Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Poverty is terrorism

I saw a beemer go on the road yesterday while I was driving my "fuel efficient" Suzuki around. The inside of me just threw up a little bit. How dare, would one on account of his shameless display of capitalist leanings drive around in a vehicle so expensive and so unique, whilst I, the white collared pseudo-IT coolie be so harshly delegated to the banal annals of auto-uncool-dom?
Then I went home and switched on NDTV - a channel so red with its dazzling display-color and political hue, that I got hooked on to it like Fardeen Khan on smack. They had a variety of people on it - but mostly Human Rights activists with a penchant for barking - Infact I named one female the "Rottweiler", and the other minority loving fur-bucket as "Bulldog". So Rottie and Bulldog seem to be saying India's collective failure in providing for its citizens meant home-grown terrorism would come and bite the nation in its proverbial-ass. We are a poor country, they whined at high frequency, so high that only other dogs could hear. We are poor, and hence we cannot provide for our citizens. I see, so if somehow with the flick of a switch we were as rich as the Luxemborg-ians, we wouldn't have this problem, me thinks. But the time was not for a practical solution. Rottie and Bulldog were on song, one of those loud long howls which canines let out when they look at the moon - oooooh this as must watch TV. These folks had been saying what I was thinking all along - if you don't get what you want, its not just because you didn't try - it was becasue THE MAN wouldn't let you have it - free market capitalism without government intervention not bringing you out of poverty? Blame the Government! But India isn't a socialist economy you croak? WRONG! Thou shalst not turn away from your Nehruvian socialist roots, lest thou be banished to the dark recesses of political oblivion.
So I reflected back on that middle aged man with the beemer the other day - I don't have what he has not because I wasn't trying to get rich. And I knew how to get there - Terrorism. For when all else fails, taking lives of other people for money helps get you up the class ladder. Thank you NDTV, I am towards getting myself a 7 series.

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