Healthy wings needed to
soar beyond unhealthy narratives of Left wing or Right wing.
It is unhealthy to carry on with existing narratives in politics
and media.
It is unhealthy if humanity does not realize that it needs
sanity more than any particular identity.
It is unhealthy if political and media narratives- while inevitably
using some identity based steps tend to stop or to slip or to slide down rather
than climb up with sanity.
It is unhealthy when debates and discussions resort to
visceral vitriol vindicated by the votaries of identity politics of various
hues, colors and ideologies.
It is unhealthy because the self proclaimed representatives
of the masses, through either the Left wing praxis of pseudo liberal
appropriations and assigning of labels or virulent feverish provocations by Right
wing advocates, dominate the narratives.
It is unhealthy to stuff such approaches and extrapolations
to everything that the free birds of discourse and the splendorous feathers of
aesthetic creations can never take flight and soar into realms of any sane
unbiased zones as it will be Left overburdened with weight of one wing and
Right away pulled by the overbearing of another wing.
It is unhealthy when both groups slide into snide dismissals rather
than direct arguments.
It is unhealthy if we do not realize that the present practical
difficulties faced by individuals and societies need solutions and not seeking
endorsement by or to be sanctified by any specific ideology- however great or
good that may be.
It is unhealthy that militancy without being curtailed is made to move
from a mere posture into a well organized program.
It is unhealthy that radicalism without being admonished outright gets
rewarded.
It is unhealthy if we are not aware that in human history till date no
single ideology or institution or inscription of individual can be defined as
some panacea which can claim to offer a tailor made template but with a universal
cure –all, correct –all, comfort –all solutions embedded in it!
It is unhealthy if we do not realize that human race is far more than the
opportunities it is consciously aware of as Jean Paul Sartre provides the example of
the young man who puts his hand on his first date's hand. She, who does not
really know him yet, must either leave her hand there or remove it. Either
choice reveals something not part of her consciousness. We are far more than the
limited opportunities present in the world.
It is unhealthy when we either deny or defy the importance of anyone or
anything or any ideology as each may have evolved to fulfill a specific need
and may fit in some gap in the jigsaw puzzle called life.
It is unhealthy if we are not sensible to not to hurt the sensitivities
of others.
It is unhealthy not to be open to a wide variety of ideas, observations
from multitude of sources and nothing stops us from planning to properly relate
with everyone and everything to facilitate the understanding of meaning of life.
It is unhealthy if we do not know that the meaning of life which is after
all the result of churning of the outer world by the inner self or the way
inner self relates with the outer world in all its multiple manifestations.
It is unhealthy if we do not realize that our inner self is a combination
of heart (body) mind (conscious awareness) and soul. Heart itself is
wonderfully referred to as HRUDAYA
in Sanskrit which is one of the most perfect terms to indicate both the
physical and psychological functionality of the heart. Meaning of "Hrudaya" from
the Bruhadaranya Upanishad: 'Hru' means to bring. This involves
bringing impure blood from the body to the heart. 'Da' means to
give, involves giving pure blood to the body. 'Ya' means to set
right all the activities and maintain the stability of the body.
It is unhealthy if we do not realize the inevitable fact of life and
stark reality is that whatever we may have planned or planning to plan may not
be the plan that unfolds in life in all spheres of life irrespective of whatever
label we may give to such state of affairs: - as fate or destiny or we may wish
and try to ignore it or work hard to justify it. This does not mean or
need not necessarily lead to the conclusion that we must not plan and that
there is no use in planning.
Healthy conditions can be planned and programmed if those scripting any
political narrative realize to do away with the outdated dichotomy of Left and
Right because life, especially socio-cultural and economic life, has many
dimensions each having its own dynamics and in addition there are also those
emanating from intersectionality and interactions and all of these manifest
themselves with varying degrees of intensity. Fortunately life and all its concomitant
evolutions happen despite and beyond the blinkered narratives peddled by status
quo addicts of trite dichotomies and have made visible various options between,
besides, beneath and above those dichotomies, and these may strengthen the
wings and enable the discourse to soar into unbiased zones and offer some
solutions to many present day problems faced by humanity.
