State sponsored or private violence
Can we justify or rationalize individual or private violence? From the time of the primitive world, Governments have brought about violence in the form of war, against the civilian population, against states and countries. So why does a struggle arise to prove whose thoughts are right when an individual does the same for any political reason?
In a democratic social order, violence is accepted and even justified against persons or organizations that operate under the cover of the law. But when the legal cover is removed, the violence shock and alarm us.
Are we aware that we exist in these times where the governments in all countries are indulging in all sorts of tomfoolery and monkey business? They tax more, regulate and control more, stage manage and maneuver more. The have become more pretentious, haughty and ambitious. Governments have cut off employment opportunities of entire generations, looted the nation, their reps have bank accounts abroad, and has even made it impossible for its citizens to provide for their own savings.
The public is beginning to form its own opinion and have increasingly become aware not only of the problem but also the source of the problem. The common man’s anger towards the political and bureaucratic elite is on the rise, especially as the economic depression intensifies. In times to come this mass anger will turn violent.
So how do we solve these problems that distress us today? Well, the government needs to civilize itself and understand the realities of our times. (Is Rs 32/- enough for the BPL lives?). It needs to disband its machineries of control and regulations, harness its police and armed bureaucrats, and permit society to develop and flourish on its own. It is not complicated. So why does not the Government take this path? Well, it cannot and will not since it flourishes on domestic and international violence.
Someone had so rightly said “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
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After fulfilling all their wants, needs, desires, dreams, ambitions and fascinations, what do the mega-rich do?
They can’t go out and put up pyramids these days what with labour cost, issues and other paraphernalia.
So what is the next best thing that they do? Well they put up museums with their names attached to it!
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Read the following somewhere and really like it :
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do your worst, for I have lived today.
Be fair or foul, Let it rain or shine
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.
No power itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.
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Why Do Kids Hate School?
Parents rarely give thought as to why their children hate school — after all, aren't kids supposed to? This thought process relies on the hypothesis that children are genetically inclined to loathe learning. More likely, however, is that kids dislike the system of schooling they're forced into rather than education. What they're subjected to daily, characterized by mass-standardization and orthodoxy, is adversative to the human spirit, and is likely the source of their absolute contempt for school.
Children are cleverer than they're given credit for. They recognize bad teaching just as well as adults can. They know the pace at which they're learning is always too fast or too slow — never just right. They realize that much of the material they're learning will be of little value outside the walls that surround them. They're also aware that in the eyes of the state they are (literally) just a number.
Children are no different than adults — they will always have to do things that are beneficial to their well-being but not necessarily enjoyable. It is, however, reasonable to expect that if provided with education that is effective most kids would enjoy their schooling.
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People talk of apartheid and racialism. People talk about being leftist or rightist. People talk about god and sins and whether after leaving this earth they would settle in heaven or get thrown in hell. People discuss politics. I guess people cannot stop distinguishing between the blacks and the whites, being a communist or a capitalist, going up or down or showing interest in such trifling like political beliefs.
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We will never have enough proof that Corporate Interests, Elite Bankers, Military Establishments and Politicians are all in this together to form a country’s policy to suit them in the best and all possible means. Either you join them or shut up.
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One of Aristotle’s famous phrase is “Man is a social animal”. This phrase has been twisted and translated in as many ways as could be. Society has become so damned fundamental and necessary that trying to live in isolation has become a spectacular Herculean task and challenge. The idea of living is isolation is dauntingly one both of horror and fascination.
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War is essential to the very existence of man. It is paradoxical but rational. One has never remembered a time when there was no war in this world. The most astute and prudent of leaders, the most benevolent and gracious of kings nor any religion or religious institution has ever been able to stop war. War can never be stopped; and there is no such thing like a rational or justified war,
There will always be thousands of thousands to whom even such a war will be senseless and unjustified. Quite simply, no state can live without war, which is one of the state's essential functions. ... War is the price we pay for living in a state. Before you can abolish war you will have to abolish all states. But that is unthinkable until the propensity to violence and evil is rooted out of human beings. The state was created to protect us from evil. In ordinary life thousands of bad impulses, from a thousand faces of evil, move chaotically, randomly, against the vulnerable. The state is called upon to check these impulses — but it generates others of its own, still more powerful, and this time one-directional. At times it throws them all in a single direction — and that is war.
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