I once wrote for a magazine on reservation. As it appeared in print, i noticed that the editor had done a marvellous job of making the very article written by me, look completely alien to me...When i asked for the reason, i was told, my article had a moderate view and did not align with one point of view.... which is "pro" reservation or "anti" reservation....
I am constantly bombarded by bytes all around to ALIGN to one point of view...If we see strengths and holes in both points of view, you simply dont have a place...You have to necessarly choose one point over other...Many a times, these points of view are not where we reside in..we possibly reside somewhere in between...even our human body understand this well.....'female' hormones can be found in a super stud like Rambo or Arnold or 'male' hormomes can be found flowing through in a Katrina...But in our thought worlds this cannot happen...
In today's polity, there is space only if you agree to 'appease' or you 'alienate' a minority ..in economics you are "pro-reforms' or you are 'anti-reforms"...There is no middle ground...This is not new. I understand this has been around for ages. Growing up, we were consumed with "gavaskar Vs vishwanath' or '"gavaskar Vs kapil' or 'north vs south'.....it was different then..but not like now...recently, this has got shriller... the culprit or the catalyst is the ever growing 'media'... the 'divisive' politicians..and very sadly some followers of leaders
In this world of 'instant-generalizations" media , there is no place for moderation... It gets killed every single day in television studios..
Either you are in or out...there is no in-between...
Please note - You have only two choices to make, either completely agree with me or completely disagree with me...there can be no moderation
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