Re: MACAVITY OF OUR TIMES
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Journalists 'acting wiser' than Political Leaders ?
That is not okay !
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While it is okay to give suggestions for improving things, criticism
aimed purely to harm a leader is not okay. You are not in the business
of toppling governments or throwing out leaders. You are employed by
them. Not the other way around.
Employing satire on top of it is like going to an even higher level of
aggravation.
Does it mean that these journalists like Gautam Mukherjee know any
better or can see any better solutions to the so-called problems that
they are citing and painting elaborate word-pictures of ?
I do not see any evidence of that ! If they knew any better, they
would not be earning their living by writing. Journalists and writers
have a place in the national or even international hierarchy that
cannot go above the powers that rule the nations today. Just because
the international arena today seems to be a void in terms of a lack of
leadership and world-wide direction or 'goal' (appearances are that
way today), that does not give these journalists and writers the
freedom to cross national power structures.
National Control of Struggle for Supremacy in the Air is needed;
all nations of the world - please control your writers to comply with
the One Living God on Earth
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They need to be reigned in within their national boundary to suit
national interests first. Otherwise, they are no use internationally
anyways. No one can control such behavior if the governments of the
nations where they reside and who they attempt to bypass in their
Struggle for Control of the Air cannot do that. Certainly not the One
Living God on Earth. It is a totally wrong quest for such
'unqualified', 'immature', 'trigger-happy', 'sensational', 'attention-
seeking', 'basically ignorant and stubborn and defiant' journalists
and totally totally totally wrong methods or principles or approach
towards such international communications and control.
If you are unable to stick to 'Use of Reason', 'Truth' and 'Non-
Violence', you do not fit within any jurisdiction of governance -
Village, Town, City, County (District), State or Nation; let alone any
possibility of contributing anything in the international arena except
damage to existing structures of governance everywhere. They would
cause nothing but turmoil and confusion and instability world-wide
with such 'stupid' shallow (they have not found the root causes -
Truth - and they have not employed proper reasoning - Use of Reason)
approaches to problem solving.
We do not need negative people on the Air. They drain the energy of
the One God on Earth who is the source of all the energy in the world
in the first place. They bleed Him with their negativity and therefore
they are no different from the Killers of the One God on Earth.
- HSN.
P.S. For those who do not understand a word of what I wrote above,
kindly just ignore it; it is not meant for you.
I do not expect people who do not know what the terms 'God in Heaven'
and 'God on Earth' mean in real life to understand my writing. Please
consult with 'wiser' people around you and ask them what all this
means. You might get a satisfactory answer if you ask enough people.
The quest for Truth or God is not meant to be easy and is not the same
for everyone. Good luck.
On Feb 25, 10:22 pm, use...@mantra.com and/or www.mantra.com/jai (Dr.
Jai Maharaj) wrote:
> Macavity of our times
>
> By Gautam Mukherjee
> Editorial
> The Pioneer
> Saturday, February 26, 2011
>
> Manmohan Singh now uses his natural gifts of modesty, honesty and
> erudition to attempt an audacious suspension of disbelief worthy of a
> master cine artiste
>
> He always has an alibi and one or two to spare Whatever time the deed
> took place, Macavity wasn't there!
>
> The Mystery Cat by TS Eliot
>
> The Prime Minister's brazen, evidently much-rehearsed performance
> during his interaction with the editors of TV news channels recently
> was reminiscent of poet TS Eliot's story of an elusive mystery cat he
> called Macavity. As spectator sports go, one finds the packaging of a
> position between a rock and a hard place particularly fascinating.
> But still, the nation waited and waited for a gritty, integrity-laden
> truth out of the whole thing.
>
> Instead, we were treated to a series of anodyne and self-serving
> statements. But perhaps, to read the tea leaves correctly, our wait
> will have to be extended. Because the only clear-cut thing Mr
> Manmohan Singh said is that he wasn't quitting and that he intended
> to do some restructuring of the Union Cabinet after the Budget
> session of Parliament.
>
> But verily, he has matured and ripened as a politician. Mr Singh now
> uses his natural gifts of modesty, personal honesty, erudition, the
> familiar white bearded and blue turbanned persona, to not just give
> an appealing and sympathetic account of himself but also attempt an
> audacious suspension of disbelief worthy of a master cine artiste.
>
> Many senior media persons and Opposition politicians have already
> marvelled at how the Prime Minister has positioned the precarious
> state of governance with corruption and bad news pouring out of every
> crack and orifice as a matter he is just about to tidy up, having
> recently located his misplaced broom.
>
> The transmogrification, over the years, of the once decidedly leftist
> professor and economist-turned-World Bank-inspired reformer-liberator
> of the Indian economy in 1991 eliding, kaleidoscopically,
> imperceptibly, into the blasé politician of today, is impressive.
>
> Mr Singh, as we see him in 2011, must have been reminding himself, as
> he fielded questions with practised ease, that he was exactly where
> he always wanted to be. He was informing us that he was determined to
> go down in history as the first non-dynasty Congress Prime Minister
> to stay in office for two full back-to-back terms.
>
> And, by implication, he underlined that there was no one in the UPA,
> or for that matter in the Opposition, who could unseat him.
> Increasingly, this very durability and tenacity of tenure, along with
> his knack to see his pet projects through, may turn out to be his
> lasting testament. In this, he has quite a lot in common with former
> US President George W Bush who was also not thwarted from his
> essential purposes by mere criticism.
>
> Besides, even if we cast Mr Singh into the Faustian mould of having
> struck his particular bargain to share power with the Congress
> president, we can't fail to note his emphasis on the satisfactory
> performance of GDP growth with him as the helmsman. Based on this
> success alone Mr Singh seeks to minimise the impact of all the
> corruption on his watch.
>
> Besides, Faustian pacts aside, the sharing of prime ministerial power
> is hardly unprecedented. Our first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru,
> had to do so with both the Mahatma and Home Minister Vallabhbhai
> Patel while they lived. More recently, the charismatic Mr Atal Bihari
> Vajpayee shared his primus inter pares powers with his friend and
> comrade-in-arms, Mr LK Advani. Besides, it has taken Mr Singh off the
> hook on matters connected with the electoral success or failure of
> the Congress.
>
> Meanwhile, on the other side of the binary of power, all does not
> seem well. Electorally there have been hardly any State Assembly or
> by-poll successes for the Congress. Equally, we can't help but note
> that the poverty alleviation and rural employment programmes for the
> aam admi are lying in a shambles.
>
> Mr Singh could, therefore, be consciously benefitting from the
> weaknesses in his own party. He was also determined to reach out to
> the Opposition to rescue the Budget session from the fate that befell
> the Winter session of Parliament, even though this means he could be
> summoned to appear before the Joint Parliamentary Committee that will
> look into the 2G Spectrum scam.
>
> Mr Singh, the politician, is also adept at breaking logjams. He did
> it in UPA1 to get the Left off his back by deftly utilising Mr
> Mulayam Singh Yadav's numbers in the Lok Sabha. The Left has been
> floundering both politically and electorally ever since.
>
> To assess Mr Singh as politically naïve or weak may be a classic
> misjudgement. He knows how to play the hand he has been dealt
> adroitly. He also knows age and health dictate that this is his last
> chance in active politics. And while minding the store and sweeping
> the Augean stables of domestic politics interests him, it is not by
> any means his passion. The economy qualifies in this regard, as does
> foreign policy.
>
> Mr Manmohan Singh will see to it that that India tilts decisively
> towards the United States by way of our defence purchases before he
> leaves high office. This will reduce the strategic disadvantage we
> have always found ourselves in with regard to neighbouring bugbears
> China and Pakistan.
>
> Both these countries are occasionally strident in their relationship
> with the US but know which side their bread is buttered. They have
> consequently benefitted enormously from being perceived as allies.
>
> By way of contrast, India has long been in the Soviet camp while
> pretending to be non-aligned. The Russians today may also be selling
> us military equipment on more or less favourable terms, though the
> Admiral Gorshkov affair and the allegedly faulty Sukhois sent to
> India lately seems to give the lie to this.
>
> An economically pressured America and Europe now won't be that far
> behind in pricing and technology transfers too. To hark back to the
> nuclear fuel stoppages after our covert nuclear weaponisation as
> American/ Canadian/ European unreliability ignores the civil nuclear
> deal which couldn't have materialised without their concerted
> support. Besides, Russia has stopped supplying us the cryogenic
> engines too.
>
> Fact is, we have to trust in our own usefulness, not so much in the
> old way of the world divided into blocs, but the emerging new world
> order of functioning democracies and/or economic clout. China, in the
> contest of the permanent UNSC seat for India, is beginning to see
> India in these terms despite itself. After all, in a changed world,
> the future may need India and China to jointly pick up the pieces
> that used to be Pakistan.
>
> http://dailypioneer.com/320468/Macavity-of-our-times.html
>
> More at:http://www.dailypioneer.com
>
> Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
> Om Shanti
>
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