Saturday, September 04, 2004

sick of 'em

I have now come at a stage where I can't stand people saying religion and politics should be kept separate. All my life in my country, I saw people suffering because their "ethics" is not held in their government. So those people go on abusing their ethics, without getting penalised for what they do. The government on the other hand, standing as a Britsh establishment, hasn't got anything to do with ethics. It doesn't consider looking into local ethics as one of its responsibilities.

The responsibility of that government therefore is limited to comfort of sundry people who live in the big cities ( or any place where ethics of the native people doesn't play any role) Such people don't have any resistance in accepting Western religion and culture at all. They hire all the benefits offered from the West therefore. The big divide is because not far away from these big cities - those untouched civilizations, which are considered nothing more than a pool of cheap labor by the well-off. What they do, what they consider important has no representation at any institution. Why read books to understand imperialism? It is right here!

I don't know which culture can we talk about that isn't governed by a religion. And is it not handling the desires, emotions and needs of people what politics is about?

But people in my country would deny that. They would accept Western religion to its core, and then argue that their own "religion" being separate from politics and more importantly, being "tolerant" to other religions is the smartest and greatest on earth. I don't see how; at least I don't seem to follow such a religion because I don't see how democracy-freedom-equality don't have anything to do with Western culture.

1 comment:

Madiha said...

Hi Anurag,

Just checked your blog via your comments on mine. :) Referring to your post regarding 'art with perspective' Ofcourse, I am a firm believer in that. There's nothing like art for art's sake in my vocabulary.

I like your blog. Please keep on writing. You do a good job!

best,
madiha.

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