Myth of "Common Man"--A Cunning Invention

The myth of the “common man” was invented by the ruling class to appeal  to the cause of the deprived or the poor. To rope in the votes of the deprived people,this convenient and myth was created. The truth is that we Indians never empathised with the ordinary poor man.Ruling class pretends to feel for the predicament of the poor.We did not allow people have any equality in any walks of life and always kept the poor man suppressed. Why was there no equality in India? Because there was always an upper class which wanted to retain its position of direct access to resources and deprive the ordinary people of important resources. In the past, there was a systematic suppression of the less privileged. Today, established aristocracy does does not want to let its power out of its grip. Name sake reforms, propagation of false claims of progress, and inculcation of ideology are ways by which the established class of upper strata of hierarchy maintains itself. But the truth is that power of the people will assert itself even when the upper class aristocracy defines its identity as “the superior people” with its privileged status. Changes will come violently in form of protests. Conservative mindsets have to be changed and new ideas have to be introduced for the established upper classes cannot maintain their statuses permanently. With its strong influence, upper class dominates in the maintenance of the power system—and that is to pay big money to elected persons and other persons in power. When this lucrative nexus of the conservative aristocracy and ruling elite is threatened, they resort to other methods of holding on to their power, for they know how to hold on to their status. There are definite limits to the equalising role of democracy. However we may try, the dominant behaviour of man will manifest itself in some or other form.The myth of the "common man" was their cunning invention to pretend to sympathise with the poor.The myth of the "common man" will work for a while and soon people will know how they are being fooled. We have to constantly to counter check the accumulation of power in hands of the more privileged.Otherwise existence of  governments themselves will be threatened; protests may overthrow them 
Inequality suppresses the free mind. There should there be a free mind and no constraints imposed on the mind, so that we can think about innovations. Indian mindsets will have to change so that they can think. Change can bring out intelligent and talented individuals amongst our population who can contribute to growth of the society, nation and humanity. Why is it that we Indians did not invent anything like the telephone, car, TV, air plane, Internet, or the mobile. We have had always a very large population but had no geniuses; we had forever  suppressed many people by allocating lower statuses by not allowing access to resources. We had always kept our people’s mind in bondage of caste, class  and creed and denied big mass of our population any opportunities to think. People who are in the low status cannot innovate as their thoughts are in day to day exigencies in which they have to survive.Poverty or “denied access to resources” does not allow the full development of the individual. That is why there were no geniuses, no inventors and there was no renaissance. Our older civilisation made sure that we were a docile people; we were vulnerable to foreign invaders (British).And we were prone to become a slave society which British made out of us. Even now, we are a docile timid people and live in a humble manner. This is the mindsets of the masses.And that is why they easily believe in the ruling elites' promises to the non existent "common man". In India we have the super rich and the super poor and there is no 'common man'.