Who will save us from Terminological Terrorism?
Posted By Professor Vaidyanathan on January 4, 2012
When I was in college in the seventies during every winter the migratory birds in academia used to come to India from Europe/USA during Dec/Jan and impart wisdom to the lowly Indians. The white variety is the most preferred but the Indians in phoren institutions were also fine. The talk used to be on “American Economic models”/ “European Economic systems” and “Indian Economic problems”. India was sold to Indians as a problem. That is the initiation for me into terminological terrorism. Next came the most bizarre identification of our abysmal economic growth of the sixties and seventies as “Hindu rate of growth”. The Marxian economist Raj Krishna is the originator of this spurious and dangerous title since the economic growth rate during that period can better be called “ Nehruvian growth rate” since it was the direct result of the policies of Nehru and his advisors who wanted to usher in a “ Socialistic Pattern of society”
But alas the name has stuck to the extent some contemporary experts comment that if PM does not act swiftly in allowing foreign investments in our economy we may lapse again in to the Hindu rate of growth. Nobody seems to ask whether the recent growth rates of more than 8 percent are Christian or Jewish growth rate? The Marxists as is their wont wanted to spew venom on everything connected to Hindu civilization and culture and found that this the easy way to abuse the people and the faith in one stroke and everybody jumped into this without even thinking.
Then there is this categorization called “organized” and “unorganized” in our National income Statistics and other economic literature. In the service sector for whatever reason the experts in Government consider corporate form of organizations as “organized”. There is an Udupi restaurant near my home that opens at 7 am and closes at 10 pm every day throughout the year. He closes for half a day in an year for Ganesh Puja. He serves Idli and Dosa of consistent quality throughout the day. Hold your breath—He is categorized as “unorganized” giving an impression that he is disorganized and needs to be bleached by global practices! Government is classified as “organized”—Can there be a more irony than this? Nearly 90 percent of India is self-employed and from that point of view whole of India is “unorganized”. This is the terminological terrorism imposed by IMF and World Bank on unsuspecting Indians. In every TV debate and seminar people pontificate about ‘unorganized sector’ and how to make them “organized” without realizing what they are talking about. So the arguments go that we need Wal-Mart’s to organize trade, we need McDonalds to organize restaurant business we need Grey-hounds to organize transport of human beings etc. Incidentally our families are part of the “unorganized” sector as per the economic experts and I really do not know what is the suggestion to make it “organized” –May be by breaking up of the family system as in the west. As they say it –Give the dog a bad name and then hang it from the nearest lamp post.
Another of these terminological terrorism is about medicine /yoga/education etc. It is assumed that Allopathy is the only acceptable form of medication and so other systems like Ayurveda are called alternate medicines and we swallow the idea hook line and sinker and repeat the same ad-nauseum. We do not argue that our medical tradition is the main stream and others are alternate systems. Yoga is considered as alternate form of therapy to keep ourselves fit. The tragic part is that we Indians have also internalized this terminological terrorism and use it without thinking about the implications.
It is like the newspaper reports mentioning that the “bird hits the plane” when actually it is the plane which hits the bird since the sky is the original and natural habitat of the birds.
The family is a burden in the Western system today and Children are encumbrances or constraints. Our mainstream media also uses this terminology without thinking about the implications.
We are concerned since many times words repeatedly used begin to represent ideas and we tend to accept it without questioning. It is always the West which has imposed words on us. We need to have a commission to protect us from the terminological terrorism or a conscious war against it by the younger generation.
http://centreright.in/2012/01/who-will-save-us-from-the-terminological-terrorism/
The west cannot understand anything without Branding and labeling with some nomenclature, then trying to generalize everything within its decided label and follow it up by homogenizing it and where there is either no opposition or meek opposition then resort to hegemonising.
ReplyDeleteIt they find certain things which do not fit into their presumed and pet labels then they resort to labeling those as another group but which must be necessarily not just different but inferior and therefore to be branded as something derogatory.
You will see this pattern in all aspects of their life be it their religion, economic systems, social cultures, political systems, personal behavior etc.
They fail to realize that variety is the inherent and inevitable law of nature.
" God is UNITY but always works in VARIETY"- RALPH W.EMERSON
But they have been carrying this out as a well developed subject called
Psychopolitics. What is Psychopolitics?
Psychopolitics is the art and science of asserting and maintaining
dominion over the thoughts and loyalties of individuals, officers,
and masses and the effecting of the conquest of all others through "mental/psychological healing."
The subject of Psychopolitics breaks down into several categories,
each a natural and logical progression from the last. Its first subject
is the constitution and anatomy of man, himself, as a political organism.
The next is an examination of man as an economic organism, as
this might be controlled by his desires. The next is classification of
State goals or religious goals for the individual and masses. The next is an examination of loyalties. The next is the general subject of obedience. The next is the anatomy of the stimulus-response mechanisms of man. The next is the subject of shock and endurance. The next is categories of experience. The next is the catalyzing and aligning of experience. The next is the use of derogatory labels, pressures, collective boycotting, tortures, terrorism either promoted through religious or political or economic identity or ideology and so on. All in very simple terms manifestations of intolerance whatever be the name we may give to them . The next is the use of implantation. The next is the general application of Psychopolitics by spreading its octopusian tentacles The next is the organization and use of counter-Psychopolitics. The next is the use of Psychopolitics in the conquest of unwilling and non co- operating inferior folks. The next is psychopolitical organizations everywhere with some willing local participants who are capable of operating with hidden agenda.The next is the creation of slave philosophy in a hostile territories making yu slaves not necessarily always physically but economically, psychologically and socially. The next is countering anti-psychopolitical activities and the final one, the destiny of psychopolitical rule in a so-called scientific age. To this might be added many subcategories, such as the nullification of individual rights and many other better options etc
The Psychopolitics is more effective particularly when used in a nation decayed by pseudo-intellectualism in academics, national betrayal in politics, corruption in economic activities, cultural degradation in social life etc and in this environment exploitation of the masses by using psychopolitical actions is very easy and effective. It starts as brainwashing and ends up subverting a whole lot of people.
And this technique has been proved effective by both communists and Christianity.
You may also read my blog entry of an article I wrote some 20 years back
http://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2010/11/west-needs-to-change-its-obsession-to.html
wonderful observation from mr.vaidyanathan but then it has been going on for centuries and this is not confined to just economics or politics. I have come across many people say, when they like some book very much and use it as a reference manual for many things in life ' this my bible'. Why not this is my Veda,Upanishad or Gita? The propaganda and brain washing have penetrated our subconsciousness itself and operates as a malign cancer. But many myths and irrelevant rituals thrive on this.
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