A few observations:
1 : The contemporary social ways of Bengal largely promote different
categories of mountebanks: most important of them are political. No
political entity in Bengal envisages the much needed enhancement of
the quality of human resources here, which calls for spread of the
culture of solid rational thinking, based on education and practice
of knowledge, contrasted to groping in the turbidity of superfluous
information.
The next important group of such are the businessmen. This class of
people are continually trying to make others gobble their
fictitiously useful and much talked about products and officiously
laden everyone with their garbage of so called services.
These two types are the most sought after in here, by the rest of the
population.
Qualities finer than that required for the activities of these
classes of people are thought to be largely useless and often
irrelevantly redundant, almost frills. Thus focus of an average
citizen almost always keeps ideas like altruism and unconditional
help out of their rationale, they are not of much help in the power
mongering of the political people of here and these were never the
favorites for the businessmen.
The culture of the contemporary politics of India at large is about
having very, perhaps ultra short term plans for grabbing the seats
for three, four or five years - such views have hardly anything to do
with making radical enhancements or improvements. This behavior is a
parallel to the thinking of a mountebank, who, usually, is not
supposed to cater for fine articles. It is not expected of them
either that they can offer sustainable long lasting solutions for
critical situations.
As for the businessmen, they do not believe in the possibility of
existence of any social institution which might not use the
involvement of pecuniary matters. Hence they mostly advocate
something if it only relates to the barter system. So they, usually,
are averse to unconditional deed, even if that helps improve
conditions of the society in its entirety. As a justification of such
stand on their own part, they say that such actions will not
inculcate the value of accountability to the receivers of the
benefit, which is true. But this altogether avoids the issue of
responsibility, which every member of a society must bear.
Responsibility must be an idea independent of accountability. To put
it in a different way, everyone is accountable to be responsible to
the society at large. It is the cost for the benefits that one enjoys
while living in a society and it must be regarded in the barter
system of life in general.
2. When I face something which is not agreeable, that disturbs me
until I can make a mental model of the event with the known
prototypes of despicable things. When started thinking why it is so,
I found out that it is about my innate desire to make things
agreeable to as many as possible. A problem can be solved for good
only when it is entirely understood. A wholesome alternative to
something disturbing can be chosen only when we can squarely identify
it in its entirety. So, whenever I can formulate a framework for the
disturbance, which necessarily include the possible causes of the
same, it raises a hope within me that things can change some time.
3. Freedom is having as many options of actions as possible at any moment, which must include that of relaxing. Being in a frenzy is being given into something - and that is farthest from being free.
Often one has to be with and assist people in frenzy, so that one can barter moments of freedom.
3. Freedom is having as many options of actions as possible at any moment, which must include that of relaxing. Being in a frenzy is being given into something - and that is farthest from being free.
Often one has to be with and assist people in frenzy, so that one can barter moments of freedom.
4. Usually people only think of accumulating and as a means to that end they demand. They put a lot less effort towards fulfilling others demand or creating anything tangible. They put forth their demands without paying any attention whatsoever towards factual reality about what it takes to fulfill their demands.
Common people live in their demands. Right from their childhood they are taught to cling to their original organic tendency towards demanding rather than minding others need.People are usually afraid of facts because facts may dampen their zeal towards making demand by waking up their conscience which may make them feel others requirements, which they are alien to. Facts bring people to an unknown territory which raises within them the feeling of insecurity.
