[Reader-list] Farewell to our Humid Weimar

[Tapas Ray]

PS to my last post, which I have quoted below this one:

I should have explained that the unity of opposites I was talking about, 
is the opposition's stand on the agreement and the nuclear weapons issue 
in general, which is based on two opposing views of global politics. 
CPI(M) looks at the USA as the main enemy, not China, which in its eyes 
is a good, friendly dada (big brother of the neighbourhood for those who 
don't know Bengali or Hindi). BJP, on the other hand, looks at China and 
Pakistan as enemies, and the USA as a friendly giant, if not quite a 
gentle one.

One other thing. It just occurred to me that those who want to abolish 
nuclear weapons everywhere, may need to do two contradictory things at 
one and the same time. I mean they need to put pressure on India to 
denuclearise, of course. But for global denuking, they need to support 
India's nuclear weapons programme. I know this sounds absurd, but here's 
the logic: If India keeps making bombs, pointing out that it's entitled 
to that if the big ones can have huge stockpiles, then people in those 
countries will increase pressure on their governments to denuclearise. 
Because if those countries do that, India and others will not have that 
excuse or reason (depending how one looks at it). Same goes for nuclear 
power, greenhouse emissions, etc.

I know my brain is probably in a tangle and I should "take a flight out 
of town" (Mayall?) but don't know where exactly that tangle is, and 
can't afford to take that flight right now. So, I would appreciate it if 
someone could help me get it untangled.



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Reader-list] Farewell to our Humid Weimar
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:59:53 -0400
From: Tapas Ray <tapasrayx at gmail.com>
To: sarai list <reader-list at sarai.net>

prakash ray wrote:
> Their belief of the Left and BJP coming together is speculative and
> based on a report appeared in Times Now website.

Or they might have fallen prey to the titillations of Marxist
dialectical reasoning - I'm talking about the thing called "unity of
opposites". But like shy fourteen-year-olds they only love her from a
distance, don't know her at all! That's why they don't know that this
thing called dialectics works for everything and everyone, except for a
certain party of the Indian left, which transcends everything and
everyone ...  like God with a capital G. Sounds also like American
exceptionalism ... sorry, I have put my foot in my mouth again! I mean,
I have suggested that this epitome of left politics thinks like Uncle
Sam, the dirty old man! Anyway, that's something the bearded old man
didn't see, or foresee, because he lived so long ago. I mean not the old
man in a stars-and-stripes hat, sporting a goatee kind of thing ... but
the other one, with a full beard and no hat. Looks like there was no
place for any kind of God in his way of thinking, but he was wrong,
obviously. His ghost must see it now, because it must be as intelligent
as he was, but it doesn't have access to the internet, so can't email an
addendum or correction to his publishers ... these days, with no
copyright any more, there are too many of them anyway. So it falls to
that transcendent entity of our time, who/which resides in "party
offices", to correct him in light of objective conditions in India,
because, through its extrasensory link with the old man's ghost, it
knows what that ghost is thinking now.

It's a scandal that Shuddha and other liberated ones seem to be reading
more than newspapers and the words of our contemporary God, who is
actually Indian and lives in the "party office"!

Tapas