Makes perfect sense
Win a beauty pageant where there are titles like Miss Universe (although just earthlings are involved) by sashaying around in ornate costumes and flimsy swimwear and giving emotional answers about how violence, child labour, poverty etc etc break your sweet little heart and how you desire to be the next saint to give hope to the world. Among the prizes are a tiara that is made of the same diamonds that fuel civil wars and slavery and go around the world sponsored by the same corporations that are causing many of these ills that you claim to want to fight.
Makes
perfect sense
Develop
display mindset in children. Dress your prepubescent daughters like sluts
and make them dance in "talent" shows where they will be judged by
washed out former or unemployed "artistes". Do the same with
little boys and make them sing and dance and make a freak show of
themselves. Promote "fifteen minutes of fame" as the ultimate target
of life, to be achieved at any cost. And then sit back and complain about the
rise of decadence in the society. Or cry if your daughter elopes with some
flashy burned out glam icon twice her age.
Makes
perfect sense
Lie and
cheat for the gain of a few rupees. Indulge in the worse kind of sycophancy for
any kind of professional progress. Find loopholes in every law and new innovative
ways of corruption and embezzlement in every field. Make sure that not a single
institution should remain credible. Teach your children from a young age
to get what they want by any means and have them see you as an example. Tell
them that any kind of decent behaviour is cowardice by leading the way
yourself. And then complain about how the society is going from bad to worse
and how morals have fallen down. Put all the blame on the "young
generation".
Makes
perfect sense
Elect a
leader because he is from your caste or promises to give your caste
reservations. Or because he has paid you to vote for him with cash or booze. Or
that he promises free sops for you at the expense of others, promises to get
you or your kin a job in the government. Or that you find him too irresistible
with his gold chains and his fleet of cars. Or just say that you are "not
political" proudly and prefer to distance yourself from
everything related to it, including voting. Then when you are hit by inflation
and bloodied by terrorism or if you lose your source of employment, cry
tears of blood by screaming how all politicians are thieves that deserve
to be shot.
Makes
perfect sense
Keep the
educational and social system prevalent which teaches what to think and not how
to think. Never encourage any kind of reading or curiosity for your kids beyond
textbooks. Have nothing in the house worth reading except film magazines or
tabloids. Tune into only the TV channels showing music videos or film industry
gossip or Bollywood. Keep discussions limited to pop culture or trivial
matters.
And then
lament the fact as how dumb your kids are and that why India cannot produce
great minds in abundance.
Makes
perfect sense
Discourage
sports or physical activity as it wastes time which should be better used in
mugging up the syllabus for the quarterly or half yearly exam. Never encourage
children to run, get dirty, rough it out (until its in some glitzy tennis court
in a gymkhana club or in a summer cricket coaching camp). Or at best only
encourage them to play cricket, squash or badminton cause they are the in thing.
Learn to ignore the news of formal national level medal winning athletes living
and dying in penury (Ah yes, some village waala background film Paan Singh came
out some time ago, isnt it?) Dont get alarmed when the kids which once bundle
of energy become land whales and struggle with health problems that only the
very old should have. Consider it normal when in their twenties
they prefer to use an elevator to go to the second floor and smoke two
packs a day.
And then
lament as to why a country of more than a billion and a quarter cant produce
olympic material athletes or footballers who could play in the
best clubs in the world.
Makes
perfect sense
Pay
exorbitant rates to watch third rate films in multiplexes. Glorify the equally
third rate "actors" in them by continuing to blow away your money in
buying their film tickets or their endorsed products or giving them a few lakhs
for half an hour of booty shaking just to show the world that you are filthy
rich. Make them famous by causing a stampede in malls and likewise places where
they are promoting their latest abominable venture. Make your chosen filmstar
your god or goddess by devouring every word said by him or her in print or
visual media. Make them feel that they are above everything.
Then get
saddened by seeing them crush homeless people under their SUVs cause they love
to drive drunk, be shocked when you get slapped by their hired goons because
you got too close. See them do everything from drug running to arms running and
other lesser crimes and then bitch about how arrogant these people are and how
they treat the society and the common man with disdain.
Makes
perfect sense
Tolerate
intolerance in the name of tolerance. Make the worst criminals and terrorists the
ideal candidates for bestowing human
rights. Never mind their victims. Form unscrupulous organizations that claim to
be working for the poor but end up helping the very elements responsible for
the poverty and violence. By your civility and liberal lobbying, put tremendous
pressure on the government so that it reigns in the armed forces and on the law
enforcement agencies so that they wont bother to do anything as they know it
will be futile.
Then
scream before the world media how the country is a horrible place as no one is
safe or happy.
Makes
perfect sense
Hurt
and abuse people who care for you. Lose sleep thinking about people who barely
know that you are there. Spend too much money buying things you don’t need to
show the people you don’t really like to show that you have “arrived”. Spend
half your existence and resources pursuing the girl who won’t even care if you
vanish off the face of the earth the next moment at the cost of spending times
with your parents and friends.
And then
whine about how sad and broke you are.
Makes
perfect sense
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