Posted by: arahat July 21, 2010
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First of all, Uttam babu is a maoist; you don't want/ can't argue the people with blind-faith.
He gave a good try to explain a collapse; I screened through his article; here're some critics if that's what you're looking for.
He totally forgot to mention about many important factors that can make the societies collapse; and didn't mention much in the context of Nepal as well. He tried to compare maoists and bring the topic of maoists and all that unnecessarily.
Population explosion be it by our own population growth or the migration from northern or southern countries. Population is the main cause for degradation.
I agree that army is unproductive not only in the case of Nepal but everywhere it takes the major chunk of budget and is one of the most unproductive areas. I've had been to presentations which showed these.
He is always very biased in favor of maoists. According to my understanding, maoists are the bad guys. After 1990's democracy, despite corruption, our country had developed in so many factors:
e.g. education sectors - many good quality private schools, colleges, and universities
e.g. health sectors - establishment of good gov. and private hospitals
e.g. societies - community development, NGOs
e.g. communication - great development in newspapers, media
e.g. open to the outer world - had there been panchayat era or communism, we would never have got a chance to see this land of US of A.
These hypocrites like Uttam babu wants to enjoy this land of freedom but at the same time, they want people in Nepal to suffer. Imagine what would happen if communism comes to Nepal.
Coming back to the point of collapse, I've not got a chance to read that book yet. The societies that will have resilience to the factors to the collapse will be the self-sufficient small communities - e.g. the ones who grows their own food and have access to water resources. He totally ignored about this food issue and instead gave importance to yarcha gumba, probably because of monetary values in that vicinity.
Now, I've a question to you on this topic as Uttam babu didn't seem to reply to any of the poster on mysansar:
Ma chai yo hawadiri analysis sanga kimartha sahamat chhina.
-> Instead of writing this one-liner, can you tell me why do you think it is hawadari. I don't think it is hawadari; he has got some valid points, but he is very biased. He mentioned how much loss army is causing to the country but he never mentioned some of the humanitarian works army have done; being a maoist, he simply wants to degrade army. I'm totally in favor of not having army, but we've OTHER PRIORITIES at the moment. Army provides employment and is provides food to many of the households in Nepal.
So-called jana-sena of Maobadi has not added anything to our society. They KILLED nepali people, destroyed basic INFRASTRUCTURES like bridges, schools, buildings, historic places, captured people's houses and looted the banks. They're getting the SALARY from the government, but unlike army, the chunk of their money is again being looted by their senior masters and I doubt if any of them are being able to provide any financial assistance to their families. I can go on and on; but I'd stop here and let others to add more.
The issue of collapse is not only relevant in the context of Nepal but also to the place where we're currently living.