What happened in Gujarat RS election…

Yes, we all must rue ourselves being beggars in body, mind and soul in our own motherland!
We are just the masses, ie, the multitude, the rubble, the guineapigs, the grist, the staple, the bare, raw material that the elites thrive on. We’re recklessly captured, caged, catapulted, cracked and crushed on the insides of countless extremes; on most occasions, we end up being served up as, say, molasses or some other motleys of elite-enjoyed end-products.
Just to simplify and exemplify, on one such extreme, we have the abstract stuff– eg, probity, honesty, clarity, courage, impersonality, universality (all ‘positive’, ‘God’-like)– that none can paw (pull, pummel, push etc), except only ‘project’ (on someone or something), by preaching, propagation or practice, as well as keeping off ‘negative’ (‘Devil’-like) stuff (as repeatedly referenced by Shiv: crookedness, deviousness, diabolicalness, sheepishness, shortcuttng = norm-bypassing, skulduggery, treachery etc).
On another extreme, everything is set in stone and steered stiffly– no organic entity is ever capable of a scintilla of resistance, let alone reciprocation, rectification or redress– eg, the whole (potentially malevolent and monstrous) gamut of mass (state, deep-state, inter-state = (also) international, non-state and quasi-state) forces: administrations, businesses, celebrities, civil (law and order) forces, counselors, coteries (= ungood (= Shiv’s) ‘amigos’), courts, deciders, henchmen, lawmakers, mafias (extortionists, cyber hackers, money-launderers, liquidators and other racketeers, drug/human/weapon traffickers and vandals), middlemen (agents, brainwashers, bouncers, brokers, facilitators, lobbyists, and wheeler-dealers), military forces (in most failed &/or fanatic states), nepotists, NGOs (missionaries, poachers, social activists etc), promoters, politicians, regulators, universities (educational boards as well), and zealots unmentioned here so far, all of whom/which might very well mutate in a flicker or flash to become intendedly and intensely alien, indifferent and inimical to the masses, more sinisterly so to target masses, and most tragically so to target individuals!
The Third Estate, as also we commoners have been stamped/stampeded and clubbed/clobbered euphemistically, through history by empires, states and nations, is best elucidated by the pre-French Revolution pamphlet Qu’est-ce que le tiers-état? (= What Is the Third Estate?)*: what is it? everything = nation; in the political order? nothing; desire? to become something; First and Second Estates? dead weight! Waxing poetic, angry and eloquent about the commoner’s aspiration, ascendancy and assistance from its side, almost every modern state (democratic and autocratic) has telescoped all the classical First, Second & Third Estates into itself, and stretched and spread itself out in turn as the legislature, administration = executive, and the judiciary.
So, The System (= the prevailing power structure), autonomous and all-powerful, typically first calls out caringly its anonymous and faceless inhabitants, via an ingeniously framed benevolent proclamation etc. Second, it segregates them tacitly by rendering them polyonymous (blue/pink collar, differently abled, elder, juvenile, farmer = red collar, villager, victim, white/gold collar, widow, youth etc), as per convenience. Next, it deludes the segregation with aid, integration, upliftment, empowerment, primacy, supremacy, and the like, and thus orchestrates a selection/shortlisting, closer to its machination. And last, those selected/shortlisted groups, forever synonymous with myrmidons, are ingested in the raw by The System, digested for its own indulgence, incrementation and indissolubility, and egested rawer than before, with expended essentiality. Anyone, especially who’s been dropped and dumped, whom The System perceives as resisting, restraining or repelling it, is retaliated with reproach, recrimination and retribution. The person(s) simply can’t desist from feeilng defaced, defeated and doomed, if not yet facing dissolution or death.
The Fourth Estate, starting off long ago in the form of free-functioning, freelancing and human-friendly polymaths, prodigies and pandits bedecking journals, magazines and multimedia, has already and nearly completely sold out to megacorporates with vested interests, eg, mass force (cf above) manipulation.
The Fifth Estate, the energetic and ever-enlarging internet power house, enticing and endearing totally free individuals with all their itches, does look positive, particularly in ‘projecting’ buddy-buddy and goody-goody abstract stuff with literally all the conviction and backing in the world. But here, too, perennial power mongers, these also include state forces, are the worst enemies with their strong interloping, interrupting and appropriating tactics, as far as any instance of cherishing and nourishing virtuous dreams is concerned, and insofar as any dream such as that is defined to determine the cosmologic destiny. For all of us Bharat vaasis, defining our dear, own India’s destiny is our first and foremost step in this direction.
But what combinations of what kinds of (personal =more abstract/idealistic, mass = more physical/materialistic) forces are more likely to succeed? Let us just pursue our ‘noble’ dreams and deeds with confidence, courage and commonsense, and not allow any doubt, diffidence or despondence adulterate or annex our body, mind and soul. Surrounded on all sides by noble, egging souls, none of us should need noughty, begging bowls, particularly inside our own, omnipotent country!
Happy India Independence Day! Happy Krishnaashtami! Peace, progress and prosperity as well as power, pride and perenniality to India, and so to everybody on earth and in the Universe! Jai Hind! Jaya Bhaarata!
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*Wikipedia, and other website sources.