Slave and Master

I watched it in a movie. And I found quite relevance to current scenario. There live one master and his slave. Slave is fool and master is intelligent as evil he is. Well it doesn't end the story here. Slave was controlled by electronic device. With it, when master presses remote button, slave gets electrocuted. It makes slave to become dreadful of his master. Slave becomes panic when he sees remote in the master’s hand. But on one fine day slave steals the remote without the knowledge of his master. Quite naturally he wants to take revenge against his master. He walks and confronts his master holding the remote and shows it threateningly. Master looks shocked but not panicked. Finally slave presses the button and falls down electrocuted by his own. Very unfortunate!

Why? Because it was a ring like electronic device that electrocuted slave which he was made to wear like a necklace by master in the very beginning. Slave was unaware of its operation, unaware of the very fact that it was the ring that he worn at neck that electrocuted him, but not the remote. Yes story makes fool of slave, but intern it emphasizes the fact that why slaves who remained slaves remain slave.

Well, however here is my takeaway which is contrary to what all it appears like:

Let me extend this story to caste system in India. It (the theory of caste system) says large section of society or section of people of the society was oppressed by small section of people for over the centuries or thousands of years. And it also says one day one revolutionary savior came, and freed oppressed people. Good done. If I take analogy of the story above, the remote was taken from oppressor and given to the oppressed. But it’s told that people who were oppressed are still continuing to get oppressed, very much similar to the way slave got electrocuted despite holding the remote himself.

I arbitrarily don’t draw any conclusion out of it. But I see, like there are similarities between two scenarios, there is a distinct separation runs in parallel. Firstly, let me quote Abraham Lincon “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. That means, as the definition of caste system always puts it, the possibility that a small section of the society fooled large section of society for over thousands of years, is beyond any imagination and comprehension, and needless to say, this hypothesis doesn’t welcome rational arguments.

If this possibility is ruled out, it makes sense that there must be anomaly in the very definition of the caste system itself. It’s very likely that, both ‘oppressor’ and ‘oppressed’ are construed to suit the hypothesis and so to its definition. Then, this possibility yields new analogy to redefine the above story. That is, there were no slave and master, no electrocution. Characters of the story were construed only to justify the theory based on the hypothesis of slave and master. In other words story was designed to fail, begun with the hypothesis, letting recurring phenomena leading to social catastrophe which we see today. It’s reasonable to expect that the present must be defined by the past, but, sadly enough, the present is defining the past with assumptions, and assumed past is influencing the present rather than the reality itself. Slave and master, oppressor and oppressed exist as long as present definition exist. Period.

End of story.