Bourgeois- “The class of modern Capitalists, owners of the means of social production and employees of social labor.”
This specific upper-class of selfish and aggressive people is in abundance in our country in the form of bureaucrat employees. Enormous number of theoreticians and an equal number of theories had hitherto arose, sharply criticizing the money-earning attitude of this class, but in spite of it, or indeed because of it, this attitude had further augmented in the same direction and in the same amount, and also against those people and those theories. The bourgeois, today, teach their sons and daughters in an inhibiting way any things other than their own theories taught to them from their childhood regarding religion or their communalism overall, and this has reached an extreme where they proclaim to their children even that Marx is an imbecile.
These people never care a damn about their surroundings unless the existence of their habitat faces a question of survival; and even while that happens they try to solve it in the safest way possible. They just cannot ever be free of their materialistic burdens. They’re used to it. They are never able to adapt to an impoverished circumstance, for even if such a thing happens, they’d betray their self-respect and decency to achieve their requirement. Just like how they deprive the lower class people, exactly of those things, by cornering these pathetic people work to satisfy their daily hunger at least.
To preach the adult and so-called mature bourgeois about humanity and philosophy is close to impossibility. But still, the young children of the bourgeois, owing to the extended independence they’re so freely enjoying, in the most reckless way, must know what kind of a horrible and disgusting life their parents lead and how well they disguise it speaking about the need to save for a better future .
The life of a bureaucrat is the most tiring and monotonous suffering that any job can enclose within itself. When every such bureaucrat is questioned whether they like their job, their answer would differ as per their age, even if they continue working at the same place. At the age of 20: “One must be extremely gifted to get a government job. 10-5 very comfortable.”
The same man when asked at the age of 30: “If I’d went for another job, like IT, yielding to the high salary they offer, I would’ve lost my peace which I think I have in abundance now, though my salary is low.” This is the biggest comedy the bureaucrats, comparing themselves with men of another profession, say with overwhelming passion because all the personal expenditure the IT man spends from his salary the bureaucrats claim as reimbursements. More or less both these men of the same age pocket the same amount of cash at the end of the month.
At the age of 40: “Without us the office would’ve gone to ruin. We and our batch were the greatest and we still are; the young people are all idiotic these days. Our children now are studying in the top most schools.” This is where their vigor towards their office work is surpassed by their personal work.
At the age of 50: “I’ve lost interest in going to my work place. My neck, shoulder, spine and knees pain like hell. No one else might’ve crossed what I did for my age.” Needless to say, at this part of their life, they turn themselves towards religion (the reason for which wouldn’t suffice here).
Their work structure changes so slowly, which can also be said that their work is more or less the same always, and their opinion on the work begins to change gradually. What they think to be the most trivial when it comes to their work or personal life, in reality, turns out to be the most important factor to be considered. Who at the age of 20 being a man of the most friendly nature, at the age of 50 becomes extremely selfish and close within himself. What if someone would prove that the most trivial of happenings in their daily life has a terrible effect when taken in gross, like their daily modes of transport to their offices and the place where they do their daily work inside their offices? They keep imagining, all the time, about the work they need to complete in the required time that all other things, literally, seem trivial to them, including what their family require from them, who further move to a point, without knowing the political economy behind it, and proclaim that they are the most dedicative towards their work. Let’s see what kind of so-called triviality they cross daily:
In our city only a very small percentage of men between the ages of 35 to 50 use personal vehicles as a mode of transportation to their offices (it is only between this age limit that government employees lose their head with pleasure). The mode of transportation the majority of the people of that age use are either trains, buses or share autos, or a combination of 2 of these 3. Their offices demand them to be there and leave at a specific time, that more than 300 days in a year they leave their houses and return to it at the same time uniformly. It is because of their transport at only specific times on a day that the term ‘peak hours’ is in circulation today.
Taking that such a peak hour of today would have the same amount of traffic and congestion in the mornings as well as the evenings, let’s see how their mode of transport is these days.
A sub-urban train has 12 coaches in it. Each and every coach has a seating capacity for 100 men, comfortably, without any man having to stand. These 100seats are divided as 28 3seaters and 2 8seaters. In the peak hour the 3seaters are squeezed so that 4 of them would now sit and the 8seaters are squeezed to accommodate 10. All other free spaces in the train would now be filled with people standing, finding no other alternative way to be at their offices at the specified time. This coach was constructed to carry 100 people, or a little more, but at the peak hours they carry around 230 to 250 people. Instead of carrying 1200 people, for it is of the utmost safety for the train to carry, it carries around 2760 to 3000 people during peak hours. Not to forget the people hanging out of the train, adding fuel to fire, finding no place to get inside it, coming across deaths at a much younger age.
If such is the condition our trains exhibit, the buses are no less horrible. Every bus has 55seats without including those of the driver and the conductor, and the new buses of today have this number displayed inside them for no useful effect. In the peak hours each of these buses carry around 115 people, so heavily packed like matchsticks, who, on the one hand suffer from difficulties to breath, and on the other hand suffer from the bodily odors of fellow people caused by excessive sweat; pathetically being subjects of extreme invigoration just for the sake of reaching their workplace. Like in the train, more number of people hang out that these buses, here and there, are tilted towards that side-the metallic body of the buses unable to withhold too much weight-and indeed the deaths of younger people are not very infrequent.
The too much crowd in the buses, owing to their lack of frequency in specific areas of the city, has led to the birth of share autos, primarily for the people wishing to avoid exactly that crowd. There is no other way of expression other than sarcasm to see today how the transportation in share autos had become, especially during the peak hours. These share autos are small vehicles which can accommodate 9 people comfortably, without including its driver; people further, owing to the smallness of the vehicle, have to bend themselves to either enter or get out of that vehicle. In the peak hours these autos carry, instead of 9, 15 to 16 people squeezing the 2 3seaters and 1 2seater to accommodate 4 and 3 people respectively, and 2 people sitting next to the driver instead of 1. These numbers count only 12 or 13 you might ask! The additional 3 or 4 are the people who travel standing in them without even minding that their heads would be bent lest having to reach their offices in time. Quite fortunately deaths aren’t encountered in this mode of transport yet.
Crossing things of such congestion and tightness in their mode of transport, these bureaucrats are always pushed by an inevitable illusory compulsion to complete things in a definite time, which when delayed actually would not have so severe a consequence as they imagine, making a complex structure that whether their hurry to reach their offices and their rapid working style are interdependent on each other. Whatever it may be, they work for the entire day within their offices, without moving anywhere else from their seats. They travel in a congested closed place and work in a literally closed space.
If such are the conditions people have to face daily causing physical exhaustion to themselves in an above normal way, and working by being glued to their seats for more than 8hours a day in a closed space, what would happen if they cross these same factors for the next 25 or 30years consecutively?
All these people have a higher possibility to be nothing but exhibitions of an agoraphobic and claustrophobic symptom intertwined together, the consequences of which are interruptions in the formation of memory, disruption of the learning process and feeling of disconnection from oneself and his surroundings, along with an elevated anxiety caused by closed places. Collectively, all these above symptoms, result in nothing but melancholy. Their melancholy leads to their aggression for no specific reason.
Where else does this aggression of them is shown, if not at their higher employees? Obviously towards their children. These are the same children for whose betterment they once said that they save their salaries for. What kind of a financial assistance can a little child expect from their parents?
The capitalist influence in our country is at its zenith that these people train their own children, with or without knowing, to be yet another ordinary tool to develop capitalism and to be yet another man prolonging this bourgeois way of compulsive living. On the other hand, hitherto considering the depressive situations a bourgeois employee must cross for his daily work, they set an illusory bench mark that their lives are all the most happiest, taking into account the numbers alone they earn. So the people of the lower class, thinking to follow the path of the bourgeois to be their only salvation from misery i.e., to be the only method to get rich, without their knowledge to see what things really look like, strive indirectly to fall into an eternal broader abyss.
To direct the lower class people to a position of safety can be done, in great numbers, only if the independent bourgeois youth change themselves from being materialistic alone into adapting a much diversified choice of life-style. To be one in a crowd makes him unnoticed, which clearly contradicts every man’s wish, for all men want is to be noticed, at one point or another.
BolteRaho 