Who can fix our broken World?
We all know that the World we live in is a mess. So, whom do we blame? Should we blame the capitalists for exploiting us or should we blame it on the religious heads or should we pin it on the political leaders or may be just blame it on the entire human civilization?
Well.. The entire blame falls on the unexpected party.. “The Writers”
We have thousands of books published every year, the interest on reading is on the rise, we are bringing out extraordinary thoughts, we are all getting inspired and educated. Then, why would someone with commonsense blame it on the writers?
Why the Writers?
When we turn the pages of history, we can easily notice something popping out. A lot of Countries had their “Golden Age”. This golden age is the period when the people of that particular Country get rid of the past exploitative practices that were pulling them down and go through a renaissance. We have wars, humanitarian crisis, all forms of abuses, all forms of exploitation weighing us down – have we ever collectively thought on a radical new idea that could help?
During the middle ages of Europe, the King was the God and the exploitation of people happened on multiple levels – the radical idea that brought people back to senses was “Even King is a human and what makes him beyond us? This thought rose like a wildfire and the people went on to end the King’s era and that brought the exploitation to an end. Today, democracy is running a joke on us. Have we ever thought on collectively abandoning it? How long would we keep discussing on the good old Communism that is 200 years old? If not Communism, what do we do next? It is very clear that this system what we have now is beyond repair. How long are we going to keep fixing it? What can motivate people for a fresh start?
All of these questions need deep thoughts. And these deep thoughts can be given only by the extraordinary writers. Because, only a writer can create visionaries, extraordinary leaders, warriors, intellects, reformers and revolutionists.
The state of writers today:
Unfortunately, the writers of today are engrossed in wealth and fame and are making the grave mistake of just publishing stories that satisfy the basic emotions of a man. As history says, these publications will bloom like a mushroom in a rain and then face instant death. The writer who writes these type of articles not only wastes his lifetime, he/she is also considered to be a criminal who has spoiled the minds of an entire generation. No writer should ever feel that his writing does not get him fame or wealth. Because the books that live beyond time are the ones that are not appreciated or understood or admired when they are written.
The State of India:
Many countries of the World got revolutionist political leaders, social leaders and religious leaders. Unfortunately, India did not get one in a very long time. That’s why even when India has an abundance of natural wealth, man power – we are still deprived of the basic equality, unity and peace. The writers of the Indian sub-continent should start thinking about this important truth and write so as to create leaders of the future.
Only then, India will get a leader like Castro of Cuba or Lenin of Russia or Abraham Lincoln of America or like Winston Churchill of England. Every writer in India, should raise himself to the standards of Voltaire, Rousseau, Milton, Shakespeare, Tennyson, Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth, Bernard Shaw, Somerset Maugham, Alexandre Dumas, Omar Khayyam, Walt Whitman, Bertrand Russell and create literature that exist beyond time.
PS: This article is an excerpt from the writings of Mr. Palanisamy Pillai.
Mr. Palanisamy Pillai is the 2nd hereditary Head of Indhu Renaissance Movement, the co-founder of the International Communist Party (the other founder was the rationalistic thinker Mr M.N.Roy; they founded the International Communist Party much before the Revolution in Russia; the party was founded to put Marxism into practice), one of the resource persons of the Radical Democratic Party of Indian subcontinent.
