Declining standards in public
life, lack of scruples, wholesale subversion of democracy, appeasement of the
minorities for the sake of collecting votes, nefarious negation of
constitutional principles, pilferage, pillaging and plundering of the nation's wealth,
breaking promises made in election manifestos to the public while remaining
true to one's own self-interest---these are the pre-eminent characteristics of
the bulk of the politicians of the day who have made the national coffers their
private ownership and the nation's destiny their plaything. But India is
greater than these petty politicians of the hour who like bubbles have arisen
and will like bubbles burst. India cannot be held to ransom by these vile
practitioners of the democratic process who twist and turn every loophole in
the system to their vicious advantage while the masses groan in agony under
their despicable tyranny using every trick of the trade.
Gone are the feudal lords and the conquering warlords, tyrants who for ages had subjected the masses to inhuman brutality rendering their divine forms to being mere beasts of burden whose earthly existence was solely for the purpose of enslavement at the hands of their malevolent masters, to do their bidding as the call arose and to work themselves to death to fill up the lax lives of these indolent sensuous beings with every pleasure possible, to satisfy their every whim and fancy such that life on earth was a veritable hell for the multitude and death the great deliverer.
Such violent times are no more in the general throughout the civilized world and where they do exist, they are a fall-back upon olden times of scriptural barbarism often in reaction doubtlessly to geo-political tyrannical conditions thrust upon the offender but sometimes on account of a relapse of medieval malevolence as well. On the whole, though, democracy is on the rise and so is the influence of science and reason.
Yet, ancient barbarism persists and the tyranny of capital has replaced the torment of the sword. A slow suction is ever on, of wealth being drained upwards from all and sundry in a vicious scientific manner they call the economic mode, reducing billions to penury to fill up the coffers of a handful of tycoons who ironically become billionaires thus. This is valid capitalism supported by democratic governments everywhere and such legitimacy afforded to exorbitant pricing and excessive profit-making at the cost of the general well-being of the masses who continue under a variant garb to live like beggars, is violent to its very core and is the seed of all corruption that thrives on greed and self-aggrandizement.
And, today, we are in the midst of this new phenomenon of coarse capitalism coursing its way through the bloodstream of the nascent nation that is India. Politicians, O they are the siblings of these pecuniary perverts, cousins-in-arms whose sole purpose is self-gratification of the most abominable kind to the destitution of millions. The lower classes are being ground to the dust under the twin tyranny of the capitalist and the politician while the middle class is slowly but surely sliding into poverty. Only the upper class enjoys life on earth as if this beautiful earth belongs solely to it while the rest toil to humour it lest His Majesty’s hour on earth be spoiled even though he despoils all of bare earthly necessities.
Gone are the feudal lords and the conquering warlords, tyrants who for ages had subjected the masses to inhuman brutality rendering their divine forms to being mere beasts of burden whose earthly existence was solely for the purpose of enslavement at the hands of their malevolent masters, to do their bidding as the call arose and to work themselves to death to fill up the lax lives of these indolent sensuous beings with every pleasure possible, to satisfy their every whim and fancy such that life on earth was a veritable hell for the multitude and death the great deliverer.
Such violent times are no more in the general throughout the civilized world and where they do exist, they are a fall-back upon olden times of scriptural barbarism often in reaction doubtlessly to geo-political tyrannical conditions thrust upon the offender but sometimes on account of a relapse of medieval malevolence as well. On the whole, though, democracy is on the rise and so is the influence of science and reason.
Yet, ancient barbarism persists and the tyranny of capital has replaced the torment of the sword. A slow suction is ever on, of wealth being drained upwards from all and sundry in a vicious scientific manner they call the economic mode, reducing billions to penury to fill up the coffers of a handful of tycoons who ironically become billionaires thus. This is valid capitalism supported by democratic governments everywhere and such legitimacy afforded to exorbitant pricing and excessive profit-making at the cost of the general well-being of the masses who continue under a variant garb to live like beggars, is violent to its very core and is the seed of all corruption that thrives on greed and self-aggrandizement.
And, today, we are in the midst of this new phenomenon of coarse capitalism coursing its way through the bloodstream of the nascent nation that is India. Politicians, O they are the siblings of these pecuniary perverts, cousins-in-arms whose sole purpose is self-gratification of the most abominable kind to the destitution of millions. The lower classes are being ground to the dust under the twin tyranny of the capitalist and the politician while the middle class is slowly but surely sliding into poverty. Only the upper class enjoys life on earth as if this beautiful earth belongs solely to it while the rest toil to humour it lest His Majesty’s hour on earth be spoiled even though he despoils all of bare earthly necessities.
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