Elephant analysis

Few weeks ago I read an article by Martin Khor. I took an excerpt of it & wrote something which was ready to be published here.

Because all the slots on RA were ‘booked’ by other writers, I uploaded part of that post on FB Notes. To my surprise, it generated unexpected attention & comments. Or perhaps that’s just how Notes work & I’m ‘uncharacteristically’ oblivious.I’ll share the original content of that original post here some other time. Meanwhile I’ll publish here what I did on Notes.

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The Note, titled Quasi critics and analysts, read,

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.”
-Soren Kierkegaard

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Being in the generation that went to school in the post-cold war era being told that democracy is great, and communism is shite (without ever being told what either of them actually works or stand for), I’ve come to note that due to peer pressure most have a tendency to want to appear to be politically correct, conscious and active.

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Thus making them, collectively achieving a pseudo critical analytical consensus derived from a council that merely groped the elephant in the dark. Separately declaring the trunk, tusk, tail and torso as the negative, blindly thinking it all as one and the same thing.

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The first comment came from MM. “And what prompted this, Zain?“

The ‘note’ above is actually an excerpt from a (soon to be published) post I wrote for RandomAlphabets.com, regarding Martin Khor’s article.

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It’s meant primarily for those with a few pebbles and an empty tin can that have exhausted my ears, and my (so far) patient listening skills.

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I suppose it would be splendid to hear more constructive criticism towards anything and everything.

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On the democracy/communism note, I do feel like a significant amount of my peers point, relentlessly, at pointless things. It would be more respectable, to themselves and their thoughts, if they could seek to understand, rather than have their enthusiasm transmitted aimlessly.

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Young hearts, run free.
In mind, not stupidity.

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