Media
as finance instrument of intellectual massacre
Panic in Mullapperiyar
Constructing or maintaining dam is irredeemable sin as per
the colonial gospel of
environmentalism. Environmentalism is the religion of the present times, with ecosystem
as its god. The pseudo intelligentsia ,of course take pride in this neocolonial
gospel of the religion as it has been established as the fashion of the day
which updates the most selfish and reactionary instincts in man under the cover
of ultra modern intellectual vain glory. The theology of environmentalism propels a crusade against
the supposed human assaults upon astro-
terrestrial system. A battle line is drawn between man and astro terrestrial
system. As per the theological preaching of environmentalism everything within
and above the earth, living and nonliving is sacred ,except man, The touch
of man pollutes existence otherwise sacred and genuine.
In India we have a history of pollution in which the underdog
working class races were estimated as untouchables who would by a touch pollute
the virgin air, environment and the sacred body of the upper class humans. The
political intention beneath the thesis of the ancient untouchability and
unapproachability, was monopoly of power and command of economy vested with the
ruling race. Untouchability was a measure by which man to man relation was
defined .The power relations between man
and man , that of hegemony and subjugation, were supposed to be scripted by the
superhuman structure of feeling, designated god . The hegemonic class with the aid of the holy
scripture, alienated the subdued class from the area of power , with the
hegemonic discourses of the divine(visuddham) and profane(asuddham-ayitham) The
logic for the elimination of the human rights of the underdogs was environmental pollution
The ancient
discourse of human pollution was a pervert expression of man to man confrontation
at the social level. The idea of pollution, in man to man struggle for space
and economy , was lifted from the
intra-human level and posted in the conflicts of man to non- human surroundings
with the emergence of the environmentalist religion. The ultra modern thesis of environmental
pollution is a tactical diversion from
man to man contradictions and brutal colonial repressions of humans by
humans; Man to man exploitation has reached its peak, hegemony and rule of the neo-capitalist power have been established at various levels over the surface of
earth . The hegemonic class at this juncture, want to have an effective
discourse for distraction from the intra-human scales of hegemony and subjugation
The modern religion of environmentalism, is the most effective discourse of
distraction from the theme of man to man
exploitation With the foreplay of
environmental theology, the theme of man
to man contradiction is pushed off
and replaced by man to
environment confrontation.
Humans on earth do
have a history of using, the nonhuman living and non- living world around, for
sustenance and development and there is no escape from it. It is an inevitable
confrontation and conciliation. The economy of human existence was cultivated out
of human interaction with the astro
terrestrial system termed ecosystem and
so the conflict and conciliation of the humans
with the non human material substance is basic with human living. At the same
time, the history of exploitation arrives at a definite structure of feeling
and meaning with the distribution of economy among the humans,( the economy
being generated out of the human interaction with the astro- terrestrial
surroundings) .The story of humans falling upon or preying upon, the bio natural
surroundings is consistent with the laws of necessity, as the survival of
humanity is necessarily determined by the acts or interaction of the humans with the
surroundings. The power relations in the interaction between the human and non
human surroundings are determined by the
politics of subjugation and hegemony in man to man relations. This means that the amoral,
non-ethical colonial psyche that performs a repressive distribution of economy ,determines,
the so called assault of man upon environment. It is the politics of man to man relation that
determines the politics of man to nonhuman surroundings and not the relation between man and non human
space that determines the political
economy in man to man relations Neo-
colonialism projects the exploitation of
nonhuman surroundings as the major issue
for it wants to divert attention from the murderous colonial politics at the intra human level with the propaganda of environmentalism. Subjugation of nonhuman surrounding,
extracting the essential useful mass or energy in the form of food or labour
and possession of all that substance for oneself is the beginning of tyrannical
economy . The contest for possession of the astro- terrestrial mass , among
humans and distribution of economy in favour of the race or class with
murderous aggressive power and regressive self is incited by savage biological
instinct. Neo colonialism takes this savage instinct to the extremes, using
force in the civilized forms of hegemony and rule.
The religion of environment and
eco-theology are propagated with a definite political perspective just to make
it a point that assault upon eco
environment is the seminal issue whereas
the human killings and genocides
in the trail of terrorism , war ,
and starvation within the human community , and the extremes of exploitation,
and murderous financial intrusions and aggressions within the human community are not at all issues
of human sanity or sanctity. Unilateral exertions upon environment violates,
the reciprocity of taking and giving, the positive principle of inter action .
It cannot be justified, but it cannot be exaggerated as the one and only crime
of the humans ignoring what man does against man. Assault upon environment is
only the subordinate part of the
criminal game, that, man conspires against man .But neocolonial forces
exaggerate environment issue to mythical levels violating principles of
rationality . They ask the marginalized nation states not to touch the sacred
environment, not to pollute it ,because an interaction with environment ,which
is the most part positive, goes against
their interest. They want to have the
virgin eco-prospects of nature untouched by the third rate human race
for they want it to be preserved in its virginity for themselves for their technological exploitation and
persecution. They ask the third rate citizens not to touch or pollute the
nature for they want to rape nature and squeeze nature to the extremes so that
nature won’t have a life further. So they tell the world that the genocide in
Iraq, Afghanistan and the terrorism they nurse all over the surface of the
earth are minor issues when compared to the ecological pollution done by
the untouchable humans the third rate
humans. It is the revival of the
untouchability- theology
Another great joke in
this context is the modern mythology of biocentrism and its thesis that the
eco-biotic system with all its minute structures of organism ,is central to
human survival and so the eco surroundings are more significant than human
life. The glaring contradiction in this argument is, that it admits the fact
that human necessity is the factor that determines the value and significance
of the eco- environment substance. There is nothing wrong in a statement that a
motor car driver’s life is motor car centred. Similarly the bio-environment may
be something important as human necessity. The driver is the actor and master
of the motor car; the motorcar is maintained by man for its positive response
that would improve his life. So the motor car is there, for man and man is not
for the motorcar. In the same way the bio – environment is significant only
because it is a medium of man ;for his improved state of being; it should be
there for man and for that sole reason it is important. The reciprocity between
man and environment is a hearty relation but bio e-environment is no God or
above man; The myth and mythology of biocentrism is sentimental fraud that
would tickle the skin sensibility of the
people who lack maturation of common sense. But the point made by
neocolonialism is explicit. Biodiversity is great. Preservation of
bio-diversity is the ultimate mission of human life. The terrorist killings,
genocides, colonization of economy and culture, exploitation of various kinds
are all okay if you preserve the sanctity of the bio-environment undisturbed.
This is neo colonial politics.
Man is found distinct from other forms of
organic dynamism by virtue of the enormous capability of interaction with the
given ecosystem and Marx termed this capability of upturning the given material
system, as production. Environment is the impact of human interference
upon the given material system referred
to as nature. The fertility potentials of the given material system is invoked
to its heights by human interaction and it is upturned so as to release its productivity. The present
ecosystem is greatly designed by the human interference termed production.
Ecosystem as well as the environment is not absolute . They are not entities
complete in themselves. The given material system is consistently transformed
by human interaction, and changes in the environment is the effect of that interaction.
Environment as well as this material world is not static but ever changing.
Change that does harm to the fertility
potentials of the material system is regressive and it regresses the
development of the system and the environment.
On the other side, qualitative change that amends the inner structure of
material system and upturn the system may vitalize further, the material substance,
and develop an advanced broadened system. It may improve the material fertility
power as well as the environmental canvas. Progression is not elimination of
what exists but conservation of the existing material substance in a different
order in which the potentials of the material substance are released and
improved at the qualitative level. There is negation of the system in it; but what
follows, is formation of a system distinct from the earlier one, It is negation of negation. So in human interaction
with the given material system, environment may be out run into anarchy. But it
is an interim phenomenon that may be mastered to arrive at an advanced system. It is wrong to conserve a fertile substance
untouched or kept virgin frustrating its productivity. It is not ideal to be a
celibate or virgin. So the virgin environment untouched, is myth. It is unreal. It is a
deceptive thesis and the rule of a
criminal game that would serve the hegemony of the global colonial forces. Touch not the productive fruit, was the order
of the ultimate Power in the biblical text. It was forbidden because God is the monopoly of creation or production. A
touch upon the productivity of the given system may challenge the monopoly in
the area of meta narratives of production. This is the law of the sacred Old
Testament. The curse of sin falls upon man as he realizes
his own biological productive power. He is estimated sinner for the simple reason that the potentials of biological productivity are
stimulated. If the third rate citizens, or marginalized
outcast race stimulate the potentials of water so as to generate electricity it
will be blocked in the holy name of environment. It is a prohibition imposed to
serve the monopoly of energy production by god and god-men
The colonial
powers confess that they used finance as instrument to establish cultural
and political hegemony over the third
rate populations, through god-men, churches and spiritual -charity
institutions. God or faith or funded
spiritual institution was and is a medium by which financial colonizing is effectively done.
This system is still maintained. While maintaining the system, the neo colonial
institutions understand that faith or god is a phenomenon that would fail to
appeal the secular polity. So they created an army parallel to the funded
Salvation Army and voluntary institutions of God . This brand of neo-colonial
army deployed by financial colonialism in the secular front is known as non governmental organization with behaving masks such as human rights, environment,
gender rights. ethnic identity ,women empowerment poverty alleviation and development. The
nongovernmental organizations are deployed to weaken invalidate and subvert the
governmental organizations of third rate citizens’ governments. They are complementary
to the terrorist outfits financed by the colonial forces with the project of
destabilizing the third rate citizens’ governments. The spiritual charity organizations,(traditional voluntary
institutions of colonial finance) non governmental organizations and the
terrorist organizations all together
raise a situation of disrupted economy and chaos in the states under their siege
and that is what is happening in India
now .Among the themes globally played by the N.G.Os, environment
happens to be the most prominent one because sterilization of production in the
third rate states is the major agenda of colonialism and a heated performance
resisting interaction with the environment would stall production and sustain
the sterility, termed virginity of the eco-bio-system as desired by the
colonial masters. Even in the Indian curriculum, environment has been
introduced as novel measure of faith by which the value of text under learning
is estimated, and god has been reduced to a complementary measure of faith to environment, as secular polity is the
major target of neocolonialism. With
faith in god you cannot convert a secular mind to a believer. But the religion
of environment does it.
In
our country, dam for irrigation and electricity is the progenitor of industrial production and
modern agriculture. A dam at the level of Bhakranangal is a unifying force that
holds the people of Indian subcontinent into the great feeling of cultural oneness.
A dam as it runs water through desert and soil for irrigation renovates the
eco-foundation and gives a new birth to the eco strata pushing forth its
fertility. The hydro electric dams that heighten the potentials of water also
raise a great positive impact upon eco-strata . Dam is also a defence against
natural calamities. A half century old dam is part of the existing ecosystem.
Dam is material structure of subsistence and power. It happens to be a social
discourse in Thoppil Bhasi and aesthetic discourse in Kumaranasan and
G.Sankarakurup
A dam pretty old may
collapse , and we do have measures of disaster management and measures for
deactivating dams to disuse phase by phase. It may be done if it is found inevitable At
the same time it may be remembered that death of a dam is unbearable to the
eco-fertility in the space of human living
The religion of environmentalism is of course opposed to dam and a dam
phobia has been nurtured by the stooges of finance colonialism. The media
houses in Kerala raised a chorus against the Mullapperiyar dam that sustains a
huge population ,whether it be Malyalee
or Tamilian. One may feel that it is not so accidental that a film with collapse of dam as its subject was
manufactured during the same period of Mullapperiyar panic. Another important
aspect that deserves the vigil of our society is that the mercenaries
of colonialism have been targeting
sabotage of dams. The anti dam campaign
managed by the environmentalists
cannot be taken in isolation but be read along with the colonial
agenda of sabotage and terrorism
focusing our power houses of agriculture
and industry. Anxiety or fear is a necessity to a certain extent for a dam
centuries old may fall at any moment. Precaution and preparedness of disaster
management is also necessity. But when the alarm bell is struck at the wrong
moment disproportionate to the point of necessity, it definitely corresponds to
some treacherous planning. The terror and atmosphere of panic created by the
unified chorus of the media joins the stream of terrorist activism in our
country, as terrorizing and breaking the psychic rationality with excess of
fear and cultivating the horror sensibility
is the need of terrorism. Mullapperiyar panic was a rehearsal of terrorism or
precursor of some terrorist agenda focusing our hydro circular stations; People
from two Kerala districts lived in great fear that their lives and belongings
would be demolished today or tomorrow. An ethnic riot was on the anvil but when
the Tamils retaliated it subsided. Nothing happened even after a substantial
period and the traders of panic and psychic disaster were frustrated .The
people thrown into psychic melodrama of fear witnessed a silent shameless with drawl
of the media terrorists from the scene ,along with god men of the environment
myth. Now let them pray for a huge disaster or an episode of terror that would justify their story of
Mullapperiyar panic
It is true that we have reason to be
cautious. But the way the media projected endosulfan tragedy or mullapperiyar
issue toed the line of environmental terrorism
In the solar issue . Indian energy economy is subjugated to the fraudulent US solar manufactures by the
W.T.O. agreement. It is done in the holy
name of environment but it invites total disorder and anarchy in the energy generation
and distribution that would pauperize our energy economy
In the endosulfan issue the inner story is that of the conflict
between the manufacturers of generic pesticides and patented pesticides. The
German company, Bayer was the major manufacturer and exporter of endosulfan ,a
generic pesticide, at the inter national level.
With the commencement of the patent law, the Bayer company stopped
manufacturing endosulfan and
started manufacturing patented pesticide
by virtue of which Indian companies became the major exporter of the generic
pesticide. Monopoly of the production and
marketing, is the explicit intention of the patent law . Kasargode tragedy is the out come of a planned act of massacre and genetic assault just to prove that the generic pesticides should be ousted
from the market generating apprehensions of damages. Environmentalists at the
beck and call of the funding agencies were waiting for an occasion to celebrate
their doctrines of faith, and they served their masters projecting this villainy of market as the
holy sacrifice for the cause of environment, This is another gruesome instance of environmental terrorism served in the
interest of financial colonialism
Environmentalists as they take up the cause of
the patented commodities, prove their mettle as the paid environmental
terrorists--- terrorizing people in the name of the great god –environment
Panic in
Mullapperiyar is an instance of media terrorism as well as environmental
terrorism associated to dam-phobia
s.sudhish
