YOGA DAY TOKENISM: QUOTES AND LIMERICK ~LALIT KISHORE


 YOGA DAY TOKENISM: QUOTES AND LIMERICK

 QUOTES

 All observances and celebrations eventually turn into a fad, fashion or tokenism. Market forces love it by turning them into event management to make profits. Martin Luther King Jr had once remarked, “Tokenism is a promise to pay. Democracy, in its finest sense, is payment.”

 Social reformer Mary Daly states, "Tokenism does not change stereotypes of social systems but works to preserve them, since it dulls the revolutionary (renewal) impulse."

 According to an AI Overview, International Days get criticized as tokenistic gestures, where organizations or individuals engage in superficial actions to appear supportive without making real commitments. Further, focusing on one specific issue on a particular day may overshadow or detract from other equally important global concerns.

 YOGA DAY LIMERICK

 Synthetic marketed mats unfurl on ground
Yoga drill as a fashionable whim performed 

Yoga as fad and fleeting show done and gone
Yoga as a world day tokenism is a clever con 

Yoga industry and markets made profits sound

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