Farcical revolution, points to ponder, Quotes.
Farcical revolution, points to ponder, 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
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A new historical
perspective is required for the new analysis of culture.
·
Addiction is born out
of activity that has taken on a life of its own, not making addict great in
fulfilling it but bad in not doing so.
Farcical revolution in Afghanistan
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The word revolution is
far from unambiguous because eschatology though exists; but far greater
tactical flexibility is admitted in the means of acquiring power. ‘Revolution
designates a most variegated set of practices’; however for the people of Pakistan
and Afghanistan, revolution has clear connotations: it ‘recalls the images of
the barricades, of the movement of the people against authority, leading to
change in the established order’. ‘Revolution has an elemental upheaval; it has
the spontaneity of social action as the necessary condition of social change.
Revolution is not just a social phenomenon, it is a symbol of hope; the gate
opening to the millennium. Revolution is visualized as smashing the old order
and replacing it by unsullied forces released through the revolution’. In Afghanistan
the new order was organized by a leader imported ‘with pipes in his mouth’ in
an American plane. In Afghanistan, there was the ‘radical political change with
regime imposed by the American army brining about revolutionary consequences without
a revolution’. The revolution of Afghanistan is exported and imposed from
outside, therefore it does not share the revolutionary outlook (of the people of
Pakistan and Afghanistan) hypostasizing the revolution
Points
to ponder
·
Every fanatical is outspoken,
but every outspoken is not fanatical. Fanatical does not concede the strength of
opposing arguments when they expose weakness inherent in his own.
·
There is irony in the
fact that a child does not develop interest in a religion even he grows up in a
home rich in culture. Irony will be if he does, as child weans on media.
Quotes
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Bee is liked for honey but
judging a person by his words not by his contribution is liking bee for bee.
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In culture of corruption
one can only be best by being worst.
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One can truly be best for
being best for a job that is not best for him.
·
Book is really cheap if
its expensiveness is only due to its expansiveness
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Book is good if it repays
the investment of reader’s time, and good in itself if it repays the right
investment of reader’s time.
·
Book on much familiar
topic can catch popularity by catching something that has eluded account so
far.
·
Importance of capital
punishment lies not in punishment but in effects it generates.
·
If you do not make change
which you cannot afford not to make then decline is inevitable.
Format: Leader/Party-Information Format
Campaign: 1990
Newspaper: Jung
From: PPP/People
Democratic alliance
Ad: Leader/party
ad
Ad N: 8
Analysis:
The word
‘daughter of Asia’ establishes the identity matrix to impel reader subliminally
to judge the political stature of Benazir and the treatment meted out to her. ‘Conspiracies
have engulfed the daughter of Asia. We implore Great Lord and Great Prophet!
Banish all suffering and dent the hubris of savagery’. At denotative level,
this ad has almost no meaning: which conspiracies? What problems she is
suffering? In order to obtain the full reading of the ad one must know that
Benazir was implicated in various cases immediately after being sacked and most
of the time in run-up to election was consumed in attending courts. At
connotative level, this ad implies that charges against her were trumped-up and
fabricated to keep her busy before election at the expense of her spending time
on election campaign. The word ‘daughter’ cultivates an air of sympathy by
touching a chord in the heart of millions of fathers; ‘Daughter of Asia’ one
the one hand counter the image projected by her rival by painting her as the
‘daughter of West’ which has denigrating connotation and on other indicated her
sublime and cosmopolitan stature; and by implication belittles conspirer as
minnows and dwarf lacking such status. The words of supplication are adroitly
calibrated to craft her image as the victim of brutality and a good Muslim
woman soliciting the favor of God and Prophet, countering once again the image
of western woman.
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