Kaun Common Man ! Main ?

                                               A nation is made of aspirations and perspirations of its common man. A common man is made of composite cultural values of that nation, contemporary churnings in its economical, social and political cauldrons.  It is not very tough to meet one. Just greet yourself. Yes we all are common men. “Wait ! Who the hell are you talking about ! ! !”

                                              I don’t know how it was back then in those B&W times. In these 3D times it is a deadly sin to be a common man. Nobody I know says he is one. Nobody I know isn’t but the one. This is the irony. We all are escaping our commonality. We are always fighting it. We are trying to dupe, delude, delete it.

                                             There are some serious national disadvantages of this denial. We are depriving our nation an self-aware common man this in turn is depriving us of a nation that is aware of its common man.

                                            There is no end to the hallucinating powers of the temptations that lure us out of our identity and it is no secret either who cooks those delicious potions of temptations. The thing is we are so deep into inebriations and illusions that rob illusory commonality off our egos that we start to yawn when someone drones on about it. ( Case in point. This yawn of yours. This column of mine.)

                                           Bottom line: We have to assert our identity with a sense of pride that is spontaneous if we are still in the practical category of patriotism, nationalism. We have to talk us out of the entrapping notion of uniquneness and emerge and arise as a common man.

PS

I haven’t just read Karl Marx.