Whenever there is some emergency due to a natural calamity or what we say ‘force majuere’ event, we find many people announcing donations as well as canvassing for it. So far so good. No issues with that. People who want to donate to some good cause for society may do so. That is entirely acceptable and a personal decision. It needs to be appreciated. But what I feel irritated about is the obsession amongst the common public with who have donated what. With social media, this is a more pronounced phenomenon. I wonder what people achieve by these discussions or comparisons? These are plainly inconsequential and fall into the category of the spiteful gossips that ladies have in social functions about the dresses or ornaments of others.
Then there are people who want to blame and shame people who won’t open their purses for donation or chose not to publicize their act of charity. This, I think is the most negative of reactions. Sitting afar, not knowing anything about a person , his financial condition or his mental state at that moment and commenting about his act of charity or rather the lack of it. Why should one expect someone to part with his hard-earned money just to help others? If the state wants, it can always confiscate the money. But that depends upon the state, the type of government, the laws prevailing, the nature of the emergency and the overall situation, in general.
If you detest socialism, talk of the power of capital , believe in feudalism, root for profit in normal circumstances, then why want others to help you in an emergency? Perish or rise , depending on your resources and capital. After all only the fittest survives isn’t it ?
And, if you hate capitalism , want the world to be a place where everybody lives with equal rights and privileges, where resources are shared, no barriers of class exist , then ask yourself what have you done to achieve it. What prevented you and others to get together, fight it out. And please don’t give me those high sounding theories of dialectical materialism or any such nonsense. Revolution is the only way and it is not a one-time thing. It has to happen continuously.
Just don’t blame or shame anybody unwilling to donate. And stop highlighting or going over the town with what someone has donated. It is just another way of publicity and attempts to gain traction to leverage upon and get concessions. Sounds brutally cynical, did you say? Can’t help it.
And …………….. if you are really so particular that donations need to be highlighted and made public then why are you silent about the apparently anonymous donations made to the political parties?
Then there are people who want to blame and shame people who won’t open their purses for donation or chose not to publicize their act of charity. This, I think is the most negative of reactions. Sitting afar, not knowing anything about a person , his financial condition or his mental state at that moment and commenting about his act of charity or rather the lack of it. Why should one expect someone to part with his hard-earned money just to help others? If the state wants, it can always confiscate the money. But that depends upon the state, the type of government, the laws prevailing, the nature of the emergency and the overall situation, in general.
If you detest socialism, talk of the power of capital , believe in feudalism, root for profit in normal circumstances, then why want others to help you in an emergency? Perish or rise , depending on your resources and capital. After all only the fittest survives isn’t it ?
And, if you hate capitalism , want the world to be a place where everybody lives with equal rights and privileges, where resources are shared, no barriers of class exist , then ask yourself what have you done to achieve it. What prevented you and others to get together, fight it out. And please don’t give me those high sounding theories of dialectical materialism or any such nonsense. Revolution is the only way and it is not a one-time thing. It has to happen continuously.
Just don’t blame or shame anybody unwilling to donate. And stop highlighting or going over the town with what someone has donated. It is just another way of publicity and attempts to gain traction to leverage upon and get concessions. Sounds brutally cynical, did you say? Can’t help it.
And …………….. if you are really so particular that donations need to be highlighted and made public then why are you silent about the apparently anonymous donations made to the political parties?
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