I don't remember how, today I bumped into a video clip in you-tube of the song "rangde basanti chola", a patriotic song from an old Hindi film. Then I browsed through a few more such songs. The songs are amazing. The lyric with awesome music makes your blood run amock! You feel like doing something!! Then I thought about the condition of the Jehadis of Kashmir or the Naxals of Koraput. I think they are also running a rebellion with no less ernestness. If we shun those efforts, lets also shun the effort of our Indian patriots. If we call them terrorists, then lets not hesitate to brand Rajguru and Sukdev as terrorists. If we call theirs as unfair armed moment, lets also call the "freedom struggle of 1857" as "sepoy mutiny". Why this hypocrasy, why this discrimination?
Then I wondered about the reason for which such songs and ideas make our blood boil? As Nietzsche put it,"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how". May be such songs are trying to inculcate in our mind that "why" to live. I feel we human beings are always in search for a higher thing, a higher being, a higher goal, a higher aspiration, a higher spirit... And if we can be made to believe in any such "higher stuff", we are actualy in a hurry to do just about anything for that!
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That "why" is not easily found. and no one has any right to take away or oppose, from those who find it. Why do we always have to care about what other people say?
Arpit, actually I was just making an observation. I don't say any "why" found by anyone is good or bad. Its just a correlation I was trying to draw between patriotic songs and "why to live". We certainly dont have to care about what others say. But as a matter of fact, this is a damn difficult process, esp. if you are a "real" maverick!!
Wonderful, although Nietzsche's idea sound so polemical in this pious country of ours. I've been reading The Gay Science, and Nietzsche's thoughts come across as some of the most revealing, profound, and incisive I have ever encountered. It is sad that our country is still mangled up in the affairs of religion and gods, years after so much of the world has declared the existence of a spiritual entity a most unlikely possibility. It deeply saddens me that people in our country are religious, that science has still not driven out the evils of our society, and that there are so few atheists. Indeed, nihilism does suck out the will to keep moving forward, but secular humanism and other such philosophies are definitely better, in my opinion, than the dogmatic beliefs of the present.
Dhruv, as a matter of fact, I personally find in Nietzsche nothing new. Much of the reading appear to me as deja vu. I find strong correlation with Indian philosophies. The misfortune with India is the neo-religious sects. Have a look at the ancient texts of this land. You will be surprised at the amount of liberty people had. You will find everything from logic to bhakti to nihilism to atheism to ... the list is pretty broad. With time we have become intolerant; that's our misfortune. With time we read Nietzsche before we read Narad; that's our misfortune...
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