Deadlock
This is the first. Definitely not the last. This one is about destruction. Not of a thing. Not even of a person. But rather, of a group of people. Or should I say, a civilisation. The destruction of an idea, an ideology (using this term in a very positive sense).
What is the cleanest way to kill someone? Stabbing? Nah, you can be seen. Or they can scream, and you’re dead. Poisoning? Nah, even the poison can be somehow traced back to you. Maybe you hire someone else? But they can reveal your name. This means you should kill the killer later. But this would create an infinite loop, where you will eventually have to kill the last killer. What if the killer dies in the process of murder? I believe at this point you know where I am going with this. Yes, sucide!! Self-murder! Loop broken! What if someone, whom you desperately want dead, commit suicide? Wouldn’t you be the luckiest person alive? Ohh but what if they start an investigation for probable cause, or trigger, and your name appears on the suspect list. To doge that bullet, you will have to become that person’s best friend. The one you hate, the one you want dead, you will have to be that one’s bestie. A close confiadant. But who will stand by you when you claim this? Who better than that oneself. Yes, you are on the right track. The final nail in one’s coffin. The perfect murder plan. The one where you force someone to end their life, and also declare you as their best friend in the suicide note. I think this should move your name to the end of that suspect list, if at all there is one. No more “Et tu, Brute”, and Brutus still gets his way.
This killer technique did not fall on my head sitting under a random tree someday. It has been around in this world since T minus infinity. And if you try hard enough, you may even recall an example where this is fully of partially followed, from your own history, or from the history of the world. And this killing might not always be an actual life or death situation of a person. This might as well be the murder of an idea, a career, an identity or anything which doesn’t have a stab-able body. Similar to what Krishna says to Arjuna in BG 4.3, I am passing to you the transcendental knowledge that has been around for a while, but nobody bothered to care.
So what do you say? Don’t you agree that my idea totally slays? If you still don’t believe me, I have an example for you. A story. A real story, from the real world. I was taught in school that every long answer must be accompanied by an example. Here is that mandatory example.
This is a conversation I had recently. [I have taken some creative liberty in reconstructing the dialogue, but there is no exaggeration in the arguments.]
Them: “Yaar sadak pe mandir aur mazar nahi honi chahiye. Accident ho jate hain. Aur log jagah gher lete hain.”
Me: “Sahi baat hai yaar, hone to nahi chahiye. Jaise govt baaki cheezo ka compensation deti hai, vaise hi dusri jagah bana dena chahiye tod ke. Unless ofc vo mazar sadak baad me ugg gayi ho, which clearly means ki vahan koi murda nahi hai.”
“Kya pata sadak pe koi mar gaya ho, lol. Anyway, mandir to kyun hi banane hain aur, kya zarurat hai? Bohot mandir hain desh me.”
“Arrey par mandir todenge to murti kahin to jayegi? Kisi aur mandir me transfer kar sakte hain. Aur agar koi significant deity hai, consecrated hai, to alag mandir bhi bana hi sakte hain, kya burai hai.”
“Arrey bohot mandir hain, log mandir ke naam pe jagah gherte hain. Aur sarkaar todti bhi nahi mandir. Tune koi mandir toot.te hue dekha hai kabhi?”
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“Haan kai baar dekha hai. Infact mazar todna zyada tough hai, because of Waqf act.”
“But ab to Waqf by User hata dia.”
“Hmm, ispe to dange ho gaye the.”
“Dange to General valo ne kar rakhe hain aajkal.”
(Fun fact: the speaker is from general category, and has been a victim of false caste-discrimination allegations in college)
“Kaunse dange kare hain? Protest kara hai, against a rule that is actually bad for them.”
“Vandalism kia hai.”
“Vo danga kaise hai? Waqf law vaise hi draconian tha, upar se usko hatane ke baad to murder kar diye the random logo ke. Yahan to law actually bad hai, aur koi riot nahi hua.”
“Han to ab tum ek wrong ko defend karne ke liye dusre wrong ka example nahi de skte. Tum hamesha aise karte ho.”
It was a dead end for me, and my arguing skills. The following sentence was spoken in my mind.
“Par bhai Waqf ke dange se General ke vandalism ko to tune compare kia tha!!!! Also, mujhe dusre ke wrongs ginvane padte hain kyunki tum ek hi type ke wrong dekhte ho!”
Overall, I was delighted to witness my murder plan being successfully used by someone. Hence I did not argue further. The one had fallen into the trap.
