do we need an election in 2019?

In Wachowski brothers’ movie MATRIX, machine made in the image of man took over; placed man in the pods and used them as batteries to energize their sentient bodies. Morpheus explained to Neo, matrix is nothing but a system of algorithms – a computer program and it must be defeated to save the human kind. Neo, a deft programmer, is the only hope left …

When come to the purportedly digital and/or digitized nation of ours, astute one can see a matrix of  giant governmental juggernaut brewed by a nexus of corrupt polity, business gluttony, coercion by armed outfits (police/RAB and by extension the armed forces) and an indifferent public  consciousness.   It is nothing about Khaleda or Hasina; nothing about AL or BNP or JI or even JP – it’s all about the Matrix – the supposed prime movers of power on Bangladesh are just levers of power and nothing more.

As Morpheus correctly understood – it is the system that is the enemy; and with this neology in mind, I would like to answer the most poignant of questions of this day.

Do we need an early election? Why one should such proposition that is invariably fraught with enormous expense, violence, loss of lives and totally unproductive exercise in economic term, unless there is a fair chance of an outcome that shall be unlike the previous ones.

Why replace one despot with another? Why replace one Asaduzzaman with a Babar who, in his remand-free heydays, presided over the birthing of the RAB? I can go and on adding more and more examples as to the stupidity of having another election early or even at scheduled date, but it is pointless unless the matrix is changed in a meaningful way.

So, do we need an election in 2019?
Answer is in the matrix!