The Falcon cannot hear the Falconer
W. B. Yeats says “The best lack all conviction,
while the worst
Are full of passionate
intensity.”
This is very evident from the latest post by Thomas L. Friedman in New
York Times.
He found the statement of Israel Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on why the U.S. should get tougher on Iran is
churlish, reckless and, for the of Israeli-American relationship, quite
dangerous.
Now it is a secondary question if the
statement is churlish or the reaction of Friedman is churlish, or it would jeopardize
the relationship or strengthen them if ever Israel achieve the sovereignty and
statehood that does not depend on any external source and US elects Republican
as President.
Some giants are like leeches, they suck petrol ,
which is tastier than blood, and those leeches have a spokesperson to glamorize
their act of lechery by throwing the ashes into eye of others. To every person
at the zenith the world appears to be flat while The World
is Conical.
To say that many University Boards are under
pressure to divest from companies doing business with Israel puts a big
question mark on the issues of morality and Ethical values of a country which
is supposed to be World Super Power today.
When a common American is perplexed to choose
a lesser evil (of all-political systems), it is churlish to have a biased
opinion about the statement of a Premier of any country vis-a-vis to
prospective relationship with the ruling party of that country. The Democrats
have consistently failed on the Foreign-Front due to their greed oriented
policies.
Mathew Arnold said, “Poetry is the criticism
of Life”. When Religion and Philosophy fails, it is the literature that shows
the path to the misguided mankind.
Alexander Pope in his poem “Ode to Solitude”
says
“Happy the man whose wish and carebreath his native air,
Now to appease the Muslim community at large
they have come forward as Messiah of Muslim Community by making arbitrary,
instigating, irresponsible statements about injustice with them in biggest,
secular democratic country of the World.
The Muslim community does not need any lip
sympathy of Mr. Obama. They know how the youth of his own creed has fallen prey to “White-Supremacy”.
William Butler Yeats says
"Turning and turning
in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, "
(In
this analogy, the falcon represents society, and the falconer (who should be
commanding the falcon) represents God or some equivalent source of intellectual
and moral certainty. The falcon’s gyre is supposed to shrink as it comes nearer
to the falconer, but instead the gyre is widening, suggesting that man or
society is getting farther and farther from our objective or from God.)
US is full of apprehension and does not want to
displease China at any cost, where Henry Kissinger has once sown the seeds of
certain symbiotic relationship. On the Dias Dalai Lama was recently saluted in
a cursory manner as if he is an ordinary Monk and not an incarnated Buddha.
© Vipin Behari Goyal
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, "
