04-16-2005, 06:51 PM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->THE LIMITS OF TOLERANCE
     Dr.Babu Suseelan
Kierkegaard, the existential philosopher, once wrote the story of an
absent-minded man so abstracted from his own life that he hardly knows
he exists until, one fine morning, he wakes up to find himself dead.
This story has a special relevance to Hindus; we could wake up
one-morning dead, without ever knowing the menacingly urgent problems
that threaten our existence. In India, the very fabric of our value
system, freedom, democracy and spiritual tradition that sustained the
nation are unraveling quickly, dangerously and perhaps irrevocably.
The decayed conditions are accumulating freely in the social systems
and the majority Hindus are demoralized by the lack of coherent
remedies. Corruption, media manipulation, coercive religious
conversion, terrorism, and subversive activities permeate every
aspects of life. There is public skepticism and cynicism that the
legislative, executive and judiciary have become addicted to the
artful charade of pseudo secularism, irrational tolerance and moral
agnosticism. We talk about secularism, tolerance, coexistence,
minority rights, and world vision; but do not ask or see the dangers
we face. Current events provide abundant evidence that Hindus are well
aware of the scale and magnitude of evil forces that threaten their
existence, and they simply choose to evade them.
The extraordinary preoccupation with tolerance and secularism
encourage political leaders to peddle self-deception and self-delusion
as realistic. The westernized media, leftist intellectuals and
alienated academicians seek refuge in pseudo secularism and irrational
tolerance and use institutionalized tolerance as a recipe for moral
uncertainty. They peddle tolerance, pseudo secularism and minority
rights as labels for political racket, and parade it as a sign of
philosophical depth. They use their political power for presenting
fraudulent Christian evangelical preachers and jihadi terrorists as a
healthy sign of a tolerant, culturally pluralistic society. The
concept of tolerance is used to brainwash innocent Hindus to believe
that they exist to serve fanatic Muslims and subversive Christian
missionaries.
The educational system subordinate or degrade the spiritual heritage
and is promoting obnoxious alien ideas. As a result, innocent people
adapt to the psychosocial, political environments imposed on them by
corrupt political leaders. This kind of unhealthy adaptation often
distorts reality and makes it difficult for people to assess dangerous
situations. People undergo unhealthy behavioral changes in response to
their grossly altered psychosocial environments. There is also an
erosion of the public's social conscience within a macroeconomic
society. People become estranged from their life sustaining culture
and react cynically. A cognitive dissonance occurs in the minds of
people. Cognitive dissonance occurs most often when people are forced
to choose between two incompatible beliefs. This brings in distorted
concepts and unsuitable ideologies that destroy old certainties. It
bewilders and makes people anxious and confused. In such a state,
rational thoughts and actions are replaced by meaningless slogans.
People bring distorted alien concepts, which obscure basic questions
of culture, values and purpose. They substitute meaningless,
abstract, harmful ideas like secularism, tolerance, minority rights,
world vision, etc for native religious heritage. The ethos, spiritual
values and Hindu rituals that connect people together undergo a
grotesque distortion. The majority Hindus ultimately loses their
identity, purpose and unity.
The tardy secularism, irrational tolerance and denial cloud the real
menace threatening the existence of Hindus. Irrational tolerance has
resulted in the blunting of immediate reactions, assertiveness, and
creative responses to imminent dangers. The psychological warefare,
jihadi terrorism, Christian fundamentalism, coercive religious
conversion, and communist menace that threaten the survival of the
nations is ignored or tolerated. People are mired in silence and
complacency. Some runaway from the painful reality and substitute
unrestrained tolerance as a virtue. Irrational tolerance act as
psychic blinders that make the whole aspects of life threatening
problem utterly invisible to them. People act like clowns pretending
to be happy, tolerant, secular and content as a way of surviving. They
hide their true selves, needs and aspirations behind masks. Eventually
they become the masks they put on and lose connections with Hindu
culture, values and social needs. In this strange setting, Hindus lose
touch with hard realities, distort the problem they face and turn away
from responsibilities. When the majority Hindus organizes them to
confront the deception, appeasement and power grab of Muslims and
Christians, they are oppressed with brute force by the pseudo secular
government.
The unrestrained tolerance encourages degeneration and apathy because
tolerance in itself does not logically represent a positive virtue.
Clear thinking and renewal are possible only when Hindus understand
the limits of tolerance. They need to break the wall of denial and
irrational tolerance. The first step toward freedom is to free from
the colonial mindset and to reassert faith in Hindutva without
hesitation or apology. Innocent Hindus should not simply choose to
evade serious problems in the name of tolerance and secularism.
Coexistnce, equality and justice are possible only when the majority
devotes itself just to challenge the statusquo, disrupting the perils
of tolerance and pseudo secularisim. The revival, if it occurs will
not come by peddling irrational tolerance, moral neutrality or denial.
It will happen when the majority Hindus questions the conflict between
what they are told and what they see and experience. Unrestrained
tolerance is running away from history, running away from truth.
Irrational tolerance blinds the issues and encourages degeneration,
thought disorder, immorality and social decay. It incapacitates one's
ability to assert his /her individuality in situations of adversity.
Hindus by nature are tolerant, but tolerance as a virtue is not a
priority for Muslims and Christians. We should not tolerate what is
intolerable and what is evil, but should dedicate ourselves to the
values of our spiritual culture to which we belong. Peace, prosperity,
and civilization itself, can be achieved only by the refusal to
tolerate evil. One should tolerate different religious beliefs. But if
such religious beliefs encourage smashing skyscrapers, killing
innocent people, and fraudulently convert poor people, we should not
tolerate such dangerous belief system.
To regain the glory of our past and to ensure our future, Hindus
should realize the perils of tolerance. In the name of tolerance,
Hindus should not allow Jihadi terrorists, communist fascists and
Christian missionaries to impose their intolerant ideology on our
throat. It is time to rethink, is tolerance practiced in India working
for us or are we becoming slaves to irrational tolerant system that
blind our minds, destroy our culture and turn us into submissive
people we never wanted to be? It's time to start rethinking things
from the ground up. It's time to realize the limits of tolerance and
move away from moral paralysis. When we think of the attitude shift
necessary to regain our strength, we should remember the message of
Voltaire" We must cultivate the spirit of tolerance in our hearts, but
we should not allow the policy of toleration to be exploited and
abused by fanatical sectarian groups which are subversive political
movements in ecclesiastical disguise".<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
     Dr.Babu Suseelan
Kierkegaard, the existential philosopher, once wrote the story of an
absent-minded man so abstracted from his own life that he hardly knows
he exists until, one fine morning, he wakes up to find himself dead.
This story has a special relevance to Hindus; we could wake up
one-morning dead, without ever knowing the menacingly urgent problems
that threaten our existence. In India, the very fabric of our value
system, freedom, democracy and spiritual tradition that sustained the
nation are unraveling quickly, dangerously and perhaps irrevocably.
The decayed conditions are accumulating freely in the social systems
and the majority Hindus are demoralized by the lack of coherent
remedies. Corruption, media manipulation, coercive religious
conversion, terrorism, and subversive activities permeate every
aspects of life. There is public skepticism and cynicism that the
legislative, executive and judiciary have become addicted to the
artful charade of pseudo secularism, irrational tolerance and moral
agnosticism. We talk about secularism, tolerance, coexistence,
minority rights, and world vision; but do not ask or see the dangers
we face. Current events provide abundant evidence that Hindus are well
aware of the scale and magnitude of evil forces that threaten their
existence, and they simply choose to evade them.
The extraordinary preoccupation with tolerance and secularism
encourage political leaders to peddle self-deception and self-delusion
as realistic. The westernized media, leftist intellectuals and
alienated academicians seek refuge in pseudo secularism and irrational
tolerance and use institutionalized tolerance as a recipe for moral
uncertainty. They peddle tolerance, pseudo secularism and minority
rights as labels for political racket, and parade it as a sign of
philosophical depth. They use their political power for presenting
fraudulent Christian evangelical preachers and jihadi terrorists as a
healthy sign of a tolerant, culturally pluralistic society. The
concept of tolerance is used to brainwash innocent Hindus to believe
that they exist to serve fanatic Muslims and subversive Christian
missionaries.
The educational system subordinate or degrade the spiritual heritage
and is promoting obnoxious alien ideas. As a result, innocent people
adapt to the psychosocial, political environments imposed on them by
corrupt political leaders. This kind of unhealthy adaptation often
distorts reality and makes it difficult for people to assess dangerous
situations. People undergo unhealthy behavioral changes in response to
their grossly altered psychosocial environments. There is also an
erosion of the public's social conscience within a macroeconomic
society. People become estranged from their life sustaining culture
and react cynically. A cognitive dissonance occurs in the minds of
people. Cognitive dissonance occurs most often when people are forced
to choose between two incompatible beliefs. This brings in distorted
concepts and unsuitable ideologies that destroy old certainties. It
bewilders and makes people anxious and confused. In such a state,
rational thoughts and actions are replaced by meaningless slogans.
People bring distorted alien concepts, which obscure basic questions
of culture, values and purpose. They substitute meaningless,
abstract, harmful ideas like secularism, tolerance, minority rights,
world vision, etc for native religious heritage. The ethos, spiritual
values and Hindu rituals that connect people together undergo a
grotesque distortion. The majority Hindus ultimately loses their
identity, purpose and unity.
The tardy secularism, irrational tolerance and denial cloud the real
menace threatening the existence of Hindus. Irrational tolerance has
resulted in the blunting of immediate reactions, assertiveness, and
creative responses to imminent dangers. The psychological warefare,
jihadi terrorism, Christian fundamentalism, coercive religious
conversion, and communist menace that threaten the survival of the
nations is ignored or tolerated. People are mired in silence and
complacency. Some runaway from the painful reality and substitute
unrestrained tolerance as a virtue. Irrational tolerance act as
psychic blinders that make the whole aspects of life threatening
problem utterly invisible to them. People act like clowns pretending
to be happy, tolerant, secular and content as a way of surviving. They
hide their true selves, needs and aspirations behind masks. Eventually
they become the masks they put on and lose connections with Hindu
culture, values and social needs. In this strange setting, Hindus lose
touch with hard realities, distort the problem they face and turn away
from responsibilities. When the majority Hindus organizes them to
confront the deception, appeasement and power grab of Muslims and
Christians, they are oppressed with brute force by the pseudo secular
government.
The unrestrained tolerance encourages degeneration and apathy because
tolerance in itself does not logically represent a positive virtue.
Clear thinking and renewal are possible only when Hindus understand
the limits of tolerance. They need to break the wall of denial and
irrational tolerance. The first step toward freedom is to free from
the colonial mindset and to reassert faith in Hindutva without
hesitation or apology. Innocent Hindus should not simply choose to
evade serious problems in the name of tolerance and secularism.
Coexistnce, equality and justice are possible only when the majority
devotes itself just to challenge the statusquo, disrupting the perils
of tolerance and pseudo secularisim. The revival, if it occurs will
not come by peddling irrational tolerance, moral neutrality or denial.
It will happen when the majority Hindus questions the conflict between
what they are told and what they see and experience. Unrestrained
tolerance is running away from history, running away from truth.
Irrational tolerance blinds the issues and encourages degeneration,
thought disorder, immorality and social decay. It incapacitates one's
ability to assert his /her individuality in situations of adversity.
Hindus by nature are tolerant, but tolerance as a virtue is not a
priority for Muslims and Christians. We should not tolerate what is
intolerable and what is evil, but should dedicate ourselves to the
values of our spiritual culture to which we belong. Peace, prosperity,
and civilization itself, can be achieved only by the refusal to
tolerate evil. One should tolerate different religious beliefs. But if
such religious beliefs encourage smashing skyscrapers, killing
innocent people, and fraudulently convert poor people, we should not
tolerate such dangerous belief system.
To regain the glory of our past and to ensure our future, Hindus
should realize the perils of tolerance. In the name of tolerance,
Hindus should not allow Jihadi terrorists, communist fascists and
Christian missionaries to impose their intolerant ideology on our
throat. It is time to rethink, is tolerance practiced in India working
for us or are we becoming slaves to irrational tolerant system that
blind our minds, destroy our culture and turn us into submissive
people we never wanted to be? It's time to start rethinking things
from the ground up. It's time to realize the limits of tolerance and
move away from moral paralysis. When we think of the attitude shift
necessary to regain our strength, we should remember the message of
Voltaire" We must cultivate the spirit of tolerance in our hearts, but
we should not allow the policy of toleration to be exploited and
abused by fanatical sectarian groups which are subversive political
movements in ecclesiastical disguise".<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->