Idealized Cliché, Diary Creates, Pre-Determined Objectivity, Quotable Quotes, Continuum Fallacy, Political Poetry Can Not Be An End In Itself & Fred Can Never Be Called Bald’ In Politics

Idealized Cliché, Diary Creates, Pre-Determined Objectivity, Quotable Quotes, Continuum Fallacy, Political Poetry Can Not Be An End In Itself & Fred Can Never Be Called Bald’ In PoliticsBy 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.

Idealized cliché can create a new nation

·        History is to be the source of inspiration and if it is too impoverished or not too rich to be so; fabricating history is a holy service to a nation. Historian fulfils his commitment to his nation not to the past that no more belongs to him and creates national icons for freedom and adventure, and mythical events those offer the great canvas for imagination to the succeeding generations of historians. Historian creates a nation by creating a view that is idealized cliché and that has the life of his own.

Diary creates the new self

·        Diary must be tailored for the audience; but must not be for contemporaries; for if it be known that a punctual records of doings is kept so everyone around will go embarrassingly reticent. Diary affords an opportunity ‘to puff one self up before the mirror of posterity’. Diarist in turning over the pages of his diary knows that other fingers will turn them some day and he knows as well that the remote audience of his can not judge how remote his claims are from reality. Diarist savors the cultivation of an air of grandeur with obvious relish so that his audience can bask in the reflected glory of his ‘laurels’ and relives the life that as a matter of fact never existed.

Pre-determined objectivity

·        Recording of events without allowing personal biases to come into play makes one an objective narrator. Partially true, as historians are given to identification with one view or the other before approaching an event. Historian no matter how fair, dispassionate and impartial, his objectivity is pre-determined, clouded by his self-image. Historian who sees himself with the proponents of modernity tends to dismiss lives symbolizing the natural existence uncorrupted by modernity as the counter metaphor for progress.

Quotable Quotes

·       If we know already that roses are with thorns, neither we would be grateful that thorns bear flowers nor complain that roses have thorns.

·        Politician needs not be a man of erudition; all he needs for success is to have a sense of possible with the ability to recognize that nothing is impossible.

·        Pain is not so painful for perennially optimist as he while feeling unhappy thinks that he will feel happy again; joy is not so joyful for pessimist as he while feeling happy thinks that he will feel unhappy again.

·         We take others apart for the fault a part of our being because we judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their act.

·        Wedding as an event can only be an achievement as a marriage if both partners fall in love always with each other many times.

·        Only coward does not die many times before his death; rather whoever treats every situation as a life-and-death matter. 

Continuum fallacy

(A politician having confessed ‘guilt of past’ returns to politics; opponent of his seeing that confession is working well with voter applies continuum fallacy.)

·        Every post-pubescent male has a beard, no matter how cleanly shaven, words can not erase the past, no matter how good they are.

Political poetry can not be an end in itself

·        Every political poet is a poet but every poet can not be a political poet. Political poetry is much more difficult than any other poetry as it can not be an end in itself; it can not be a vehicle for the self actualization nor it can be the medium for externalization of subtle impressions a poet gathers in his journey through life. Political poetry is written for a purpose and for a particular audience. If it does not reach to them or reach but has no effect or effect but not the intended effect so it was written only for writing sake. Political poet can not construct an imaginary past or present or future; he has to make events occurring around the part of himself; but recalcitrant elements in events which he does not understand or find irrelevant to his creative task makes it virtually impossible for him to cross a gap between him and his subject. Selection is indispensible to poetry and poet makes it from the large field of possibilities and adopts as his leanings demand any mode of expression. Political poet, however, has to be guided by an exacting ‘sense of that really matters and what does not. On one side he may try to include too much and lose himself in issues where he is not imaginatively at home, on the other side he may see some huge event merely from a private angle which need not mean much to others. Political poetry oscillates between these extremes, and its history in our time has been largely attempts to make the best of one or the other of them or to see what compromises can be made between them’.

The application of fallacy ‘Fred can never be called bald’ in politics

·        My opponents condemn me for depleting the reserve funds of a country; one dollar does not make reserve and even you add hundred dollars to this one dollar, you will not have reserve: reserve does not exist so how can I deplete the thing that does not exist.