01 January 2025
I think Darwin should have been a religious scholar, because then only he had failed all of the other scholars with his theory “Man was Monkey Before”
Bandarwala, 2015
We all have grown up seeing Bandarwala ( short: BWs) who has a PET monkey, whom he instructs to do various acts as “Bandar ka tamasha”. Similarly, we live in a society where sometimes we act as the Bandarwalas and other times we become the PET monkeys of other BWs. The ultimate reason for this BW exchange is to hold control over one another. This is a kind of business that is being passed on through generations.
I have had the experience of interacting with a few too many BWs.
The Big BWs: Anyone who is controlling other people in the name of ‘norms’ is the basic kind. They sit at the top or head of the hierarchy. They twist culture and traditions and incorporate those beliefs in the name of religion. Many of these are observed especially at a child birth, someones wedding, and or death also; so many rituals that run deep down and have no religious significance but still gets implies at time, because thats how its been done.
The Facilitator: These BWs live on the edge of our society, they are sleeping BWs; you wouldn’t expect them to control you, and they seem pretty resolved but everything is fine until you cross them, or achieve more than them. This is where they will facilitate the big BWs with beliefs and norms to control you. They are never the ones to have direct control over you, but they are a big reason for you to be get prod back in line.
The Influencers: A popular culture in our society is influencers, not such as dummy Instagram celebrities but real-life Bandarwala influencers. You can feel them impressing other people, it deeply means they are craving attention or are deflecting attention from the faulty parts of their life.
The recent kind I discover is The bureaucratic Bws:
They are the Magnets of (Bandarwala people), who have money power, and authority at their disposal, they have an affinity to pull out a deeper mask in people who can have an opportunity to gain. The receiving end of opportunistic people leeches off these bureaucratic BWs, becoming their influencers.
Here, their way of control over you is through your vulnerabilities, initially they fatten their PET monkey financially, emotionally, or by aid. In return they churn up your mind with their ideas, disregard your thinking making you think that your whole concept of completeness is a bit traditional.
They are a bit opposite to the Big BWs, they let you take advantage of them because people are aiding their bigger purpose. Their ever-changing stance is their key to success; they evolve their purpose to the new world, they in return is climbing over others till they need them. Then they move on, and they will remain questioning themselves why did it happen ? Sometimes they return back to show their worthiness to the same people; this course of action beguiles the people around them to become infatuated with their words. The more they engage with them, the more control they end up giving over themselves, and when you question their abilities their sweetness dissipates and you cannot disengage yourself from their actions.
This is the kind that is found in everyone, even you my reader. The main part is to catch yourself in this act. If and when you do, one of your masked face will shatter and your life will be so much simple.
Images courtesy to: Mindowl , give it a read on How To Train Your Monkey Mind
Happy New year.
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