is a reflection of insecurities of people that is cleverly tapped by charlatans with atavistic appeal. In the last few years world is moving towards chaos which is having debilitating impact on common people hence they look for primal associations. Technology has unleashed powerful tools that has positive potential through all the communication and knowledge at fingertip to get deeper meaning and associations. But the way market has manipulated and designed it is to maximize profit through superficial attention of dangerous world. Astounding possibilities of technology is seeking lowest denominator. We no longer know whom or what to trust hence we side with subconscious associations of primal over egalitarian possibilities of unknown and awareness of better world. This has debilitating impact on society that may not be really be equipped to factor in such onslaught. Democratic values, critical thinking and empathy driven spiritual contexts have not really percolated. Add to it depleting resources, social turmoil and alienation. With impact of climate change set to cascade, and with that resource loss, food insecurity, displacement and diseases, things are set to worsen unless ofcourse people find better self and society consolidates evolved understanding. South America has vibrant history of left movements that have percolated awareness of rights into society, even religions have played fairly positive role. But has been marred by outside forces and wanton corruption. Left movement too has become corrupted and, in the West, controlled by devious ego driven feudals working theoretical jargons of debating points to settle score than any connection with reality. They severely degraded the world. Unhinged demagogues using tools of disinformation and mass connection are going to make it worse.        

Sunday, November 19, 2023



  2.0°C is breached


Yesterday (Nov.18) first time in the recorded history surface temperature breached 2.0°C above the 1850-1900 IPCC baseline.

Be very concerned.

Saturday, November 18, 2023

When is it hate?


 Ridicule is important part of freedom. Curtailing ridicule is attack on freedom of expression hence attempt at diminishing humanity. Aesthetics is the deciding factor. Nature of society also matters in the evolution of aesthetic sensibilities. Primitive individuals/societies lack nuance hence aestheticism. This lack of discerning abilities leads to incapacity to deal with complexities of modern world. They become vulnerable to extreme emotions and violent responses. Ridicule also has complex context. Denying these complexities makes it a civilizational setback hence emboldens primitives. Degrading and dehumanizing systems like religion must be ridiculed, and any attempt to give it significance as human identity by devious forces must be resisted. Forcing this subjective anachronistic nonsense as defining parameter in human dealing is sinister ploy to control. So is the disturbing attempt to freeze narration in horrendous past defined by sensibilities of barbarians. Semantics of deal -that essentially must have evolved with complexities of present, is frozen in icy reactions of dreadful past. This then trigger herd to emulate the past. The fractures are cannibalized by controlling forces to accrue power. In an evolved world words like antisemitism (or islamophobia) shouldn’t mean anything at all therefore confined to horrible past. These must be expressed frequently within the confines of contemporary to take on the systems that trap herds into agents of horror. Any sensible human must, with all their being, resist systems that dehumanizes, segregates and degrades. Religion has always been a threat to humanity. You must hate degrading system. You must pity and ridicule the herd. But you cannot hate human being. This demarcation of ridicule from hate comes with awareness of human condition. Religion, in the personal space, has served hapless people trapped in increasingly bleak fate and existential insecurities. Even in collective space some religions have complemented to modern life in many ways. The problem arises when in personal space it pushes humans into unthinking herd hence diminishes humanity, while in the collective space it pose a threat to enlightened values. All religions are not same some have not passed the critical scrutiny to enlighten itself but they must be treated equally to face the rule of law. In the awareness of contemporary world if some want to keep isolated and secure in primitive ideas of past then it is their problem. It cannot be problem of the world. Common people cannot be used as fodder to keep primitives occupied or distracted -since a focused herd can be nothing but threat. Denying rights, threat of physical violence as also associating past crime of history with contemporary is hate. Denying rule of law is hate. To classify people is hate. To assign people into history is hate. To assume that human being is anything other than human being is hate. The constant endeavor of devious controllers is to keep the herd occupied in their misery and barter them for power. That surely is not how enlightened society works, nor if you want to deal with complexities of future. We must ridicule the systems that nurture herd and reduce humanity. Herd is a pity. Let the awareness of human condition define aesthetics.   

*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





Loop
 
When we are finally photons in the massless universe
Every space is like everywhere else
Past, present and future interlocks
Everything that ever happened, will happen,
All exist somewhere in space time slide
Fast forward, pause, rewind
Like wandering spirit we can step out to trace the shapes we take
Cyanobacteria, chloroplast, cambrian…
Mishaps, mischances, mutations
Improbables, impossibles
And then this
…and that
Shades of color weave life
Dancing bees
Mind that unravels pattern
Life simulates never ending fractals
Happiness sadness happiness 
Present absent present
Day night day
Plato points the heaven, Aristotle measures the world
Atom splits and splits and engulfs
There was light in the beginning and end
And beginning      

 


Wednesday, November 01, 2023

Stormtroopers of narration control


 When atrocities are committed on humanity there is only one response that is possible to redeem collective conscience and that is through shock, anguish, and justice. Perpetrators of crime against humanity must face full force of the rule of law without any exception. Enlightened values, ideals of democracy and its institutions are hinged on retributive justice as also prevent such transgressions in future. When state is attacked -as has happened in recent times in Ukraine and Israel -and now Palestine, it is expected that multilateral agencies like UN take action through peace keeping force and restore order and justice through international courts so on. This is what civilized people do when faced with barbarity and crime against humanity. We unfortunately don’t live in ideal world, and most people are not civilized. So, what’s the deal?

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.