Sculptor Does Not Make A Statue, Points To Ponder, Quotes & Hedonism And Materialism

Sculptor Does Not Make A Statue, Points To Ponder, Quotes & Hedonism And Materialism By Dr. Sohail Ansari

Sculptor does not make a statue

·        Teacher in a real sense of a word may not conform to a popular stereotype: A man well versed in producing a well-drilled team of pupils. Sculptor does not make statue as it is always there, he simply chips away a few pieces. Teaching is for ever being at the cutting edge of a child competence.

Points to ponder

·        All philosophies from their exempt positions as the avatars of reason in history have reduced to mere footnotes. Exclusive reliance of philosophers on human intellect despite knowing that it does not know itself was bound to lead all into the impasse from which they found a way out only by declaring:  ‘  All philosophies have their share of truth along with their errors, the proportion varying with the social vantage point from which each is propounded. Absolute truth is though unattainable, it still is approximated through a synthesis of the promising perspectives’. How can one conceivably distinguish between truth and errors so that ‘a synthesis’ of truth can be possible undertaking because distinction entails the use of criteria to become possible and that criteria would no less be tainted by the same source: fallible human judgment.  

Quotable Quotes from “U”

Unique and best

·        The best one is not the one who loves to be loved, but the who loves to love. If one becomes unique because of being best then he is not only the one but also only one.  

Unity

·        Cultural borders within a country lend invisible division to unity and physical borders between two countries of similar culture lend unity to visible division. 

Universal truth

·        If difference between good and evil is only difference of definition then what is Absoulte?

Unfortunate country

·        Most unfortunate country of the world is the country where recasting for rehabilitation of corrupt and brutal ruler is aided by the miseries follow him.

HEDONISM AND MATERIALISM

 (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

In traditional culture limited needs were fulfilled through limited ways. Evolution of culture created on the one hand new needs and wants and on the other to ensure unfettered and sustained consumption essential for the round the clock running of industries; either false wants were created or appetite for goods was whetted through advertising: the appetizer of modern world.  Hedonism consequently came to be regarded as the most prized ideology to abide by; lending fillip to materialism and culture of self-gratification that knew no bounds.

“The consumer society arises out of the ashes of traditional cultures, which are characterized by relatively fixed forms for the satisfaction of needs, and unleashes a grand experimentation with the individual’s experience of both needs and the ways of satisfying them. The consumer society does not set up its own fixed models of behavior to replace traditional ones but rather constructs, through marketing and advertising, successive waves of associations between persons, products and images of well-being in an endless series of suggestions about the possible routes to happiness and success.”

Consumer society is in perpetual search for the ways that intensify pleasure; an essential feature of the political marketing research is its concern regarding ‘what consumption activity’ means to individuals in a market-industrial economy that has eroded the guidelines for the sense of satisfaction and well being laid out by traditional cultures. Into the gap step political ads; fascinated with the communicative tools of symbol, image, and icon; and working by allusion, free association, suggestion, and analogy rather than by literal and logical rule; they  pander to whatever voters covet through associating image of person /party with the goodies he/it can deliver. Ads tap the infinitely varied play of potential meanings in the minds of individuals who are keenly attentive to efforts directed to promote their well being; whole ensemble of goods and messages are as ‘versatile’ as possible, so that it can appeal simultaneously to the entire spectrum of personality types and lawful urges, including those half-formed, inarticulate yearnings that individuals can be brought to recognize and express only through the very place of such images. Furthermore, the metaphors of symbol, image, and icon work by analogy and allusion; they refer beyond themselves to something else; they invite comparison between two states: present state (under A’s rule) and past or future state (under B’s rule). 

Political parties hire political marketing consultants adept at coming up with ads those are in part reality and in part fiction. Each team of political marketing consultants has its own metaphor_ that is the rhetorical process by which discourse unleashes the power that certain fictions have to re describe reality; and reality is nothing more than imaginative creations or artful representations of possible worlds, constructed by taking familiar components of every day life_ recognizable people, indoor and out door settings, and social situations_ and conjuring up scene after scene full of hypothetical interactions between these components and a leader and then convert this contiguity into a meaningful relationship.