No More Lip Service, Polite Fiction, Discredited Philosophy, Quotable Quotes, No Individual Poetry, Civil Religion & Lerner’s Study

No More Lip Service, Polite Fiction, Discredited Philosophy, Quotable Quotes, No Individual Poetry, Civil Religion & Lerner’s Study 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.

·       Every true leader says ‘let the Principles go but I must save the nation’ and ultimately we have the nation without principles.

·       Inexperienced employee should be given the highest salary because work is harder when you do not know anything about it.

·       The smartest man is the one who can defend a premise that is beneath his intelligence.  

No more lip service

·        A writer extolling the delights and omnipotence of unbridled freedom must exercise it himself; he must spell as he likes; abbreviates as he wishes; and wanders into side-tracks whenever it pleases him. In the same way, a writer who believes in an absolute equality must preserve no sense of proportion. ‘A new hat must oust a new parliament; a new actress’ who titillates him must sweep all significant political and social development over his margin into nothingness. ‘Nobody’s  feelings must be considered, so sense of critical audience need force gaiety from a mood of sadness or cast a shadow on the spirits of Puck’.

Polite fiction

(Polite fiction slips into denial to justify denial.)l

·       I always denied that I had permitted Americans to have our air bases, but I admit that I had not denied them as I was fully aware of dire consequences of denial and I denied to my people because I was fully aware of the power rabble rousers wield with masses.

When philosophy is discredited for ever

·        Philosophy is damaged beyond repair if repudiated with finality by the very movement for which it was created; the damage excruciatingly agonizing for its committed adherent creating the ambivalence of a mind beset by the logic of his own commitment; and for its author compelled to write it off as a closed chapter and nothing more.

Quotable Quotes

·        Laziness is taking a long time to be hurry.

·        Work shirking is doing many things for not doing one thing.

·        God sheds in part his anonymity through coincidence.

·        Ruler can know his room for maneuvering by calculating the people’s power to remain indifferent to his policies.

There is no individual poetry

·        There is no individual activity of the self; hence there is no individual poetry. Events not grasped as immediate personal experience find expression in poetry and as well events those have affected the very being of a poet; however, a poet dealing with the public themes can grasp events in their breadth and depth only through second hand: media. Impulse to write is compelling, however as poet must come up with the interpretation of an event which millions of others may share with him, therefore, impulse to write about event must be different from any impulse to write about it as poet sees and feels about it. Individuality of each poet lies in his interpretation of an event. Poet no matter how individual he may wish to be can not present his coming to terms with an event as an individual activity of the self because humans can be different in height, color, and weight but all have the same feelings.

Civil religion

·       (Leader has no achievement at his credit and does not have any capability to have any, political marketing consultant applies civil religion of a political culture to suffice an entire society, or at least a segment of it so that whipping of public opinion can generate votes. Political marketing consultant orchestrates quasi-religious practices or rituals for the expression of patriotism and produces exaggerated mythologized tales to create romanticism.)

Lerner’s study regarding effects of urbanization

Lerner’s study regarding effects of urbanization asserts that urbanization everywhere leads to a reduction of illiteracy. This brings about a higher consumption of media. This in turn is interrelated with more economic and political participation. Participation divided into economic (indicated via urbanization and per-capita income) and political participation (voting).

People have to die into professions of their birth in traditional system; for its survival lies in acceptance and abidance of its members to defined role and prescribed work in hierarchy. Stagnancy is inherent in the stability of traditional system. People are related to traditional system by birth; but by choice to city. Shared ambitions of climbing ladder gather and tie individual into system. The promise of better tomorrow is raison d’etre of city and its survival and growth rests solely upon in affording enormous scope for untrammeled pursuit of ambitions.

Growth is inherent in the stability of city. Life of city is strewn with opportunities, and lives in city are not pre-determined, city opens every option that is open to everyone; and the only key to unlock these potentialities of possibilities is education. Translating dreams of better tomorrow into reality results into better literacy rate.’ Reduction of illiteracy’ in general occurs through the easy access to institutions of formal education. Media consumption is motivated by interest awakened by education or curiosity to be aware of unknown settings but perhaps more importantly by needs sparked by the problems.

THESE PROBLEMS ARE OF TWO KINDS:

(1)  Never existed in rural settings, for example pollution, therefore unknown.

(2)  Existed in rural settings, for example poor sanitation, unclean water, unemployment; but hitherto not realized due to illiteracy therefore unknown, but not any more in urban setting due to literacy.

These problems place understandably urban population more in need to know unknown parties or to know known parties as they are not known regarding new problems.

Media personifies a bridge of two-way communication. As vehicle of public grievances, it enlightens political parties and political parties, in turn, lean on it to project ability to solve them: 

“Audience of urban society is characteristically heterogeneous and can only be informed through media as personal face to face communication of traditional system is not possible”

Rising literacy would first lead to (nonphysical/indirect) political participation reflected in increased consumption of political content of media and that would lead to (physical/direct) political participation reflected in increased interest in casting votes. Economic participation fueled by the rise in per-capita income would spawn a new breed of candidates_ product of urban circumstances_ compelled to rely on fund raising campaigns or party funds to approach vast constituencies. Through economic participation in election campaigns, voters achieve tremendous influence on the priorities of candidates; unimagined in rural settings where landed aristocracy are independent of any financial assistance.

The extent of sharing of power through political and economic independence may elude consensus; but it is beyond doubt that it contributes enormously to increase the power of commoner to frame politics; not possible in traditional system due to hero worship__ the direct outcome of illiteracy and economic dependence if not impoverishment.

This political and economic clout would reflect in the assertiveness of voters; who would have to be wooed not dictated: “Informing in traditional societies is law and urban only news. In former informing is what people must do (Prescriptive) as it is transmitted from highest to lowest by virtue of birth (Hierarchical); but in cites informing is what things are (Descriptive) as it is transmitted from the one equal in birth to common people but different in status (Professional)”due to development of certain common skills more than common degree and can attempt to convince on the intended lines not dictate toward his desired aims.”