Romance
of words raped and killed by politicians and media.
Why
do you find fault with AAP and CONG?
1] As a polyglot I witness with glee the grand
strides a word takes, because of the suppleness and substantial survival value,
in the course of its evolution acquiring a carapace of connotations.
2] This makes sincere preachers, philosophers and
scientist to spend reams and reams of paper or lot of time in first ‘defining’
the meaning of the word through which what they are trying to say or want to say
or communicate.
3] Very often these connotations also feed a
profession which thrives on camouflaging and cleverly interpreting or
manipulating cases through verbal diarrhea?
4] Word sometimes carry within it some affinity to
its etymological root; sometimes it gets exalted due to the deft handling of it
by great writers, philosophers , linguists etc; sometimes it gets struck up in
some vital context; sometimes it also act as the very fulcrum of certain
contexts; sometimes it unfolds hitherto unraveled different dimensions of its
original meaning; sometimes it exquisitely spreads its wings to fly and catch
the subtle nuances which bring out the various facets of its overall splendor ;
sometimes it embellishes and establishes through experiences or thoughts newer
meanings; sometimes a newer connotation gets added to the word in its journey
through how it is perceived by socio- cultural acceptance and assimilation; sometimes
it establishes its life because of its relationship to some other words or as a
part of a popular idiom or phrase; sometimes it keeps modifying itself
aesthetically to survive or supplement some specific situation; sometimes it
unshackles its fetters and acquires several new meanings totally disconnected
from its original DNA to sustain the life of something else whose survival/life
it is supposed to enhance and expand beyond recognition of both its own
original identity and that of what it refers to and in the process getting
totally delinked from its very root [ as in the case of the word ‘religion’];
sometimes its plasticity is optimally used to refer to a multitude of emotions,
feelings, situations etc some of which could be even totally contradictory;
sometimes its elastically expands to give space in its womb to give birth to
new jargon or new idioms or phrases;
sometimes it gets married to some other word/s and in its proliferation of love lives to
copulate and cohabit with a stranger quiet oblivious of its own identity in
that romantic movement.
5] But sometimes because of her innocent, pleasant
and hospitable nature she is abused and raped by sloganeering ideologists [who
seek to establish some ‘ism’ misusing her], publicity peddlers, propaganda
pushers, religious zealots, mass opinion molders, brainwashing brigands,
scandal mongering media mafia, political manipulators etc.
7] I wanted to write in detail the story of life of
words in general but for want of time and to focus in present context I am
confining to certain specific words and the circus ring in which they are made to obey the ring master [the politician ]
and the whip at his disposal [the media].
8] The Indian political class along with an aiding
abetting media have already abused and distorted the meaning of the word ‘Secularism’
beyond any sane recognition and they have now decided to do the same to the
word ‘Corruption’. What else could it be when Rahul Gandhi says he wants fight
against corruption? And Arvind kejeriwal, who did not attend work as an
employed IRS cadre and is aligning with congress, says he wants to fight
corruption.
9] Through populist schemes of freebees and
unreasonable entitlement you paralyze the nation’s economy which is otherwise
to be developed through education and employment generating activities [and the
worst part is to do this you bleed the educated youth and middle class through
multiple taxes and price rise].
10] Through parochial, prejudiced and puerile
definitions you putrefy the cultural fabric of the society which has been
holding people together even without institutional control and thus destroy
national unity by creating divisions among people.
11] Through constant propaganda by abusing and
misusing words and sloganeering and resorting to blind labeling you petrify
human thinking and thereby suppress their mental development.
12] Finally you ensure people are kept constantly
busy struggling for their survival materially and striving for a social unity
and they are castrated of their independent thinking through manipulating
vocabulary which is purposefully mutilated beyond recognition and thus majority
are prevented from even thinking otherwise and the whole media is a big culprit
in this strategy of frenzied sabotage involving a treble murder of material,
social and psychological growth.
13] History
is replete with many examples of how many empires, dictators, megalomaniacs, a
former super power [USSR] and even some recent democracies collapsing into utter chaos and catastrophe
socially, economically and psychologically.
[Argentina-
Swaminathan
Gurumurthy | Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/SGurumurthy.Official A case study on Rise and Fall of Nations (Argentina and India) ... Largely
forgotten today is the fact that earlier in this century, Argentina was the
fourth richest].
15] In India the AAP and CONG combine with a
selected media houses are engaged in this activity.
Let us all at least remember the wisdom of common
sense that says prevention is better than cure.
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