People
who don't think can be classified into two. The puppets
who cannot think fall and the puppeteers who refuse to think.
The lives of the puppets and the puppeteers hold answers
for some of the most intriguing questions that our modern
society faces.
What meets the eye on acts of violence and
terrorism are the people who did them. They are commoners
like the every one of us. Yet we wonder what makes them
act against their own kind in such barbaric proportions.
The layman never has the luxury of time or money to worry
about which religion is supreme or which God is more powerful
than the rest. When most of his time is spent in securing
a descent living, who does the evil groundwork for all the
communal disturbances that could become as destructive a
factor to stall the progress of a community or a nation?
Enter the puppeteer. These idle minds constantly engage
in conspiring the next commination to foster hatred in large.
Some do so because they fervently believe in something that
is not the common truth. They are so blinded by their zeal
that they start devising ways to gather puppets to animate
their beliefs. Others have inane gains such as power and
money in turning the laymen into miscreants.
The puppeteers have painstakingly studied
the puppets and have created a complete repertoire of movements
that could anytime be choreographed into a cosmic dance
of destruction. The common man relies only on the information
he could get his hands on to. One can imagine the consequences
when that information he gets has been transmuted to accommodate
the evil intentions of the fanatic and delivered by the
same source that he trusts. The demon has the knowledge
of the sensibilities of the commoner and the channels to
reach him. He has the most formidable combination - the
wrong message and the right vehicle to deliver it and he
waits for the right stage and circumstances to screen his
play.
The unsuspecting puppets on the other hand,
put their best talents into the play, to please the whole
world that watches them with such awe. They toil for a cause
that they never raised a question about. Their minds are
so tuned to believe what they were told that they seldom
doubt the validity of their sources. It is interesting to
observe that when it comes to sensitive matters such as
religion, even the learned tend to react in haste falling
to instincts rather than applying the worldly wisdom gained
through out their lives.
'An eye for an eye leaves the whole world
blind' said Mahatma Gandhi. When people start fighting among
themselves, there is someone enjoying the fruits of his
hard work. He wishes to have his last laugh when the whole
world goes dark at his feet begging him to lead them. Let
us awake and arise.
Happy Living!
