Friday, April 19, 2013

How did Maggie's death affect me!!!!!

How did Maggie's death affect me!
Ding dong witch is dead, may haven't been a number one this chart, but did show the bitterness that people keep inside them.  Lady Baroness Thatcher passing away wasn't a surprise , shock or even dismay, she was frail in past few years and her condition has got worse. Although doesn't mean the family will be less sad and don't have right to mourn about her. But her death has seemed to cause more controversy in my life than her active political life. 
Not a conservative or Thatcherite but as mere Thatcher sympathiser I found myself in muddy waters with the proclaimed socialist of nation. I had outrage against me on twitter, my friends shouted at me and few ppl didn't shy their anger when I merely expressed Thatcher did what she was going to do, hence why vote her thrice and then have this anti Thatcher propaganda. And all this people supposed to be left Wing secular part of society. I till today assumed swinging to left meant being liberal and not narrowing your outlook, hence proud of my left roots. But the "socialist " idealist" of that calibre have ashamed me for being on their side of the semicircle. 
   Not going more in details of political or economic aspect of Thatcher, I merely stated she came in power when the nation could not afford the perks of welfare it was used to. After the Great Depression , Cold War and most importantly loss of empire the treasure chest was running low on resources. And like any wise housekeeper she budgeted and made her income run for her household (Britain). But that created uproar as unearned privileges were being cut, privileges which suddenly became necessities. And she also wanted to increase her income hence the free market and encouragement to business who might help to pay for those privileges what socialists go banging about. Ask any middle class mother, how she manages her household with the household income, and I know country is different from household. But so were the times, from being a rich empire the nation had lost colonies, one of big chunk of income. 
   People also mentioned her being homophobic of passing section 28, but same ppl forget she had supported decriminalization of homosexuality. And section 28 although a discriminatory act has no direct result. Mine closures of Harold Wilson are conveniently forgotten although were definitely more in number than the same period than of Thatcher. Left wingers opposing the privatisation never raised a finger to protest against the private British empire exploiting the colonies as long as they were paying the welfare. And same idealist were happy to have all these perks that came from a private company.
  What strikes me most about this is the "Hypocrisy" of these "Guardian readers". You didn't like her but you praised her when she initiated indirectly war in island 1000s miles away and won for the nation. She became the hero, the mum, the leader. But minute she took harder decision she was witch reincarnated from hell of Oz. I also fail to understand why did nation kept her in office for three terms when she supposed to have an iron heart" not just an iron exterior to be strong to stand on her ideals. Their argument also came to me as " you didn't grew up in this country in 80s", my reply was you didn't grew up in any colonies but were more than happy to made comments and sometime decide their policies. 
  Glenda Jackson's bitterness or Owen jones negativity or Ken Loach's social opportunism had struck me hard. Especially these were my heroes of liberal aspect of society. But they are as staunch as the traditional Tories. Idealism has completely lost on me especially when it doesn't flip the coin to see what's on other side   Never a Tory nor a Thatcherite, I am saddened by her death but mortified by the "progressive nation's" regressive approach to a leader they disagree with. Witch might be dead but her magical prowess lives on people who celebrate her death!!! 

Monday, July 25, 2011

Deathy Discrimination

She managed to be in newspapers all her life making headlines for wrong reasons, little we knew that headlines of her death would spark a controversy, so deep that it divided us all on issues of morale and ideals. Saturday 4pm twitter had become scene of some drama. News had been broken Amy Winehouse's death, some thought it was joke, some were shocked and some were sad but everyone was divided.Not entirely by cause of her death, but in justifying their feeling towards death. A talent was lost that afternoon but a debate was found, which lingers our minds for a while. Do we feel sorry for Amy Winehouse or just ignore her self inflicted tragedy to a massacre of innocent youth a day before? Twitterati and social networks were on war, with powerful statements on both sides defending their feelings.how could we defend feeling of sadness to death and why shouldn’t we feel sorry for a death, even though person was on path of self destruction?

We do feel sorry for what happened in Norway, feel more than sorry, anger takes over sympathy of lost lives and condone equally death of lost talent. Death in whichever form to whoever person, is sad as its lost of life. Even if person who lived it didn’t value it and threw it right on its face. As death is a loss, not just of life but of relation, of love, of talent and of a personality. Amy Winehouse had been a gold mine for gossip papers, with her addiction and masochistic life, with her death she managed to stir up emotions within people. Suddenly morals sprung on and there was unfollow and block of people who expressed sadness to loss of a rare talent. The critics said why were we forgetting all those who lost lives in Norway and I fail to understand how would feeling sorry for death of someone closeby mean that you aren’t condoning the deaths at riots. Some people were more affected by Amy Winehouse death than that of Norway, because of their relation to her with her music irrespective of her character or addiction in personal life. For some it was death of a young talent with exceptional voice who could have created more music and riveted them. As much shocking and flabbergasting was the Norway incident in Friday, Amy Winehouse’s death or even her life was irrespective to it. Only thing that connected them was timing, one of ever springing surprise of nature and destiny. If her death had been a week later, would all these critics still grab throats of those who condone her death?

A death can only generate one emotion, one of sadness, one of loss, in some extreme cases relief, but never hatred. Even worse is slandering those who feel sad at someones death. it is fact to remember time fades everything, in weeks all this controversy would have been forgotten so would Amy Winehouse or Norway deaths, but the emotions or morals won’t. And it is not wrong to express a personal sadness over a death of person you feel connected to those over innocent who were killed. As death cant be prioritized or segregated, its death loss of life. Amy Winehouse unknowingly did give some relief to some and a lesson to lots by her death. After all, the phone hacking scandal was pushed to 4th and 5th pages and Mudroch’s can breathe for while. Even though editors of dailies were torn to dilemma about their cover story, a human cannot discriminate death or feeling of sadness over a death.