Anna and Kejriwal Part Ways

Lenin once said ""You don't stand on Marxist positions, you sit on them, even loll on them."

It was a decade after he said this Lenin formed the Marxist Government in Russia. Its the same for all ideologies and ideals .Big ideologies or small, good or bad ones, need sacrifice of far greater and sustained period.

I never supported the struggle for Lokpal coz it was so ideologically bankrupt and useless piece of legislation .I never imagined the end would be such a big damn farce .Its ok to have a fast with 300 people after seeing the crowd of a hundred thousand but then great people stand together in times of utter defeat.

Marx and Engels married to each other’s ideology and remained friends till death , the ever so young Che Guevera and the now so old Fidel Castro always appear on Cuban posters together (Anna doesnt want to be on the same poster as Arvind ) ,Even Hitler and Gobbels lived, killed and commited suicide together , Nehru and Gandhi never agreed ideologically and had very different plans for independent India but then stood together and between them stayed over 20 years in Jail  but remained together for , even lesser mortals like Vajpayee and Advani stood together for 5 decades.

It’s such a crying shame, after preaching anthems of morality (half-baked from top and fully burnt from bottom), the two foremost self-proclaimed knights of national morality have decided to part ways .

If Anna wanted to wage a social struggle with Arvind leading a political struggle they could have easily done it like Gandhi and Nehru . But Gandhi wasn’t a fake Gandhi . He had a political and ideological vision like none other of his generation . He was outsmarting the likes of Churchill in their own game of self

It is not very honourable to burn the sails of an already sinking ship but I would rather do it than risk the prospect of Baba Ramdev getting the reins of our country, with a  Generation full of a Nazar Surashkha Yantra buying educated professionals, faking as intellectuals, hyper active on television and social media ,with nothing more than flimsy propaganda and rhetoric and ever no naïve about the social landscape of our streets and countryside . This is an era of reckoning for the developing world. It’s now or never .And I am so sad that after being left behind in almost every aspect of human development we will be handing over nation to ultra-orthodox  Religious bigots

Maxim Gorky was a life time friend of Lenin and said this to his friend Lenin when they were thinking of joining the government "'your comrades want to sit in parliament, while we think the working class must prepare for battle.' Aravind Kejriwal and Anna should have taken a leaf out of Maxim Gorky’s ideas.

Atheist's Wager

Hitler believed in God . Gautam Buddha did not.

 

The reason is quite simple Athiest's Wager . The Athiest and Agnostics by instinct or by choice , by study or by intelligence believe in the Athiest's Wager . I will quote form wikipedia the main Idea of the Wager .

 

"The Atheist's Wager is an atheistic response to Blaise Pascal's Wager regarding the existence of God. While Pascal suggested that it is better to take the chance of believing in a god that might not exist rather than to risk losing infinite happiness by disbelieving in a god that does, the Atheist's Wager suggests that:

 

You should live your life and try to make the world a better place for your being in it, whether or not you believe in god. If there is no god, you have lost nothing and will be remembered fondly by those you left behind. If there is a benevolent god, he will judge you on your merits and not just on whether or not you believed in him. "

 

 

Now unlike the spiritual an athiest is naturally a more passionate person who belives in life more than after life . Most instinctively he belives that it is quite more realistic to love your fellow men than to love an unseen God . Moreover he really believes in the benevolance of God since he quite knows that God would not be like you petty Politician who would only give you a better position if you prostrate in front of him but would take into consideration how you treated your fellow men  and yes fellow women.

 

Now for every Hitler there exists a Stalin and for Agnostic Buddha there exist a hundred God fearing Prophets. So a guy can argue that a persons religious view has no correlation to him being a better Human . Now this is quite valid an argument .But the point here is a rational agnostic or athiest understanding the wager quite well will believe in working in the interest of his neighbours and friends and all other Humans , While a rational spiritual (what a paradox ) will believe in "Believing" .

 

 

Pascals Wager

Its amazing to the hilt . Once people have slogged hard to get money and have found it in plenty they need Spirituality. Its not that they leave the money they have earned to the God foresaken masses . No that doesnt happen . It would be very foolish to expect someone to giveup material things they have given their life for . But when people have earned enough , more than what they can ever imagine to even spend they start looking for spirituality . This is no self actualisation need as defined by Maslow . This is greed upon greed .

Once the rich and intelligent have secured things on this Earth they are now looking on to consolidate it . Everyone knows this life is transitory . Even the athiest knows it quite well that unless somone develops a cure for death life is just gonna vanish like a puff of smoke into nothingness . The rich men are rich due to many reasons one of the most important being a continuous drive to secure the best for themselves for the present and ofcourse for the future .


Most people instinctively understand Pascals Wager .The Rich instinctively crave for the best option . The neo Rich crave for the same and more .Now with the above link you can easily read it but i would still copy it below:

"The philosophy uses the following logic (excerpts from Pensées, part III, §233):

1. "God is, or He is not"
2. A Game is being played... where heads or tails will turn up.
3. According to reason, you can defend either of the propositions.
4. You must wager. (It's not optional.)
5. Let us weigh the gain and the loss in wagering that God is. Let us estimate these two chances. If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing.
6. Wager, then, without hesitation that He is. (...) There is here an infinity of an infinitely happy life to gain, a chance of gain against a finite number of chances of loss, and what you stake is finite. And so our proposition is of infinite force, when there is the finite to stake in a game where there are equal risks of gain and of loss, and the infinite to gain"

In simple words If you believe in God if he exists you will get heven you will not lose anything if he doesnt exists .If you dont believe in God you will burn in hell if you are wrong , even if you are right you will gain nothing by not believeing .

The search for spirituality is the search for infinite gain . Some people believe , some people are convinced , some are cunning , some are simply rational .The belief in God is quite simply the most rational choice .If not rational its the most gainful of all available choices . Well an intelligent fellow will always reach the same conclusion - Why take chances ??

 

Koodankulam Anti nuclear struggle

Some people rightly have no problem in seeing villagers depend on cowdung cakes for fuel . Such people rightly oppose greenhouse gases and are scared to death by the prospect of radiation from nuclear energy .These people include the villagers themselves. I am not one of these people . I have no problems if people enjoy a Japanese lifestyle and then one fine day find themselves in a Fukushima kind of situation . If I have to choose a lifetime of cowdung cakes and Fukushima I choose Fukushima .

Writing is difficult

I always wanted to be a writer inspite of my very limited talent with words and letters, grammar and vocabulary , English and Hindi. For years till class X , understanding these limitations very well I had decided Journalism would be my chosen option of earning a livelihood. It’s a fact well understood by writer that writing is the least artistic of all arts . Journalism is the least artistic of all written arts .No wonder the Jobs available would be more. Hence for a man of recognised limited talent it was the most viable of all available options. Viable and available are so rhyming, especially in life.

Well long long years after the limited dream of being a Journalist died a quite death, without any deserving burial ceremony, I had decided to write at least a few articles every week in the least Journalistic medium of all available-viable medium .I decided to use this blogging account of mine that Google throws at us free. Of course Google never gives anything free but then I don’t mind it here and I am strongly avoiding the temptation of getting into this fact.

I decided that I would blog and after a while after some months I would proudly call myself a Blogger.  A less talented journalist. An even less talented artist. But a writer none the less. A writer of extreme insignificance but a writer for sure. Now many people write wonderful emails all day. No less in creativity and imagination than any accomplished fiction writer. But that doesn’t make them writers .A writer is one who earns a little or great living or a little or great hunger by virtue of his writing .Emails writing professionals in spite of all their creativity do not earn a living through writing mails. Some professionals may still differ on that definition .But here I must say that if some of us are earning a living by virtue of writing fancy emails then there is no reason why we should not consider them as artists .

To make sure there is an element of seriousness in all this -2nd innings of mine at a writing dream -I decided to add a financial element to my Blog. I used all kinds of advertisement. I still use a few. A newspaper or a magazine is not worth its salt if there are no advertisements. A Blog is no better without it. A not for Profit writing is not serious unless you are doing it for donations. It’s another matter that most writers never make a serious profit from writing and I am firm supporter of the idea that serious artists including writers should die of either Drug Abuse , Alcoholism or atleast Hunger just like a famous Rockstar or our authors of Hindi textbook stories. But never the less its quite offensive of writers to pretend that there is no financial element to writing . It devalues their effort. It’s a serious question mark to the professionalism of the writer. A budding writer should always avoid the temptation of writing for free. A serious artist should always charge a fee.

 Having made all necessary preparations for my new found pursuit I decided to take a dive with the intention to write atleast twice weekly and had decided to write daily after sometime. When things weren’t moving well I asked the help of a dear friend to just keep the Blog going .He gave up as easily as he took it up. Now with a few months passing by it has become writing twice monthly. I have already lost the guts to justify myself as a serious Blogger to myself, let alone the ever so distant dream of being an unread useless "Writer”. But all said and done I have understood one thing that gives me some hope and solace - WRITING IS DIFFICULT.