No Unique Masterpiece, Different Histories, Study Of Poetry, Argument From Analogy, Fallacy, Points To Ponder, The Sway Of A Tongue & Democracy In Democratic Period

No Unique Masterpiece, Different Histories, Study Of Poetry, Argument From Analogy, Fallacy, Points To Ponder, The Sway Of A Tongue & Democracy In Democratic Period 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.

{The alienation of the self from self-actualization is not because one is repressed toward fulfilling some life goal but because one is further unable to sublimate himself toward another goal.}   

 {Instruments have made us the weather prophet; they have given us the country boy’s accurate knowledge of the skies but not the required love for keeping appointments with eclipses.}

Masterpieces can not be unique

·       No work of art can stand as the single works of art in the grand tradition nor can be counted as rethinking the nature of art. All masterpieces are dedicated to the same timeless themes, and therefore not different in basic function.

Questions make History different

·        I often wonder at the divergent interpretations of the same event because historians obtain information from the same conventional sources. Perhaps all historians before using the information in their serious historical writing ask themselves some crucial questions such as; ‘does this evidence tell us something we really do not want to know? Or ‘tell us something different from what we know already?

Study of poetry

·        Study of poetry must begin with the recognition that the fusion of secular and spiritual forms the symbiotic union. Movements for cleaning up the society commence with spirituals and too obstinate problems are projected onto a metaphysical plane such as the blissfully happy life in the world and the hope to have it in the next world are inextricably intertwined. Insistence that poetry be analyzed in a religious or in a secular frame of reference is the insistence to ignore one root of it.

Argument from analogy

(False analogical inference as sharing structural similarity is not all that relevant to the property of academic disposition)                                                                     

·        The massive research centre is being established in an area B. People say that is the waste of money; I would like to inform them that people of region A and of region B is structurally similar; and people of region A have been observed to be academically inclined; therefore people of a region B must have the studious turn of mind.  

Fallacy

·       Six students of a group A were assigned six topics to write and so six students of a group B. All students of a group B chose the same topic; while students of a group A attempted all six topics (each had his own topic). It proofs that students of group B has no individuality. 

·       Book A is different from book B and book C; therefore, book B and C must not be different from each other.

·       Some leaders are pragmatic and some pragmatic leaders are insensitive; therefore, every pragmatic leader is not insensitive but every insensitive leader is pragmatic.

·       Some Zebras are herbivores as some herbivores are Zebras; and as some humans as well are herbivores, these humans must be Zebras.  

Points to ponder

·        Arts festival lift a community’s profile, but can be meaningful for worldly concerns if they represent a happy union of commercial self-interest and public entertainment.

·        External Prohibition is not adequate method of  dealing with anarchic instincts; moral self control is needed as well and moral self controls possible, if society discover what are the needs of instinctive nature, and then to search for least harmful way of satisfying them.

·        Spontaneity of ours is in danger of being thwarted by machines. We are growing robotic. Every curriculum must be tailored to provide opportunity to protect our human behavior and the use made of opportunity must be left to the initiative of children.

·       ‘With out genuine effort of appropriation on the part of the recipient there is no gift of intellectual goods, however a gift of material goods can be appropriated by the recipient with out effort or sacrifice, it therefore, rarely becomes his own and is all frequently and easily treated as a mere windfall’.

·       In a good ad product speaks for itself, successful ads are not necessarily good ads as many are less about the objects they sell than about the celebrity they feature.  

The sway of a tongue

·       When it falls to the denier of the political movement once it is crowned with success to be its chief advocate, everyone is flabbergasted except the one who knows that every opportunist can worm his way by the power of his silver-tongue and can ingratiate himself with any leader by supplanting any faithful

PHASE FROM 1970 TO 1977

Democracy in democratic period                 

Muhammad saluhuddin writes in Takbeer: Elections are indispensable for democracy, but democracy does not end rather begins once elections are concluded. Election gives legitimacy to party to rule, which has to then legitimatize itself by ruling in democratic way. Leader should demonstrably be open to dissension and believer in coexistence. Bulldozing opposition through the juggernaut of state is dictatorship and liquidating it through gun is fascism. Resorting to either of the method inflicts upon the ruler the title of dictator and fascist regardless of the fact that he is elected or unelected. Obtaining required number of votes does not transform one into democratic leader; the claim of being democratic leader is tested when one is charged with authority to wield power at his disposal. The most illuminating example is found in he general amnesty granted by prophet peace be upon him at the conquest of Makaa to prove that rules of war and rules of governance are different…. To expect generals to establish democratic norms is itself nonsense, it is shuffling of the responsibility….it is the irony that man eulogized as the ‘martyr of democracy’ was the important part of different autocratic regimes. His whole tenure was characterized by unprecedented measures to suppress opposition” Centralization of authority manifested in the duality and inter-relationship of the two roles as Bhutto swore in as the new president and also became Chief Martial Law Administrator.

‘Bhutto gave lip service to the rights of free expression and assembly; he was more comfortable dictating programs that influenced a form of political behavior which encouraged subservience. Bhutto demanded total obedience from his  subordinate, fawning loyalty and unquestioning respect from those immediately around him, as well as virtual homage from the masses…... Bhutto was well-suited for Pakistan’s vice regal tradition, and he instinctively ruled Pakistan as he did his Sindhi Larkana estate…guiding the people as shepherd would tend to his flock, or a squire would succor his peasants’.

There was no dithering on his part to squash any dissension that had potential to jeopardize the longevity his rule and was labeled by his own party leaders as fascists and by Wali Khan as ‘Adolph Bhutto.

Bhutto said that ‘Parliamentary systems were exemplary in circumstances of extended tranquility, but Pakistan was a turbulent notion, and free expression was more likely to do harm than good… operating on the basis of viceregalism, Bhutto anticipated governing Pakistan almost indefinitely. Election of 1977 and opposition denouncing the elections as a travesty led to the orders of shoot to kill by Bhutto to FSf. The escalation of deaths did nothing to buttress the Bhutto, and convinced the army that the moment for action had arrived. Bhutto would be denied the use of the instrument of official violence and would no longer be permitted to silence his opposition. Truly believing that ‘heads would roll’ if Bhutto was allowed to remain in power, Bhutto was informed by General Zia that the Pakistan Army was back in the political game and that he, the Quaid-i-Awam, was out ‘.