Dear Jeyamohan,
I am listening to your speeches regularly. I have an ipression about your mission. You are constantly battling against a specific mindset. Today the entire corporate-consumer culture is trying to craft a plain, standard, average personality out of our young generation. A personality without any private tastes or any particular mindsets. That is the ideal consumer essential for today’s trade world.
Just imagine if every one of us has our taste and needs; what will our giant trade corporations do? But this fight is not an easy one. The entire media is on the other side. The education system is against you. The prevailing attitudes of the new generation also oppose your ideas. You are calling them tirelessly to a new realm of creativity and individuality. The masses abuse and brand you, while politicians and consumer culture brainwash them. But you are hopeful and fighting back.
People now brand art and literature as mere entertainment, denying the artistic, intellectual, and spiritual characters in them. Young men who have a corporate mindset consistently accept those ideas and express them at every opportunity. My son used to say that. He is very proud to announce himself as a technocrat and ‘no nonsense’ person. He spends his day at work and electronic gambling. He believes that it is the ‘modern’ lifestyle.
You are fighting with them and preaching to them about a complete life with art, literature, and philosophy. You are presenting an idealism to a generation that only values practicalism.
I think you are attaining some small successes, and those make you more optimistic. My pranams.
Satyanarayanan
