The Hedonist vs. The Terrorist

The Hedonist vs. The Terrorist

Five hundred years of alleged human history on this planet that preceded the second Millennium, has thrown up in the Third one, a combative state between The Hedonist vs. The Terrorist.

The Hedonist: Usually of European descent, more likely a native speaker of the English language. Like a successful virus, he has colonized Australia and the North American continent; furthermore he uses his cunning to dominate human lives on Asia, Africa and South America. In these lands, thanks to his imperial rule, he has a vast army of local lackeys and flunkeys, who, for the price of hand-me-downs, usually act as compliant local elite.

The Hedonist is insecure. His desires spiral ever wider. His ego seldom dwells either in his body, or in his brain, but obsessively swells or shrinks to the orchestrations of an oppressive self-created system of bafflegab - that is communicated to him by a power structure that believes that responding to given compulsions of the day - the need to find heroes/martyrs, bullies/victims, violators/abiders and so on - are power. The social, family, and community systems of the Hedonist are shot. From a citizen he is reduced to a manipulated consumer of goods and services of which he has seldom any real need of.

The Terrorist: Usually a person of Middle-Eastern origin, he is often an unwitting - and unwilling - accomplice of the Hedonist, cast in the role of defending his honor, his wealth and his dignity, he interprets his faith in a manner that will justify the only thing he CAN do, viz. burn with vengeance and hatred. The Terrorist today is a Frankenstein created by The Hedonist.

It is important to bear in mind that while the two may be important to each other, together they do not constitute - or significantly affect the lives of - no more than ten per cent of human kind. Although they do everything possible to make others believe that what they think and do have civilizational significance. For instance a media source, located in Hedonland that bills itself as a "World Service" can pause to talk about a war between them only to tell the world what the New Castle or the Manchester United teams may have done.

Someone like me usually thinks that of these two protagonists on the world stage today, one is Sänpnäth while the other is Nägnäth - a baleful pair of Tweedledum and Twiddledee.

One speaks of human rights but doesn't even know the roots of those words. He speaks of democracy when what he means is thuggery and hoodwinking. Every twenty four hours he has to change his tune, find right words while seldom having a right thought. Every few months he has to create a new demon to show his valor against.

The other, while saying Allah-O-Akbar acts as if it is Mullah-O-Akbar.

The Hedonist says something terrible happened to him - and therefore to the 'Free and civilized world' - on a certain day in September a couple of years ago. And it was The Terrorist that did it. The Terrorist says, this is the first remittance of a big and overdue retaliatory payment.

As counter-retaliation The Hedonist went to Afghanistan and now he has gone to Iraq.

He did this despite World opinion against it. There is now a mess in the middle east that is obviously worse than the one that existed before.

I have seldom wasted my anger on either The Hedonist and The Terrorist. They fate themselves to suffer. But I am concerned that the people of the world were not strong enough to prevent them from being so dangerous to themselves and to others.

I suggest the U N General Assembly pass a resolution that will ask the governments of the United States and Great Britain to come to the United Nations with (a) unconditional apology for acting unilaterally and (b) Give an undertaking that, in the future, they will back their positions in the Security Council by War-declaring resolutions from their 'democratically' elected internal bodies, viz., the U.S. Congress and the British Parliament.

This will convince the world that the people of those countries are, in fact, represented in the United Nations by these governments who are now giving the impression that they represent oil interests, gun-runners and development-as-business NGOs.

-- Vyom Akhil sent this to the BBC a few years ago. I post this on his behalf, since he (in his words) phase-changed last Sunday 15 July near his home in Sambalapur, Orissa, India.