Sighs!!! *^&*^&

Sometimes I feel that it’s a curse to know or understand current affairs and politics. There are enough people in the world who don’t give a damm about politics and they live blissful life. Is it that large number of ignorant people or small band of ambitious people that makes politics is so nasty, so dumb, so counter-productive, so illogical, so irrational and worst, so bloody? I don’t know. One thing that I increasingly feel is that I wish I was ignorant.

I haven’t written any blog in all most a week. I thought about writing a blog on Jaya Bacchan’s comment that created an unnecessary controversy. The freedom of expression cannot and should not be curtailed under any circumstances. At the same time the reality that Bacchan family is heavily involved in the politics and attacks on them are results of them supporting certain political faction should not be missed either. Before I do that the blasts in Delhi happened. I was dumbfounded. I wasn’t sure how many more blogs I can write on the bomb blasts in India. The tale of a non-existent government supposedly taking care of billion people is beyond description. I was out of town for weekend and when I came back and before I formulate my thoughts to write yet another blog chronicling gigantic magnitude of ineptness and incompetence that we know as Manmohan Singh, the Wall Street nosedived. On the surface there is no link between bomb blasts in Delhi and Wall Street debacle. Sadly enough none of these two terrible events were surprising. And as I just started writing about Wall Street double whammy I came across a detailed article about Sarah Palin – the vice-presidential candidate for Mr. John McCain. She reminded me of Georgie boy and my morale took another round of clobbering.

The events I mentioned seem quite disparate in contextual spectrum. Even geographically these events took place in different time zones. But there is eerie similarity between all of them. All of the events are strangely connected to each other by the string of irrationality and chronic dumbness. All these events played as classic interaction between the ignorant majority ignorant and ambitious minority.

Jaya Bacchan is running election on Samajvadi Party ticket. The party that champions the Hindi cause appeases Muslims that borderlines treachery and they are banking on huge north-Indian population to elect them in Mumbai. These activities are obviously enraging native Marathi population and rightfully so. Obviously political attacks on Bacchan family should not surprise anyone. But majority of Marathi population i.e. Marathi people outside of Mumbai region don’t see this connection easily. That leaves us with frustrated and publicity hungry Raj Thakare to resort into anti-Democratic activities like threatening to expel North-Indians out of Mumbai or attacking Bacchan family. Unfortunately, the only winner so far is the Samajvadi Party.
It is a sad state that home minister of Indian owes his allegiance to the foreign born leader of his political party. He doesn’t give a damm that under his leadership thousands of people got killed in bomb-blasts as well as in Naxal movement. For him as public confidence in his abilities doesn’t count much. His ambition is to become Prime Minister and he knows that he can achieve that by licking feet of his Party president. This egregious behavior doesn’t affect the Indian population either. And that’s more worrisome. They aren’t demanding his resignation. That means Manmohan Singh doesn’t need to care about one more thing. I wonder what he does whole day!
The carnage on Wall Street wasn’t entirely unexpected. There were enough learned souls hollering about the housing bubble. By the time people started listening to them it was too late. The speculation leveraged trading, housing securities etc. will be studied for years to come in the Business school. What wouldn’t be studied is the insatiable greed. Actually, it should be called corruption. Everyone knew that something of this sort is coming and yet no one left the table. The last one holding the card was the sucker. Unfortunately, there were quite a few suckers this time and it will result into thousands of lost jobs, billions of equity vanishing and possibility of world economy going south. In this case though it was the ambitious tiny minority creating havoc for rather helpless majority

The article about Sarah Palin was the last straw that dumped me into depression. She is nuts’. An arrogant woman who is not only has very little experienced but whatever experience she has is in Alaska. Yeps, that’s the state with more polar bears than human population! But she has a book in her hand and she listens to higher authority. There mere mention of these two things sends chill down my bones. We have heard all this crap before and yet people are ready to entertain the same agenda again. A tiny ambitious minority and a majority that is eager to play dumb again.

There are 20 million bloggers in United States. I am one of them. The number is quite large for me to not to feel privileged enough to be member of the club. Yet the number is tiny compared to the general populace that these bloggers intend to attract. Again The ambitious yet useless minority that wants to change the world of majority that doesn’t give a squat.

The game just continues.