My views, from an objectivistic point of view.
Is India moving back towards tribalism?
utopicillusion | 10 August, 2004 22:05
I was going through a book "The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought" by Ayn Rand and I came across a great essay on the topic of 'Global Balkanization'. I thought that this topic had great relevance to what is happening in India today.This article is mainly an application of ideas of Ayn Rand to this particular topic.
India has been a great advocate of Socialism, a system which attempts to bring together a mixed economy, which implies that it tries to bring together two types of incompatibilies: Communism and Capitalism. The results of these can be seen clearly in India. Most of the things that we identify as bad somehow traces back to communism.The purpose of this article is not to prove why capitalism is better than communism, but to discuss the rather disturbing trends which are happening around us.
Initially, when our nation was split, i believe it was mostly on the basis of language. Language is a conceptual tool to help communicate. To a person who understands the function of language, it makes no difference what sounds are chosen to name things.
India is going through a different kind of tribalism, which Ayn Rand terms as 'Modern Tribalism.' Firstly, Uttar Pradesh was split into three states for no apparent rational reason, and then our own state is being split for the purpose of a separate telangana.It is not clear how having a separate state will aid development, especially when the state will still follow the nation's policy of mixed economy.
If this kind of a split will be allowed to be made, it implies that we are like the tribalists for whom language is not a tool of thought and communication, but a symbol of tribal status and power.These factional powers should not be allowed to have control over our nation, as the situation will not improve as our politicians promise us, but will only go downhill.
I hope that we don't reach a day when our country is split into 150 states, and realise that it was all due to our inaction.
Stop the split of the state. It serves no purpose, and will only lead us back to the dark ages.
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rainmaker | 10/08/2004, 23:05
the states are being divided so that the administrative services can improve. smaller states can be managed more efficiently. so i dont subscribe to the view that we're moving towards 'tribalism'.
however, i'm against the concept of dividing andhra pradesh -- the telugu speaking people of the region share a common identity. telanga is backward, but then Cyberabad belongs to this region!