Being Human Beyond Theories..

Being Human Beyond Theories..

Why are we so shortsighted? So closed? Why do we have to give names to everything? Fix people in boundaries and limit everything, limit the basic of being human, evolution. Have we forgotten that we are evolutionary species, we have evolved, to the point we are now. So why stop now and bind yourself? The main problems I have in this regard are the political theories.

Am I a Democrat, Free Liberal westerner (well I am from India, so cannot be a westerner), Capitalist, Neo-liberal, Conservative, Progressive, Communist, Marxist, Socialist, Pro-dictatorship, Radical Libertarian, Anarchist or other hundred theories. Theories of politics – and that’s what dictates our whole life, a theory and not what we are or what we do.

This way, I am no one. I don’t think I would and basically want to fit into any of these definitions. Why would I? I love my freedom and this freedom isn’t limited to my thoughts, my movement or my behavior, but also not wanting to be stuck, grouped, and cited to be a part of some theory is another of the reasons. I am a human, and that’s what it is, why is anything more needed? I evolve, I learn, I think and get new experiences every day, which change me, and I like the change. Why then would I like to be stuck with some abstract theory, followed by millions? That is another problem with me; I won’t do it just because people do and that to a large numbers.

I don’t think a political theory is needed to dictate one’s life! Well people need something, to tell them what to do, kick their ass and push them to do things and that is a sad fact. The basis of being human is to feel for others, feel the pain, injustice, wrong in the world and fight against it using whatever means possible. As Ernesto Che Guevara said, “Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world.” That I feel is being human….does that make me a communist, a guerilla, again the worldly nomenclature? If it does I wouldn’t give a fuck.

If I am a fan of Ataturk and what he did in bringing Turkey from the 16^th century to the 21^st century, does that make me pro-dictatorship? It may, as the policies and decisions he took for the people and the way he enforced it, is worth admiring.

I feel that the world should be fair to everyone in spite of their race, caste, religion, ethnicity, and any other differences. Quoting Martin Luther King Jr. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."  That’s what we should be concerned and worried about rather than politics. We can blame each other; the west can blame the communists, and the dictators, forgetting conveniently that most of them were installed to serve their own interests in the first place. The vast exploitation and atrocities around the world is caused by the self-righteous Democracies, the Liberal west. And who is to blame - the political theory of the other country. These Democracies are democracies at home, in their own country and colonizers, exploiters elsewhere. So what is the Democracy worth, if it is selective and privileged and that too with its own troubles? Condemning this makes me Anti-democratic, well cheers then. As Mark twain had said, “If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”

The way world is going today, If the new world order means we are in the business of destroying anyone who questions our political agenda. I better be an Anarchist.

Religion that’s one thing I am proud of giving up early, I feel that’s the basic of injustice, inequality and bring bound. I would do right because I want to and not because of any religious practice. This is free will, to do good, be good; as we are born with feelings, emotions to help others and not make people outcasts, divide and blame on the basis of the religion.

 My attraction for Marxism is not for a political, scientific theory but it’s a passion for social justice.

I feel for the Incas in South America, about the rich culture and knowledge they had which was destroyed for commercial interests, feel nostalgic and connected to the people of whom I have never been a part of ever, feel the pain of the indigenous population who have to travel miles every day just for food, to whom the land belongs in the first place, who were driven out in the name of development. I feel for the Tibetans, who are self-emulating because of a greater force, China conquering it, I feel for the war torn people of Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and other countries who stood for themselves in some way for their betterment and the poor all around the world, and see Injustice and Inequality, poverty and exploitation everywhere and feel connected at some level, without even experiencing it ever.

What does that make me? Which political theory do I fit in? Does it make me weak? Vulnerable? Over-sensitive? Someone who is losing his mind? Socialist, humanist, communist or some other crazy new confused theory? I am happy to be a misfit. Whatever it may be I am happy to be this way. Knowing that the world is a fuckedup place and I will try and do my best to make some change one way or the other.

I know this all is pretty messy, untidy, unclear, bizarre, but that the way I get thoughts, thoughts which keep me awake for nights, make me think hard and long, which is an important part of my existence as a human.

What more beautiful than the song - Imagine – by John Lennon

"Imagine"

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

Democracy - Is it the last resort?

Humans have reached the moon. Well that was long back! Removed poor Pluto from the planetary system and again adding it as the 9^th planet, the Human Genome project, Curiosity (the Mars one), Chandrayaan (India’s mission to the moon), NASA’s Maven which was $671 million and now India’s Mangalyaan is $67 million, captured and killed Bin-Laden, 3D printer, Stem cell treatment, Bit coin, Amazon delivery via drones, the GOD particle and what not; all new mind boggling innovations and theories. 

We have theories for each and every thing, as everything started as a theory and philosophy. We even have Stephen Hawkins’s ‘The Theory of Everything.’ These studies and research gave us everything from Nanotechnology to supercomputing, bringing back the dead is the next step (if not already done) that’s where the medical innovations have also reached.

 In 2014, when there seems to be no end to human innovations and endeavors, we are somehow handicapped due to the political theories specific to “Governance”. There were evolution and we came from totalitarian, dictatorship to oligarchy to communism/socialism/Marxism and then “Democracy” and as we say today. Democracy is not perfect, but it is the best till we find some other form of Governance. It has been ages since we have found any other form. While the older ones still exist. Out of 193 countries in the UN hardly 48-51 are democratic, though many of them claim to be one. There is so much turmoil around the world the basic reason being the way or rather the form of governance. People in dictatorships want democracy; people in communist countries cannot do much, for them the ideas of freedom and independence are feeble. And then comes the righteous ones stuck in democracy, those who do not know what went wrong. Is this the way the ‘Elected’ Government is supposed to behave and govern? And these democracies have given themselves the superior duty of teaching the world democracy, (Good or Bad is contextual), but I have always believed that, one should govern themselves, however bad; rather than being governed by others, however good. For me that’s the basic essence of Life - Freedom.

 The one’s which are stuck in Democracy, don’t seem to move. No new ideas or ways of governance seem to come up. Considering today’s age of innovation and free flow of ideas, it’s weird. Which makes me wonder is it the most exploitative, most profit making venture for the ones who rule? Is it the safest way for the exploiters as they can manage and escape it if at all they get caught? The best argument against it being that people themselves have elected the leaders!

 An extract from the phrase "tyranny of the majority" (or "tyranny of the masses"), used in discussing systems of democracy and majority rule, involves the scenario in which decisions made by a majority place its interests above those of an individual or minority group, constituting active oppression comparable to that of tyrants and despots. In many cases a dislike for ethnic, religious or a racial group is deliberately penalized by the majority element acting through the democratic process.

 Also Democracy is termed as “Mobocracy” many times. And if there is no logic behind all this and if the system of Governance of Democracy is so perfect why is no one satisfied? Well humans are never satisfied, but at least they are happy with what the government is doing, as they have elected them for some reason, to work for the people, for the betterment of their country.

People elect the government so that the government can run the country; and people can look after their home, family, daily businesses. But ultimately if citizens come on roads, protest against its decisions, to make them do something, for something which they have elected the government for in the first place. What’s the use of this system? 

Well, I know nothing is perfect and all. Of course how can it be? People who elect the government are not, for that matter.  So is it supposed to be like this? I guess, but the problem is that why haven’t we found an alternative. That’s the most important question, something more important than the lack of ideas, innovation. It points towards exploitation, money making and profitable ventures, to be in power always and all is what comes to mind. May be it’s the best form and this poses no problem with its governance and it’s probably just “My crazy mind.”

 I will end with a thought which has been on my mind for a long time. “If the new world order means, we are in the business of destroying anyone who questions the political agenda, then I will better be an Anarchist.”