“What is Seen and what is Not Seen,” the title of Frederic Bastiat’s incredible essay, accurately describes the market-places of India’s cities and towns, where various businesses are “not seen” because of The State and its repressive rules and legislations.
Take this story today from Bangalore, on “illegal discotheques” and “live bands”.
With Freedom, these would be seen everywhere.
The lesson: It would be best to have and all-in-one trade license issued by the local municipality, the money going towards the upkeep of the common property on which the market is located.
The current labyrinth of rules and regulations is aimed at alcohol – but affects musicians and performers (even men can dance: recall Mr. Bojangles).
This is also a “livelihood issue”: K Nut please note.
However, it is the customer who drives the market. In Bangalore, these silly rules are throwing out the customer. This is stupid.
It is also repressive. I have a T-shirt from New Orleans showing two African slaves dancing in Congo Square (renamed Louis Armstrong Square). Even slaves could dance – but our youth cannot.
I also have fond memories of a night in one of our tiger reserves, dancing and drinking with the Adivasis.
So, if you want to dance, quit the city and hit the jungle, folks.
Song of the Day: Your Mamma Don’t Dance and Your Daddy Don’t Rock-n-Roll.
You cannot dance because the police has for once done a thorough job. They for some motivation targetted this easy target. Highlighted the 'dark side' through manipulated media. ( You are aware Police is very much of aware of every 'sleazy' event of this city. Its their choice what to highlight to the media and what not to) Convinced people who never visit discs that this is really a gory thing. Which of course scares most parents. Police convinced them that all crime in Bangalore generates from there and they are not equipped to uphold the lifestyles of a minority of people who go there. And then ask why do these people go there - are they respectable?
ReplyDeleteAnd now have effectively enforced a 'law'.
Its like how the british came to India and wrote back home about the dark practises we followed. And then we were colonised!!!
LOL, even if this is Bangalore, (or for that any other metro) the law makers cannot see it as anything but a feudal village. That is the world they all have grown up in.