knowledge at work - 5

I have taken an article from the newspaper to work on this time. it talks about the independent candidate Meera Sanyal from South Mumbai.
Politicians are known to use emotions widely in order to appeal to the illiterate sections of society. This is mainly observed in the Indian political system. The reason corruption has crawled to its highest peak is because the people have not been able to reason. the basic and major problem being that they have not been given the opportunity to educate themselves. Therefore the politicians are able to continue their legacy to be able to brainwash the people and take advantage of the fact that their emotions over power their abilty to be able reason out situations. An example such as providing free electricity and water supply and food supply to those who live in the slums have as a result provided the political party a benefit by acing and doubling the votes and reserving their seat in the political systems. The political system works on the basis of manipulating those minds which are uneducated and keeping them in the dark by promising their demands, playing with their emotions and thereby winning the elections.

meera sanyal on the other hand promises to refrian from such activities an thus reasons out her being an independent candidate and not a part of any such group like the congress os mns or anything of that sort. however, others percieved her being an independent candidate differently. they percieved her as a weak candidate. this as a result was a major reason as to why she failed to connect with the voter which could be the main reason as tho why she loses her seat in the elections to the other candidates who are in fact a part of some collective group or the other.

in the past, there has never been a single candidate who won the elections single handedly. there has never been such a situation in history where an independent candidate, that too a woman, has been given the seat. therefore it is less easy for the voter to trust her. the generalisation still prevails. ' a single handed lady cannot take such a big responsibility on her shoulders'

thus the way in which a certain something is shown to someone forms a part of their belief system and therefore paves way for their respective perceptions. it has such a huge impact on an individual that she or he fails to reason out anything and goes with the flow. in such cases, reason fails to defeat emotion and thus emotions over power an individuals reasoning ability in turn leading to fallacious reasoning.