Looking through the mass mirror: Surroundings, sorrows and soliloquy

Time, space and physics run. Special Relativity and General Relativity come together making the totality of cosmic unification. Particle Physics and Astro Physics join each other. Quantum and GUT meet one another. Unification of physics becomes true according to the World of Science today. In Al-Qur’an (Ref. An Naziat – 79:1-5), this truth was clearly declared by Allah Rabbul Alameen 1400 years before the understanding of this truth by science and scientists. But, mundane narrow interests, property relationship, class structure, racist mentality and culture, uneven economy, exploitative system, forcible hegemony, social-political-distributive injustice, irrational and subhuman behavioural pattern, statehood-polity-governance with built-in-defects etc. do not allow human equality, global unity and human brotherhood to be possible. Unity of Tawheed, unity of cosmos, unity of nature, unification of physics should by nature be reflected in human equality, human brotherhood, social and economic equity, human justice and human unification. One must wonder, how do we human beings act? This is the question to be asked and answered, not by goons but by boons. After all, we are the microcosm of the macro cosmic order. It is cosmological anthropic principle which is the measure of everything. Our ontology and way of looking at things will direct our course of action. But do they happen in right manner? No, no and no!!! Because our political controllers, our party bosses, political leaders, familial extended identities, our vicious cycle of economy and plutocratic and kleptocratic circle of power structure invariably make obstructions everywhere, every time and in every way. Unhindered conglomerates of politrickers, arm chair bureaucrats, gun handlers, comprador bourgeois, civil society shopkeepers, media suckers, and NGO mongers are dominating our surroundings and creating our sorrows.
Focus Extended
Our total territory has become a Jail and we are behind the bars. Now, should we ever remain prisoners both physically and in smoky mythomania of allegory of cave and golden lie? Are we living instruments? Aren’t we born free and everywhere in chains? Then, why do we accept such narrow and negative politics? What is the purpose to be solved and served through donkey-cracy politics? Is it for common good and people’s welfare? Or, is it for power game and narrow personalized, familial, factionalized interests? Fox-Lion strategy must not be taken as a panacea for all time to come. This is really a pseudo science. Rentor-Speculator game must not be allowed to operate permanently. Residues and derivation are there, but must not be seen as inevitable typical way of looking at things. Circulation of so-called classical way must not be made the only alternative theory and practice leaving aside the positive active strength of conscious collective efforts of vox populi. We must not accept any kind of upfront conditionality. Because, from this point starts endless Gini Coefficient. Let us not raise the questions of altruism and philanthropy. But ethics and morality must be the cardinal article of faith in practicing social-political contract. A settlement once for all must be done. Though, constant guard is the only guarantee in political arena. We must act and represent ourselves. Let us make our own way from Uncle Tom to Kunta Kinte, and from Kunta Kinte to Spartacus. Hence can’t we pronounce the followings about our politics, state, leadership and dominant political order?

As a matter of fact, these above mentioned six panoramic views only manifest the politics of Possessions and Dispossessions. In other words, it expresses the politics of haves and have-nots. This is the cardinal problem of class antagonism to be solved for better surroundings and mitigating sorrows for achieving free society.
Long Walk, Longer View
It is very true in our country and surroundings that politics has become highly personalized and family controlled. Simultaneously, it has turned as a business of acquiring absolute power, unlimited privilege, and undeserved prestige. But, it is ensured without merit, consent, consensus, actual electoral victory, proven people’s verdict, legitimacy, rules and procedures, systemic balance, legality, constitutionality etc. Force, forgery and farce have become the instruments of capturing, controlling, legalizing and monopolizing power. Family tie, extended relationship and narrowest personal tyranny direct and operate the show. Winner-Take-All is the go of the day. Injustice, lie, trickery, torture, free hand corruption, nepotism, favoritism, unearned income and plundered wealth, imprisonment, fear of disgrace and physical assault, forced disappearance, cross fire, rampant killing, false propaganda and shameless naked indecency have become the instruments of success. Across border dependency and ex-Bangladesh sanctuary have really colonized the country and community of sixteen crores. Patron-client relationship and hegemony from the centre over our peripheral geography demonstrate the blunt truth. Dominant-dependant relationship is imposed upon us. World corporate capital and imperialism on the one hand controlling and exploiting us, and our peripheral powered tyrants are playing football with the fate and future of the mass on the other hand. All these are being imposed, materialized and continued in the name of New World Order, globalization, democracy and governance. We are being sand-witched, sacrificed, and slaughtered in every way. We are being cheated, defeated, defamed, denied, exploited, and tortured in our wretched earth. In our own soil, we have become alien corns. We the largest majority and being the real insiders have been treated as outsiders by microscopic minority illegal occupants of power structure. But our global and local masters are incessantly speaking of establishing infinite justice by media control and manufacturing consent.   
Our social texture and cultural distinctness are dishonored and lost. Possessive impulse has become the chief operative modality now a day. Creative impulse has gone to grave. Touts have taken hold and time tested is ousted. Those who are blinds they see much more than those who have eyes. That means persons with endowment, knowledge, virtue, integrity are left aside. Honesty, sagacity and vision are utterly neglected. Here, auxiliaries have become essentials. Vox populi is altogether rejected in such terra-in-cognita.
Religion, ethics and morality are butchered. We have utterly neglected our Weltangschauung. Our Modus Vivendi is thrown far away. That is the principal reason for which our very existence is threatened. We have no status of independent citizenry with self respect. Human dignity is lost. This is not even the status of parvenu but of pariah. It is the marginalized condition of subalterns and untouchables living under below poverty level equilibrium trap. Here masters have become slaves and representative agents and employees have become masters. Society, economy, state, governance, culture, education and all other aspects, sectors, factors are in a mess and in a malfunctioning and dysfunction state. Here we see only alienated and one dimensional beastly human beings with no protest. Rigor, vigor, and vertical strength have no visible and effective presence. Citizenry have transformed themselves into pariahs without roots and identities. This is a frustrating picture of demoralized and broken status of human beings prepared to accept mass enslavement.      
The masses are marginalized, ignored and have become in the process apathetic. Real constituencies have become unreal. False and fouls have become key factors and actors capturing income, safety, preference, allocation of values and decisions of decisive consequences and snatching most. They are really nouveau riche and robber barons. People are pushed back, defamed, and dashed out from the political arena and power structure. State, input-output mechanisms and governance are controlled by the terrorists, hooligans and demagogues. Dishonesty, theft and ascription have become the rule. Honesty, trust and achievement have gone astray. Status quo and system maintenance are totally dependent upon savage and surrogated acts. People have become slaves, dumb and totally impotent. They are at present not self-directed, but other-directed. Here lies the actual problem. Now truth is elusive. Reason, rationality, independent opinion, judicious choice, collective effort and initiative, consent and verdict, creativity, achievement criteria, accountability, transparency and most importantly justice are being denied, defied, and buried. Pig philosophy gets highest priority in such a situation.
We have, as if, forgotten that governance is government in action. It must have consent, verdict, legitimacy, authority, capability, penetration, service orientation, mass participation, pragmatic policy restoration, impersonalization, goal-centered affectivity. It should act with high-quality crises-management ability in the process of regular functioning, plan implementation, and vision building for collective and common welfare. But we live in such a prison where in the name of perplexed pluralism ruthless tyrannical persecution is being perpetuated. In the name of democracy, people’s welfare, economic growth and development, this is really fascism which our surroundings have been experiencing for quite a long time. Our sorrow is that all these things are imposed upon the basic people constituency in the name of good governance. This is a polity, this is a politics, and this is our governance without minimum sense of ethics, morality, principle, integrity and honesty. The total atmosphere is not only inhuman, but subhuman indeed.
It is this kind of atmosphere when society becomes lawless and jungle. Once fourth caliph of Islam Hazrat Ali (RA) was asked: how to know and understand the real worst situation of a country? He replied:
(1) When you see that poor have become impatient and rich have become misers.
(2) When you see that ignorant and illiterates are on the stage and knowledgeable persons are constantly fleeing facing unbearable plight.
(3) When you see that King or ruler tells lie.
Self Questioning
These facts and realizations are true reflections of our surroundings and these are our sorrows simultaneously. Now standing on the verge of collapse we should ask ourselves:
Should we surrender and remain slaves? The answer must be ‘No’.
Should we keep silence and betray our actual human existence? The answer again must be ‘No’.
Should we rise up, demonstrate protest, organize resistance and fight back these odds and disorders? The answer must be ‘Yes’.
Age of Reason
Thus, we must not act like King Lear repeatedly. We must identify Macbeth and Lady Macbeth and also must remain conscious about Robert Clive and Mir Zafar Ali Khan. We must not think like Vassilee. Real Prince of Denmark must act this time. We must not remain subjects anymore. We the people must stand united as real Kings in our own Kingdom given by the Almighty to us as trustees. Otherwise, how can we keep our social-political contract alive, vibrant, active as principal precondition for the very existence of our statehood and polity? So, this unavoidable challenge must be met and we must win. Old fool man could remove the hill. Santiago must win and must not be defeated. Remember the heroes from our history – Khaleed, Tariq, Musa, Saladeen. The light remains behind the clouds. We must remove the clouds of darkness first and fast. At the end of the tunnel, there is a new beginning.
Horizon and Silky Moon Light   
We must regain our carte blanche both individually collectively. Hence, Cockroach politics must be rejected. Positive activism must be there. We must not tolerate slavery and tyranny any more. This time harpoon must be made ready and marlyn must be caught. That means peoples’ empowerment; mass participation and enhancement of public sphere must be brought back, established and made essential and properly functional. This is our society, our country. This is our social-political contract. ‘We the people’ are real trustees in our land given by our Singular Supreme Almighty Lord.  
So, let us turn about and unite. Let us declare: silence is worst type of betrayal. Let us act and forcibly overthrow the obstacles around and in front of us. Justice, honorable humanity and respectful society are our goals. Vision would, Insha-Allah, in one shiny morning touch the enlightened, enriched and peaceful horizon. That would be our common goal and collective good. That would be our dreamy jasmine white silky moon light.
N.B. If this tiny write up seems to be based on activism, what’s the harm! Because philosophers have so far interpreted the world, but the real task is to change it.
Dr. Hasanuzzaman Choudhury is Professor at the Department of Political Science of Dhaka University