The problem
The major problem or one of the major problems for there are many...
ok lets not ape douglas adams here (again)
The real problem we're facing is that nothing of note has happened in our country in the last 20 years. Nothing major that could like occupy a significant portion of the average person's mind for significant parts of the day at least.
Everybody's bored.
If we make a list of people who're at a position of loss because of this, the first place would go to the media. The media's facing the brunt of it... hence the quality we're so used to.
The 'leaders' would be the next in line. Look at it from their point of view... You cant really generate a following unless you have people interested in what you're doing. And this isnt possible if everybody's bored.
I dont know what the best option a leader (or a wannabe leader) has available is. The option currently regarded as best by the people that be is embracing the absolutely ridiculous i guess.
How else can you explain northies being driven out of Bombay? If whoever's driving them out has a cause and a valid reason, then what was everybody doing all these days?
And then, if somebody's trying to get to power using a particular system, then doesn't the fact that he's imprisoned by that very system actually deal a severe, non recoverable blow to his chances rather than elivate him to the status of a pre-death martyr or sorts?
Incredible how people want to be imprisoned in the glare so that they get political mileage out of it.
Getting into prison doesnt make one a Gandhi or a Mandela. It doesn't make you Ed Norton either. But who's listening?
And then there's the left who's protesting against T20 cricket. WTF!!!! Where did that come from? What does T20 have to do with anything? Who are these morons? Who let them in? I'd love to know Ganguly's reaction to all this.
Anyway. This is the point where I (like everybody else in the country) get seriously bored... and also (like everybody else in the country again) ponder on the pointlessness of it all... and finally (like everybody else blah blah) realise that the everybody else I've been alluding to do not make the numbers in the country and hence are nobodys.
"The others" are happy. They're kept ignorant enough to feel they're a part of something and that they should form mobs and try and become deciding factors and all that. The chain's only going to break when somebody realises that the mob characters have been living tragic lifes for generations now and all their getting-up-in-arms-to-protest-aginst-the-system deals hasn't improved things one bit. But that's going to take a long while coming."Everybody" knows that.
posted by KD @ 5:33 PM
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