Purpose analysis of history, Points to ponder, stretching truth, Quotable Quotes

Purpose analysis of history, Points to ponder, stretching truth, Quotable Quotes, 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.

·       A struggle with connections to their own lives in Kashmir is reported as chaos; and people spreading the gospel of iconoclasm in Pakistan are pigeon-holed as human right activists.    

Political marketing through interpretation of history.

Paranoid analysis of history

·        Interpretation of history in terms of purpose has that je na sais quoi that distinguished purpose analysis from clinically detached analysis of history. To harness history for the political purpose, Political marketing practitioner interprets history in terms of different purposes. As purpose differs so the interpretation, however for preparing followers to put heads above the parapet ‘paranoid analysis of history’ can best serve the purpose; and for this analysis, historical teleology is to be brought in harmony with revolutionary eschatology in which the chiliastic element has a far stronger appeal to followers than any theoretical reasoning so that a chiliastic ideology becomes an orthodoxy; a theory ceases to be a quo theory and becomes a liturgy as it has congealed into an institutional dogma to become the virtual scripture that is only relevant to political actions.

Points to ponder

·       Art speaks to the passion as well as to the intellect, however many people neither feels it nor understand it; therefore I believe that it is very important that one must develop a sensibility informed by the familiarity with the history of a period in which art was produced because the meaning of art is a function of the social conditions.

·       Subjective reaction (of an artist) to the experiences vouchsafes the artistic element of uniqueness to his art; however there is rarely an adequate understanding of this special meaning of a work of art because critic himself grows subjective by the subjective reactions of an artist; therefore, fails to judge what the work itself communicates.    

Political marketing through stretching truth

·       Political marketing practitioner makes observations those are indeed true; however he draws incorrect conclusion by overestimating those observations to challenge a view of the social and economic order. Iconoclastic conclusions are likely to gain traction as underlying observations are true__ only slightly stretched.

Quotable Quotes

·       ‘Silence is golden’ is the best refuge of timid when courageous words are needed to shame the silent.

·       Inherent limitations render an endeavor an impossible enterprise. No literary giant can transmute art into high art without altering its fundamental nature; however, he can end up with a great trash.    

·       Politician is so tuned in to public opinion that he does not even know his own opinion.