Blasphemy and Sedition: Same Difference

Published on 22nd February, 2016, in Speaking Tree. The survival instinct of animals makes them form packs, herds and hives. How does one bind people together as a tribe, clan, cult, kingdom or nation? How to make this bondage voluntary? For this, humans need a psychological instrument, a yantra. This yantra is created using stories, symbols and rituals which establish a subjective truth that serves as glue that binds people of different bloodlines, dispositions, and vocations. Those who subscribe to the subjective truth are insiders; the rest are outsiders. In colonial times, this subjective truth came to be called ‘myth’ or ‘falsehood’ as it exists ..