Thank You For Not Killing We must talk about happy things. Thank you for not killing. The right of an artiste to offend naturally implies that there would be days when you might be offended. The question is, having taken offence what would you proceed to do? You might publicly abuse and defame a writer, say things about his family, conduct whisper campaigns to take away his credibility, nudge others to bring financial and professional ruin upon him, insert yourself in committees to deliver some sort of revenge, but you do not kill, which is indeed very noble of you. Do you get enough recognition for your decency, for your liberal restraint? Or, is it that you wish to kill but do not know how? Murder is messy, difficult perhaps, risky certainly... You don’t have to watch people in a mall, but somehow that might help to realise that most people do not care about free speech because they don’t have the time to think about what it means. Most writers, cartoonists and other forms of artistes, too, do not care about it because they are gentle or good-natured or easily frightened. Only a small portion of their lot require this beautiful freedom. This month, a lot of writers, most of whom are incapable of humour (they may not know that though), have tried to analyse satire. They made it look as though everyone has the option of indulging in it and that most people choose decency over satire. That misses the fundamental nature of satire — it is a form of delinquency. And only the delinquents understand the inescapable, and at times fatal, pull of delinquency. hindustantimes/manujoseph/thank-you-for-not-killing/article1-1308219.aspx#
Posted on: Mon, 19 Jan 2015 04:12:07 +0000
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