Orwellianism Epitomized

From the bickering in political channels to the representative corps of societal vigilantes, to even the private privations of familial conflict-resolution, if there is one brand of cultural identity that is proudly claimed as being "Indian" (although in truth it is not), it is the exaltation incurred in the propounding of Orwellian logic: what is right is wrong, and what is wrong is right.

That the said logic, by itself, serves as a warning of the consequences of unwarranted societal engineering would seem to matter no whit to the clones that now pass through the assembly lines of intellectual mass production. That the clones only propagate culturally acceptable civic justice (!?), thereby implying the social benefit of the said vigilantism and the consequent necessity of the aforementioned civic justice then become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Continuous inundation of associated propaganda then ensures the inurement of society to the twisted logic insofar that attempts to even highlight its foundational hypocrisy is met with vociferous opposition.

Evidence of the claimed transgression of righteousness is not hard to come by: if the crowds of "liberals" holding candle-light vigils to plead the case of convicted terrorists, the legions of "conservatives" celebrating the delivery of "justice" on women in "provocative" attire by the abhorrently inappropriate desires of their fellow male compatriots, and the famed insouciance of the "centrists" who couldn't care less for all but themselves are not the very epitomes of Orwellian reasoning, what indeed are?

Indian intellectual engineering has reached a state of such completeness that the wisdom in producing armies of certain professions over the active and assisted detriment of certain others, the admissibility of contrasting sexual and social mores for the genders and the re-analysis of civic and cultural institutions are not even open to debate!

Perhaps the most distressing consequence of the propagation of popular hypocrisy, is the intellectual hypnosis that India's youth finds itself in, proving conclusively that the experiment in self-imposed societal engineering has indeed been immensely successful. For the aids of technology, globalisation and quasi-anglicisation are, in the final analysis, just that: aids. For the keys to change must lie within. For intellectual engineering can only be countered by reverse intellectual engineering, a process that must begin with the application of thought, and the acknowledgment of the trance that society finds itself in. For it needs to be realised that hypocritical self-perpetuation can only serve to be the antithesis of progressive civilizational evolution.