tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30321121.post8691835592311436911..comments2024-03-18T21:52:53.357+05:30Comments on Cuckoo's call: Saltramahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07762427741454619332noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30321121.post-51761109370219071112006-12-29T08:41:00.000+05:302006-12-29T08:41:00.000+05:30Dear brother James
Thanks so much for articulatin...Dear brother James<br /><br />Thanks so much for articulating so precisely exactly what we are faced with here.<br /><br />The New Man would like to change the world. But he is not permitted to. So its only the wrath and fury of the "wretched of the earth" that may bring change, if at all.<br /><br />Best<br /><br />bablooAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30321121.post-17700866217427271072006-12-28T23:06:00.000+05:302006-12-28T23:06:00.000+05:30The process of annhiliation in Rwanda was accelera...The process of annhiliation in Rwanda was accelerated and spontaneous. It was driven by active forces. In Calcutta and elsewhere, the process that decimates the powerless is slow and methodical. It is predictable; this may make it more of a "crime". <br /><br />Who is the criminal? He is a member of the group that is not powerless, in other words, everybody else. The decimation of the powerless is attained by a process. The process is driven by passive forces. When I turn on my car's air conditioner and drive quickly past a homeless family, I am passively accepting the genocide of the powerless. It would have been the same for me to revel in an opera by Wagner during 1940 Germany, while people outside wore emblems on their shirts. In our age there are different emblems.<br /><br />The New Man would change the world if he could. He would walk among the powerless and give them some power. He would concede some of his power. <br /><br />I cannot make myself into the New Man by myself. I am selfish by nature and emmersed in the work and pleasures of my life. Despite my thinking I await the formation of a greater consciousness, arising from somewhere outside of myself that will create mass conversion among the powerful. I do not know whether this consciousness would involve us on a voluntary basis. It may involve something violent, like a revolution. These things we cannot predict. What we can predict though is that the poor will be very angry as soon as they become educated about their condition.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com