Farmers' Protest in Surat Source: The Indian Express |
The farmers in
PM Modi’s own state poured litres of milk and threw kilograms of food grains on
the road two days back in protest against the non-availability of valid
currency. There are protests in other
states too against the restrictions put on cooperative banks on which farmers
and small traders rely heavily.
If we analyse
the social media including blogs, we’ll discover that it is the middle class
that supports Modi’s tilting at the windmills of black money. The middle class has its own morality whose
hypocrisy was exposed brilliantly by Bernard Shaw in the character of Alfred
Doolittle. The middle class pretends to
be moral while it is far more immoral than any other class. It will discover all the loopholes in any
given system and use those loopholes for their most selfish purposes all the
while assuming that they are the most patriotic, religious and righteous people
in the world.
The middle
class is the actual driving force of all social systems such as religion as
well as most political systems. It likes
to believe so at least. The fact is that
religions have their own popes or godmen or ammas. The fact is that politics in any country has
its own Ambanis and Adanis. But the middle class loves its own illusions and
delusions.
The latest
delusion of the Indian middle class is that the demon of black money is being destroyed
by the contemporary broad-chest avatar of Lord Vishnu. Just as the middle class has its own
religious rituals like immersions or confessions or whatever to cleanse the
system of all evils, ritually at least, now it has this purification ceremony
which has assumed religious proportions.
High
denominations of currency were withdrawn many times in the past too. Black will come back with more vigour sooner
than later. That’s how life is: substantially
black. Learn from the cosmos, if you like: dark matter and dark energy are real
and gods are sweet delusions.
OK, but we
need to clean up the system once in a while.
No doubt. Let the system be
cleaned up. But why should all cleansing
processes be at the cost of the poor?
Every time a
reformation takes place the poor pay the price.
The farmers, the cattle growers, the petty traders, daily wage
earners... they have been the most affected by the latest holy cow in the
country. The previous holy cows attacked certain communities including Dalits
who were also economically poor.
Maybe this is
the latest way of eliminating poverty: by eliminating the poor. Maybe this is how evolution continues. Let us not forget the simple truth that we
belong to the species of homo sapiens which flourished by eliminating thousands
of species from the planet including fellow species like homo rudolfensis and
homo eragster.
Let evolution
continue; no one can stop natural processes.
Let evil be conquered; no one can limit human delusions. But let us also learn to look within and
check whether we are fighting the real demons.
A strong minded piece, liked the religious connotations especially.
ReplyDeletePatriotism is the most fervant when religion sustains it.
DeleteVery well said Sir. But who will buy your thoughts in this era of fascist forces in our country ? You are going to be labelled a traitor sooner than later.
ReplyDeletePeople have already given me that label. Fortunately those people are not very powerful.
DeleteA very interesting take on it. Do not know what all this will result in.
ReplyDeleteIs it a brilliant move or is it just a rushed measure?
It started with lot of applause and seems to be a chaos right now.
Richa | www.fanciersworld.com
It is total chaos so much so the PM can't even show his face in the Parliament.
Deletethis demonetization has nothing to do with stopping black money which has already saved abroad or in gold,dollars,etc It has only destroyed the markets and hit hard on small businesses and people associated with them
ReplyDeleteBut the PMO will soon produce statistics to show the lakhs of crores caught... Patriots will celebrate the statistics!
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