History the formation dance, Prank, Abuse, Quotable Quotes, Points to ponder & IMPACT

History the formation dance, Prank, Abuse, Quotable Quotes, Points to ponder & IMPACT 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 greatest strength of history is that nothing is ruled out; therefore, no historian rules out the shifting of blame.)

(The architects of India’s temples, hinting here a birthplace of a god, there a magnificent palace of a great Hindu king, seek to legitimize the country’s social strivings by evoking a history the country did not truly possess.)

(Almost always individuals have the attempt to reexamine some of the original tenets of their faith; almost never any has the independent attempt.)

History is not the formation dance

·        ‘History is the human activity and therefore susceptible to culture; however culture can not construct or determine it. Each age can rewrite its history; but for that history has to be the formation dance in which everybody in one period marches in one direction, and then, in the next, marches off in a different direction’.  

Poet prank

·        Great poet has its own prank: he constructs simple mindedness with such cunningness that critics mistake for it the surface of artlessness.

Media prank

·        Political marketing consultant uses media prank for countering the mounting pressure for the reversal of a policy by organizing a mock gathering protesting the anticipated switch.

·         Political marketing consultant as the prolific creator of media pranks does culture jamming as performance act. He uses fake experts to stage public events (In these events among participants are legitimate journalists, unaware that what they are witnessing is a ‘stunt with a look-alike’) that are then covered by news media as real stories. Experts convinced the press that a certain development has a certain consequence so comprehensively that channels create a news segment about supposed effects.

The abuse of term ‘Revisionist’

·        Spirituals heirs of every philosophy legitimate or otherwise, ultimately reach a point when they truly say: ‘we are all revisionists now’. The problem is rather more complex, the abuse of the term has a long and involved history. Revisionists are referred ununderstandably as the architects of a fundamentally different philosophy or esoterically referred to as a ‘revisionist dogmatist’ justifiably denied by the guardians of orthodoxy.

Quotable Quotes

·        Laughter is our heartbeat, kneading and bleeding us of woes-the only way to get through the torments of life

·        Celebrity can be a hero if he restrains from using his fame to harm people.

·        We all speak the truth, not so much as we should but as much as we can dare

·        Generous man is different from prodigal man.

·        Preacher advises us what we must want, and a lawyer advises us how to get what we want.

·        ‘Consenting association’ is the euphemism for the ‘illegitimate special rights’ to other’s body.

Points to ponder

·        Inebriated with hubris, people take pride at the distinctive uniqueness of the intellectual beauty of western concepts in the area of science. All those who do so must be totally deflated if assigned the impossible task of documenting the difference between western and Islamic science as Muslim concepts are the foundation of western progress.

IMPACT OF AUTHORITARIANISM:

Marginalization of Press as an instrument of change:

The period of two democratic governments witnessed the criminalization of dissent through an easy access to guns; institutionalized coercion, legalization of the use of gun; and legitimization of arm twisting. The state degenerated into rogue state and resorted to extra judicial killings. The press was reduced to coverage of brutalities and was not utilized as the vehicle to mobilize public opinion. Perhaps the reason was, that politics was held hostage by the groups that had gained political power through gun and believed in suppressing contrary opinion than countering it through logic…each party had its own private army.

Overthrowing of governments by mass protest bordering on armed rebellion (as witnessed in 1990) structured the psyche of nation. Such structuring militates against the growth of media as an instrument of change and shapes general preference for civil disobedience instead.

Political parties failed to slough off the tendency of mass mobilization and acquire the skills of airing grievances through media.  Given mass mobilization orientation, the political parties use street demonstration and remained independent of media.

The need for wooing voters had never been acute as militant workers proved to be effective sword arm of parties; tapped for browbeating, and arm-twisting opponents and generating panic that resulted in required acquiescence.

INSTITUTIONALIZED MEANS:

When country is condemned to bad rule for a long period of time as in the case of Pakistan where poor subjects become the ruler of the country because of being good on diction; the value-system turn on its head. Bad governance in Pakistan resulted in low state revenue, decline in currency value, and exorbitant rise in prices, which adversely affected growth, employment, and distributional benefits from growth and led to degeneration of  society as people began looking  for ‘technically efficient means’ to achieve the rapidly chaining ‘cultural defined (material) goals’ which changed faster than the morally acceptable ‘institutionalized means’ with the result that deviant behavior got institutionalized instead and corruption took root in the society

In democratic system of government, government provide the populace with a good standard of life__ education, healthcare, awareness, justice to all; and in case of failure in this regard, the electorates opt for the different one that they assume will perform better. But if change of government in democratic system does not bring change in lives of people; they begin to disregard election as means of bringing government that can help to achieve material goals through institutionalized means’.

If change in government do not amount to change in lives of people and political structure prevents the attainment of social objectives; election ceases to be instrument of change; ‘growth in general indifference to political activity and interest in corrupt practices (to achieve material gains) are most likely; and democracy begins to appear as a useless conception, a meaningless experiment and a silly little farce that operate behind the self righteous facade of a great liberals and progressive ideals’.