I feel Rahul Gandhi should step down as the congress president.
He doesn’t seem to be worthy of that. Listening to him, I feel like he is a
clueless politician who is speaking just for the sake of doing that! He seems
like the unfortunate victim of nepotism who could never grow into his family
‘business’. I am sure it’s not just me who thinks like that, I have met people
who say that, out loud, in public. And why shouldn’t they? The party has
declined in pretty much everything since he has held that position. The number
of votes have decreased, the popularity, congress chief ministers have
decreased and much more. Well, I am sure it’s definitely not one man’s
inabilities in doing his job properly. Several other things like the
opposition’s drastic gain in fame and other internal complexities also played
their part. But despite all that I think the man is not the right custodian to the
riches and responsibilities he is born with…
…....or is he?
See, I don’t hold
particular views with regard to a particular political party. I even don’t have
the in-depth and personal knowledge about the man I am writing this blog on. My
resources are limited to social media, mass media and what I gather from people
around me. I am just debating with myself and understanding the situation as an
educated person should.
So, what does education teach us? Apart from general studies
and social studies, education is just a record of previous experiences of
people. My qualification as a literate is the measure of me remembering other
people’s experiences. I am educated because I know my weight increases or
decreases in an elevator because someone experienced that and made a theory on
it. Same goes for the function of pancreas or escape velocity for a rocket. So
my study of these ‘theories’ makes me ‘educated’…….or blind to similar
experiences that will happen in my life as well, as they happened in the lives
of the ‘scientists’.
Elephants are quite clever animals. In fact, they have one
of the largest brain of all animals and are good at learning, communicating,
mimicking, and using tools and a lot of other things. I used to wonder how such
an intelligent animal with strength of hulk falls for baits and never runs away.
Well here’s how they do it. When an elephant is born, they tie it using heavy
steel chains. The young elephant tries a lot to break it but is never able to
do that! It tries that for days but finally, gives up, no, learns from its
experiences, that it’s not possible to break the chains. So when the elephant
grows adult, the owner ties it with a thin, weak thread that looks like the
ones with which it used to be once tied, knowing that it won’t run away. Why,
because it’s an intelligent animal? Try that with a buffalo. The dumbass will
make a mockery of the intelligent one!
So, will understanding someone’s past experiences or your
own will result in your victory in the present? Or will it simply make you give
up? Should Rahul Gandhi give up, after studying his past experiences he’s had
in politics? Nobody would have believed the Wright brothers when they would
have iterated their ambitious plan to anyone, because no one had experienced it
before. Even they hadn’t. And the failed flights at first should have been
enough to give up, but they didn’t. The result is, nobody sails to the US from
here.
There’s another aspect of this though. Education isn’t worthless in most cases. In fact,
it is quite useful in most normal cases. Only the most bizarre ones, whether
the highly successful or the worst failed ones seem to defy the education laws.
So basically, it teaches us to ……give up in situations where others failed and
keep going on where others did well, to never think different and become like
others, to have role models and try to become like them. It is quite good for a
successful life though!
