US elections aftermath – a philosophical perspective

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generally in if you look at human history transition of power is almost always accompanied by turbulence currently the US elections their aftermath is going on in America and there’s so much uncertainty there are accusations and counter accusations and there are fears things may escalate that foreign powers may exploit so it is just a fact of history that when there is transition of power there is turbulence and what will prevent the turbulence is yes we need systems in place so that the transition happens properly but ultimately systems have to be run by people so it is people with a service attitude people with selflessness they will ensure that the transition happens successfully so succession if you look at I was discussing about history with one of my friends who is doing his PhD in history and he told me he talked about how there was some European king and he said during his time there is 37 years of peace and in the medieval times sometimes they call it dark ages 37 years without a war was like a remarkable thing wars would happen every few years so now many of us are disoriented by how the covid has brought our life to a standstill so in some ways after the second world war for the last 60 years or so 60 70 years we have lived in relatively anomalous phase in human history terrorism and there is weather pollution and other things but relatively we lived with reasonable amount of our basic needs taken care of our basic life going on but this is not the norm in human society especially when there is the material world itself is filled with distresses and especially when there are power hungry people and then there is transition of power so in India there was a Mughal dynasty they ruled for generations so there is not a single generation in which one family member didn’t kill some other family member sometimes one family member killed many many family members Aurangzeb he is one of the most notorious Hindu rulers so he overpowered overthrew his older brother who was much more popular than him Dara Shukoh and then he arrested his own father and then his brother tried to resist then he actually killed his brother in cold blood by piercing his eyes and ears with with like molten iron with red hot iron rods and then he gave that as a gift to his father says I have brought a gift for you and his father thought oh my son loves me so much although he has put me in prison he has brought a gift and then he opened the gift it was the bloodied skull of his own son with the eyes and ears pierced Shah Jahan fainted in horror now we don’t want to talk about such things when we are discussing about Ramlila but this is the norm in the material world even now we know in middle east and Africa there are constant coups of happening and there is overthrow of power so if we look at the brutality of the reality of the world we can appreciate more the extraordinaryness of what is depicted in the Ramayana so Bharat had no ulterior motives that he simply wanted to serve Ram and yes there was succession struggle after Dashrath’s departure but that succession struggle was not two princes fighting I want the kingdom the two princes were fighting you take the kingdom you take the kingdom so this kind of succession struggle will probably be unheard in the annals of history