Ignoring Maslow while pushing the envelope of Political Statesmanship
By: Amit Bhushan Date: 5th Oct. 2016
The political leadership should look to the Maslow’s hierarchy of need/motivation, especially when pushing the envelope of political statesmanship to motivate people towards a direction. The ‘decision’ to support and encourage violent struggle by hero-fying the same, suggests little empathy for others on any side (i.e. not following the side of militancy) and continued attempts to win by use of bullets rather than arguments to depict a false sense of strength. If only people could have been carried along, but that would require thinking about the welfare rather than politics alone. The flawed nation-concept based on some political map (geography) rather than constituting of ‘people’ united in spirits and thoughts into a homogeneous political entity; seems being totally ignored as if it is some alien concept of a ‘nation’, although that is how most nations might have survived.
Instead of pushing for the greater good of what may constitute a greater majority their population, focus is kept on the political geography or political map. The physiological needs of air water, food, medicines etc. are followed by the Safety needs of personal safety & that of society and assets/belongings. The bazaar or mandi/s of terror might give false confidence to some in this regards, but for a vast majority within as well as beyond, they represent a reckless under-class out to impose a medieval tyranny. The knowledge of the class about varied cultures, languages, science & technology, political systems, history, economics etc. is kept well under wraps for the fear that it may warrant further revulsions perhaps within own population and make such people a butt of jokes rather than ideologues as they are presented. The situation within (the nation) gives little confidence, otherwise the international isolation wouldn’t have been possible, but the chest thumping & self congratulation continues unabated.
There seems complete lack of focus to develop domestic services or industry to create jobs using investments from overseas workers who now need avenues to deploy their skills domestically. The falling remittances and a now capping by OPEC is likely to need some amount of contingency planning in the short to medium term, which again is ignored. The support for jingoism is likely to ensure ‘flow’ of people/men for the jihadi economy. While for the political leaders, they might want to believe that this may take them closer to their avowed cause, however in practice the Jihadist might want to go where they might feel the potential for greater honey which is the oil-rich lands. There of course seem to be little authentic record on how this may impact other associated industry segments of Drugs, illicit money/currency, human trafficking etc. Not to talk about domestic inter-sect violence, impact on social sectors like schools & colleges amongst other things.
Going back to Maslow’s hierarchy, post security needs, come the need for love and belongingness, followed by Esteem and then self-actualization. One would expect a statesperson to address these needs of population or at least a majority of it. Else in functional democracy, the sign of change began to appear. ‘Leaders’ can only ignore it at their own peril since publics may not be in a mood for old ragas which in any case haven’t delivered anything to anyone and has been the case being widely depicted in most geographies and also from which a lot of leaders seem to be drawing inspiration from. The questions about governance from close military quarters also seem to being ignored and remaining unaddressed depicts that civil administration rather unhygienic interests in what might have been military evolved economy and a (complete) lack of balance and controls, though more information might be needed for such a conclusion.
By: Amit Bhushan Date: 5th Oct. 2016
The political leadership should look to the Maslow’s hierarchy of need/motivation, especially when pushing the envelope of political statesmanship to motivate people towards a direction. The ‘decision’ to support and encourage violent struggle by hero-fying the same, suggests little empathy for others on any side (i.e. not following the side of militancy) and continued attempts to win by use of bullets rather than arguments to depict a false sense of strength. If only people could have been carried along, but that would require thinking about the welfare rather than politics alone. The flawed nation-concept based on some political map (geography) rather than constituting of ‘people’ united in spirits and thoughts into a homogeneous political entity; seems being totally ignored as if it is some alien concept of a ‘nation’, although that is how most nations might have survived.
Instead of pushing for the greater good of what may constitute a greater majority their population, focus is kept on the political geography or political map. The physiological needs of air water, food, medicines etc. are followed by the Safety needs of personal safety & that of society and assets/belongings. The bazaar or mandi/s of terror might give false confidence to some in this regards, but for a vast majority within as well as beyond, they represent a reckless under-class out to impose a medieval tyranny. The knowledge of the class about varied cultures, languages, science & technology, political systems, history, economics etc. is kept well under wraps for the fear that it may warrant further revulsions perhaps within own population and make such people a butt of jokes rather than ideologues as they are presented. The situation within (the nation) gives little confidence, otherwise the international isolation wouldn’t have been possible, but the chest thumping & self congratulation continues unabated.
There seems complete lack of focus to develop domestic services or industry to create jobs using investments from overseas workers who now need avenues to deploy their skills domestically. The falling remittances and a now capping by OPEC is likely to need some amount of contingency planning in the short to medium term, which again is ignored. The support for jingoism is likely to ensure ‘flow’ of people/men for the jihadi economy. While for the political leaders, they might want to believe that this may take them closer to their avowed cause, however in practice the Jihadist might want to go where they might feel the potential for greater honey which is the oil-rich lands. There of course seem to be little authentic record on how this may impact other associated industry segments of Drugs, illicit money/currency, human trafficking etc. Not to talk about domestic inter-sect violence, impact on social sectors like schools & colleges amongst other things.
Going back to Maslow’s hierarchy, post security needs, come the need for love and belongingness, followed by Esteem and then self-actualization. One would expect a statesperson to address these needs of population or at least a majority of it. Else in functional democracy, the sign of change began to appear. ‘Leaders’ can only ignore it at their own peril since publics may not be in a mood for old ragas which in any case haven’t delivered anything to anyone and has been the case being widely depicted in most geographies and also from which a lot of leaders seem to be drawing inspiration from. The questions about governance from close military quarters also seem to being ignored and remaining unaddressed depicts that civil administration rather unhygienic interests in what might have been military evolved economy and a (complete) lack of balance and controls, though more information might be needed for such a conclusion.