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Adorning mathematical elegance to freedom of expression!

Constitutions proclaim the right to "freedom of expression", election campaigns build upon this fruitful claim to derive other weighty and robust adaptations, people further their claim of this virtue with a beacon on the ship of prerogatives. Reverence substitutes itself with "chest thumping attitude" with the possessors of this virtue. Governments hold this virtue precariously, attributing the state of "Achilles heel" to this virtue in the giant pyramid of constitutional framework. Enemy states more often than not revisit this "catalyst corner" to accelerate their invasive conquests. Historical statistics provide us with examples of illimitable civil wars that either sprouted out upon "tinkering" with this virtue or accelerated with a mere innocuous reference to this virtue. Valiance embraced otherwise common men that fought for protecting the integrity of their dearest virtue, turning them into martyrs overnight. So, how genuine is t

Is man a social animal?

“Man is a social animal”- statement, the usage of which is invariably accompanied with “indifference”. This is often used to convey arrogant attitudes of “knowledge”. The blithe ignorance coaxes people to unconsciously hop over to the higher concept level of “assertion” from “facts” without actually pausing at the intermediate; “opinion”. It is accepted to be a common knowledge that man is in fact a social animal. The disconcerting fact is the levels of acceptance, the “numerical munificence” is partly contributed by the lot that are just careless, secondly by the lot that are just too busy, and finally by a niche of perpetrators, who have come to be recognized as artists. For the lack of a better word, I would refer these pseudo-artists by an ultra-appropriate collective whole - “the myopic “. “The myopic” establish connection with the common man through various conventional systems. These systems are so refined and sophisticated that for a common man it becomes utterly inconceivable

Systematic Adulation penetrated.

George Orwell's comment on Gandhi reads as follows- “In the midst of dishonest and corrupt politics, how clean a smell Gandhi leaves behind him”. What makes this comment commendable is, Orwell’s pursuits of Second World War were virtually uninfluenced by Gandhi's ideals and ideologies, and despite or in spite of that he admired an appreciable portion of Gandhi’s ideals. Orwell, who saw his own ideological transformation from an “ambitious young war admirer” to a “futile, illogical and wasted youth”, in his essays, remarked Gandhi's “non-violence” armor with great admiration. First World War ended permeating the atmosphere with “wealth of supreme and incontestable admiration” to all the survived participants. This “atmospheric pressure” became instantly fashionable and the youth of the time grew up with a certainty of honor in war; followed with privileges of admiration all around. This gripping scene ensued an air of expectation in the youth, and when eventually the Second