Is there not a very important lesson to learn from the “Virginia Tech Shootout” of the United States when a single person shot dead thirty two inmates before committing suicide? Was that person a naxalite, a fundamentalist or a terrorist i.e., an extremist in any sense of that term? He was just one of those outcasts who were deprived of interactions with the main stream.

There are socially, politically and economically deprived sections of people in every country. These deprived sections are the breeding grounds for such outcasts. Knowledgeable youngsters amongst the deprived revolt to get their rightful positions in the society. They are suppressed and humiliated by the wealthy dominating neighbors. The rulers, having no concern for their plight, put these revolts down with a heavy hand. Disgusted and demoralized by their woeful environment they leave their birth places and become outcasts.

It is these outcasts who eventually become the building blocks for extremism of every kind on this earth.

As birds of same feather flock together outcasts with typical deprivations come together. They are spotted and picked up by established groups and taken to their training centers. They are well received and made to feel at home by the seniors. They instantly become loyal cadres of these groups. By the time they complete their training they are impregnated with a missionary zeal and passion.

They vow to wipeout the establishment and bring in a system which guarantees an equitable status for all. They are ready to undergo any ordeal to make that change happen. Their own dear life seems insignificant and trivial compared to what they would achieve. Their belief that by dying in a battle against hypocritical rulers they attain martyrdom is unshakable.

The rulers have always been busy with more serious confrontations between themselves. Their budgetary allocations are inevitably increasing by leaps and bounds for defense. Their continued apathy and insensitive approach towards the problems of the deprived is resulting in a steady increase of outcasts year after year. The supply lines of human resource for every kind of extremism are thus getting stronger day by day. There can be no denial of the fact that if the present rate of birth of outcasts is allowed to continue for a few more years extremism would gain the potential to bring about the most disastrous terminal wars on earth.

A diametrically opposite approach and hence a mindset towards the deprived sections has to come about urgently. For this change to be effective and lasting it has to emerge from the very top. And there it is required to have the most passionate heart which is inclusive of every single human being born on this earth. Hence the ‘Heads of Nations,, forgetting all their mutual misunderstandings and joining hands, possibly under the auspices of the United Nations Organization, should come forward and examine the new scheme outlined herein which would certainly reverse the trend of extremism.

“Each member country volunteers a 10% cut in defense expense and to address the fund so generated to the cause of the deprived. Deprived sections and the kinds of deprivation they suffer are identified in each country. Actions are taken at the highest level to fulfill their needs and aspirations. The progress is reviewed every six months. Resources and expertise are pooled and re-allocated to ensure an equitable level of implementation of the scheme across the countries.”

A few years of implementation of this scheme would see that there are no more deprived sections anywhere, no outcasts are born and that extremism as a culture has just vanished.

Instead, treating them as born enemies and spending enormous resources to fight them with more lethal and destructive weapons will result in heavier losses of innocent lives on one hand and an increasing number of cadres becoming hardcore on the other. There will be a steady increase in the spread, frequency, intensity and sophistication of violent outbursts. The life of common man everywhere will become a nightmare. The citizens will press the governments for more stringent proactive actions against the extremists. The governments would become impatient and revengeful.

The Governments naturally feel that they have an upper hand in their battle against extremists and that they would ultimately win. They would be proved wrong on two counts. The extremists’ spirit of self sacrifice and the unpredictability of their operations can never be matched by the conventional armies and their methods. The Governments’ expansive forces and access to unlimited resources will be of little use under tricky situations. The entry of highly intelligent minds into extremism is now an accepted reality. The chances that this intelligentsia with the daredevil spirit of the hardcore would one day sneak and penetrate into one of those massive stockpiles of warfare and turn the table cannot be ruled out.

In the end, the extremists turned desperados and the rulers turned bravos will fight the most furious uncontrolled wars ever fought on earth, both sides having free access to all kinds of mass destructive weapons. Mankind would get caught in the crossfire and see its last days. The earth would get scorched beyond recognition.

Extremism is extreme violence due to extreme disgust. It cannot be met with another form of violence. Such blind reactions would only spiral the intensity of violence. The only way is to bring down the disgust by attending to the causes of disgust and to dissolve it with compassion and understanding. Where there is no disgust extremism has no place.

No single person, a group, a nation, an ideology, a religion or a race can be identified as responsible for the chaos in which the world now finds itself. It is all of us, every human being – of course not any other creature – is responsible. More powerful one is more responsibility lies on him. More powerful a nation is more responsibility lies on that nation. Hence there is no doubt that the highest- nay the total- responsibility lies on the shoulders of the Heads of powerful nations. They have failed to lead the rest in the proper direction. Now it is they who have got to take the lead in seeing the world in a new light.

Man became unkind and aggressive when he started dividing the otherwise peaceful society on the basis of religion and ideology. Though every one of them did come up with laudable intentions of making the man kind and helpful the divisions by themselves created mistrust, intolerance and antagonism. These disintegrating thoughts carried on for hundreds of years through innumerable generations have made the minds of the present man severely conditioned. All his present actions are only reactions of this conditioned mind to the events around him. There is no original, meaningful, trend changing action evolving out of him. With the kind of fragmented, conditioned mind he is unable to solve complex problems related to the total mankind. His actions are only getting retaliated by others with more furious reactions leading to the inevitable end of his existence on earth.

Can man come out of his conditioning and act? Yes, only when he becomes aware of his conditioning. No one can help him to become aware. If he, as he performs his task can constantly observe his feelings with total attention and without any judgments over them he would become aware of his conditioning. The disintegrating thoughts understand and end themselves. Thus all his past falls off. His mind becomes innocent and fresh as just born. He finds love. He does not distinguish between man and man. He sees all as himself – oneself. For him the whole existence is that single self getting

presently shattered into pieces due to hatred. With his newly found love he re-establishes peace on this earth.

It is time that the ‘Heads of powerful nations’ taking full cognition of their obligations towards the global peace strongly observe, advocate the principle of peaceful co-existence. As the first step they should take the lead and bring all the Heads of Nations without exception for a frank discussion on this scheme.

When the ‘Heads of Nations’ collectively become aware of their conditioned minds their passionate look at the impending collapse of the mankind would evolve a fresh set of activities bringing an end to the sufferings of the deprived, thus bringing an end to extremism.

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