The rise and fall of Arvind Kejriwal in a way represents the mindset of today's impatient youth. He in a way represents the youth of today who wants everything to be done at the drop of hat.
We, the generation after liberalisation, have and want everything instantly.
We would find it ridiculous to wait for days for a post to reach, when we can email a message instantly to a person in the other corner of the world.
It is criminal to wait for a day for the idly flour to sour, when we can have noodles instantly.
Cricket is all about 20 overs now and not a 5 day affair anymore to wait for the result until the 5th day.
Reading newspaper editorials is a waste of time, when we have television anchors pronouncing judgements instantly.
We want nothing to bind us, as we feel nothing is above ourselves. Arvind Kejriwal suceeded in catching the imagination of the people, especially the youth, when he questioned the very fundamentals and wanted instant solutions. People fancied this to be a revolution; forgetting the very fact you cannot build a palace without a strong basement that too immediately.
There are umpteen activists, who chose to fight within the boundaries of the system but they did not get as much attention as Kejriwal. While he projected himself to be unconventional, they chose to go the traditional way. Even Rahul Gandhi could not succeed in capturing the imagination of youth because he always talks about changing the system but never about doing away with it.
Today's youth is in a perenial hurry and have no time to follow the rules and convention nor to wait. But the fact is a strong fundamental system is needed to acheive anything and that it will take time to succeed is forgotten in this hurry.
Restrictions, traditions and conventions are all necessary evils. One cannot do away with it and it would be suicidal to do so.
We find instant pride and gratification in the revolution and freedom of speech that we find in twitter but least we realise that it also has a restriction of 140 bytes!!!
Will we ever halt for a moment to take stalk of the situation???
2 comments:
Good writing
Chengalvarayan
Fall of Kejriwal? Yet to happen. :) You see rise of AAP is because of the restless in youth. I see the rise of Kejriwal or AAP as a phenomenon. I do agree that change cannot happen over night. Similarly, we cannot wait for change to happen on its own sweet time. Though Anna's anti-corruption movement did not yield result. It showed that people are annoyed over corruption. The public support for AAP indicate that people are tired of criminality and corruption in public life. If Congress and BJP did not mend their ways, AAP or any other party that get the support of middle class will emerge again and again. The AAP’s capacity to rise to people’s expectations is directly proportional to the capacity of its leaders and indirectly proportional to its leaders temptations of power.
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