The Age of Mass Creativity

We are in an age of mass creativity. During earlier times, creativity was mainly the preserve of the privileged, and, to an extent, the indulgence of the recluse. Now under this age of virtually extended and technology-enhanced life, most people have the leisure and other means to get creative. It is the age of each person having access to their mind. Here the takeaway is this: the communities allowing greater freedom to their constituents would leap forward as the future affairs would be more amorphous affairs of the mind. The communities seeking more compliance and conformity would be the communities of laggards, wretches, and rogues. In fact, we are on the cusp of a massive shift, i.e., the transformation of human beings from largely labouring people to creative people. The question is: who would be the pioneers of the new age?

Niraj Kumar Jha

Capitalism and Democracy

I reiterate, as I find it necessary to do, that democracy is a by-product of capitalism. It was when capital (money) became the lifeblood of social relations, the people rose to the state of autonomy and dignity, which define human worth during modern times. It evolved out of the discovery of man and his mind that led people to the order of capital, and the resultant autonomy of human beings furthered the rise of democracy over time.

This is the European story. In India, the spirit of human freedom is rather ancient. The invisible hands, which work behind the free market, appeared very early in India, and the ancient pioneers made it even better by curating it as per the standards of Dharma. India prospered, celebrated life, and included all in the festivities. North India, which faced decline earlier than South and consequent subjugation, saw its high time during the reign of the Guptas. The Guptas minted the largest number of gold coins in Indian history.

The present dismay of the democratic world on the democratic decline is ironic. The greater number of literati positioned themselves in opposition to neoliberalism. They held neoliberalism responsible for every conceivable ill, and never realised that neoliberalism manifested the invisible agency of humanity, which had caused the tearing down of walls, very literally, beginning from Berlin, which held humans and their soul captive to the whims of a few. The process was bringing the world together, promising peace and common prosperity but the entrenched forces closed their ranks and sabotaged it. Now, the literati, who parroted the concerns of powers that be, in their success lament the very outcome of their endeavour.

I pray.

Niraj Kumar Jha

Religion

Religion, unavoidably embedded in human consciousness, is an inevitability of existence. It is a must for humanity to be on the watch for the response being converted into a call and for aggravations of what it seeks to respond to.

 

Niraj Kumar Jha

Democratic Internationalism

1. The rise of authoritarian regimes with acute ideological and theological justifications in the powerful countries of the world has not only unsettled the international order but has also adversely affected the democratic norms and practices within national politics elsewhere.

2. The hope of an interdependent and fair international order, which emerged in the 1980s and the 1990s is now completely shattered. The GATT negotiators and the WTO participants were driven by crass national interests, none took the cause of humanity. Moreover, the efforts to get mechanical rules through only made the whole mechanism inoperative.

3. The root of all these was that the world united to wreck the very vehicle, which was driving the world towards the new order of freedom and unity, which was then known as LPG.

4. Now, there is a hue and cry in the democratic pockets all over the world about the slide of democracy. This is the most ironic of phenomena; they wish to revive democracy with rhetoric without taking its causation into consideration.

5. What is needed in the world is to revive the spirit of neoliberalism, and reinforce its facilitating mechanism. The WTO should be vested with real jobs and all must back it very tactically to sideline the global rogues.

NIraj Kumar Jha

Revolution and Transformation

Good changes occur in the domain of thinking and viewing, and it transforms the world imperceptively over time without causing disruption and pain. The intense occurrences of destruction and violence, which is often called revolution, is social ineptness in intellectualism, or epistemology. Knowing is an endeavour of disprivileging dogmas, but it occurs quite contrarily. And the resultant outcome of the pursuit of mistaken knowledge is violent ruptures, the worst of which we call a revolution. The so-called revolutions only prolong the good, which is otherwise destiny undergoing realisation.

NIraj Kumar Jha