The Fault lies in us commoners

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Posted: 10 years ago
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I am talking in general about us all as masses.
As humans.

It is our selfishness and misplaced self preservation that gives leeway and undue power to so called rich and powerful. Our fascination and our hope of getting benefits from them boosts and feeds those power blocs that ultimately gobble us up too.

I am watching news these days how every villager and family member came forward to expose that serial rapist in Delhi.

But have we ever seen such coming out in case of a rich and famous rapist? Have we ever seen his family, former victims, allies and privy persons come out and expose him? Not really!

Because of our hopes to gain some benefit by supporting them or our fascination with their outward persona that makes us refuse to believe that this person could have done such a vile deed.

Fans of people like Sanjay Dutt, Salman Khan, Pistorius, Tiger Woods etc all come forward to support them. Even if charges are confessed. They cannot believe their glam hero might have done any crime. They feel others compelled them to do it or they were framed. They will believe every conspiracy theory than accept their hero did a crime.

In this show also,people are just in daze of Goenkas. Even getting a look from them is something of an achievement for them! And in hope of getting deals and favours from them they keep supporting them no matter what.

It's reality! Why we become beggars in front of rich and famous? I have seen even educated IAS officers look starry eyed in front of ministers and celebs! Once an IAS officer in UP, even spread his handkerchief on ground so that Mayawati did not have to step in a puddle. 😲

WHY?! Why do we commoners do this?

Our putting these people on a pedestal gives them more boost than they deserve. They take advantage of it. Sometimes their employees also do! Like SRK's driver raped a girl after luring her in promise of helping her meet SRK and land a role in films! The moony eyed girl believed him and got ravaged!🤢

In this show also, a commoner like Sakshi was too fascinated seeing rich and famous Rajnath Goenka and wrecked her marriage, became a murderer, just to be with him. And if there are ones like Nitya who don't give a damn to charms of rich men, they are made to pay for their disaffectation?

If Shauryas of this world have so much ego and cannot handle being treated like a commoner it is fault of people like his previous GFs, all journos and officials and other people who treat him like some prince just because he is a Goenka!

I've seen crazy fans of celebs even defend violence and cheating or saying they'd be honoured to be even mistress of a certain superstar. Why we put our self respect away and get this fascinated?

Commoners like us spreading ourselves like doormats for the rich and boasting about connection with the powerful are responsible for feeding the decay. It is our problem too that we often look at connections and backing of a person than his character and merit.

Our short memory also serves the damned. This is why people like Shibu Soren, Tytler, Jagir Kaur etc get to contest elections and even win them. We forgot everything and still choose either between 1984 rioters or 2002 rioters as our Prime Ministerial candidates.

As common people, we are all somehow feeding some Goenka type people around us at every level.

Let's stop getting carried away either in excitement or fear. We ought to treat everyone equally and as per their character and work. Not by their bloody name or wealth!

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Posted: 10 years ago
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well said but i didnt know about this srk driver but i guess for everyone money matters the most & thats why they cant go against the rich
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Posted: 10 years ago
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Originally posted by: diyah_us

well said but i didnt know about this srk driver but i guess for everyone money matters the most & thats why they cant go against the rich


If people cannot go against rich then atleast do not go too much "for them"! That stupid girl was so foolish and naive that in her craze for SRK she even believed promises of his driver and got trapped by him!

And there is no dearth of boys and girls selling their bodies just to get break in movies or TV shows.
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Posted: 10 years ago
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yes right u r..actually the problem is in the system...ministers love to threat people n the people love to get afraid of those..if u cant shout fr the criminals u hav to stay quiet forever.. 👎🏼
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Posted: 10 years ago
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Well said! 👏
First of all its an ingrained moral weakness of the common people... our fascination with wealth and power, our obsession with glamour and limelight that helps these rich, powerful people get away with murder, rape, running over pavement dwellers, causing communal riots, and all sorts of crimes!

They become invincible and untouchable by Law!

Secondly its our slave mentality!
India has always had a feudal system, where common people served the master, the King or the landlord.
The Kings are long gone but the servant mentality still remains. We still kowtow to modern day Kings and Queens, like these politicians, movie stars, famous industrialists and sportsmen and even their offspring who bask in the reflected glory of their parents' power and influence!

Until we stop kowtowing to people in power, until we stop saying Sir Ji, until we stop treating these so called influential people as extra special, they will enjoy this kind of invincibility!
Common people shd stop name dropping, using contacts to get jobs or benefits, but that will be practically impossible as everybody in the world is selfish and self-serving!

This situation is getting worse day by day as society becomes more wealth conscious and materialistic! People worship wealth, fame and power over everything else.


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Posted: 10 years ago
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Pallavi
Yes moral weakness is problem.

But slave mentality? Why even Americans are obsessed with celebs?

Indians toh surely have colonial mindset. Saab and memsaab!

I feel we should stop over glamourising and over honouring people.

These BS rich lists, power lists and PR activities need to go.

Our mentality is completely shifting to materialism now. There was a time when people had revolutionaries, writers, artistes, freedom fighters, scientists, explorers as icons. Now their icons are mere rich movie stars or rich businessmen.

We have whole magazine, glossy and page 3 culture that keeps featuring people of zero merit just for being glamorous or being rich and fashionable. Seriously why are likes of Paris Hilton some icons or divas? And why is an Ambani wife bigger icon than someone like say, an Aruna Roy?

Even our activists often get fake and absorbed in celeb culture. Sad!

Dikhawa hi sab kuch ban gaya kya humare liye?
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Posted: 10 years ago
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Anu,
America is the leader in this materialistic, consumerism mindset! Its the US which is influencing half the world with its wealth "culture"
Thats why people all over the world even know the names of Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian and so on..
How many people in US even know the name of Nita Ambani? Very few...
There is a lot in common between US and India...both were at one time British colonies. Perhaps its the British influence that both countries worship their "masters"? The rich and famous masters.
In the UK, common people hero worship and obsess with the royal family, dont they? Its the tax payers money that pays for the royal family's lavish lifestyle, for their castles and grand weddings! But the common people dont resent that!
Some animal organization had once protested against the royal sport of hunting for red foxes which are endangered species now. Prince Charles haughtily commented that commoners wont understand fox hunt as its a royal sport! Can u see the arrogant mentality there? Just because he was born a Prince means he can do anything he wants and commoners dont have the right to protest against cruelty to animals?

On the other hand, New Zealand is also a British colony but Khushwant Singh had written an article abt NZ a long time ago, he went there and saw the NZ Prime Minister stand in line at a deli and buy a sandwich!
Can u imagine that in India? The PM "standing in line" as a common man and buying a sandwich?
And the commoners around him treating him like a normal person and not as a VVIP?

I think the Sir Ji syndrome is more widespread in India than in US, where people do obsess with glamorous people but politicians are not treated as Gods and demi Gods.
A famous US senator was standing outside our K-Mart once and shaking people's hands, asking them for votes. We all shook hands with him and went inside on our own business. A few people took photos with him but majority treated him as part of the scenery.
In India, even chhota mota VIPs behave as if they own their town or village! Jungle ka raja Lomdi bhi ho sakta hai, not just sher!





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Posted: 10 years ago
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US has spread lot of BS and fed celebrity and wealth culture like anything.
India blindly copies them. More than analysis on Modi's governance we get news on his fan following. 🤢

UK kya? The whole world is still obsessed with the British Royal family! How does it matter if they had a kid?

I see people going bonkers over even local singers or reality show contestants.

Indians as if just need an excuse to worship someone!

These days even fans rattle off net worth figures as if it is their own wealth.

Some even dig out make up man or staff of celebs and do sir sir drama to get info on celeb.

Not this desperate man! One shouldn't get this desperate!
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Posted: 10 years ago
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The title of this thread reminds me of this quote from Shakespeare:

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,
But in ourselves, that we are underlings."

Julius Caesar (I, ii, 140-141)

I suppose this quote applies to our discussion too, the fault is in us commoners that we worship such idols of clay whose hands are dirty!
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Posted: 10 years ago
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Very well said. The rot in society begins with each one of us and will also change when we transform. You lay out the faustian bargains that are made every day for name, power, position, convenience, even to just get ahead in life...and their devastating, corrosive consequences very well.

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