Now, have you got over the blasts? The Delhi one, I mean.
or even the Jaipur, Bangalore, Ahmedabad ones? Arent we supposed to forgive and forget? I mean, every nation has explosions happening all round. So what? Look at the US. It had 9/11, didnt it? It's another matter that it attended to it big-time and made sure that it didnt have another one.
Look at even good old Pakistan. Each time someone riots or a mini-explosion takes place, it barks the place down, gets a grab at the US and India or whoever is within reach.
And we? We sound the red alert. We get bytes from Shivraj Patil who changes his attire three times in three hours to make sure the creases dont show on national television. This time, thankfully, he didnt say, "I am not going to say that someone is to blame," as he did after A'bad.
It's terrible, the way we live and never learn. NEVER.
We tolerate. We tolerate endlessly. What can the government do? we ask.
We all nod wisely, Mumbai is next.
Yes, it is. So? Are we going to stir up and show some genuine outrage or simply face what is in store? Are we going to do something to prevent it? Nah.
I mean, what CAN we do, right? We can't think of getting these clowns in Delhi to get to work, can we? We still have no idea who sends those emails that mock us so badly it's getting embarrassing to live.
Next polls, we know whom to vote for too. After that, we forget we voted for them. We tolerate and hope they will do their job. If they don't, we suffer.
And we suffer in silence.
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Core quote:
"I mean, what CAN we do, right? We can't think of getting these clowns in Delhi to get to work, can we?"
It should actually be crystal clear to all by now that the "clowns" in Delhi are not capable of handling this menace. They have neither the intelligence nor the wherewithal to tackle it. So expecting them to "work" is not realistic. And outrage will be of no use. A better option might be to put pressure on government in whichever way possible to create instruments that can do the job. This means "out of box" thinking. Recruit the right people with the right motivation and capablities. Equip them with the required skill sets. Give them the required materials and more important the required authority. Making government do this cannot be easy. Soft states cannot become hard states overnight. There are many who will argue that its better to tolerate and suffer than be a hard state - the government among them. They prefer anarchy to order and are willing to let liberty degenerate into license rather than risk a hard state and its inevitable excesses. If there are not enough people willing to pay this price (of bearing with excesses) then we are doomed to "tolerate endlessly". Steel is when you can call yourself a champion of human rights and democracy on the one hand but also look away when there are excesses at Guantanamo Bay on the other. Its difficult for our race becuase a thousand years of bondage have made us pusilanimous. We need some iron in the soul. No point in just blaming our politicians and our policemen.
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