Reviving the society

The corrective steps have to be taken by the political regime, but how clean is it to undertake the job (including the many interactive components)? According to the leaders, there are no hidden godfathers within the political parties (or, it is always on the other side!). There is no neutrality or impartiality in the public administration. The same type of virus is lurking everywhere. Agitation or routine schemes won't do, because most won't listen or follow the rules. The rules and rags are not infected, but its implementation at the human level. The bug is the human effect, and we not talk about it. Virtual virtues are being touted by the political feriwallas!

Bangladesh is passing through a depressing phase familiar to observers watching other new nations in other parts of the world. Proper attention is not being paid to the basic cause on the origin of armed terrorism, which the US (and white allies) are trying to fight militarily. The latter cannot provide political and religious solutions, regardless of the drum-beating on secularism and other totka.

Today both politics and religion are at crossroads, as the leaders messed up both during the last few decades, scattered throughout the globe. It is not that the poor are more desperate and violent, or the rich are more condescending or arrogant. Disparities, specially economic, play havoc with immoral attractions, otherwise there would not have been such huge gaps between the first and third worlds (or the North and the South).

This gap is widening, because materialism (in the guise of democracy) does not work, ultimately. The Western values of life are disintegrating, and the South is being blamed for the violent ills of social systems. No one talks about plain living and high thinking. These concepts are confined to the pages of classical books of wisdom. When the polarized goal is to grab the natural energy resources anywhere in the world, WMD means "world materialistic domination".

Some big countries tried atheist principles in governance for decades. Now we are witnessing creeping out processions out of these big black holes within these countries (some truncated already). The delayed reactions of the deprived naturally turn violent now and then, in desperation. Their captive minds are looking afresh at religion and its goals, short and long-term (religion is a message or a medium, why its ultimate appeal is so deep and intuitive?). This divine relationship is out of course without a sense of direction (the ship of state is rudderless). It is also out of tune, needing empathy for analysis, not sympathy.

The global leaders should not judge on the basis of clean-shaved or bearded faces. This looks like a trite comment, but has philosophical implications. The dress may change from a style to an icon. Watch the youth prancing in the television commercials; and the press reports of installing secret mini-camera in the bathroom of female dormitory in Dhaka University. Importing culture is much easier than exporting it. What we have to offer? Good quality leather for shoes and bags! Ok, but we have to add to the list: concepts which appeal voluntary to the heart. Have we become so base that we have no solid base?

There is too much brain work in politics. So the spirit has become more important than the gross material. Detailed planning for whom, and what for?

The slip is showing! Empathy is self-radiating, while schemes have to be toted around with boring monotony. Give some space to others. Individuality has not disappeared, but it should not dominate. The virtues of self-effacement need reminders. Every circle has a center. Where is the centre of the cosmos?

In these times of mental stress, the mind seeks philosophical outlets, to get it out of the system. Pressure is nowadays recognized mostly as BP (blood pressure).

Some heart beats miss, and the medical clinics are doing booming business (fall outs from the crude art of running humanity in all parts of Earth). Look at the fellows around you? What can you do for them?