{.. how to spot the species of pressure builders? Why the pressure builder always makes an uninvited appearance, at the last minute?} From ChintaMany’s diary page No. 6
In an otherwise mundane life, most of us make do with whatever we can earn with no other intention other than working out our sinews to better ourselves. Wonder why this rant to start with? Hopefully, the doubt will get cleared as you and me go along a little further, down the lines.
The “Oldowan toolkit" started its journey about at least 2.6 million years ago in Africa, as a set of intentionally manufactured tools. This toolkit consisted of basic stone tools such as hammerstones, stone cores and sharp flakes. They are used to batter other stones, to remove flakes and to create edges and as cutting instruments. The primary purpose of this toolkit was to process food - in butchery to carve out meat off animal carcasses, to break bones to access marrow, to process tough plant materials and extend the physical abilities of early humans as an aid for survival. By about 1.76 million years ago, the “Acheulean” toolkit, such as the more advanced, large cutting tools like handaxes came into existence.
Modern utility Tool kits come in various sizes depending on the nature of the job involved - engines and down to plumbing, electrical and electronic devices. From among these common tools – jack, tyre rod, spanners, wrenches, Allen keys, box spanners, cutting pliers, screw drivers, hammer, knifes, measuring and sealing tapes, if possible, a first aid pack, rust remover and grease sticks and other useful things find a definite place in the tool kit. If it is comfortable, let us call it a toolbox.
The tools and the hands holding them endeavour to extend the life of machineries, home appliances and keep pipelines and electricity flowing. The tools and the hands that provide these services are unsung heroes livening up to our earlier rant on our mundane life.
How can a mundane life be left peaceful? This opened the door for the entry of another kind of tool kit. The ultramodern "toolkit” emerged prominently in the early 2010s to facilitate rapid, decentralized mobilization in social media-driven protests, though its roots trace back to online activist groups in the 1980s. A digital, shareable document containing guidelines, resources, and strategies for action evolved from physical pamphlets and flyers. This modern digital toolkit served to unite, educate, and coordinate supporters across the globe instantly.
A Toolkit acts as a resource finder for organising and staging local protests by faster dissemination of information to a global audience and orchestrate "tweetstorms” among supporters scattered globally. Informs participants about the cause, provide talking points, and suggest strategies and advise protesters on safety and evasion techniques, legal aid, suggest hashtags, create shareable graphics and counter misinformation. In non-protest contexts, being used by organizations to provide consistent resources for implementing Intellectual Property Rights or managing business projects.
ChintaMany was agitated to find out that, in essence, the toolkit is designed to ensure that leaderless protest movements do not splinter, aimed at dismantling or combating the existing systems by facilitating rapid, informed action. In short, calls go out to man the battleground.
The radical difference is in what sort of tools this kit is stocked up with. Funds, disruptive mind set, organised and instant worldwide transmission of out of context misrepresentation and zero balance in ethics, moral and other noble human traits but overflowing vicarious intent to commit or encourage nefarious acts. This type of tool kit would travel thousands of kilometers to prey upon and enjoy the pleasure in doing so.
A few tech savvy individuals running away from one's own country start a tool kit and bring discredit as if duty bound to pay off a debt. How else can they practice freedom of speech and action enshrined in some foreign constitution? They become a borrowed foreign needle to poke into indigenous eyes! To give misguided company to these runaways, there are tribes of people who label them as activists. Now the bridge elements get assembled for furthering the ‘agenda’ of the movement. The herd of tubers and pipers marauding as influencers fall like dominos and without any compunction use the imported kits to spread or prepare the grounds for cyber invasion - on any ongoing issue between a section of people and their government.
There is a pyramidal construction in action, to stir unrest and achieve selfish goals. Hypocritic billionaires after amassing wealth through fraudulent means are suddenly bit by their conscious to foster democratic norms in other countries. High moral-horse riding runaways and foreign activists, who do not even know the latitude and longitude of the country where they want to stage their disruptive activities, become the generals and go about recruiting foot-soldiers. The billionaires create endowments to channel funds to sow the seeds of disharmony and disruption. The runaways and foreign activists move in with placards, microphones, video cameras and with invited networks in tow, to add hi-octane fuel in the agitating mind.
The issue, background, relevant governing provisions, justification and judicial mechanisms that are open for redressal are of no concern for deploying the specially curated toolkit. The tool kit and the pyramidal structures funding them project any emerging, amicable settlement of the dispute as a draconian measure to keep the kettle boiling on occupied highways!
Why this toolkit happens? There are ultra optimists and ultra pessimists. There are those who factor in a little pessimism but choose to be optimistic, aiming to separate the larger goodness by ignoring minor negativism.
Treading the middle path, there are those who don’t want to be a pessimist or optimists, permanently. This vacillating type invariably gets tripped on the wrong foot. Now comes the downside of humanity comprising of the average pessimist and the ultra-pessimist and the doomsayers. This group never find, work for or appreciate anything that is good. Buried among all the above variations, lies the answer to why the toolkits happen!
Probably, we could answer that question by choosing the sponsors, pushers and the foot soldiers from the above-mentioned type of people.
The sponsors carrying the vestige of colonial mindset are unable to relinquish the sordid, past misdeeds. They belong to nations that became wealthy by occupations, ruling and methodically emptying their coffers of wealth and minerals. When there was nothing else to plunder in the vaults, above or below the ground, then they left those nations bankrupt. Inheritors of that colonial vestige followed that text-book procedures with suitable modern and questionable business models, methodically went after minerals and oil to make billions, by other. To shield their business empires and dubious practices, from becoming subjects of inquiry and legal actions, they create endowments, under the guise of philanthropy (all the while thinking humanity my foot!), and fund toolkits
The electronic ‘tubers’ and ‘pipers’ with the sole intent of blowing up a balloon, looking at the widening inadequacies, inequalities and perceived suppression of voices, descend on the scene. They do not understand the fact that somebody gave them the ballon marked with dots and they were being used merely as a bellow to blow the balloon. When you go for fishing, do you muddy the waters? These nerds, possessing the technology feel entitled to have a say in everything, will muddy the water and then try to catch some fishes. Portraying only negativity reflects on the depravity of this kind of agents of toolkits. Granted, everyone has an opinion but are there no better avenues to earn a few honest dollars and a band of loyal subscribers? Why they refuse to come out of the thinking that a frame alone will become the picture?
These shameless weasels, gravitate into the folds of the waiting pyramidal structures and help them to engineer the collapse of governance seizing any opportunity and issue which in no way are connected or detrimental to them.
The moles (sleeper agents) in the target country are a confused lot. They willingly become propagators and sympathisers for any kind of toolkit and readily fall prey like a moth into the flame only to get consumed by the fire. Do they realise that the country is larger and powerful than the toolkit they import or copy. Will they ever realise it is beneficial to help plug the holes instead of making new ones?
The question all of them should ask themselves is - did anyone requested their philanthropic funds, the expertise of the balloon blowers and the local moles for their kind presence and help?
Maybe, an in-house grown toolkit is needed to educate and eradicate this tribe of sleeper agents. Finding that the weed growers and their impact steadily losing ground, the ‘tubers’ and ‘pipers’ would stop coming. Deserted by the generals and foot-soldiers, the pyramidal structures will slowly leave the scene.
ChintaMany woke up with a start, a fright and a disbelief not knowing whether it was a dream or real or wishful thinking, contrary to the ways of the masquerading humanitarian minded philanthropists with cold hearts! Will they stop, if Nobel Prizes are awarded to them? He closed the last line with a bold “NO CHANCE”. Because they will pocket the change to start another set of toolkits!
Unable to come to terms with his last entry, he added his thoughts as a postscript.
“Would someone come forward and introduce Kill switches, malwares or any other means to corrupt the toolkits and render them fit for the recycle bin! A corrupt means to take down the corrupted pyramidal structures along with the generals and foot-soldiers!
Is it not a practice to include dos and don’ts for packaged material? He would have no issues with toolkits, if they had included these warnings “Don’t meddle elsewhere without understanding the issue and the existing system of remedies. Check your locus standi before getting involved? Do you qualify to be a judge?”. Then the toolkit would have a noble intention, indeed!"
ChintaMany mused. Probably the early humans needed them for survival and not to protest against the environment. With the modern version, people use them to fight for survival - of whom is the question?
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