Showing posts with label Why I Hate Right. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Why I Hate Right. Show all posts

Sunday, April 14, 2013

HUMBLE APPEAL


(Originally posted on CRI)

Not that anybody is going to listen to me but still…
Please, for love of God, stop pretending/deluding yourself that we have some intellectually coherent “right” in India. I know why you are doing that, you have a ready-made template of political categorization in American politics, it is so much easier to just import it and build an edifice of superficial punditry to satisfy that irresistible urge for self affirmation.
However just because it is easier doesn’t mean its correct, it is useless, scratch that it is worse than useless in that it is misleading, it is obfuscating instead of clarifying.
If you have to do it, do it the right way.
And remember the only difference between drunkard and a pundit is whereas drunkard looks for the keys under the lamps, a pundit insists that keys should have been misplaced under the lamps in the first place.