It has been quite a while since i bared my teeth and took a bite
at the society. Not that am an anarchist but the sheer magnitude of stupidity
encountered on a daily basis is quite appalling. My latest peeve seems to be religion.
Although I may come across as a pious or religious nut, the truth is far from
that. Don’t get me wrong, I am not an atheist either. I do not condemn religion.
In a lot of cases it has helped people. A organized structure of likeminded
people who subscribe to a common allusion, bounded by the laws and rules, which
sometimes do make sense, propagating a sense of belonging. It keeps a lot of us
in check ,who otherwise, wouldn’t even pass for a human being. I am
spiritual. But my rant is not about that. It’s the use of religion to control
others. Or more specifically, religious censorship which has made global secularism,
a farce. Ban movies, rock bands, music and comics.BAN ALL!!! cos We are too
bloody sensitive to anyone critical of us. WOW! Yu guys are dumb &
immature! And way to go with the protests. Ask a guy in the crowd and he wouldn’t
know why he is protesting. He wouldn’t know what offended him to rise in
protest. If anything the latest religious protests are but a ploy to get
political mileage. Now what i am talking about is not specific to Viswaroopam. Let’s
talk about the incident of banning a Muslim women rock band from performing in
the Kashmir valley. Some religious nut issued a Fatwa against them saying their
music is NON ISLAMIC. Since when does music adhere to religion and race? The last
i checked music was universal and for everyone. Be as that may, what about Jal,
Arsh, Junoon or Strings. Why was the Fatwas so specific to a girl band in the Kashmir
valley?? Oh but these sentiments are not specific to Islam. There is a fanatic
of this sort in all religion. Masking it behind the likes of Morality and
jingoism the atrocities of the saffron terrorists and the modern crusaders is
quite pathetic, disrupting modern thought and intellectual development. Sexism
under the veil of religion. Fanaticism under the veil of morality, carried by
those whose looks reek of crime and ignorance. Medievalistic thought has been
hammered into the minds of them by the previous generation right from childhood
and like sheep they follow. Never questioning, ever obedient. Wi is pornography
bad? How come partying is immoral? Wi is Rock, the music of the devil?
One of these hardliner clergymen even went as far as calling it noise and not
music. My dear man, Doesn’t beauty lie in the eye's of the beholder? The
last i checked, Rock and rock musicians have more often than not stood for
peace and non violence. However the solace in these pathetic course of
events unfolding in our country is that it is done by, but a fringe minority ,
set out to create a unreasonable rift in our society. But the problem to this
is no man stands up to them. The society , and its apathetic nature as a whole
has let democracy and secularism down.
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good
men do nothing. "- Edmund Burke
Intellectual thought and open mindedness has become a rare
commodity in our environment which is not conducive to creativity. At this
rate, it would be no surprise if India becomes a failed state. Regrettable that
such a thing has to come out of me.