You have heard of Superman, well what about Inferiorman (I-man)?
I know it sounds tacky and you are welcome to come-up with a name for this superhero as long as it means the same thing. I have a feeling; I am onto something big here.
This superhero – I-man, belongs to a different world, a world very unlike our own world. Our world as we know today is one where the fittest is supposed to survive, meritocracy is the buzzword, where one embodies mantras like perform or perish.
However in this very unique world of Inferiorman (I-Man), one competes to be inferior to the other. In this world everyone is trying to prove how much more backward he is than those next to him. And I-man is the one whom every-one aspires to be. He is like Superman’s negative (I refer to a term used in the days of the analog, still film, photography).
Now what is I-Man like, you ask? Well, Inferiorman is the most backward guy in this comic-book world, he belongs to the weakest section of society and through years of careful breeding and working towards his sustained inferiority he has managed to be labelled as the most inferior person in the planet.
Because he is so backward, evil forces of society keep attacking him with things like subsidised education, quotas and reservations to force him to change….and well, for want of a better word become “forward”.
But I-Man’s powers are greater than anyone can imagine. One of his aids against the deadliest of enemy attacks is his impregnable magic shield which he lovingly named “Ignorance”.
This shield – Ignorance, saves I-man from half the missiles hurled at him, the worst of these missiles being Rozgar Yojnas, Subsidies, Special Rights, Loan Facilities.
The other half of the enemy attack missiles like Reservations and Quotas only make I-man stronger, he takes full advantage of it and becomes even more inferior (people who read The Hulk comic strip or saw the movie will know how scientific this observation is. The more you attack The Hulk, the stronger he becomes. Similarly, the more you attack the I-man, the more inferior he gets).
I-man has his own faithful well-wishers and friends who can be identified by their white caps and ethnic wear (mostly khadi). These friends who may at times work against each other. have a common goal of preserving and helping I-man in maintaining and further improving (which really means deteriorating) his status. The weapon of choice for these friends protecting I-man is colloquially known as 'Vote-bank Politics' and in the hands of a true practitioner it can be a very potent weapon.
There’s only one problem with my story, I do not yet know how it ends. Ideas would be welcome.
This superhero – I-man, belongs to a different world, a world very unlike our own world. Our world as we know today is one where the fittest is supposed to survive, meritocracy is the buzzword, where one embodies mantras like perform or perish.
However in this very unique world of Inferiorman (I-Man), one competes to be inferior to the other. In this world everyone is trying to prove how much more backward he is than those next to him. And I-man is the one whom every-one aspires to be. He is like Superman’s negative (I refer to a term used in the days of the analog, still film, photography).
Now what is I-Man like, you ask? Well, Inferiorman is the most backward guy in this comic-book world, he belongs to the weakest section of society and through years of careful breeding and working towards his sustained inferiority he has managed to be labelled as the most inferior person in the planet.
Because he is so backward, evil forces of society keep attacking him with things like subsidised education, quotas and reservations to force him to change….and well, for want of a better word become “forward”.
But I-Man’s powers are greater than anyone can imagine. One of his aids against the deadliest of enemy attacks is his impregnable magic shield which he lovingly named “Ignorance”.
This shield – Ignorance, saves I-man from half the missiles hurled at him, the worst of these missiles being Rozgar Yojnas, Subsidies, Special Rights, Loan Facilities.
The other half of the enemy attack missiles like Reservations and Quotas only make I-man stronger, he takes full advantage of it and becomes even more inferior (people who read The Hulk comic strip or saw the movie will know how scientific this observation is. The more you attack The Hulk, the stronger he becomes. Similarly, the more you attack the I-man, the more inferior he gets).
I-man has his own faithful well-wishers and friends who can be identified by their white caps and ethnic wear (mostly khadi). These friends who may at times work against each other. have a common goal of preserving and helping I-man in maintaining and further improving (which really means deteriorating) his status. The weapon of choice for these friends protecting I-man is colloquially known as 'Vote-bank Politics' and in the hands of a true practitioner it can be a very potent weapon.
There’s only one problem with my story, I do not yet know how it ends. Ideas would be welcome.
No seasoned veteran could have done justice to this "downgrade-able" phenomena like you :)) It is, indeed, remarkable that not many people decided to take upon themselves to intensively investigate that ever-present "inferior-man" - a poignant illustration of the tendency of the "intelligentsia" in the country today to promote that cheap crap, otherwise known as vote-bank politics.
ReplyDeleteYeah I can see them cry out their justification "....It is sort of a splendid torch which I've got to hold up for a moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations"...George Bernard Shaw is surely turning blue and fuzzy up there :))
-Louise