Hate generates more hating

Oct 03, 2021 Letters

Dear Editor,

I have written on so many things that I have lost track. But one of those that stick, is of the hate that rains and reigns in this land of many waters. I think it is worthwhile to address again, perhaps even more often. I start out by saying that there is one thing that hate usually inspires. Hate generates still more hate in its spreading wildfire reach and devouring of all that stand against it.
I will make something clear: notwithstanding all the civil words and postures, one can detect the jagged prejudices beneath. We have gone past the state of disagreement, of principled contradiction. What we deliver contains those strains of emotions that convulse us into closet monsters. This is so no matter how much our language is nuanced, how careful our verbal selections or our oral presentations. The true rankness of our deep-seated sentiments seep to the surface. Like, I like saying, political correctness masks the hatreds that come from the firmest of beliefs of what could have happened, if a certain sinister undemocratic electoral way had succeeded. Or, on the other side of the same coin, now that a different kind has prevailed and is ascendant, the visions of what will not be now rage and warp into paroxysms of frustrations, and the feebleness that is characteristic of such accompaniments.
We have been raging ceaselessly for the last 14 months since a new government assumed the reins thus, we still have another five month interval of feel-good furies to vent to equal the calamitous 19 months that bookended the no confidence motion and swearing-in ceremony. In the 38-month span, an eternal three years and more, we still will not have sated the fires that burn deep inside. For sure, one side waxes wonderfully about democracy, but some of its freedoms assaulted and denied I can attest to, if I were so inclined, with unbridled incendiaries of my own. But it is in the crucible of individual tests, that we must be sober and sane. So, when I warn against hating, the first one cautioning must be the first practicing. This is when there is discovery of what we are really made of, when the challenges of the day(s) come.
We have those challenges here by the armfuls that are dumped daily in the media, some mainstream, others elsewhere in the public space. I hear them: who cheated, who stole, who is for, who is against, in endless cornucopia of paranoia, hysteria, and alleluia. I read of vaccine venoms, political poisons, and social sicknesses that incite more of the same hatreds. From traffic interaction to daily conversation, there is this radioactive strain that spreads and attracts, that contaminates and excites. Throughout there is this savaging crippling hating that winds us into the tautest of time bombs. Oil and governance are not spared. And, as for those who dare to say ‘no clothes’ there are these hateful blows. Some of us can weather those, but can this society ever?

Sincerely,
GHK Lall

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