Of Sieze Mentality and Misguiding Liberals

This blog is about my thoughts on a growing seize mentality I feel has afflicted most societies. Let us try to understand how this affliction with historical blunders affects our current societies.

• Robert Mugabe of Zimbabve has again managed to get a country into a situation where people have been convinced that a particular group (whites) in this case are responsible for the hiostorical wrongs and the current generation of this group needs to be punished for the wrong doing of their forfathers. This is a typical example where a society is held sieze to a despisible or condemnable act and starts believeing that this and only this factor is responsible for all its ills. Colonialism and Slavery are to be despised and conemned in strongest of terms. But to say that all ills of zimbabwe are a result of white population, to take away thier land, posessions and money, to make them poor an deny them human rights wont make the life of the blacks in zimbabwe any better.But as we shall see in the next few paragraphs, Robert Mugabe aint the only person who follows this sieze mentality and lives in a world which is preoccupied with certain distortions and falacies of human socities. Unfortunately most socities tend to believe that "Two wrongs would make one Right" and "An eye for an eye would make sure no one sees light" :):)
• I would say Mugabe and Zimbabweans need to take a leaf out of South Africa, which was once the worst abuser of Human Rights in the form of Apartheid. But now is a multiracial society and is vibrant. Of course there are the minor issues that keep coming but we should probably see the positive side of it. The question that most often strikes to my mind and also surprises me is
  a. How do socities by lagre tolerate such "Eye for an Eye"Theories?
  b. Why do even the free thinkers and liberals allow for such contrued and obstruse execution of justice?
• Indian Society also has examples of such behavior. If you look at most of the Dalit Movements, and parties like the Black Panthers etc, they have always indulged in violence to put forth thier point and also seem to take immense pleasure in putting the group which had historically inflicted some scars to the same pain. In simple terms its "Revenge" and belief that the wrong doings of the forfathers of Bhramins or the so called "upper castes"need to be paid for by their current crop. That the leftists and other liberals also support this is sad. For example, if the pathers group goes on a spree of vandalism so as to be included in a scheduled list ,its called Social Justice, and if I call someone a Scheduled Caste which is actually a term coined by the state of India for a group, I could be charged and put to jail. This is not to say that i support caste system, but the point I am trying to make is "Justice" should be neutral to historical wrongs and should be judged in the current context of the case at hand.
• USA is different? I would doubt so, a few years ago i watched an oscar winning movie "CRASH". In that movie there is a scene where a white cop stops a car and tries to molest the "Black Woman" in the car, and her husband who is also black is helpless and can/does nothing to stop the "White" Cop. The question I would like to ask is "Would the sitiation have been different if it was a Black Cop with a Gun and a white couple in the car? The fear of a gun totting cop is common irrespective of race. I would have felt helpless in India also in middle of all brown people. A brown cop with a gun molesting some brown mans wife would leave him helpless in the same way unless he has right connections or money to buy out. What i mean to say is , the power that a cop holds is what makes him corrupt, not the skin color. Justice should take its course and punish the offender irrespective of Skin color or percieved past historical injustices.
  
• In india, most muslim groups seems to belive that they are attacked always for terror acts, i do agree and also believe firmly that all muslims are not terrorists, Its utterly stupid to say so. But one can not deny that its not true that always some muslim scape goat is arrested and punished by the security officals and even if this kind of lapse has happened in the past, we can not allow a community to get into a sieze mentality and belive that they are always made scape goats without actually getting into the reality of the situation at hand and neither can we go to go slow against a criminal beause of his/her religion. Let the law be neutral as always and justic judge a person by his "deed" and not by some historical evidence of a group being always responsible or some biased reasoning which is based on revenge.
• It seems the same analogy can be applied to the Jews and Palestenians. The Arab world thinks that all its ills can be cured if Israel is wiped out of the map and the Israelis seem to think that for all the pain they have been subjected to historially, they could get satisfaction by putting the Palestenians hostage to humanitarian crisis in the Gaza or Ramallah. :(

We need to understand that History should teach us what not to do, it should not hold us hostage to time, and make us repeat its fallacies by interchanging the roles of the victim and the opressor.

Lets see if the world wakes up and understands that "Two Wrongs indeed make no right" and "An eye for an Eye would truly leave the whole world blind."