Sunday 16 July 2017

Not an Activist any more


I wonder why the world sees ‘activism’ free of universal equity. Sure activism can be constructive, progressive or and often misleading, disruptive and destructive just like any other social or political theory. It is imperative for the activists to explain ‘activism’ across a moral and intellectual code that aligns with progressive and rational thinking instead of imposing their views using violence and destruction. The fair use of logic to substantiate a change in society is often rejected over an emotionally charged activist state of mind. As long as it doesn’t demonize all other practices of supporting an idea over rationality and reasoning, activism doesn’t seem to offer any other way of reforming its own fundamentals.

Where exactly does activism go out of hands or completely fail? Who decides the failure? Who will reform it if required, to be fair I think activists may only consider its own eligible enough to answer such questions. So far I doubt that activism may embark on answering these questions as it may go against them on social and moral grounds.

As soon as we acquire a college degree we begin to politically and socially define ourselves and others. We begin to use labels and supporting ideologies of our chosen influence/s to identify different roles in society. Thanks to our institutes this transformation of an unbiased student into a self proclaimed politically correct torch bearer of justice often takes pride in supporting activism. If the influence doesn’t stop there ‘Media’ steps in and shows us how glorified it is to become a peaceful or violent protestor over the many causes it can find to engage you. Our media and educational institutes often win the fight and they never really fail either since the failure always leaves more causes to turn you into an activist as it is prerequisite for survival for the activist notion.

Over the years activism has been gaining immense heroic attention without deploying any boundaries of social and moral values. Harbored by the media it is portrayed as a revolution every time that loses track of conclusion while our educational institutes continue to fuel it by turning more students into activists, who would not use any other means of proving a point besides protesting and wanting to over throw all other systems working in a society. Media and educational institutes are working side by side as counterparts without defining or following universal (social or moral) equity for activism.

While our institutes provide a limited exposure to carefully filtered ideologies, our media advertises it by showing us diverse activists as role models today. Preying on masses of self righteous freedom fighters the activist regime turns unbiased students into rigid extremists who don’t welcome a difference of opinion or rational thinking. With variable causes to offer there will always be one for every one from religion to animal rights, from political reforms to environment, from women rights to health care it seems as if the only solution is activism. The notion finds its way into using all forms of media from getting ‘likes’ on social media to viewership of television networks and newspapers and following the cool role models like Emma Watson and Beyonce.
                                   
Activists would use the same tactics of communication such as advertisement, propaganda, brand ambassadorship, PR campaigns, violence and man power to impose a narrative on masses. Yet when corporate sector, government, armed forces or any other institute uses the same tactics to perpetuate a political or social influence these activists demonize the act of using these tools. They would hold themselves superior to all other aspects by calling them authoritarian, white supremacists, fascists, capitalists, racists, and many other political slurs that fall out of context on rational grounds as set up by the international law that governs them. It’s funny since activists pretend they want to follow the law, you would often find them quoting the law but you may rarely find them obeying the law. The cherry picking of laws allow them to feed their denial that activism is working for the betterment of society and while treating the problem they often become the problem, that disrupts the harmony of many innocent people, which they never hold themselves responsible for.

Any act against these activists also lands you in trouble on social, political and emotional grounds of course and allows the self righteous ‘Media’ to have more juicy content to promote their act. Activism is never really held accountable for the horrors and intolerant acts of violence it promotes. Sure you may have seen some activists getting arrested and fined for their acts but that is only treating the ill and not the disease. The so-called whistle blowers or watch dogs chanting revolution and idealistic outcomes do everything to turn a rationally thinking person into a rigid activist who works in masses and loses the individuality.

Every system ever suggested or implemented in society needs exploration and reforms; there isn’t any society that has concluded a reason that could turn a city of men into a city of God. If more activists would be willing to take active rolls in rational discussions instead of being political pawns on a chess board we may have a shot and fueling our society with progressive outcomes.