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By Santosh Jha

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Copyright 2014 Santosh Jha

(Revised & Updated 2021)

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Table Of Contents

Prologue

The Core Issue, The Central Stupidity

Mechanism Of Populism

The Contemporary Indian Scene

Why This Stampede?

Diagnosis Of Real Troubles

Parbatiya’s Vikas Model!

The Missing Idealism

A Possible Alternative Model

Accept My Gratitude

About The Author

Other Titles By Santosh Jha

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Prologue

ENERGIES ARE CATASTROPHIC, if they are not streamlined and channelized properly. More so, if extreme reactiveness shapes them, and when they lend gratuitously to charged up emotionalism. This is a common knowledge of humanity; probably no need to overemphasize it, as long history of humanity has already witnessed and realized this. It is also nothing new to state with renewed vigor that the most potentially calamitous energy happens to be ideas, which humans have innate tendency to engender in plenty and then foolishly become victim of it. Even best of ideas become a source of major calamity if they are not understood and accepted in non-reactive and holistic perspectives. Tragic realism is, energies are usually reactive, not receptively assimilative; probably that is why, they prove ineffective to human society. There is no blame game here; just an acceptance of the realism of the mechanism, as it is.

In contemporary India, since long, a virtual stampede of ideas has been set to unleash tumultuous causalities, as the multiplicities of obsessively espoused ideas are roaming without proper channelizing mechanism and streamlining structures. There is a stampede of stupidities pervading Indian societal milieu and the potential outcomes are nothing short of calamitous, even if euphemized by another set of energies of high-sounding and media-sugared ideas. Moreover, the term stupidities, as used here is more in lovingly simple sense, not meant for any reactive utility.

There still is nothing new, which one can be specifically worried of, as this scenario is global and the happenings are only innovatively repetitive, if viewed from historical perspective. It is not that this stampede of stupidities could be patented to India and its contemporary mode and mood. All over the globe, the energies of ideas of youth, neo-youth, activism, the populist nomenclature of common man and the generally embedded force of rejection of status quoist realisms are active players of the stampede. And, there are embedded reasons for it.

This phenomenon too is cyclic in history of time and space on this earth. Energies of ideas for change, guided by the gradient and gravitation of rejection of status quo are basic cyclicality of cosmic evolution and human societies are just a small part of the macrocosmic arrangement, though, in reactive consciousness, we all fail to understand and accept it.

So, why is there a need to talk about it and be overly cautious? Why should we need to call it a stampede and a stupidity and discuss it? Is there a need to talk about it all, if what is going on is just fixed and endemic mechanism of all societies in course of evolution in time and space?

Yes, there is a big need to do it. The express requirement is to deal with the intrinsic issue of evolutionary energies of societies and its mechanisms with an objective, holistic and non-emotional perspective. This integrative and assimilative perspective shall ensure that all players and participants of change, who in their emotional positioning of consciousness and microscopic viewpoint, fail to see the objectivity of the entire mechanism of societal changes, could understand the processes and mechanisms of change in its widest possible spectrum. This shall definitely weed out loads of aggression, ill will, chaos and conflicts out of the contemporary global societies, which are on the threshold of or amidst major socio-political and cultural changes. This shall surely be helpful in supplying the much needed sanity and serenity in the contemporary stampede of stupidities, which pervades India and many other nations.

At the very outset, I wish to make it very clear that the purpose of writing this long essay is surely not to ridicule or belittle any idea, activism or initiatives, which contemporary India as well as different other societies are witnessing. It needs to be reemphasized that all energies are not only endemic in societies but also very beautiful and powerful means of societal changes, which themselves are essential and intrinsic in evolution of humanity and their societies.

What I wish to bring about in this essay is; how and why energies of changes need to be viewed in holism and totality and why problems and solutions too need to be viewed in holistic and assimilative perspectives. The initiative is to speak of how it is very crucial to understand the dynamics of the mechanisms of the overall causality (cause-effect cycle), which ultimately energizes all changes in all societies and how all energies need to be properly channelized and objectively streamlined to instill the essential elements of sanity and serenity in changes. This is important, to weed out the chaos and conflicts, which usually most societal changes are prone to, especially in contemporary times of media-overdrive, reactionary consciousnesses and communication-obesity.

The very affectionate and compassionate idea of this endeavor is to present a case of sanity amidst the milieu of contemporary societal changes, without making anyone a villain and others a hero. All ideas can be wonderfully fruitful and all participants of energies can be catalytic in shaping brilliant changes, if the entire idea of change and its mechanism is understood and accepted in holism and in a non-reactive and receptive causality.

I am taking up the contemporary Indian chaos of 2013-14 as a case study of societal changes in this book and it needs to be emphasized that though, the scenario and ground realities in USA or Egypt can be different from India, the operating mechanisms of societal changes remain the same. I am talking about broad issues and ideas of system’s operational mechanisms and as all societies have very similar structures and functions, there has to be big commonalities in energies of societal changes that are troubling most societies in contemporary times.

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The Core Issue, The Central Stupidity

What is a stampede? A large group of people, when marching towards one singular direction, queued up in an orderly manner and with firm resolve towards the idea they profess to establish, is a beautiful and powerful procession. The same people, when they start frantically moving and running in all directions, breaking up the pattern of a queue or orderly line-up, with individualistic resolves to lead things to logical end in their own subjective ways, it results in a stampede, which engenders catastrophe.

India has been very fortunate to have witnessed the magnanimity and fruition of the beauty of a powerful and orderly procession under the leadership of Mahatma Gandhi. This was so effective and universal in its utility that almost all major changes in all societies across the globe imported it and used it in different times, post Indian independence. It was to Mahatma’s credit that he always preferred no energy to a reactive and disorderly aggressive energy. He never patronized the energies of a stampede. This sanity and detachment is missing in Indian participants of contemporary change as most of them hastily succumb to the populist lure of patronizing the energies of the stampede of stupidities for instant or short-term gains.

Societies of nations are huge group of people and they are marvelous agents and participants of change but always a potential of populist presuppositions. Globally, the new idea of liberalism and globalization has resulted in weakening of societies and nations. This has in turn created a stronger and more reactively vocal individual. Probably first time in global history, the common person, the average citizen and a simple voter has become relatively better empowered and emphatic, vis-à-vis the society and governance, he or she lives in.

People of my generation still remember how in India, we as citizens felt alienated and demoralized. Only two decades back, for a simple gas connection to as trifle as few kilograms of low quality sugar, we all had to stand in queues for hours and virtually beg for what were our basic rights. In banks, we were treated like beggars, even when we were drawing our own money. For every little thing, we were dependent on the mercy of state’s services, which were doled out to average citizen as if we were burden on the nation. Now that liberalization and globalization has done away with this state monopoly and now we feel honored and even overly pampered by markets and private producers of quality goods and services, we feel empowered not only as a consumer, but also as citizens. A larger sense of wellness in life and living has taken away the demoralized posture. This has been the scenario for most people in many developing and struggling nations, especially in Afro-Asian societies. In most societies, across the globe, for a larger population, especially the youth, it is a party time!

The new urban and educated Indian citizen now feels empowered and emboldened. He or she has become used to quality services and products. The average citizen knows and accepts that when he or she pays for something, first thing which is delivered to him or her is respectability and then the desired product. This honored and pampered customer is now equally demanding citizen as he or she pays the taxes and loads of it. The governments run the show on their moneys, as few governments have been successful producers to generate enough moneys.

A vociferous citizen and its desire to script changes in societal milieus is the new contemporary reality globally and it has acquired decisive energies from the massive improvement in communication technology and personal media; emboldened by the new culture of openness and liberalization. As an empowered consumer, an average person wants states and its institutions to behave and act in a more respectable way to them and should be approachable to them easily. On the contrary, state institutions and governance behave and act in the old mould and often, they rub the people the wrong way. It is only natural that the new generations of people are in no mood to take this for granted. A change is no doubt a big necessity and this has been procrastinated for long.

The new milieu has troubled all societies and nations across the globe as they have failed to match up with the pace of people’s aspirations and desires of good life. The huge improvements in technologies and sciences have massively lifted up the benchmarks of ‘good life’ across the globe, be it a developing society or a developed one. In that sense, core trouble of USA and Egypt or India is the same. Also similar is the fact that both developed as well as developing nations are facing financial crisis, which has resulted owing to overdrive of governments to appease and fulfill growing desires of average people in contemporary societies, along with other reasons of mismanagement of governance.

What is then the stupidity in all this new worldview? This stupidity is very subtle and as it is on the side of the teeming majority of common people, it is not being recognized and accepted. This needs to be understood. Since long, despite differences among political philosophies about individual liberty and sovereign rights, the nation-state always prevailed over individual liberty. This started to change at the end of the last century, when cold war politics ended and the rigid and oversensitive idea of nation-state, sovereignty and nationalism started to wane. The major