Funny, this thing called empowerment. The person who holds the strings to power stays in the background and remains incognito. He does not want to be seen to be powerful. He looks simple enough and abhors to be under the spotlight. He scorns attention. He is happy to be the invisible play-maker.
On the contrary, the powerless naively tries to exert his authority through the pompous display of his thoughts. He yearns to be in the limelight and wants to make his stand clear, loud and succinct his viewpoint. Even though his two-cents' thought is not cared for much by anyone, he feels contended. He had stood for his rights like it would change the course of the celestial bodies! Feeling contented that he has done the right thing, his life is blissful. He knows he would be rewarded handsomely one fine day.
The puppet-master and the wise ones remain in the background, smiling to themselves, watching the drama unfold and probably chomping on their popcorn.
Take women empowerment, for example. A person who earns her living through the flesh business would insist that it is her prerogative to do whatever job she so wishes. It is her right. A lady donning the hijab or purdah would insist that nobody can tell her what to wear. Conversely, her counterpart who does not believe that she should cover her bare essentials to show her piety would utter the same. That it is her right to don what she wants. Nobody could curb her freedom or her fashion sense. See how both parties use the same right to prove their point. A third person would just snigger, trying his best not to tell them that they are both being used.
The poor would say it is their right to have McDonald in their backyard. They should not be denied of modernity. When the effects and diseases of modernity affect them, they would insist that it is only human rights to be treated for diseases that they would not have got in the place, if they were contented with their old way of living.
We are just sheep, following the herd marching willing and religiously to the slaughter without realising our folly but convinced that it is the best and only thing to do.
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The puppet-master and the wise ones remain in the background, smiling to themselves, watching the drama unfold and probably chomping on their popcorn.
Take women empowerment, for example. A person who earns her living through the flesh business would insist that it is her prerogative to do whatever job she so wishes. It is her right. A lady donning the hijab or purdah would insist that nobody can tell her what to wear. Conversely, her counterpart who does not believe that she should cover her bare essentials to show her piety would utter the same. That it is her right to don what she wants. Nobody could curb her freedom or her fashion sense. See how both parties use the same right to prove their point. A third person would just snigger, trying his best not to tell them that they are both being used.
The poor would say it is their right to have McDonald in their backyard. They should not be denied of modernity. When the effects and diseases of modernity affect them, they would insist that it is only human rights to be treated for diseases that they would not have got in the place, if they were contented with their old way of living.
We are just sheep, following the herd marching willing and religiously to the slaughter without realising our folly but convinced that it is the best and only thing to do.
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