What exactly the government’s problem with Anna Hazare wanting to fast is hard to understand, especially now that it is becoming clearer that he’s doing it all for publicity and doesn’t care all that much about eradicating corruption.
Gandhigiri is a concept that failed the moment it came into being. Keeping your head bowed before your oppressors, turning the other cheek – hey, if I slapped somebody and they showed me the other cheek, I would slap them again.
Gandhi himself was a dull guy who wrote the most boring book ever, so it would do people good to stop hailing him as some kind of a hero, because he wasn’t one. He was just a very nice guy, but we’ve all been nice guys at some point, and don’t we know what happens to nice guys? They get fucked over.
Here’s an example: When the Sri Ram Sene invaded a Mangalore pub and harassed the youngsters there, the dumbfucks of our country launched a ‘pink chaddi campaign’. The girls sent pink underwear to the Sene chief Pramod Mathalik, but apart from getting nationwide coverage, the campaign didn’t do anything. Oh yeah, it made the girls feel important.
Now imagine the members of Sri Ram Sene surrounded by several pissed-off youngsters and getting the thrashing of a lifetime. Does that sound more effective?
Candlelight vigils, signing online petitions, protest marches, sending pink panties to extremists – none of these Gandhian tactics have ever worked… or to put it another way, they have never worked.
When a child is sulking because it wants to, you let it sit in the corner and sulk.
On this Independence Day, India should start freeing itself of empty vessels like Anna Hazare and Baba Ramdev. Let the motherfuckers fast for as long as they want can and get coverage till the media and the public are bored of them, because the moment they’re told they can go ahead and fast is when you’ll see them gulp.
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