We are on this planet for a very limited period of time. In our lifetime, we make friends as well as enemies. But no matter what your relation with someone is, there is a moral code of conduct in almost every society which tells us to not celebrate when the individual passes away. But the 21st century has changed things. Zombie celebrations emerge after the passing of personality from a particular end of the ideological spectrum.
Jubilation on the death of Raju Srivastava
On 21 September 2022, veteran comedian Raju Srivastava took his last breath after 41 days of hospitalisation in Delhi. Tributes poured in from every quarter of the public spectrum. Most of the tributes were warm hearted in nature and remembered Raju for his neat and clean genre of comedy.
Raju Srivastava brightened our lives with laughter, humour and positivity. He leaves us too soon but he will continue to live in the hearts of countless people thanks to his rich work over the years. His demise is saddening. Condolences to his family and admirers. Om Shanti. pic.twitter.com/U9UjGcfeBK
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) September 21, 2022
एक युग ऐसा भी था जब बिना “फक” और “एमसी बीसी” के भी लोगों को हंसाया जाता था कभी और उस युग के सूत्रधार थे #RajuSrivastav. ऐसा कलाकार – न भूतो न भविष्यति।
ॐ शान्ति। भगवान आपको सद्गति दें।
— Atul Kumar Mishra (@TheAtulMishra) September 21, 2022
Comedian Atul Khatri was also one of them who remembered Raju as his inspiration. However, more than Khatri’s remembrance, it is what Rohit Joshi commented on Atul’s Instagram handle which is a cause of concern for anyone who is a good human.
Rohan Joshi, a forgotten comedian but highly relevant due to his close links with Bhatt family, was not happy with Khatri’s heartfelt tribute to Raju. Joshi also did not agree with Atul’s assessment that Raju’s death was a big loss for Indian stand-up comedy.
Explicitly calling Raju’s unfortunate death as happy news for Indian stand-up comedy, Joshi wrote, “We haven’t lost a thing. Whether it was Kamra whether it was the roast or any comic in the news, Raju Srivastav took every opportunity he ever got to shit on newer comics especially after the new wave of stand up started. He went on every fuckall news channel every time he was invited to go shit on an upcoming art form and call it offensive just because he couldn’t understand it and new stars were rising. He might have told a few good jokes but he understood nothing about the spirit of comedy or defending someone’s right to say something even if you don’t agree. Fuck him and good riddance.”
Not a secluded phenomenon
He deleted the tweet after facing backlash for it. But Joshi was not the only one. Even people from supposedly decent environments like PhD scholars too did not spare him.
In the last stage of his life he abused muslim. Behind his comedy face he hid a monster Raju.
— Wasim Akram (@WasimRam) September 21, 2022
rip bs https://t.co/dv3Ogy83q6
— areynaisaab (@hameedsyed981) September 21, 2022
But, is Raju Srivastava the only person whose death was celebrated? Apparently not. The list is endless. It includes few of the most decent people ever born. This breed of people did not even spare melody queen Lata Mangeshkar, most accepted Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, and even our Chief of Defence Staff General Bipin Rawat.
This is kinda of filth Wire is hiring .
You can abuse , criticise government according to ideology and hatred but celebrating someone’s who was Infact ex PM death . is lower than one can assume .
Disgusting and shameful . pic.twitter.com/m36npwIMOB
— Chintan (@chintan20) August 16, 2018
Dear Indians,
Do you now realise what was our original sin? It was allowing Vajpayee to fool us with his masquerade. It was then that we allowed blatant majoritarian communalism to get a foot in the door.#OriginalSin— Sanjiv Bhatt (IPS) (@sanjivbhatt) August 16, 2018
Atal Bihari Vajpayee – kindly spare your drama at least now. Born disgrace
— swamilion (@swamilion) August 16, 2018
is dharti ko samtal karna hoga . ABV on babri
— Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) August 15, 2018
Almost 100% Consistency. Reactions on NDTV's news report about CDS #BipinRawat pic.twitter.com/s494QaRp9e
— The Frustrated Indian (@FrustIndian) December 8, 2021
Warmongering Defense Chief Generals like him are India’s biggest security threat. https://t.co/HjmETaSCiN
— Dr. Prerna Bakshi (@bprerna) December 7, 2021
Inquiring the root cause for hate
At this point, it is worthwhile to mention that this phenomenon is not specific to India. Ever since the Internet became a new town square, posthumous hate towards a person believed to be in line with a particular mindset has become a recurring theme. People who get more of such hate are known for propagating the feelings of nationalism, kindness, and other virtues that make our society stable.
So, why does this happen? Well, one possible answer is that they are hated by the people who do not like their ideas and stand at the other end of the ideological spectrum. But even that answer poses a question.
The question is what’s there in the ideology that stops them from considering other humans as fellow humans? What is there that does not allow them to not look at someone without an ideological lens? Is that ideology so corrupt and so out of touch with humanity that their adherents end up consciously wishing for an animalistic end of their ideological rivals? The answer to all these questions is a resounding Yes with the capital ‘Y’. To fully grasp why, let’s understand the mental make-up that the left ideology offers.
Tracking the evolution of morality
Throughout the major part of history, people have been involved in tribal warfare for resources. But perennial savagery can’t take a tribal group much further. They needed to store the gains in an able and efficient manner in order to spur future growth. This is the primary reason why stealing is a crime, because it stops efficient members of society from contributing to it. That is how the concept of morality developed. Slowly, various forms of respect such as worshipping known humans as well as unknown deities took shape.
The group which started to adhere to these practices witnessed itself prospering more than their rivals. Their children became thankful and that became one of the key reasons why elders started to get posthumous respect from their successors. Slowly, the idea got ingrained into most of the code of conduct. In traditional African Societies, ancestors occupied a higher position than living humans. They provided blessings as well as illness, depending on how you treat them.
Abrahamanic religions respect their dead by reserving a special place for the dead bodies at specific locations. In Sanatan culture, the human body is burned in cremation grounds, setting the soul free. No matter how the particular human had behaved during his lifetime, they were not subjected to badmouthing by others for most of the history.
Advent of Marxism in Universities
Then arrived an ideology called Marxism. The adherents of the ideology started to expand by proclaiming that they were fighting for the underprivileged section of the society. Now, if there is a problem, you have to take both the sufferer and those who caused the problem on board. But, Karl Marx probably did not believe in it. In his Communist Manifesto, Marx effectively declared what he termed bourgeois as enemy of human civilisation.
The acceptance of the document among university professors ended up paving the way of reopening of the ‘ME vs YOU’ conflict. Proletariat, which means the working class, was up against Bourgeois, their oppressors in Communist handbooks. Massive violent genocides took place during the Communist regimes. Every ounce of productivity was made illegal in places such as Ukraine, Soviet Russia, Cambodia, etc. The so-called Bourgeois were systematically eliminated by the dictators, without giving them any honour for their contribution.
Sleight of hand in 1970s and 1980s
Soon, the world realised their fallacy and by the 1970s, Alexander Solzheneitsyn’s Nobel prize winner The Gulag Archipelago exposed the ideology. Communist University professors had to run for their money. But a lot of them became chameleons, publicly changing their stance while privately remaining hardcore Marxist.
They innovated and did a philosophical sleight of hand to introduce the concept into the education system. Now, instead of Proletariat vs Bourgeois, it was time for introducing anarchy in political, philosophical, and even gender divisions. By the 1980s, the former Marxists started to train students into activism, which would help them achieve a Marxist Utopian state.
Did away with every religious morality
What is that Utopian state? Well, it is not a state at all. It is a stateless society where people at the top of hierarchy hand out doles to those who are in lower rungs of society. The state is nowhere to be seen. There is no concept of a nation state or civilisational state made from joining the common points of various identity groups living in different geographies.
To ingrain the concept of stateless society, the intellectuals are literally trying to do away with the concept of truth. Truth is the sacrosanct value, sometimes explicitly while sometimes implicitly, present in founding documents of a state. The activist students were told that truth is a method of establishing dominance by an existing identity group over the other. That is how facts are quickly disappearing from our legal system and feelings are becoming more relevant in Court hearings.
Main reason behind hating nationalists
If the truth is not a permanent fixture, then those who propagate it are natural enemies. This explains why the children taught by these professors are so angry with any intellectual who is even remotely associated with propagation of nationalism.
What these students believe is that nationalism is a tool used to suppress a particular class, caste, gender or any other numerous identity groups they consider as oppressed. Over the period of time, anti-nationalism became a tool for these people to grab power in the nations where they were operating. Don’t believe it? Then hear me out.
Conciliatory approach is not acceptable to them
Nationalists, especially in the 21st century, have accepted their idea of historical oppression. They have talked about giving specific upper hands to the people belonging to historically oppressed identity groups. Affirmative actions, such as reservation, continuing in India for the last 7 decades is a prime example of it. Neither did PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee vouch for removing it, nor did any other nationalistic leaders.
However, a lot of these did in fact talk about expanding the reservations to those people who have not been able to benefit from it. But, apparently, this idea is not acceptable to those who support reservations. You want to know why? Because people who benefit from reservations became their partners in power grab attempts. Devolution of reservations will lead to intra-caste conflict, which would dethrone these people from positions of power.
Power grab is the ultimate aim
That is why these people hate those who talk about conflict resolution. If conflict is resolved they won’t get power, which is their ultimate goal. They do not want good virtues to come at the forefront of national consciousness. Apparently, logic, truth and other virtues are their stated enemies.
The only thing they have left is hurling abuses. If a person is being abused by a bunch of well organised activists, then, more often than not, the society develops a sense of instant dislike for the abused. The abuses continue whether that person is alive or not. It is not that they are abusing the person, they are actually abusing the underlying idea which the person’s life represents. The idea of nationalism, sacrifice, cooperation, unity, family and many more.
These people are sick and most of them live in the online world. Most of their interaction with real people is through taking parcels from delivery agents. They are less in numbers and need to be socially outcast.
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