Head : "Follow the trail."
Tail : "But this is an outright crime!"
Head : "Buggers don't have any right to express their opinion since they are bound to follow my advice"
Tail :"Why?"
Head : "You owe me. I kept you floating on money."
Tail : "You did your duty, not a favor."
Head : "And it is your duty to keep yourself numb."
Tail : "This is injustice!"
Head : "Be prepared to get thrashed away."
Head always tops the social hierarchy. His head breaks the glass ceiling to emerge as the major protuberance among all strata alive in society. Tail hangs below the earthy floor clinging on the grass roots. There is a large gulf between Head and Tail which can never be nullified. Head keeps his head razor-sharp to channelize the Tail effectively so that Tail can be utilized to kill the chickens and fetch their feathers to Head's cap. Tail's mere existence imposes its own cycle of ingestion and excretion, of sleep and awakening, of switching on and off in a rhythmical pattern. Head keeps Tail happy and saturated with fat remuneration. Tail keeps on providing a free-flow service to Head without even popping up a single question "why?". Tail only knows that it has to repay Head the "Debt of Gratitude". It is assumed that Tail is devoid of head and Head is aware of this blemish. So he keeps on sucking the advantage of it. Hence the usage of "he" while addressing Head and the usage of "it" while referencing Tail are both made with conscious effort; these are not arbitrarily done.
Time keeps on flowing. Head ensures that the seeds of tyranny and oppression are sown perfectly in their successors' minds so that the harvest of Tails' successors becomes more bountiful. Despite inner-dilemma, Tails keep on submitting to conflicting exhortations of Heads and end up participating in unjust and unfair commotion, agitation, wars, riots. Severity and tragic results of these wars also partially strike to Tails and their subsequently adjacent lower strata of the society only, leaving the Heads completely unperturbed.
Looking back at the beginning of historical alley, during the era of World War II, Nazis and Jews played the roles of Heads and Tails respectively, they flipped the coin of Holocaust and the coin returned back to Head's hand with more power, more potentiality. From persecution to mass-murder, Tails had to swallow all the bitter pills. People who fed them the pills were none other than a bunch of another species of Tails - they were the henchmen hired by the authorities who lost their integrity for sake of poverty and succumbed to all unfair deeds the Heads asked for.
History repeats. Socio-political scenario is still following the similar track. Head hires a Tail, feeds it well and in turn convinces it to commit a pre-plotted crime reminding it of its "Debt of Gratitude". Poverty - a drug that urges people to travel the wrong road, Tails are bugged by it and lose their conscience. Once upon a time, from those clan of Tails, one different-blooded individual surged high, he rose above the tragedy of perennial tyranny. His name was Karl Marx. He taught those poor Tails how to fight against inequality, made them develop a sense of class-consciousness and helped them recognizing their exploitation in order to give rise a rebellion. What Marx started as a principle of socialism against oppression in the name of capitalism, took the form of bloodshed as soon as mass-killing regimes started in the name of communism, and the concept of equality remained an ultimate utopia forever.
Tagore once penned down his thoughts on Inverted Totalitarianism saying "History has come to a stage when the moral man, the complete man, is more and more giving way, almost without knowing it, to make room for the…commercial man, the man of limited purpose. This process, aided by wonderful progress in science, is assuming gigantic proportion and power, causing the upset of man's moral balance, obscuring his human side under the shadow of soul-less organization.”
The tree of conflict kept on growing more giving rise to more number of branches like: democracy, autocracy, anarchy, monarchy and so on.. increasing the distance between Head and Tail, especially in third world belt, tearing apart the very fine fabric of the society.. destroying homes, lands, minds, spines and conscience. The sum spent by the Government on military forces for combating against wars is so huge that it could eradicate worldwide poverty in a single go. Tails are still hopeful. They still dream of transforming their whole clan into a seamless cluster of Heads someday. So they still obey every single word uttered by Heads, shedding off their sense of morality and reminiscing the "Debt of Gratitude" they owe to them!
