GENERATION CORRUPTION - N
In the context of the names of gen-X, gen-Y, gen-NEXT, I wonder what name my 4 year old son's generation would inherit. (Of course as you may have noticed from previous articles of mine, my son has often set me wondering on different issues that may dog the future). Anyway, coming back to naming his generation, my next thought was why should we ape the west in this business of naming. Why can't we tailor it to something that is more relevant to us. It was then that I thought: Why not for us Bharateeyas the name Generation Corruption -1,2, 3 with the first one being the ones when actually corruption started to seep into
the life blood of Bharath.
GENERATIONS KNOWING NO HONESTY BUT ONLY CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC LIFE
Come to think of it. Ever since corruption started becoming a way of life in Bharath somewhere in the mid-seventies, there have been generations that have known of nothing but corruption in public life. For someone who was spent a portion of his boyhood days in the seventies, I can still vividly remember honesty in public life being considered a virtue. It was all not that bad. However, things started going rapidly downhill somewhere in the late seventies (post-emergency) through to the eighties. And by the time the eighties had gone, corruption had seeped deep into the lifeblood of our nation and had become the predominant way of public life.
We look at the youth of today's Bharath and as much as we hark on Bharath;s impressive progress in the realm of technology and its rise in the global economic hierarchy, we know that these youth have known only corruption by their netas. Right from the time when they broke out of the innocence of childhood and began to comprehend the workings of the world around them, they have seen only the machinations of corruption and the might of power and money that bend things at their whim and fancy. The resumes of most of the Loksabha power thekedars of today, boast an impressive (or should I say unimpressive) deeds in corruption and how they have smoothly wiggled their way out of many a tight corner of judicial inquiry and mulcted the aam-aadmi in the process. There is not even a semblance of honesty anywhere in public life. And this becomes their major lesson in life: the lesson of corruption.
And then we as elders lecture these youth on the virtues of honesty and integrity and yet we ourselves yield to these corrupt thekedars, vote them to power, sing their glory and remain silent on their atrocities. Then our lectures certainly become hollow and our intelligent youth just take it as a collection of platitudes to be discarded at the earliest opportunity.
BUT IS IT FAIR TO BLAME THEM
Having created a society of corruption either actively or passively, we expect
our youngsters to be honest and ethical. But isn't that unfair,ie., to be asked to be honest in a society where honesty is equated with foolishness and an inability to survive. Just imagine the devastion that we are doing to their innocent and trusting minds when they are able to comprehend our collective depravity for the first time in their lives after being lectured all the time on the virtues of honesty and integrity. It is certainly betrayal of the highest order or should I say lowest. Might as well lecture them on how to be corrupt, how to beat the system, how to lie and cheat and bend the rules as we have all been doing or been silent spectators to so that they also can survive. Might as well tailor the syllabus of the schools of today to stop teaching civics and teach corruption.
GENERATION CORRUPTION - N
And to this miasmic concoction adds the devastation of our age old culture wreaked by the forces of globalization and unfettered greed. Yes today Bharath is riding the genie of globalization/Hindu cultural genocide as this genie has vowed to take us to the mirage of economic glory where everyone is rich and happy and prosperous. But even if we do get to that promised land, are we qualified to inherit the prosperity by virtue of our collective propensity to corruption? ABSOLUTELY NOT. Yes there will be no pot of gold at the end of this rainbow of globalization because the rapaciousness in our public life and our cultural genocide will see to that end. And the other big genie of terrorism and pseudo-secularism will also thrive and get mightier with time because when we are rotting internally, it will be absolutely easy for external foes to decimate us, the signs of which are ominously looming today.
And so our children and theirs would have to get ready for the heavy tag of
Generation Corruption - 1,2,3 and so on and we can expect each generation moving on from one level of depravity to another. And how can even expect our posterity to generate great leaders of high levels of integrity and honesty when they would just be reaping the poisonous harvest of the seeds sown by the Generation Corruption preceding them.
Then nothing short of a bitter revolution would be able to reverse these dubious tags of inheritance and the more it is delayed the more bitter that revolution would be. Our children will pay for it with rivers of blood and anguish
the life blood of Bharath.
GENERATIONS KNOWING NO HONESTY BUT ONLY CORRUPTION IN PUBLIC LIFE
Come to think of it. Ever since corruption started becoming a way of life in Bharath somewhere in the mid-seventies, there have been generations that have known of nothing but corruption in public life. For someone who was spent a portion of his boyhood days in the seventies, I can still vividly remember honesty in public life being considered a virtue. It was all not that bad. However, things started going rapidly downhill somewhere in the late seventies (post-emergency) through to the eighties. And by the time the eighties had gone, corruption had seeped deep into the lifeblood of our nation and had become the predominant way of public life.
We look at the youth of today's Bharath and as much as we hark on Bharath;s impressive progress in the realm of technology and its rise in the global economic hierarchy, we know that these youth have known only corruption by their netas. Right from the time when they broke out of the innocence of childhood and began to comprehend the workings of the world around them, they have seen only the machinations of corruption and the might of power and money that bend things at their whim and fancy. The resumes of most of the Loksabha power thekedars of today, boast an impressive (or should I say unimpressive) deeds in corruption and how they have smoothly wiggled their way out of many a tight corner of judicial inquiry and mulcted the aam-aadmi in the process. There is not even a semblance of honesty anywhere in public life. And this becomes their major lesson in life: the lesson of corruption.
And then we as elders lecture these youth on the virtues of honesty and integrity and yet we ourselves yield to these corrupt thekedars, vote them to power, sing their glory and remain silent on their atrocities. Then our lectures certainly become hollow and our intelligent youth just take it as a collection of platitudes to be discarded at the earliest opportunity.
BUT IS IT FAIR TO BLAME THEM
Having created a society of corruption either actively or passively, we expect
our youngsters to be honest and ethical. But isn't that unfair,ie., to be asked to be honest in a society where honesty is equated with foolishness and an inability to survive. Just imagine the devastion that we are doing to their innocent and trusting minds when they are able to comprehend our collective depravity for the first time in their lives after being lectured all the time on the virtues of honesty and integrity. It is certainly betrayal of the highest order or should I say lowest. Might as well lecture them on how to be corrupt, how to beat the system, how to lie and cheat and bend the rules as we have all been doing or been silent spectators to so that they also can survive. Might as well tailor the syllabus of the schools of today to stop teaching civics and teach corruption.
GENERATION CORRUPTION - N
And to this miasmic concoction adds the devastation of our age old culture wreaked by the forces of globalization and unfettered greed. Yes today Bharath is riding the genie of globalization/Hindu cultural genocide as this genie has vowed to take us to the mirage of economic glory where everyone is rich and happy and prosperous. But even if we do get to that promised land, are we qualified to inherit the prosperity by virtue of our collective propensity to corruption? ABSOLUTELY NOT. Yes there will be no pot of gold at the end of this rainbow of globalization because the rapaciousness in our public life and our cultural genocide will see to that end. And the other big genie of terrorism and pseudo-secularism will also thrive and get mightier with time because when we are rotting internally, it will be absolutely easy for external foes to decimate us, the signs of which are ominously looming today.
And so our children and theirs would have to get ready for the heavy tag of
Generation Corruption - 1,2,3 and so on and we can expect each generation moving on from one level of depravity to another. And how can even expect our posterity to generate great leaders of high levels of integrity and honesty when they would just be reaping the poisonous harvest of the seeds sown by the Generation Corruption preceding them.
Then nothing short of a bitter revolution would be able to reverse these dubious tags of inheritance and the more it is delayed the more bitter that revolution would be. Our children will pay for it with rivers of blood and anguish
Dr. VSH
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