Wherever that 'trust-deficit' is the main deciding factor to demarcate the sharp dividing line, to separate one class of people from the other, this 'trait of repulsiveness' is a living experience! Stubbornness is only a consequence, though it assumes a 'form' that might resemble a 'cause'... And that is precisely why that 'hurried' effort to counter it, usually fails.
The incidence is quite high amongst children, of late! Maybe experienced teachers have to concur or disagree with this! The excessive-ness of health-concerns might have percolated down to their (child's) chemistry, to the extent, as to also affect the behaviour pattern! The medicinal immunisation might not be the culprit. The preservatives, the additives, and the likes that are used for enhancing the shelf-life of all those fast-food/junk-food/easy-to-mix/ready-to-use type of food items.... These chemicals are not removed. Nor do they constitute the 'food' .
Some possessive mothers try to gloat over this trait/characteristic in their child. Again it is the sense of their own insecurity, that might have persuaded to act thus. The ability to deal with this repulsiveness in their children becomes a monopoly, rendering them-selves quite indispensable! Some mothers tend to treat the school-text-books of their children like some 'mosquito-repellent-cream' to ward of their children from the precincts when they find the mischief of their children to be an intolerable nuisance! (Some mothers who are fortunate to know a teacher 'personally' are even tempted to 'request' for extra-homework for their children, when a long-holiday ensues!)....At work places too, we find that people struggle to become indispensable! Once a person decides to use this as the only available tool of survival, only negative traits can be a consequence. Resistance becomes the base. Chemical bonding is then 'sought' as a reinforcement, seeking 'attachment' of, and with, the loyalists as the adhesive/glue! A 'concrete' structure is now in place! When such a concrete structure poses a threat, detonation is the only way! Mahabharat, as an epic, also happens to hint at this aspect, when we look at the 'delicate' design of the inter-personal-relationship which weaves together people with unrelated individualistic-characteristics so seamlessly! A whole full-scale war was needed to release/liberate the individuals who were held as 'concrete-captives' !
In the present day situation, what we agree to, personally/privately/individually, we do not find it easy to vote for as a class! Politicians, perhaps, are the most conversant people as a class, with this mechanism, and very much put it to their advantage! Please see, some practical situations...
That womens reservation bill is not revolted against openly, but repelled clandestinely, by keeping it indefinitely 'alive' by holding it pending 'under active consideration'!
The hunger strike was used as a tool to 'revolt' against corruption, but failed to evoke a sustained movement, simply because, that form of protest was already a repulsion-invoking-factor, in the chemistry of masses... (perhaps that is why, the unexpected numbers of the sympathisers baffled the politicians.... most of them did not even understand the concepts sought to be used to revolt against corruption!)....
Perhaps, a hunger-strike might evoke a greater response to start a movement against 'starvation' of the poor/downtrodden/deprived!
If we try to narrate the 'operational' part of this repulsiveness in different fields of human activity, the intricate details might create an illusion, as if, each of these instances contain a 'concept' itself, where as, the single concept that dominates is only a bit subtle, and that is this 'repulsiveness' manifested in an indistinguishable form!
On a lighter note, at domestic fronts, the males are baffled, to find that, when it comes to pin-pointing a 'stubbornness' about one lady, the other lady happens to give a silent or an 'outside' support by 'absentee-vote'.... (this stubborn-ness happens to be the tool of this lady also, to effectively 'repel' when their own 'security' is at threat!)... Males are no exception to this repulsiveness... it comes in much more sophisticated ways(chauvinism!)...
When 'ego' seeks to hold the fort, that 'repulsiveness' is the weapon, and the 'mind' which is so dependent on the ego, readily 'sugar-coats' this repulsiveness to make it more acceptable on the outside world, and embellishes it with socially-accepted-norms.... if necessary, 'legislate' new set of social norms! Here comes the mind-games that we are so familiar with! Spiritual practices find it difficult to make a dent into the 'being' only because of this repulsiveness! Resistance is a mild weapon in its primitive form, and has to be camouflaged, modified, and innovated to be effective against even a 'spiritual-revolution'.... that is where the complexities of mind baffle the designers of artificial-intelligence!
psn(5th April, 2012)
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