The comment that we posted as a test case was as follows
"Congress will use these elections to formulate their plans for the 2009 show. They will have their own election commissioner then.
BJP will likely go all out to attract a few Muslim votes...that is a certainty.
Hopefully, we will be proven wrong."
The TOOTBWAHNP promptly deleted the comment. But then, Mr. Yeddiyurappa proved us right just in a matter of hours.
"Long back I had promised that I would give a Muslim senior leader the opportunity to be in my Cabinet (he said and he would fulfull his promise)"
On the Rajeev2004 blog, criticising BJP is heresy because the owner cares more about BJP than about Hindus. What else could explain the kid glove treatment of BJP?
Mr. Yeddiyurappa could have said the same thing in many different ways. For example, he could have said "I would cater to all sections of society or My governement will listen to the voters and help the poor or whatever". Using the word Minority, as per Adwani is Minorytism...why is BJP resorting to that? Perhaps BJP does not need to worry about Hindu voters now that the elections are over. Maybe there are other reasons. Our Hero who 'understands' game theory doesn't seem to have thought about BJP strategy and Hindu strategy.
Thursday 29 May 2008
Sunday 25 May 2008
Old hatred is still alive
As I had mentioned on the 2004-critique blog, I didn't expect to have a continuing interest in the rajeev2004 blog simply because of its undemocratic functioning.
That is what happened. In last few months, I hardly visited the blog a couple of times each month. Yesterday, I had this bright idea of checking whether anything had changed. I posted a comment to find out.
The comment was removed promptly!
I did try to find out why our hero is so revengeful and I found this rather nice piece. In particular, the following sentence - 'revenge is more common in relatively corrupt and undemocratic traditional societies based on authoritarian and parochial social institutions'.
I would not worry if the revengeful mind restricted itself to personal level. Unfortunately, that restriction is never present. Examine the latest post about BJP win in Karnataka and the comments under it, (Our comment got deleted from the bunch).
The revengeful mindset is on exhibition when they discuss Deve Gowda. Now that BJP has won and got to govern, their best strategy would be to forget the betrayal handed out by Devegowda and work towards keeping him afloat as a force to be used against Congress. The way the national politics works, BJP has only one enemy during the election time and that is congress. Congress has to work against all of them! After the election, the equation changes and it becomes BJP vs. the rest. The point is, BJP's best friends are the M&L Yadavas Paswans and Gowdas. Unfortunately, BJP often antagonises them unnecessarily and some of the staunch BJP supporters do it purely to indulge their revengeful mind.
You would have thought that the hero who claims to have studied his game theory would have enough brains to understand this aspect of politics. It seems he has forgotten his game theory. Strategy is not a word in his dictionary any longer. Let us hope his regular visitors ask a few uncomfortable questions and force him to be a little more democratic and a little more intelligent in his thinking.
Please do read the link posted above. Here are two more paras from the same article about developed societies.
"But striking national differences then arose when freeloaders were punished for putting their own interests ahead of the common good."
"In countries such as the US, Switzerland and the UK, the freeloaders accepted their punishment, became much more co-operative and the earnings in the game increased over time."
"In societies where the modern ethic of co-operation with strangers is less familiar and the rule of law is perceived to be weak, revenge is more common and co-operation suffers, comments Dr Herrmann."
Read this carefully and you might get an idea why BJP suffers and why BJP supporters suffer. Often these individuals and groups have the best of intentions, intelligence, work ethic but they cannot cooperate simply because they lose the big picture the moment there is an opportunity to seek revenge against some member of their own group. Think about it.
That is what happened. In last few months, I hardly visited the blog a couple of times each month. Yesterday, I had this bright idea of checking whether anything had changed. I posted a comment to find out.
The comment was removed promptly!
I did try to find out why our hero is so revengeful and I found this rather nice piece. In particular, the following sentence - 'revenge is more common in relatively corrupt and undemocratic traditional societies based on authoritarian and parochial social institutions'.
I would not worry if the revengeful mind restricted itself to personal level. Unfortunately, that restriction is never present. Examine the latest post about BJP win in Karnataka and the comments under it, (Our comment got deleted from the bunch).
The revengeful mindset is on exhibition when they discuss Deve Gowda. Now that BJP has won and got to govern, their best strategy would be to forget the betrayal handed out by Devegowda and work towards keeping him afloat as a force to be used against Congress. The way the national politics works, BJP has only one enemy during the election time and that is congress. Congress has to work against all of them! After the election, the equation changes and it becomes BJP vs. the rest. The point is, BJP's best friends are the M&L Yadavas Paswans and Gowdas. Unfortunately, BJP often antagonises them unnecessarily and some of the staunch BJP supporters do it purely to indulge their revengeful mind.
You would have thought that the hero who claims to have studied his game theory would have enough brains to understand this aspect of politics. It seems he has forgotten his game theory. Strategy is not a word in his dictionary any longer. Let us hope his regular visitors ask a few uncomfortable questions and force him to be a little more democratic and a little more intelligent in his thinking.
Please do read the link posted above. Here are two more paras from the same article about developed societies.
"But striking national differences then arose when freeloaders were punished for putting their own interests ahead of the common good."
"In countries such as the US, Switzerland and the UK, the freeloaders accepted their punishment, became much more co-operative and the earnings in the game increased over time."
"In societies where the modern ethic of co-operation with strangers is less familiar and the rule of law is perceived to be weak, revenge is more common and co-operation suffers, comments Dr Herrmann."
Read this carefully and you might get an idea why BJP suffers and why BJP supporters suffer. Often these individuals and groups have the best of intentions, intelligence, work ethic but they cannot cooperate simply because they lose the big picture the moment there is an opportunity to seek revenge against some member of their own group. Think about it.
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