I have finally reached 100 Pageviews! Its very encouraging especially because I didn't expect to get very many. So this has encouraged me to go on. So here I go with another reflection.
Who can adjudicate who is right and who is wrong? I have retained a line in my memory from when I was very little. It was something like,
"We are all supporting actors in someone else's drama of life"It made me start thinking about life from the eyes of the "other person". Quite often in life we don't notice the grey areas. We are always right. Someone else is always wrong. We don't really care to know the other side, do we?
I often wonder, isn't the villain a hero in the eyes of his followers? Are they not also following what they know to be true and right and correct? And still these people endure the scourge of the "Hero"(and his little minions).
History, as we know it, is a one-sided story. We hear (majority of the times) the side of the victors. The guys "fighting for the good of the Human race". The losing sides do get a mention in the footnotes of History, passing mention on how evil they were and how screwed in the head they were, stuff like that. But is that all such figures in History were? Bad guys sent on earth to be vanquished by "The Good Guys"?
Most of the times The Bad Guys are driven to the action they take. They are reacting to conditions brought about by The Good Guys most of the time (Surprise! Surprise!) I can give you a really pertinent example.
Anybody remember the Nazis? (Yes the Hitler guy and his peeps) The Nazis were not,as you might think, an organization made since time immemorial to destroy the world. They arose from the ashes of a broken Germany. A Germany taken hostage by the Allied Powers after WWI. A generation of Germans paying the price for a war they didn't know much about! A Germany in this state was bound to be the Petri dish in which a world threatening virus was to be born.
The Nazis were despicable, granted. But they truly were driven to it.
The Middle East too. The Indians under British rule. Just name it. All of them will be able to put forth a justifiable cause under which they fought, under which they were willing to die.
I'm not justifying their actions. Only their causes. And not even all of them. I'm only asking you to take note of your uncritical acceptance of what is fed to you. Give it a thought first. I'm not done with this interesting topic so I might get back to this some time in the future! Till later..
Yours Truly,
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