In all the ancient Civilizations the THINKER was the most
important and most respected figure for his ideas and preaching were followed by the common people. India was far ahead intellectually of other countries .Our
History is full of such great minds in the field of religion, science ,
mathematics, astronomy, philosophy, literature and to enumerate their names in
a blog is impossible.
In our modern times thinking and spreading high moral ideas
are reduced to mindless forwarding messages on Social Media as if those good
ideas are to be followed by others and
the sender is following them .
The most regrettable feature of our times is the disdain for
intellect and intellectuals. There is a
story about Mughal Emperor Aurangzeb that he hated music . Once a funeral
procession was passing by his palace and he enquired about who had died , some one informed him it was the Janaaza (cortege) of music and Aurangzeb ordered that it should be buried so deep that it may
never come out. Many modern “intellectuals haters” would like to
prescribe the same treatment to “intellect”
Philosopher like Descartes
proved the existence of self by proclaiming Cogito Ergo Sum , I think
therefore I am.
This mindset was bound to happen because when there are minimum qualifications like
education ,skill and experience are in
place for the lowest positions in any field
but for the position of Neta
there is no set of such requirement.
This fact brings me to
another very interesting observation. We the public elect people for
solving problems of the common men which is a herculean task. So our
innovative people have mastered the art of playing the game how to reduce a small line without resorting
to erasing any part? The simple answer
is draw a bigger line by the side of it. In Politics our Opposition believes
that their only task is to oppose
whatever action is taken by the Ruling
party and this in the long run has created a scenario where one problem is
automatically replaced by another like the changing Acts in a Drama.
Let me illustrate the
point after general election there were lots of
issues raised, creating
genuine tension, like slowdown in
economy, lack of jobs farmers distress ,
in came Citizen Amendment Bill and Pro
& Anti CAA protests spread in various parts of the country successfully removed the other problems from
the scene and Media relentlessly brought
CAA to the center stage.
The prolonged national attention from CAA disappeared only when Delhi
Riots took place followed by Corona Virus & YES BANK Fiasco . Let us simply
wait for something more attention drawing to take place .
Can there be any more simpler way to deal with problems ?
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