BOSTON / PHILADELPHIA, Oct 28 (IPS) – The scholars and the widespread folks of Bangladesh dared to do one thing in 36 days of July-August that was thought-about merely unimaginable by most individuals simply days earlier than August 5, 2024. They stated ‘sufficient is sufficient’ to an outdated order that outraged their humanity, robbed their dignity and the rulers imagined that their citadel of energy was merely impenetrable. The revolutionists refused to bow right down to the murderous regime that knew no bounds to its cruelty and plundering. They have been able to sacrifice their lives for the liberty of the besieged nation.
Meta-modernism is the cultural philosophy of the digital age, coined by Mas’ud Zavarzadeh in 1975. meta-modernism is the Age of the Web or extra balanced worldview. As one analyst places it, we went from modernism — “Make it new!” Let’s form Historical past! – to postmodernism — all the things sucks! Nothing actually issues! — to meta-modernism – perhaps issues aren’t this black-and-white, perhaps there is a center floor.
Meta-modernist thinkers understand the current world round them as a menace to their very existence. They work with pragmatic idealism and don’t have any grand narrative pondering or any orthodox certainties. In different phrases, they attempt to strike a stability between all of this. They acknowledge that they need to face the issues of the society.
It could be unsuitable to suppose that this folks’s revolution was all a couple of change of presidency. Its victory is in contrast to 1947 and 1971. In each these instances, there was a change of presidency with none structural change. Consequently, the incoming authorities adopted imperialist practices of exploitation left behind by the British. Subsequent governments turned the nation right into a failed democracy, to be able to management, exploit and subjugate its residents. The police have been used as an enabling power to subjugate the residents, whereas the legislature and judiciary labored because the rubber stamps to maintain the whole management of the federal government. This evil social system has corrupted the mindset and habits of our folks. An immoral society was fashioned with no concern of accountability, whose driving power was unfathomed greed and mantra — the ‘rule and exploitation by repression’. Authorities workers noticed themselves as bosses and never as public servants. They thrived upon corruption in any respect ranges.
There at the moment are two competing ideologies in entrance of Bangladesh – one in all decaying fascism that desires to resurface underneath outdated management and the opposite is the younger management of equality and morality. Because the revolution demonstrated, the ‘New Bangladesh’ doesn’t approve fascist-supporting corrupt establishments. It needs a corruption-free new society. It’s for paradigm shift – a transformational change.
The Chief Advisor and Scholar Coordinators have clearly highlighted the beliefs of New Bangladesh via their speeches and interviews. Dr. Yunus stated, ‘We’re all one nation’. It is a clarion name to ascertain a holistic change in society. Such a radical change in society requires a change in values. A change in values lies within the change in public ideology.
The brand new Bangladesh shouldn’t be the outdated Bangladesh with a brand new cowl. It calls for a change within the basic values of human habits, actions, and beliefs. These embody structural adjustments, private adjustments, expectations.
To know the ideology of this transformation, one has to pay attention fastidiously to the speech of Mahfuz Alam, the ‘thinker’ of the motion. 5 factors could be deduced from his latest talks: (1) unity, (2) ‘language is their inspiration’, (3) group management, (4) they’re kids of time, and that (5) they aren’t a slave to conventional pondering. His views replicate at present’s meta-modernism.
For any transformational change to succeed, the change brokers should personal it, direct it, and in the end excel in it. We expect that this revolution of holistic change can profit from the revolutionary approaches adopted in China and Cuba that have been additionally led by youths. They owned the revolution and didn’t permit it to be hijacked by the reactionaries. We see a few of these traits within the minds and mission of the Bangladeshi revolutionaries.
The underside line is, bringing any adjustments in outdated tradition habits was by no means a simple process. This revolution has offered a possibility to vary the future of Bangladesh as by no means earlier than.
The meta-modernist youths of Bangladesh have come to guide and transfer ahead; they won’t return to the outdated methods. Their message is obvious: if you don’t be part of us, the nation is not going to watch for you. If older generations don’t undertake the brand new view of change, we concern additional instability and chaos to return, whose consequence can’t be nice.
Dr. Mawdudur Rahman, Professor Emeritus, Suffolk College, Boston, USA. He could be contacted at: [email protected].
Dr. Habib Siddiqui is a peace and human rights activists. His newest e book – ‘Bangladesh: a polarized and divided nation?‘ is accessible within the Amazon.com. Each are members of the steering committee of Esho Desh Gori – Let’s Construct Bangladesh.
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