...back again (or trying to be)

When I asked a friend to add a blog feature to a website I was overseeing, he cautioned me "Think about it, it is not easy to write blogs regularly." Well, you are not into writing, I am. So it will be no big deal. I had thought to myself.
Looking back today, for a fact, after launching a couple of years ago, I visit this blog only once in a few months. The initial enthusiasm has certainly waned.
The loss of enthusiasm is something that is not quite uncommon these days. Go to any tea shop and you will hear stories of frustration and helplessness. So I will attempt to go deeper into myself in trying to figure the way enthusiasm loses.
This attempt is in itself testimony to the fact that even though the enthusiasm has lessened it has not disappeared.

Post a blog, or may be not
One distinctive characteristic of life is its response to external stimuli. As things around us change, we sense those that appeal to us and design our perceived reality and world view based on them. Our perception of reality and world view influences the way we respond to whatever is going on around us.
This blog had and has the sole intention of enabling a democratic environment of dialogue and compromises for solving issues that have been crippling the Nepalese society. So, obviously, the interests of this blogger revolve around sociology, politics and human welfare. Of these no doubt, politics is the one that draws the most reactions because politics has to do with power and the structure of power creation and delegation, and accountability. Alongside power, politics through its influences on the economy has the means to create wealth and thus possessors of wealth. By the sheer nature of its being the subject of social studies the influence of which no one can escape, political power or the power of administration over the people is arguably the highest in the hierarchy of means in terms of their work efficiency in modern society.
Politics in Nepal is very fluid. So there is always analysis to do, there is always guessing going around, and to a population that has been used to rumors rather than fact based reporting, the appeal of the current political field is understandable. The charm in working on a political commentary-type blog is the opportunity it presents to synthesize people and happenings in politics into an understandable picture that can help other people understand what is generally taken to be a complicated field with lots of foul play. However an unfortunate thing is becoming increasingly plain in political fields- the lack of honesty and incoherence between publicly spoken senses and doings. This makes the field ever too tough to interpret therefore risking that political players operate in territories that are beyond the rules of everyday life for everyday people. In essence this is like creating gaps between the people and their “leaders”, gaps that can be exploited to create power. Whereas doublespeak is not an all too common phenomenon in political circles, blatant lies should be handled with extreme care. When politicians lie, lie as in saying the sun is black or equivalent, then they have to be understood beyond what they say and do. And to me it is a disgusting thought to be following politicians in trying to dig beyond their nationality and democracy sugar-coating on hidden agendas to see plain intents underneath. What a waste of time to spend sniffing political animals who have been around for decades and still do not stop arguing they would lead the best government, meanwhile the country slides further in unmeasured but important scales of ethnic co-existence and acceptance, economy, work ethics, democratic practice etc Of note, most of them have already tasted power.
Frustrating politicians frustrate people thinking about politics, not because they behave in unexpected ways, but because they behave in expected ways towards acquiring more for themselves and those around them…Oh and the irony that corruption is expected behavior.
Prachanda says something and you think hard over it, write a blog on your opinions on what he said and why and so on, then by the time your blog is ready Prachanda has said something just the polar opposite. Prachanda represents adventurism in Nepalese politics. And this adventurism has made us blind towards rules that are essential for creating grounds for common existence of individuals.
I was reading my blog on the CA term extension, perhaps the second before the latest or the one before that even. Every time the CA was extended again, I felt my blog could have been posted just by changing the date. Things remained the same. So what is the point in blogging in a political environment where actions don’t happen and words have wings, gunpowder and magical powers.

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Man is a political animal; I remember reading quoted from someone big I don’t remember right now. That is by wish as well as by compulsion. Although the individual is a mystically complete unit of life, we don’t live alone, and will be less and less likely to do so if the population of the world keeps on doing what it has been doing since it started being recorded- growing. So relations between people will become more complex. And unless peaceful anarchy demonstrates itself to be a viable option of society building, there will be power and power hierarchies created within societies, politics governing all those. Therefore politics can influence whether there is cooking gas available in the market tomorrow, or whether I can eat apples without washing them. Therefore there is no shying away from engagement in political commentaries. And the youth of this country needs to start asking questions as to how the political system of tomorrow should be like.
Should we not be interested in how the society we want to live in is shaping itself?
I am trying to be back. Thanks for reading!