Puny Monsters?
The fallacy of our
great nation is that we bow down to the Puny monsters, once too often.
Freedom
of speech is curbed in the name of a remote chance of someone getting offended.
A restraining order is declared at the slightest hint of a possible Law &
Order disruption. The sad part is that these are always done in a way which
favors the very people who cause these issues and not the ones who bear the
brunt of it. These kinds of incidents question the sheer purpose of a
Government’s existence. Protection to its citizens should not be a matter of
choice.
I
am not advocating freedom of speech which hurts a section of people, however
small a minority they may be. No one other than those who are affected can be a
judge of the severity of a supposedly slight taunt. Freedom of speech should
get people thinking, not provoke or offend them.
It’s quite interesting to notice how
the puny monsters emerge. They emerge the moment faith becomes religion. They
arise when an addressing becomes a misguided speech. They unravel when language
becomes an identity than a medium of communication.
Also many
a time, we are busy looking across the border that we tend to forget to look
within. The insurgencies happening within our country are puny monsters waiting
in the wings to unleash destruction.
These monsters appear
to be puny at their birth, but if ignored, they grow out to be of such destructive power
and enormity that they begin to threaten the very ethos of our existence.
Until
and unless we rein in these puny monsters, we as a nation will become another prince
Charles – always next in line but never ascending the throne of glory.
Arun Babu.
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