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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i agree the non interesting happenings is making media a complete fool for they try to find and create news when none exists. They say an idle mind is a devil's workshop thus the decline in our behavior. Our ability is hampered and so is our thought process.
I was particularly saddened by the happenings in Maharashtra, where i stayed for more than a year and made many good friends...and i would reiterate that its quite a nice place to stay and should not be spoilt by some Gunda Raj.
I am sure that the moron is aware that it’s the same constitution that governs Maharashtra and I feel the government has done absolutely nothing to curb down the happenings.
Come on we can’t allow a family to say what they want to say and do whatever they want to do…
-GAG
gag: i completely agree about the maharashtra situation. for the exact same reasons as well.
and it's amazing isnt it, the way he just stopped the moment he realised he's got enough attention already.
I wonder what he told the misguided mob that did the execution.
"Alright guys, this is where we turn around" wouldnt be enough for sure :)
I was on a one day visit to Mumbai today.
There was a hoarding sporting Raj Thakare's face in front of Maharashtra Assembly building which said "Put your signature if you support Raj Thakare" The hoarding was full of signatures.
On the same footpath, north indians (ya, I talked to them and confirmed that they were northies) were busy earning their roji roti.
dinesh: incredible isnt it :)
can we pin this down to the "spirit of mumbai". people are going to turn up to work irrespective of whether it's terrorists from someplace else wanting to bomb them or it's thugs from the place they live in trying to drive them away.
I sometimes wonder if it's a good thing if such things lead to full scale riots.
We'd atleast have a few mobsters killed/seriously injured in the fighting... which could be a good thing really.
I think an ideal solution would be to have an organised riot or organised chaos or whatever. Put all these characters into an open ground or something, with high walls so there's no escaping.
Now tell them to fight each other. Cause that's the way they intend to make their point right?
Play recordings of speeches by leaders-of-the-masses (could even be movie stars) at regular intervals.
This would lead to quite a few of these morons being too injured if not too dead to try anything again.
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