The issue which i attempt to throw light on here is not limited to me alone but to every individual of the social order today. We are today under the regime of consciously ordained intellectuals who are not only are rulers in disguise but quite surprisingly our personal idols and inspirational figures.This is a social relation which had been existing from the dark ages to today's globalized society only to change its appearance accordingly to continue with the hegemony that they had always subjected us to.
In earlier Aristocratic, Communist and Socialist Regimes they formed the clergyman, the Orator and the Leader of the Labor Class today they are the the Ministers, the Policy Makers and the Leaders of the civil society. They have been the real force of reproduction of the forces of production that as Marx said were necessary for the existence for these relations of production. What they earlier did they are doing today. The false sense of perpetuation and distribution of power that we have experienced has been their time tested and beloved gift to the population. And again we are indiscreet enough to be tricked. It was the work of these individuals to ensure and encapsulate the exploitative ruling class under the protection of their ideas. The common people who symbolizes them as their very own, the epoch of their class, easily believe there word. They in turn receive the share of power in the superstructures, which even today are the real manipulators and controllers of all the forces of production. They along with there monasteries, churches and clergyman then and Schools, Colleges and Institutes today..continue to provide the ruling "Democratic" order with machines that would continue to serve it conscientiously tomorrow.
People often question the grounds on which i raise my objections to a famous Engineer turned writer, who is unquestionably the most widely read contemporary Indian English Novelist. Or the team of ministers who are the products of two of the famous college from Delhi University and go on to participate in incessant debates about there respective institutes prominence.Or The Oxford and Harvard read Lawyers and Economists. On a thorough introspection it's not there works and ideas(which i find exemplary works of genius) that we pose a threat from, it's the illusion they sell. That they are one of us, that they think like us, they write our stories and they make the laws keeping us in mind. These factories of thought through which they emerged to become the most well respected men are the tools of the traditional intellectuals and the ruling elite to replace the older batch with a new of set of organic intellectuals.These schools, colleges and universities which follow a system of filtering the social mass are the like the closed halls that only a few could enter. Once the pupils come out they are welcomed to new compartments and instantly elevated to the height of rulers. This is when there real work starts. The submission which they deem necessary of the "lower strata" to the current system and the division of labor. They tell us "what we pay you is enough" and "what we say is right(cause of the factory certificate they carry)".
The power of control of the social apparatus is at Center of power struggle that goes on between different classes or groups of classes. Most of us have noticed that the Leaders of the Rajya Sabha today were the chairman of some department yesterday and MP of some constituency tomorrow. They hardly ever come down the social ladder. The seats are just exchanged in place of sofas in various Departments and Governments. The family continues to replenish the want with sons taking places of fathers with people clapping to the same.
People often question the grounds on which i raise my objections to a famous Engineer turned writer, who is unquestionably the most widely read contemporary Indian English Novelist. Or the team of ministers who are the products of two of the famous college from Delhi University and go on to participate in incessant debates about there respective institutes prominence.Or The Oxford and Harvard read Lawyers and Economists. On a thorough introspection it's not there works and ideas(which i find exemplary works of genius) that we pose a threat from, it's the illusion they sell. That they are one of us, that they think like us, they write our stories and they make the laws keeping us in mind. These factories of thought through which they emerged to become the most well respected men are the tools of the traditional intellectuals and the ruling elite to replace the older batch with a new of set of organic intellectuals.These schools, colleges and universities which follow a system of filtering the social mass are the like the closed halls that only a few could enter. Once the pupils come out they are welcomed to new compartments and instantly elevated to the height of rulers. This is when there real work starts. The submission which they deem necessary of the "lower strata" to the current system and the division of labor. They tell us "what we pay you is enough" and "what we say is right(cause of the factory certificate they carry)".
The power of control of the social apparatus is at Center of power struggle that goes on between different classes or groups of classes. Most of us have noticed that the Leaders of the Rajya Sabha today were the chairman of some department yesterday and MP of some constituency tomorrow. They hardly ever come down the social ladder. The seats are just exchanged in place of sofas in various Departments and Governments. The family continues to replenish the want with sons taking places of fathers with people clapping to the same.
Why is it that a Writer from The IIT who takes the name of his alma matter and goes on to give insights in the life of an Engineer is accepted? but a Hindi Novelist from the small town of Bulandshehar in UP pushed to the edges of oblivion? I am not saying that people from places of such repute don't deserve it all. Its only not fair on our part to overlook and be indifferent to people who stand among us and try to liquidize this school of elite. We should back them to push open the doors of these factories and turn them to places that make no distinction or at least give a chance to more and more people unbiased to there economic status. The day should come when with every change of order new people should climb up the ladder social order and lead us to a stage where we will dissolve the state to new liberal standards. What we need is that the rein of such Institutes, the Army, the Police and election commission which despite the every 5 year change rest in the hand of the Elite.They should be discouraged from selling the idea of the ruling families(also the class) and made to understand that they are the representatives of there people and that ideally these institutions should be under the control of the Proletariat.
