Point To Ponder, Complex Fallacy, Quotes & Fluidity Of Classes

Point To Ponder, Complex Fallacy, Quotes & Fluidity Of Classes By Dr. Sohail Ansari

Conceived and worded by DR Sohail Ansari (originality of concepts and originality of words).

He believes that there can never be a zero scope for improvement and appreciates criticism if it is not for the sake of criticism. 

{You are really great if you admit I am greater}

Points to ponder

·        Media have us believe that only departure from normal is worth our attention; therefore ‘there is no good in anything until it has gone bad’. We can not see ourselves marvelous; therefore, we can not see anything marvelous. ‘The movies star is only what happens to the baby when it goes wrong; but there is nothing marvelous about either of them except what is already marvelous in the mere existence of the baby’.

Complex fallacy:

·        As love affairs are necessary to the writing of love story; writers must manufacture other men’s names before he makes his own.

Quotable Quote on “R”

Realism and Optimism

·        Realism with optimism makes it possible to pursue all that lies within the realm of possibility; optimism without realism brings everything in that realm; and realism without optimism pushes many things from realm.

Religion

·        If one knows that for not refusing his own religion, he must refuse to think of it, then he is fully alive to the irrationality of his beliefs.

·        If religion is not the only factor in defining your identity, then mere observance of the articles of faith can not make you a religious man in substance.  

Repent

·        If early is better then best repent must be without having suffered many doses of pain.

Resourcefulness

·        Resourcefulness or ingenuity is finding alternatives to alternative.

Ruler and leader

·        Power suits ruler and leader suits power.

Result

·        One needs not to speak for results if results speak themselves.

Rich

·        You are rich as long as you have more cash than you know what to do with it, and remain so as long as you do not. 

Rote learning

·        Rote learning underscores the significance of repetition, not repetition of significance. 

Fluidity of classes

(Modern man is no longer characterized by personal impotency emanating from fatalism but by a psycho-social complex of norms based on democratic orientation that imply implicit faith on egalitarianism and meritocracy as value concept. Mass media act as mobility multipliers; infusing people with diffused rationality; consequently ways of thinking and acting cease to be articles of faith and become instrument of intention.

The rise of Political Marketing as the privileged forum for the transmission of political cues is the response to needs of time as all parties need political campaign not because they know it will deliver but because they do not know for sure it will not.

Article draws upon socio-cultural perspectives in seeking to understand how cultural, social and economic changes mediated by industrialization influence the way people relate to political parties or leaders).  

 Unlike traditional societies, industrial societies can not survive and grow unless they have literate population; therefore, accessibility to education is accepted as the right of everyone not the privilege of a few in modern societies. Universality of education opens every option to everyone and anyone can climb up the social ladder; therefore unlike traditional culture in which classes create insurmountable boundaries (classes) and people are born and die in these boundaries, in contemporary culture members of class can move up or down the rung at any time.

Cluster of middle class can expand as the result of economic progress and shrink if reverse is the case. New classes come into being and old ones vanish with the fluctuation in the fortune of country.

No individual can be classified for long into any particular class, hence expected behavior of individual due to association with any particular class becomes unexpected as member can or forced to switch their allegiance from one class to another at any time they find themselves eligible to do so, or no longer belong to it as the unfortunate twist in fate. 

There is no permanent lifestyle, rather ever-changing way of life defined by its distinctive array of values, drives, beliefs, needs, dreams, and special points of view.

Political marketing consultants expend enormous amount of energies in tapping cluster analyses, and then craft approach tailored to voter differentiation in order to fit candidate type and characteristics, and its relation to ever-changing aspirations of ever-changing lifestyle.