The modern period still finds the usage of this method in the form of capitalistic collection or resorting to fine (sue) with money. One with the most capital always tries to gain more and more capital by keeping the workers with the fear of losing jobs.
Every one knows that among the numerous reasons for the French Revolution and also in American Revolution, inhuman taxes were one of them.
In present world, capitalist still exist and they are the one who in the name of “welfare and service to mankind” resort to collection of capitals. A modern age King cannot be from among them. If made, then there is no reason that revolutions as in history will repeat themselves.
It would be wrong to coin the word “citizen” which means “native or inhabitant of a state” to all the people who are ruled by someone. During the pastoral, or feudalistic or capitalistic society the common people remained more and more servile.
“He walks like a colossus, and we petty men have to look for our dishonorable graves.”
The only legitimate word to assign to the then masses can be “the Ruled”. In Indo Aryan context, the method has been more long lasting; segregation the society.
Can the Chatur Varna theory be really taken as a means to divide into scholars, warrior, merchants and laborers? The writer opines that, with the excuse of division of labor, divisive compartments were created in the whole society.
It is unfortunate that the present untouchables are the processed outputs in the long run of misleading and suppression. Society instead of integrated became more compartmentalized as a consequence. What man intended is not what man begets in the long run.
All men have same number of chromosomes and genes but an ugly hierarchy was assigned to this species. Just as the queen bee is physically different then the rest in the colony do we need then look for any physical extraordinary one to be ranked as a ruler?
Another interesting facet in the process to rule, is the idea of “predestination”. It was/is given as a mundane attributes to someone relating to an unseen reason.
If predestination rules every one then why there is struggle in all the live forms. Can all be given the reason with a smile: “You are destined to be ruled”?
A group of human being can form a club where most never like to be the servers. Thus a paradoxical segregation results after the process of unification. What a funny paradox we find over here. It is a common and basic human nature to struggle to the top in a hierarchy.
Because of this factor one on the top of the club is always threatened by the subordinates. This leads into a more time consuming process called – natural death of the club. What we call the most powerful club now will have to die naturally owing to this struggle among them.
One with a good bureaucratic bend in mind always resorts to a method: “Time past”. Perhaps the colliding groups may not be aware of this. So a natural death by itself comes to all problems and issues.
This sly method is used by most bureaucrats everywhere in any form of government. There may be demand for segregation, rewriting and reorientation of a political entity. But demand remains as demands from a subject to any authority. To demand by a subject to an authority is natural.
During the long run in the formation of a club, there is a perpetual hatred and suspicion to one another in a club. Then, doesn’t the meaning of “unification” mean “segregation.” This is another paradox.
So do we not require some one whom we all can keep at a distance and show all our reverence? Whether he is hereditary or not is another story, but we as a whole require some one without giving any condition nor receiving any condition from him.
That person, the writer opines shall be the “Neo king”.
to be continued ..
* Michael Khumancha (Meiraba) contributes regularly to e-pao.net.
The writer can be contacted at khumancham(at)rediffmail(dot)com .
This article was webcasted on September 22, 2007 .
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