Hypocrisy

People are hypocritical. When something I wrote was good for them they would praise and encourage me. When something I wrote was not good for them they would become cold. When they believed I was criticising them they would start to villify me. What do they have to hide? What are they afraid of? The fact that I work in a particular institution does not mean that I am writing about that institution or that I am criticising the people working there.
Can’t these closed-minded and shallow people see that I was only highlighting social issues? Examples that are quoted are supposed to show up the general situation or malaise. Are they trying to dictate what I should write and what I shouldn’t? It’s my constitutional right to express my thoughts and if they can’t accept this fact so be it. Do they think that only they have rights?
Virginia Woolf gave an analogy about Shakespeare’s sister (by the way, the old geezer had no sister) who went mad and committed suicide because she wasn’t allowed to write, to express her creativity. All our life-experiences and thoughts culled from years of reading and thinking must ultimately come out in writing.
No wonder a dictator always makes sure all the intellects, thinkers and philosophers, writers, poets, dramatists, film-makers, actors and actresses, artists, musicians and anybody else in the expressive arts are done away with. Lots of such people escape into self- exile in the west, especially in countries like the US, the UK and France. Such people are dangerous to a dictator because they make people think. Words are capable of causing the people to rise against the dictator. Language has the power to touch the heart and the soul, not just the mind and words are so powerful.
I shall continue to write anything I like and express my thoughts and feelings. It’s my God-given right and since I have that talent I shall not let it go to waste. I shall guard jealously this freedom to write. Let them sue me if they have good grounds. My writings have never compromised anybody or any institution before.