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Unified field theory of

POLITICAL SOLUTION
TO borrow the concept from the fashion world, Bangladesh's political crisis is comparable to a reversible trench coat in contrast fabrics. Our politics needs the right solution and that solution needs the right politics. One eludes the other and we're caught in a vicious circle. Politics is missing solution and solution is missing politics.
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Back to politics from physics, we need some kind of a unified field theory to see some light at the end of our political tunnel. People will always take interest in politics because they are human beings. This is the gravity side of politics when people have hopes and aspirations, fears and concerns, dreams and goals. They gravitate towards collective wellbeing to ensure the maximisation of individual benefits.
from politics to physics. Albert Einstein spent the last thirty-five years of his life on a fruitless quest for a way to combine gravity and electromagnetism into a single elegant theory. He was convinced that there was an intellectual need to unify the forces of nature and made it known in his Nobel lecture in 1923.
Gravity is a force that acts between any two objects. No matter what these objects are made of, they get pulled towards each other just because they have mass. Magnetism is different. It can either pull the two objects together or push them apart, but the whole thing depends on which way the magnets are directed. Most importantly, it depends on what is going on with the electrons in the material, since each electron is like a tiny magnet unto itself.
The magnetism side comes from the flesh and blood, which make the human beings. These are the electrons that behave like tiny magnets, propelling people towards their selfish pursuits. These magnets pull people together or push them apart depending on orientation.
The political force fields in this country are at odds with each other because the magnets aren't in their right directions. Yes, people have their party positions. Yes, they have their ideological convictions. They are also fully fired up to fight and die for anything relevant to them.
But underlying these gravitational factors is the magnetic field when every individual calculates private gains in public dispositions. That explains why politics is merely a front for the seedy
business of greedy people. This explains why some of our politicians are corrupt and have this unconscionable habit of lying through their teeth. They wear patriotism on their sleeve, not so much to show their commitment but to hide the lack of it.
The reason why we can't find a solution is that our focus is on fixing the gravitational field while ignoring the magnetic one. We are spending more time planning the staircase than minding the pillars of the building. Contrary to the constituent principle of the People's Republic, the politicians build their strength on the weakness of people.
A macro solution won't work so long as the micro problems remain unattended. In other words, we can't expect the weave to hold the cloth together if it has loose ends. A solid top cannot give us a sturdy table if it has rickety legs. Our politicians can't work out the solution because they are the ones creating the problems.
That national contradiction has percolated down through the population. Like politicians, people also speak of solutions in the same breath as they also propagate problems. The gravity holds us together as one nation but the magnetism divides us into factions. This republic is like a broken bone contained within unbroken skin.
The prognosis for this illness is a
unified field theory that will reconcile human mass with human condition. For that, every individual will have to reconcile within himself his flesh and bone with instincts and impulses coursing through his veins. If this country has to become a viable state, then people will have to learn how to ingest that urgency into their mindset.
The short-term solution to the longterm problem must start with a stable government. It's a pre-requisite for the same reason healing needs rest. For 43 years politics has been a roiling boil, and stopgap solutions have come too soon with the effect of making curd before the milk has cooled off. Hot milk coagulates and gives grainy curd. Heated politics has fragmented us; it has created splinter groups coalescing narrow interests.
This nation needs to unwind itself from individual to plural, from parochial to profound, from divided to united. One more dialogue or another election can't do the trick but it can start the healing process if the emphasis is on the wonderland of intentions, not the wilderness of contentions. The difference lies in another reversible trench coat parallel. We can't end the war to find the peace before we find the peace to end the war.
The writer Is Editor, First News and an opinion writer for The Daily Star.
Email: Badrull51@yahoo.com