Dissent On Blood-Worship

In the past few weeks, many a column and editorial has been published on the complete flop that Chacha Manmohan S Gandhi has turned out to be - the latest being on his "honesty" by Jug Suraiya, wherein he distinguishes between "economic honesty" and "ideological honesty" - and I thought it pertinent to point out that all these CONgressmen worship blood. They worship Sonia and Rahul for no other reason than that a little of Nehru's blood runs in their veins.

Funnily enough, some newspaper editors are also of like "mind." In an earlier post, I had written of one of the first editorials I had penned while with The Economic Times (1998-2002). Today, let me tell of the last.

It was on Sonia Gandhi - and I had been invited to do the job. But what I wrote was not what the paper published. Mine had ended, "the people need Liberty - not another Caesar." The one that was published worshipped blood. I quit.

Interestingly, Cato's Letters, published by Whig journalists during the 1720s in England, contains some excellent material on natural equality and inequality, and on the baneful practice of blood-worship:

Those that think themselves furthest above the rest, are generally by their Education below them all. They are debased by their Conceit of their Greatness: They trust in their Blood; which, speaking naturally, gives them no Advantage, and neglect their Mind, which alone, by proper Improvements, sets one Man above another. It is not Blood or Nature, but Art or Accident, which makes one Man excel others.

This is from the issue titled "Of the Equality and Inequality of Men," which begins thus, thereby showing none of the false equality socialists and communists uphold - and seek to institute through State controls over The Market:

Men are naturally equal, and none ever rose above the rest but by Force or Consent: No Man was ever born above all the rest, nor below them all; and therefore there never was any Man in the World so good or so bad, so high or so low, but he had his Fellow. Nature is a kind and benevolent Parent; she constitutes no particular Favourites with Endowments and Privileges above the rest; but for the most part sends all her Offspring into the World furnished with the Elements of Understanding and Strength, to provide for themselves: She has given them Heads to consult their own Security, and Hands to execute their own Counsels; and according to the Use that they make of their Faculties, and the Opportunities that they find, Degrees of Power and Names of Distinction grow amongst them, and their natural Equality is lost.

This is what we call "natural inequality."

Socialist and Communist Equality is an "unnatural inequality."

VVIP culture.

At its root lies Political Power - not Talent.

And when you dig real deep, all you find is blood-worship.