Psychopolitics!

and the art of self-exploitation.

Very often we believe that liberation or liberty, once attained, is something permanent, is forever or for good. Many experts tell us — freedom is best “felt” in the passing from one way of life to another (a better one). They insist that liberty is not an interlude, but rather a final destination. Such oversimplification allows us all to reinvent, remodel and refashion ourselves again and again, in the quest of higher ground (liberty). Indeed, one of the highest attributes of modernity and of technological society, is individual freedom, the “promise” of a life without constrains or coercion. We seldom comprehend, especially in our day to day reality and behavior, that what we practice as freedom, most often gives way to “renewed subjugation”.

A range of abstractions as well as “Psychopolitical” techniques that are invisible, often guide our thoughts, fears, desires, convictions and forthcoming actions. The following story is an attempt to unravel a paradox, that we find ourselves wi…