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'Sense and Sensibility' in our life
Jane Austen is not yet out of date in the 21st century. The titles of her two great novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, have etched into our memories the basic weakness of human nature in any society, independent of time. These failings are more exposed in social personalities out to render public service. The current models are the political personalities dominating world and national affairs, and creating havoc with their ego-led policies for solution of humanitarian problems.
These four basic qualities of the head and heart immediately classify a public figure, seen through the output of their choices in decision-making on behalf of the masses. In many cases, the results of these policies on the nations concerned have been disastrous, as recorded in history. One leader may affect millions of lives, hence the indirect responsibility is heavy.
That is the game of life, at the micro level, in the cosmic universe. We have a very small playing field to manoeuvre during our very brief existence on Earth. The politicians in power exert power through stage puppet show for one term after the general elections. But politicians too do change, what a pity.
Apply Jane Austen in Dhaka metropolis. The predictions analysed in the novels astonishingly ring true to life through the centuries. Like semiconductors, the heart of computers, humans have in-built impurities which a lifetime laundry service can remove. It is a benign preoccupation to try to come back to the right path at the end of the day during this limited life span. Man seeking peace
with whom? Not with the followers! The Creator props up in the inner recesses of the background to haunt the living transgressed souls in solicitude.
Most leaders need filter kits to refine their moral sensitivities, to remove pride and prejudice, and to look at the followers with benevolent equality. Improvements are required both in the message (ideologies) and the medium (party channels). Some branch channels are clogged up (as in the DCC zone); and some are flooded with excessive negative zeal (armed terror tactics, toll collection, grabbing tendencies and what not).
Looking at the diagram, it seems like a negative parabola, which has dipped too much from the zero referee point. The curve has to go up into the positive sector of the graph paper (above zero). The oscillations would continue, as life is dynamic (like the constantly changing weather). The governors (as in mechanical appliances) have to control these large oscillations and damp the same within controllable limits, through feedback mechanism and regulatory processes (compare the launch capsizes).
The tussle is between two extremities: enhance the social benefits, or subdue the personal and subjective hammering of the inflated ego.
Personalities tend to seek a place in history. The foothold is slippery and the footprint stained. The posterity is harsh and public memory lingers.
A cyclone has an eye or centre. After the event, the equaliser effect prevails. Peace is a leveller. Today's politics is hostile and confrontational, relying on military force against the weaker aggrieved. The forecasts are foreboding, and the mood of the times is to catch at
floating straws. A leader cannot lead in suspended animation!
Be on the side of the people, and be protected by the cushioning effect of this huge mass. The latter are gentle and forgiving and side with the virtues which money cannot buy and time cannot
erase.
Jane Austen left a four-pronged message: sense, sensibility, pride and prejudice have to be cultivated in harmonious doses to be in tune with the environment, human and otherwise. But today, the sense and sensibility are warped; pride and prejudice inflated. The service providers have to be neutral as local cultures have multi-faced effects. A citizen has the right to some individuality, otherwise we all would be automatons. Variety is the spice of life, but the standardised definition has to be well edited before it goes for universal application.
A Mawaz
Dhaka, On-mail