Oldest Fort in the World
The people living in it never realized that they are
living in the oldest Fort in the world.
One or two crackpots who have read books kept in the libraries without
any patrons in the Fort claimed that it is not the oldest fort in the
World. But most people agreed that there
would always be a minority of crackpots who go crazy over everything the
general population believes to the true.
They are left at that. There is no
threat of violence from them and that they can be controlled either by law or
by indirect and if necessary, open threats
The Cosmos – there is no other word to describe the chaos
– inside the fort was incredible. None
would believe the scale and depth of disorderliness prevailing in the Fort,
unless he or she sees with his/her own eyes.
It is a custom in the fort that the children’s eyeballs are replaced
once they join schools. It is considered
a disease to have own’s eyeballs that would force the individual to have his
own sight and perspective. It is like
children’s milk-teeth that either falls on its own when the time comes or is
removed by a medical procedure. Parents considered it a blasphemy to allow
their children to have their own vision and government considered it a
dangerous activity to have a vision of one’s own. In law it was considered seditious. Other wise the state of chaos cannot
continue. Chaos is required to continue
in order to ensure there is inequality which is guaranteed in practice though
constitutional law of the Fort promises equality.
Earlier there was no practice of replacement of organs of
sight. Each student was provided with a
coloured glass to wear when they pursue their studies and when they are forced
to indulge in other publicly sanctioned actitivies.For other things done or
undone there are parents to regulate children’s activitieis within their
homes. The law said this. But there were parents who guarded the
children in their home and who also insisted on children wearing the glasses
given by the Government free of cost.
When something is given free, why eyes should be strained to see. However as always the students, being young,
had their insolent ways. They had the
freedom to remove their glasses once their supervisors (i.e. teachers in
schools, parents at homes minders on the streets and cameras in other places)
are not looking at them. In order to
control this delinquency, authorities proclaimed a law to fix artificial vision
equipment (AVE for short) – eyeball replacement sounds barbaric for we are also
living in a civilized democracy– and parents enthusiastically supported this
move. Parents always wanted their
children to follow the path shown by them. If parents cannot find their path,
there are always coaching centres to guide and cut the students to size, like
cobblers cut leathers for shoes. This is possible only if the children are fixed
with AVE.
Fort authorities have been trying to achieve progress of
the community in the Fort by planning and implementing schemes. Obviously, the schemes are designed for
improving the life-style of the members of the community. This is how they are propagated. But in practice each of the scheme has a loop
and a hole wherefrom finances are siphoned off to those holding positions of
authority. After all how would they
collect money from the poor people of the country. Corruption is the only way you can collect
money in large sums without the people knowing the exact methods. There would always be allegations and they
can always be countered after winning elections.
Authorities themselves would
concede that no scheme can succeed 100%.
It is considered a success if at least 51 percent of the population benefits
from any scheme. Rather, most of the
schemes are designed so that they benefit only 51 percent of the population. This is the maximum of people who are to be
convinced that the present set of authorities are good and since a not much
higher majority is required for winning a election. Rest of 49 percent of population can go to
hell. Fifty one percent of votes is ideal
but not necessary for victory in an election.
It is necessary to ensure that only less than 60 percent go to the
election both which will automatically guarantee that those who get 31 percent
of votes can get elected or continue to hold the positions. Some do not vote as they are disillusioned,
some others do not vote as their names are not on the electoral rolls. There is another reason for this method of
implementing schemes. IF any scheme
benefits 100 of the intended beneficiaries, where would be government servants
and politicians mint money for their luxurious life.
It is also a custom, though
not enshrined in the constitution that merely being a citizen is not enough for
voting in an election. The crackpots still argue how people who are recognized
by law as citizens can be denied that right?
The wisemen in power reply that identity cards are more important than
citizenship. And each individual citizen
is, by law, required to obtain from the Government and must have in possession
at least 100 identity cards for various purposes. The problem is there are hundreds of
authorities who do some or other service. Each organization has to have a data
base. Citizen is requested to bear with
the inconvenience. Since all the citizens, including the politicians and
governments servants after they lose power, have enjoyed the burdens of such
inconveniences all alone for hundreds of years, how can the young brash
citizens can be given such pleasures so simple.
They have to learn by hard work and moulded into good citizens by
crushing their liberties and entitlements by the big brothers. But the crackpots ask the question whether
government is for the citizens or the citizens for the government. Govt servants have no doubt. Citizens are required to contribute, rather
sacrifice for the government.. This is
the law after the fort became a republic and it was the culture before that.
Now coming back to the issue of decision making, as in
ancient Fort manu-scripts, it is not enlightened majority but a dominating
minority that takes decisions. Who
decides which is the minority? That is left to the Chaos in the streets, which has
another name Market forces. Some wisemen
have designed a system that all laws, all morals and other problems will be
determined by the customs followed by the majority. And how do we get majority if there is no
minority? There would not be a minority
if all the citizens are treated as equals for all purposes. But this is not impossible. In order to create a majority, first they
created a minority. After electing a minority
from a majority, the minority of elected people will decide. Wisemen invented a classification method
whereby there will be minorities at every level. This classification of minority and majority
starts at birth. Some are born in high
caste and others are low cast. Each
caste would in any case be a minority.
But there would be combinations of minorities at any given time for a
given purpose. This has been the best
system to keep every section in a minority.
Every problem can be solved by creating a minority versus majority conflict
of interest and no solution to the actual problem needs to be found. The fort has thousands of years of
experience. There are other standards by which minorities can be created, by
skin colour, languages, geography, religion, gender, size of the nose, height of
the body, even… let us leave it at that.
Then there is another thing
called merit. Those who secure 75
percent and above in 5 subjects are treated as intelligent (with the full
knowledge that it is only who have an average intelligence who are in majority
and they run the world as most of the students are required to be part of that
majority) and at least 10% of the students are treated as idiots (with the full
knowledge that they would carryout all the basic needs of the human population
such as cleaning the streets, doing sales, labourers etc). This way human needs
can also be made into a system of hierarchy and it is not the usefulness of
your profession that decides your status but the merit i.e. your level in the hierarchy.
As ususal the crackpots asked the question what the moral
authority for such classifications? How
can human beings be classified like this for every human being can be useful to
society in one way or other. Nobody had
the answer. But since the ruling
authorities have decided and majority of people acquiesced, they became the
norms.
As per the mythology, the Fort has been in existence for
the last 5000 years, but whenever any other civilization’s antiquity is dated
before this time, immediately official historians find evidence to get the Fort
civilization’s antiquity prior to the new dateline. Other worshippers in the Fort claimed that
it has a history of lakhs of years for that is when the age of Kali – Kaliyug
started. Fort is a perfect place. Nothing can go wrong.
However, the crackpots question this also. (why do they exist for exept for asking
questions). They say that there are
other Forts out in the wild and that by closing our eyes to the reality we
would only be deluding ourselves. These
crackpots, let them go to hell. Neither the Wisemen and nor the crackpots
bother. Everything is either decided by
the fortune-tellers who can read the future with the help of Sun and the stars,
not in the sky, but in everyones birth sign. The wisemen also did not bother
because there would not be any impact on the general population, which believes
wisemen who are a minority elected by the majority and hold power rather than
those who speak truth and are in minority. And so the kingdom, nay, the democratic republic
of fort is administered. Long live the Fort.
