Points To Ponder,Quotes & Broader Realm Of Comparison

Points To Ponder,Quotes & Broader Realm Of Comparison 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.

Points to ponder

·        Problem with Hollywood description of joy is that if we go according to it, we must then it only in certain crooked and rambling by-paths made entirely by people incapable of feeling plain things. High pleasures occur on high road of life as proved by a baby to mother.

·        The idea that education promotes a culture of creative dissatisfaction to have achievement of excellence and that citizens with each increment in awareness as they advance through age seek better than best is because of belief that education is automatically geared to do so. If this would always be a fact, statuesque then must be anathema everywhere, and people those try to encourage acquiescence to a certain view by discouraging its evaluation must then be a bêtes noires in every country. Education ensures, as a matter of fact, in many countries intellectual dependence, child is over taught through brute repetition and is the ‘father of the newspaper reading, advertisement believing, propaganda swallowing’. If individual makes modern culture enlightened one, education does not deliver.

·       “Thinking School, Thinking nation” is a good motto. Education is a safeguard against intellectual stagnancy, if it encourages its recipient to come up with ‘variations on theme’; but by encouraging individuals for variations of theme it gives birth to many nations within a nation: each individual is thinking only to be skeptical of his identity.  

Quotable Quotes from “S”

Self perception

·        Change in self perception of being at odds with oneself relies on unity of two parts divided by faith and practices.

Special

·        No one is if everyone is special as trophies become meaningless if everyone gets is not a right thing to say as everyone can be special in his peculiar way.

Strictness

·        Strictness is as much about making people work when they must as about making them not when they must not.

·        If strictness is the response to mischief, it is justified. If mischief is response to strictness then it is counter productive.

Sad Stealing

·        The poignancy of stealing is stealing a victory election thief would probably have earned anyway. It is just like stealing the gift before it is gifted to you.

Same

·        Same will not be same again if one grows different.

Scholar

·        Scholar is alive after death if he continues to speak through books and dead before death if it never happens during his lifetime. 

Science

·        The limit of science is determined by the questions it claims to answer.

Solution

·        When we try to solve everything, we learn that many things have a way of solving themselves. 

Silence

·        Speaking through silence is an artistic genius of negotiations with linguistic barrier in a way that silence becomes louder than words.   

Stance

·        Abandoning right stance for the wrong one proves wrong right and right wrong.

Strategy

·        Fighting insurgency as if there is no negotiations and negotiations as if there is no insurgency affords full explorations of each.

Subtle

·        Subtle is that white on white that makes it hard for one to see the difference.

Success

·        Each success in bad practices is harbinger of the unlikely return of good practices.

BROADER REALM OF COMPARISON

 (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).  

Urban societies of industrial world are characterized by ubiquity of media which has transformed world into global village, enabling all members of this village to know what others have. Consequently, perceptions, feelings, and responses of people are determined by crime statistics, employment rates, and level of affluence in the rich countries of the World.

Members of society measure ‘quality of life’ by measuring degree of satisfaction in the various aspects of their lives. The horizon of satisfaction however is a moving line because as economic conditions advance, so too does the social norms, since this is formed by the changing economic socialization experience of people; but in the media-dominated world of today social norms advance even in those countries that lack corresponding economic advances as exposure through media to the changing economic socialization experience of people of any part of the world triggers hankerings to have comforts at the level the better part of world has.

Mass content therefore is not generated even by affluence of country but by the ratio between what people have and what they thinks they ought to have in order to maintain self esteem in the face of the normal consumption standards accepted by richer peers of global village.

As social comparison occurs in broader realm; voters evaluated national leaders in global perspective; political marketing practitioners respond by touting cosmopolitan outlook of their candidate. Candidates of poor nations (poor in comparison to richer ones) vow to bring their respective nations at par with the richer nations of the world and leaders of richer nations pledge to maintain their supremacy intact.