Most of
these so called intellectuals in India are left leaning, and therefore never
learning anything liberals.
For my part I would like to say that the words Liberty and
liberal have evolved through a very opaque things or systems etc it had
referred to for example word liberty the etymology of the
word liberty itself from the Latin words
"Liber," "Libera," and "Liberum" -- with a Long I
-- came from the root meaning, "to pour." From this, we get the word
"Liberty" (hence pronounced with a short I), from the freedom we feel
when we get drunk , a sort of feeling high . So a lot depends on what you
pour and what gives a feeling of high. If the same word ‘liber’with a long I --
means, "to peel," [from which the word library is supposed to
have come ] and the word liberal from latin liberalis
“ noble, gracious, munificient” and according to one of the best books on
history ‘History for a united world’ that I have read long back by an author
calledEdward Herbert Dance he mentions that the word liberty and
liberal were used for nobles and the aristocrats and it indicated or referred
more to ‘class privilege than anything else’ this author incidentally writes
“ India was far advanced in many areas when the west was still groping
about in dark ages”
So even taking it literally liberty depends on what gives you a
feeling of high and it gets its identity with that and as indicated above in
modern media labeling it gets identified with anything that is perceived as
leftist socialistic concepts correctness and therefore, or to be more blunt and
precise, because of that very reason there is nothing lofty about the word
liberal itself. So if someone says he is very liberal minded means exactly that
‘he is identifying himself with a concept of correctness as defined and
determined by the leftist socialistic ideology and it varies from country to
country. The left must be credited for mutilating even the very meaning
of the word by the connotations that they have given it and the brand building
exercises that they have carried on.
The word free too has two sides the brighter one goes in its
root to the word love itself but the darker one is an adverb you get something
free, not for free. To quote from ‘Word Nerd’ ‘freebooter is a pirate,”frees”
the “booty” from a ship. The elements of freedom are free and doom, but when
the word came into English , this combination meant “condition of being judged
to be free” and doom then meant “deem”.
I wish all of you also read these two excellent links second one
short [about how dirty the word liberty is’ and the first one long about how
mutilated and raped history is.
Let us first move away from these media appropriated and
projected labels like ‘saffronization’ [O-orange] ejected very often by the
greenhorns of red brigade [ R-red]. It is an intentional tool to divide with
ideological label and paid media are master at that, perhaps only at that as if
there are two contrasting groups like saffron versus secular, previously they
were using communal versus secular and in the process they have distorted the
meaning of all these words beyond any sane recognition by their meaningless
usage. No one minds about main
stream media’s Yellow Journalism [Y-yellow] but bringing to light what pure
white hearted souls from all places and spheres have created the purple pages
[V & I - Purple representing Violet and Indigo] of past glory through their
contributions from dark ages agitates certain minds and they are green
[G-green] with jealousy how come those whom they have labeled repeatedly as
belonging to dark ages can become the blue-eyed [B-Blue] boys of rational
perception across the globe and what has happened to the white wash done by
centuries of political and academic hegemony? How come that white wash is
revealing the hidden colors of VIBGYOR beneath that white ? We must break
those prisms?
