Deuces &Constitution & Psychological projection in politics, Quotable Quotes, Confront the truth, Points to ponder & JUDICIARY

Deuces &Constitution & Psychological projection in politics, Quotable Quotes, Confront the truth, Points to ponder & JUDICIARY 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.

(Prophecy that does not transfer past to the future is almost a perfect prophecy.)

(People add a branch here and there before describing their family tree.)

Deuces are enough

·        The fates of gambler are fixed by cards and so are the actions of ours; predestined and predestined. We must hang on to sanity that we can not go beyond the confines nature has set for us and restrain from impossible: paraplegics can not be quarterbacks and blind can not be astronomers. But ‘for in life, as in poker, you do not need a royal flush to be a winner. Sometimes a pair of deuces__ a weak hand played well__ is plenty.’ ‘God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. One must take it. The only choice is how’

Constitution is for a country

·        Constitution is for a country; therefore it can never be so sacrosanct that any alteration of it becomes automatically sacrilegious. We place constitution so high on a pedestal that it seems as if that a country is for a constitution. Since the ‘sacred cow status’ does not permit human creativity, human intellect appears anomalous_ the very ability that had made the formulation of it possible.

Psychological projection in politics

It is often the cauldron of political emotions taking on religious connotations that swallow the peaceful co-existence. Fringe parties and chauvinist leaders plan for ethnic cleansing to checkmate mainstream parties. Work for ethnically pure fiefdom can not begin without turning ploughshare into swords; therefore political marketing consultant applies psychological projection to help people overcome scruples and qualms so that every act becomes possible for individuals without being scourged by  conscience.

Psychological projection: A mechanism of defense

Projecting the belief that others originate those feelings and motivations.

·        Leaders encourage their people not to deal with undesirable thoughts (inflicting miseries on other ethnic group) and think that the other group has thoughts of inflicting miseries on them. People obtain ‘acquittal by conscience’ by projecting those same thoughts onto another group.

Quotable Quotes

·        Whoever says that we must not deny ambiguity by branding as evil whatever differs from good; he must as well tell us that what to call it then.

·        Acts of kings are justified on the grounds that they have the right to do them; however, right does not make doing always right.

·        A person really loves you if he does not pray for your death even after being told that you have left him a legacy.

·        The ability to come to sound conclusions when facts relative to a situation are missing is the ability of a leader.    

Confront the truth

·        Explanations of ours are often otherworldly. We gloss over or transcend our failures by appeals to extra social symbols of cosmic ends. We can not assume the human risk of acting rationally without the belief born out of conviction that we are human and can not meet our failures head-on with out the courage that grows out of trust in what human beings can do as humans.

Points to ponder

·        ‘American pragmatism requires making right friend not necessarily making right man friend’. Evil of not reflecting general consensus is the virtue of being unconstrained by it. The very virtue that endears every dictator to America because the one who represents the fear of his own people can only respond to boundless aspirations of America.

·       No rhetoric is beyond demagogue who never gets beyond it and if there is an issue generating mass attention demanding the generation of political will to do something, he appeases general opinion by appearing to be doing something about it.

JUDICIARY:

Since Pakistan’s first decade, superior courts, particularly the Supreme Court ‘have literally judged the state, ruling on constitutional issues directly affecting national sovereignty, political participation and government organization. Through out this long political engagement, the courts have been persistently unwilling to confront executive authority.

Pakistan’s constitutional jurisprudence, rather than being characterized by inquires into the validity of executive action, is a series of elaborate jurisprudential efforts to vindicate and facilitate military interventions into democratic politics.

Non political forces find solace in the role of Judiciary. Instead of exercising restraining influence and keeping such forces in check; judiciary seemed ready enough to legitimatize the rule of dictators. The political process remains in constant danger of being uprooted by undemocratic forces embolden by Judiciary; this uncertainty obsesses political parties and saps them of any will to organize any media strategy.