Friday 9 October 2015

Role of the Intellectuals


I have said several times that India is heading for a Revolution, because all our state institutions have become hollow and empty shells, and the massive socio-economic problems of the country like poverty, unemployment, healthcare, price rise, malnourishment, etc cannot be solved within the system.

 The aim of this Revolution will be to create a just social order in which our people get decent lives, with proper employment, food, education, healthcare, housing and enjoy a high standard of living
 But before a Revolution can take place there has to be a profound and prolonged ideological struggle by the patriotic modern minded intelligentsia against backward, feudal ideas and practices.

If one recalls the French Revolution of 1789, it was preceded by several decades of struggle in the cultural and ideological fields by Voltaire, Rousseau,, Diderot, Hollbach, Helvetius and other thinkers of the Enlightenment e.g. the Encyclopediasts, who all fought for destruction of the feudal order in France, and creation of a modern, just society. None of these thinkers lived long enough to see the French Revolution of 1789, but they had contributed to it.

  Similarly, when young people ask me what should they do to help in bringing about the Indian Revolution, my answer is that first you must lay the ideological groundwork for the Revolution ( as Voltaire, Rousseau, etc did in France ), and for that you must spread scientific and rational ideas among the masses, and ideologically combat casteism, communalism and superstitions.

  You may not live to see the day when our Revolution is successful and when our people start getting decent lives( I almost certainly will not, as I am already in my 70th year ), but what of that ? You will have contributed to it, just as Voltaire and Rousseau did. Let that be your reward.

 Intellectuals are the eyes of a society, and without intellectuals society is blind. So our patriotic modern minded intelligentsia, particularly the youth,  have a historical role before them. Let them do there duty

10 comments:

  1. In india the so called intellectuals never tried to instill confidence in the minds of the farmers nor contributed for the development of the farmers, they totally look down the farmers and behave like hypocrites.Indian intellegentia is a totally brain drain as they have migrated to the urban or to the other countries for a living.

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  2. Britishers once commented "Sikhs love alcohol, muslims love women and Hindus die for POWER AND MONEY, they do anything at any cost. Yes it is a brain drain and should be reduced

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  4. How to make truth applicable in man and society

    We see the world through the window of thoughts that dominates our mind and intelligence
    We have to learn again the forgotten technique to see the world through the eternal treasure of compassion&curiosity we hold

    It is a historically proven fact that
    those who are in power in different dimensions of society
    keep humanity in lower primitive states of consciousness
    to keep majority ignorant and fighting amongst each other,
    while elite enjoy all the power privileges and luxury
    at the expense of robotic people who don't think

    Statement of powerful govt is a truth for majority of weak
    Sermon of religious guru is a truth for devotees

    Who than left to care to explore the truth for truth ?

    "No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it."
    Albert Einstein

    Reality lies in the fact that majority of people don't think they learn and repeat the facts, received from the sources recognized by govt and dominant culture

    "The great mass of people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.What a luck for rulers that men do not think"- Adolf Hitler

    To maintain and consolidate their undisputed authority,powerful persons of different dimension of life doesn't want the people should begin to think,
    They keep them engaged in learning and repeating the facts they provide,
    Nor they create conducive environment,to let the public to build an organization that can do the job of thinking for them on open public platform in the light of constitutional directives norms and values,to make the spirit of govt orders and proceedings more transparent understandable to all

    Rules and laws are built to serve for public interest without becoming hurdle in protection of human dignity and growth of human potential.
    To maintain the fact mentioned above
    It is must to think and evaluate the govt orders policies and their execution process to keep the govt,citizen and society on the path of evolution&cleansing simultaneously

    The crucification of Jesus ,the death sentence for Socrates.....murder of Gandhi and Martin Luther king ......
    has been an clear evidence that one who in his individual capacity fight for truth can't continue it like a process to explore the truth for the sake of public interest
    But
    The appraisal the govt's functions,opposition's functions, citizen's functions and religious guru's functions can't be ignored
    so it is must to clean the visible and invisible weakness contaminating and to promote the hidden or open strength of the whole of human life.

    To materialize this ceaseless appraisal process on all kind of social functions on open platform, an Informal civic intellectual forum is a need of modern time to replace the decaying,collective decision making ancient and medieval systems to make the truth hood incessantly applicable in man and society.

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  5. Upper caste should live in India on H1B type visa as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_Award

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  6. It is unwise and avarice to believe that today's intellectuals(except a few) and rights activists bring about changes in society. One must remember the words of IBSEN:
    There is so much hypocrisy at home and school. AT home we have to be quiet and at school we have stand before and say what we do not believe in ourselves.

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  7. It is unwise and avarice to believe that today's intellectuals(except a few) and rights activists bring about changes in society. One must remember the words of IBSEN:
    There is so much hypocrisy at home and school. AT home we have to be quiet and at school we have stand before and say what we do not believe in ourselves.

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  8. It is unwise and avarice to believe that today's intellectuals(except a few) and rights activists bring about changes in society. One must remember the words of IBSEN:
    There is so much hypocrisy at home and school. AT home we have to be quiet and at school we have to stand before and say what we do not believe in ourselves.

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  9. It is unwise and avarice to believe that today's intellectuals(except a few) and rights activists bring about changes in society. One must remember the words of IBSEN:
    There is so much hypocrisy at home and school. AT home we have to be quiet and at school we have to stand before and say what we do not believe in ourselves.

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  10. Sir, scientific temper as mentioned under art-51(a) of Fund. duties has come down to minus(-) level in our country.All educational institutions( schools,colleges) focus on cramming and marks. There is no reasoning and interpretation in subjects being taught in these institutions as mentioned in Mimamsa darshana. .parents , teachers and students want only marks and job in MNC and nothing else.Except few people like you ,some (3-5%) , hardly we will find any intellectuals in our country.

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