Forget Greek, what about the Indian Tragedy?

“It’s the real Greek Tragedy” claimed my Left-Liberal friend after hearing the Greece Election Results. The phrase “The Greek Tragedy” is generously used by our Indian journalists and I am quite sure that 9 out of 10 journalists using the phrase have no idea what that actually means. With my limited knowledge of Economics and very little knowledge of Greek Mythology, I surprisingly find very less similarities of the Greece Economic Crisis and the ‘The Greek Tragedy’.

Its  one of my guilty pleasures to include Nietzsche whenever and wherever I can, in this case – I drag Nietzsche and elevate him to a different level, many may feel that it is quite unnecessary, but guilty pleasures hardly take care of others opinions.

“But, at this juncture, when the will is most imperiled, art approaches, as a redeeming and healing enchantress; she alone may transform these horrible reflections on the terror and absurdity of existence into representations with which man may live. These are the representation of the sublime as the artistic conquest of the awful, and of the comic as the artistic release from the nausea of the absurd. The satyric chorus of the dithyramb is the saving device of Greek art."

The verdict did create a hypnotic atmosphere in the hierarchy of the dynasty and the slaves were drunken in the wine of undeserving victory. The mask of Dionysian was there, it would be there till the end, the pivotal spirituality of Dionysian was never there, not in the first term nor in the second term. First we were told that it was there, later it was preached that it is somehere there and now we are being forced to believe that it is there (or) will be there.

One could have never guessed that tragedy would strike in such a disguised manner. Our seigneur’s resume which had  20+ bullet points which glorified his economic and financial skills were never able to talk nor act, they were just used as a perfect ostentation for national and international intellectuals. I am compelled to fathom of what curse are we the victims?

The Appolinian instance couldn't have found a better place and time in the history, it was all there with full of promises based on the hopes of millions of people who pressed the buttons in the EVMs. The programmes were declared, dough was flowing, wrong people were receiving the right money and wrong ideas were sold to right people. The triumph of Socialism was visible, it was active and the victory was used to silence its critics. As Nietzsche said it was stalking ground of Socratic philosophers.

Dionysian and Apollinian were there, but we were yet to see the real tragedy. Parallely there was an contractidtion – there is an industry which was making profits, the Gujarat riots Industry. It’s probably the best discovery of the Indian Activism, which ditched truth and hounded an individual without any evidence and making a mockery of Indian Democracy and Freedom of Speech.

“Government has no business to be in business” . Many people don’t say such things these days and its blashphemy if you are in a Socialist or a Communist nation. It reminded me of Atal Bihari Vajpayee who once said during the disinvestment of hotels, “Government’s job is to build hospitals not to manage hotels.”

We had the ‘Cash-for-votes’, 2G, Adarsh, Satyam, NREGA, Coalgate etc….and we had the NREGA, Economic uncertainity, retrospective tax amendments etc… we also have the never ending inflation, IIP growth, G.D.P slowdown, New definiton of poverty, CVC etc… and now we hear the word ‘Policy Paralysis’.

The word ‘Policy Paralysis’ is a kind of red herring, the govt is not injured nor in the ICU, it’s a corpse and the funny coincidence is that according to our traditions we do not bury or burn the corpse till the right time comes. The pathetic state of our Armed Forces and innuendo attacks by media on the Army Chief are the examples of a system which is rotten and needs to replaced as soon as possible. The ruling class has made it clear that they do not have the desire nor they have the common sense to think about future.
Well, be embraced for “The Indian Tragedy”.

“Let us imagine a rising generation with this bold vision, this heroic desire for the magnificent, let us imagine the valiant step of these dragon-slayers, the proud daring with which they turn their backs on all the effeminate doctrines of optimism that they may "live resolutely," wholly, and fully: would it not be necessary for the tragic man of this culture, with his self-discipline of seriousness and terror, to desire a new art, the art of metaphysical comfort—namely, tragedy…"