The System: The Vampires

 

The System: The Vampires

"Those who say ‘the system works’ work for the system!"           Russell Brand

"If the [system] is sick, then your ease with it is a sign of sickness."

Abdal Hakim Murad

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The System is alive and well. This System is old, seven decades old, but it keeps re-inventing itself in a myriad of ways. It has evolved in the true Hobbesian-Darwinian sense, as an aggressive, predatory beast red in tooth and claw; yet, it has not changed at all.  It distorts and deceives; it lies shamelessly through its teeth; it exploits, colonizes and plunders all, especially those denizens of its borderlands whose main crime is that they do not hail from the power centers, and who raise their just voices for the dignity and honor that were promised to them by the Great Leader when The System came into being. The System has perennially been brutal to these unfortunate mortals of the peripheries. This System threatens, silences, “disappears”, maims and kills all those who protest against it and resist its arbitrary dictates and its obscene violence. It still does all this just like before, but now more efficiently and more brutally. That’s progress, real progress for The System, that is. The System is the same old chameleon, but now given a new, postmodern euphemism to mask its old toxicity: hybrid. Yes, it is now a “Hybrid System”. In this new, symbiotic contraption, the junior partner---the lower species--- is an abusive, vindictive dimwit with an ego the size of a blue whale and who parades as a spiritual avatar, a savior of the masses, with his ridiculous slogans of justice (insaf), fair play and dignity. 

The Truth: The System means The Vampires. The System is made up of The Vampires. The System is The Vampires. It is run, controlled and maintained by The Vampires; and, therefore, it benefits the bloodsuckers. The Vampires have been around all along, in control of all affairs in Pure-istan, ever since the colonial holocaust seventy years ago. The Vampires are everything, and they are everywhere: they are politicians and businessmen; they are in boots and uniform; they are God fearing mullahs and whiskey-guzzling, golfing, pandering and wenching men-of-the-world; they are in the media and in the universities; they are anchors, senior anal-ysts, actors, singers, script-writers, directors and producers; they are visible and (often) invisible; above all, they are the judge, jury and executioner of the land. The Vampires are Janus-faced and forked-tongued. They are saviors but destroyers; they are kind when they are cruel; they are just and fair, but only when unjust and unfair; they are as clean as corrupt, and as corrupt as clean; they are traitors when they are patriots and vice versa; they are the angels when they are the devil. These wicked chuckleheads are competently incompetent and incompetently competent: The Vampires are the deadly parasites that have sucked their host dry. 

The host. Yes, the captive host of 220 million souls that need to be rescued from The Vampires. The System needs to be restored to health and sanity. Just like in the old vampire stories and movies, a la Lugosi,  Karloff and Chris Lee, stakes must be driven right through the hearts of The Vampires. Only then one can expect a new dawn; only then one can meaningfully and honestly speak of "Naya Pure-istan".