So since i am a JNU student, a lot of my friends call me up to know what's really going on ,another person comes and asks me about how i feel about the 'JNU controversy' ;and instead of going into arguments and politics of it this time, i just blurt out the truth- "i am scared....and disillusioned"
10 second pause
caller- "scared...for your safety?"
me- "no..scared for my beliefs, my judgments, my grounding. I mean this is a government i never fully believed in but i still voted for, hoping to prove something wrong. Like i believed that the liberal democratic state of the country and our institutions are too strong for a mere government to really cause any real damage. It's not the 70's . We have a media that is supposed to be on people's side, atleast the side of an unbiased. But the more deeper the issue gets, the dirtier and more dangerous side of the power of the government and media is exposed.
10 second pause
caller- "scared...for your safety?"
me- "no..scared for my beliefs, my judgments, my grounding. I mean this is a government i never fully believed in but i still voted for, hoping to prove something wrong. Like i believed that the liberal democratic state of the country and our institutions are too strong for a mere government to really cause any real damage. It's not the 70's . We have a media that is supposed to be on people's side, atleast the side of an unbiased. But the more deeper the issue gets, the dirtier and more dangerous side of the power of the government and media is exposed.
Truthfully, if i have to measure how scared i am- i would say, i am just more, more...like my beliefs are not the same...more than when i had read Foucault for the first time. and man, did Foucault fuck my head. But this seems worse, because it's so real."
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