NEW DELHI, July 26 -- Polarizers Thrive Today
The current trend of polarisation in different countries, including America and India, has made many people think. They speak of "an epistemic crisis". An accepted manner of logical thinking has broken down. Generally held value-systems, that were handed down many generations and re-shaped under respected leadership, do not seem to hold good any more. Many people have developed a mode of thinking that does not recognize what is evidently true, but only what promotes their 'sectarian interests'. Majoritarians move one step further; they adopt a belligerent attitude to weaker communities. They do not go by facts, figures and truths, but have created their own idiocies and myths in their self-inte...