Water Purifier in every Kakching Locality

Our history has done something to our minds--in all of Manipur, not just in Kakching notorious for its social and economic operation considerably independently of the state and its support mechanism (which is a phenomenon dying out)--we are not only fed up with our government with its development rhetoric and spurious welfare practices but also afraid of private business enterprises. The result is, we are an ass dying of starvation between two green grass fields. We have been reared in a non-practicing socio-political ideal of socialism in which everything is taken care of by the government (at least this is what our teachers taught us from the text books), and we were told to beware of capitalism. Most of us are day/dreaming of and expecting a non-happening (it's really impossible) socialism, and we are afraid of "capitalism" without knowing it, just because we are told to fear it (just like a little rat is told by its mother to fear every cat so effectively that the little rat fears even a toy cat), and this fear has been now in our psyche. Due to some psychological and survival reasons most of us are afraid of our neighbors being rich and powerful, while each one of us wants ourselves to be rich, powerful and happy, perhaps without being a threat to our neighbors. Some ideological sociologists associate this fear psychology with "capitalism", and most of us have been successfully terrified.

Is the psychology this indoctrination reasonable? Some may say fear is fear, reasonable or not, and if we fear, we fear! That's it, and there is no question about it! Well! That's nice, but I would beg their pardon and get a few more fathoms down the alterwealthphobiac waters. In all of our families we do everything in ways wonted in our houses for ages and ages--how we cook, how we eat, how we behave to ourselves and to each other, how we treat visitors, and all this has indirectly taught us to look with fear or disgust or dislike or aloofness (and other feelings you can add to this list) at the behavior patters of other communities. We know that if we were born in a Hindu or a Christian family and brought up in a Muslim family, we would have behaved as a Muslim, looked at everything through a pair of Muslim eyes, regarded our family and the community values we cherish (as non-muslim humans) now from a Muslim's value system. We live well in either cases, without hating ourselves for having certain beliefs. The point being made here is that such social disgust, fear, love, etc. are cultural constructs that lay the bricks of our mental makeup, our psychology, and our mentality associated with these things are not the constant K of our mentality. They are variables.

When you are mentally ill, you go to a psychiatrist. Why? Because your current mental state is not life-enhancing, but life-damaging. Certain mental conditions are good, while certain others mental conditions are harmful. When we are in harmful mental conditions we consult a psychiatrist for us to shift from harmful mental conditions to healthy mental conditions. A society may not be in its best mental condition, and if it suffering some effects of its mental illness, the wiser section of the society should know that the mental condition their society is in is harmful and they should make the setting for another mental condition.

What I am saying looks all too obvious, and I agree that it is obvious. But not quite obviously most of us quite comfortably in our wonted zone want others to change and adapt to us (most of the times we blame others for nearly whatever mess), rather than we ourselves change. And we always find some excuse for us not to change--we say "Oh! That's true for America, but not for us!" Do we mean what's true for us is our mess? Yes, our mess is our reality, but our reality can be other than this as well--we can make something different, something better, our reality? Why do we not accept any ideas that won't be part of the pig-and-buffalo game of wallowing in the our mess?

For me, change of X means X undergoes or undertakes something (or some things), in which process X becomes something/somebody that now possesses certain new quality or qualities they did not have earlier. Manipur wants to change, but they do not accept anything different from themselves, do not do anything different from what they do. This is madness, for madness or insanity is nothing but doing the same thing over and over and over again, and expecting a different result. You add 2 to 2 and you want the result to be 5. You add 2 to what you already have, i.e. 2. You add 2 to 2 over and over and over and over again, and the result is the same 4, never 5, and you hate 4. We never think of doing it differently. Anything different is "America" or "foreign", and we are xenophobiac. The Manipuris, it seems, biologically evolved at Kangla, not in any way chemically related with/to any other evolutionary processes beyond its nine insurmountable rings of Himalayan tails.

Our fear of "capitalism" is a phobia, and I'm sure that we have been mistaught or misinformed, inadvertently if not a deliberate indoctrination. In Russia and China people are not any happier. Rather, we do not hear about their human miseries at all. Their loud governments--we only hear their voice. There are political reasons. Interestingly, India's changing economic trends are more clearly visible in Delhi and Mumbai, and then in Hyderabad. India's mixed economy which faced north toward Russia now turns West toward a liberal economic system. Though it would take time, when the snake makes for that, its tail of Manipur will also move toward that. But Manipur's state economic planners and those interested in private economic ventures can hasten the change.

Our current economic state, despite all negative forces, can definitely sustain small to medium private enterprises. Though the public is initially ignorantly afraid of things they are not already familiar with, everything we are familiar with has a beginning, and our familiarity has its history. So interested individuals should not lose courage, but they should be careful. In fact, they can change the mentality of the masses. Their major concern should be quality and pricing. The growth of private business ventures will save Manipur. One example is, no parent who can afford it don't send their children to government schools nowadays? Why? Among many other reasons, most teachers don't go to schools regularly (I know teachers who are regularly irregular, or constantly at home when they should be teaching in schools), and these teachers have stopped reading and learning. Once they attain income security, they stop doing everything. No sense of duty. These people have no confidence in their own selves that they send their children to private schools.

This proves there is room for the feasibility of private ventures and their growth in Manipur. Sell good water, then everybody will buy, because nobody can live without water. Let government water schemes be there, and those which are dead or defunct, let them revive. Even then private water enterprises, like any other enterprises will live and prosper, if the service is good. I think Likla mineral water enterprise is a private venture.

Ah! I've written quite long. My fingers just followed where my mind roamed...It's quite like mind mapping. I'm not sure if it's readable. Please take a look, in pieces, if you can spare some time. I'll look to read it myself again, and make necessary changes for the ease of future readers.