'Mythereal' * Truth Poem by Gunde Narsing Rao

This poetic response induces such a behavior that others perceive as real and respond actually without having thorough understanding about the person/entity who, whether, is creating or performing such myth with an intention towards a goal. And people who are lean psychologically and incapable to cope-up with the emergence, always try to seek a dependent psychic platform either in the form of a person as an idol to worship blindly by relegating themselves as subjects to idols and throw out their entire fancies for satisfaction through following as blind followers without questioning because it requires analytical and moral strengths which possesses at intelligent, honest and strong personalities who invariably becomes the leaders at the cost of these scrupulous scapegoats. The ‘myth' which made believed as ‘reality' through diverse guises by ‘some' whose inclination was /is to constantly construct/produce' mytherealities', which actually does not at all exists yet meandering for ‘empirical cause, may be for State/Power.This manufacturing of Mytherealities as creating myths and treating and even responding and provoking or make believing mass to perceive as 'actuality' as usually they perceive and accordingly inscript in their mind blindly as 'truth' that they can constantly equates with godly/religious beliefs to worship such 'Idols' on par with true legitimate Gods of Religions.

Such manufacturing of mythereality, would rampant in a country or societies which has meagre scientific temper among its people and are being inaccessible to quality and professional education, news, current affairs - sometimes state's aggressive nature against, above said, qualities which makes them not to question themselves - evokes for a constant updating of their minds towards universal quest of scientific truth and principle. It would be mischievous if anybody thinks that Myth makers are ignorant, yet, they might have aware of this and using their talent just to reap/exploit masses or of their ‘inert' conditions as much as they can to achieve their target of sustaining Power/power relations at par until people questions or possess a sense of knowledge to judge impartially the actions, ruling, administration of leaders to gauge and treat accordingly.

If people remains at helm of ignorance, which myth-makers always crave for, to keep at bay that they can march ahead against people/common man to sustain hegemony in different ‘avatars' either symbolically or rhetorically and even technologically that makes ‘sense' to tap with planned guises being known prior and using mass psychological ‘inert' or ‘inability', by default for which they are not responsible, as stepping stones for any leader-in-making either as politician or an activists. As a true leader always struggle to alleviate their(common man) dogma through lecturing, educating, writing and other intellectual activities either directly or indirectly or even in guise to provoke them to raise their scientific temper though ensuing his/her bitter consequences. A true leader never subjects his/her followers to pursue or involve in any such miseries/carnage/genocide/holocaust, either, consciously or unconsciously for whom he owes a sacred responsibility as a loyal servant as leader, guide, philosopher while carving out a path that they can follow after him as a spirit for consistent and continuous development in regulating, controlling them for the their(people) universal cause of being a good citizen which makes a good nation. More truly said: ‘A leader is who follows than lead.'



Gunde Narsing Rao
Ph.D Scholar
The English and Foreign Languages University