Struggle with human predicament, a hope to die a satisfied death ...a Utopian concept of idealism and universality of ethics and morality... Satyakam, notwithstanding a classic film. I look back on an old film that wonderfully captures the time in our collective life as a nation when idealism began to die — Hrishikesh Mukherjee’s philosophically-complex Satyakam. In neo-liberal times, the idea of good government has changed dramatically from the defence of the poor and the weak, to success in attracting large business investment. In this new imagination of government, cultivating the company of the super-rich is no longer perceived to be corruption but is, instead, nation-building. The newfound middle-class activism against corruption is schizophrenic because, unlike the poor who are only victims of corruption, the middle classes are not just victims, but also willing participants and beneficiaries of corruption. Popular philosopher Michael Sendel warns of the consequences of our transition from a market economy to a market society, in which social relations are valued using the narrow currency of profit and loss. I see an equal danger as a country, which is still home to every third impoverished person in the world, moves into what I can only describe as a market state.
Posted on: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 04:42:55 +0000
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