Tuesday 30 October, 2007

An Orwellian thought

"The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred." - 1984

Far fetched it may sound, but are we going this way ?
I hope not!

But looking at incidents like Gujarat Riots (the politics of that time refreshed recently due to so-called sting operations), and numerous other examples, where polarization has actually been successful strategy for being voted to power by the members of the civilization, I am tempted to think so!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nothing like having a common enemy between friends! Probably our personal experience in 1st year at college would also confirm how "We" is born against "Them" and before you know it, there are factions and divisions that you never knew existed.