What world needs?

“In matters of principle, stand like a rock. In matters of taste, swim with the current”, once said Thomas Jefferson, the architect of American democracy. It might look simple, but the subtle meaning it holds is sacred. Yes, taste or emotions can change, but principle or ideologies should be solid as a rock. Emotions live short, more like the JP Narayanan’s so are called ‘total revolution’ of early 70’s where as ideologies is nothing but the Marx’ beliefs which still runs in the bloods of men even in the remote villages of Cambodia for centuries in the form of Communism. Many define it differently but to me ideology starts with a reason from heart, holding a goal in mind and can produce changes in the society much faster than a raging inferno. A person with a vivid ideology becomes the leader of the society. All is well, but when did it all start? With a teacup in my hand, I gazed upon my cupboard with this question in mind. Yes, it was God who led the world with his first ideology, the Nature. A common space was created for the millions of creatures with a big banner saying, “If you have it then you can take it”. Dinosaurs were able to live but the cows weren’t able to and this is very similar to the current day capitalism. With the evolution of man from ape, man’s thought process replaced the ideologies and thoughts of God with his own ones to administer the earth better. Initially it was anarchy, where the rule of the state was ‘No rule’. With age, the society became civilized and priests led the society with the book of God as their constitution. And thus was the beginning of Monarchy. The theory evolved when Kings started ruling the states. He and his heirs became the owners of the state and monarchy turned out to be the longest living ideology in the civilized society. Ideologies keeps up the balance in the society and when it is lost, it results in a huge uprising in form of revolution. The haunting thoughts of kings not representing the people filled up the minds in the society and thus toppled the balance of the same. The shift from monarchy to democracy was gory in most of the states. Eastern countries in general chose communism; it was simple and promulgated the need for a classless society. But the life of communism was very limited like the winged termites. On the other hand western countries took Democracy and defined it as the government by the people, or the people and so on, but when you think about it little deeper, you would understand that it is a doctrine where a numerical majority of an organized group is making decisions which are bounded on the whole group. It forces you to have what your neighbor likes and gets you suppressed by the majority and dominant group. Winston Churchill, the World War winner and a democratically elected former English prime-minister went on to say, "Democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been tried". World has continuously evolved from the day of its big bang. Every state here has moved on the four stages of political theories, Anarchy, Monarchy, Socialism and Democracy and between every stage there has been a messianic conquest which led to the transit and even today we may see new messiahs rising in our society. Anna Hazare who took up the popular ‘emotion’ of Anti-Corruption in his hand formulated an ideology Jan Lokpal through which he has brought ‘minor’ changes in the current democratic system. I’m sure there will be a day when the whole democracy will not be accepted by the common class and will move to the next level of political mythoi and this transition will bring more than half the population on the grounds for fighting. For all those money-minded and power-mongers, If you think you want to earn loads of money bigger and better than Ambani’s and Gates’s or if you want to enjoy the supreme power of Gandhis’ then I have an idea for you. Come out with an ideology to administer the world and sell it well. Selling here is not as simple as you think, Mahatmaji sold his ideology of Satyagraha using the strong feeling patriotism that was prevailing during the freedom struggle, and Revolutionaries of France sold their book of Guillotine through the wrath of general public, Marx’s sold his love for equality through trade unions which were incessantly suppressed by the minority bureaucrats. Ideologies came into existence whenever there are strong emotions and Mythos captures the feelings and makes it live for ages. For all those noble minds, America’s Capitalism is on the wrong side of road, Marx’s Communism is long gone, Gandhi’s ideologies for rural India were not even accepted by his kinsmen, Socialism was a day dream, nationalism died with Nehru and now there is no ideology which is holding this world together. I assure you, a draft that can bring all people together with no powerbrokers and ‘left outs’ can change this world for good and the clue for it is, “All is one and One is all”. This success will mark you in the books of histories for ages and millenniums To the most inspiring Marx, Alagiri Samy.S