There is so much anger. So much hate. So much to cleanse. Will it ever go? Things that irritate to the extent of causing a revulsion within, so much so that cannot even be vomitted. Feel sick in the stomach exactly like being on a swaying ship fighting the wind and the waves.
Full of useless content, content which can never win you anything - neither plaudits nor appreciation, neither a heart but maybe a friend. Those innumerable lines of thoughts borne out of a sense of being educated and just not literate only go to compound the problem. Why did Ayn write? Tagore spent an entire seventy years cutting down trees and wasting space in every Bengali household.
The most dangerous and damned discovery of the human race has been the mirror.
The only truth that emerges out of all the labyrinth of shadows is the undisputable crap of racial superiority. Which manifests itself in various forms in various forums. There was a time when only excellence was appreciated and pursued. How I wish I was born then. At least, I could have said that I did not survive that age. There is honour even in being kicked out of excellence. There was a time when men fought on principles and ideas. How exhilarating those might have been. How very proud those men must have been. If only they knew that they were the last lot.
Could extreme cynicism pave the way for perversion?
A liberated mind is the toughest thing to survive with. It is funny how people try to suppress thoughts which are way beyond their capacity by terming them as elitist or intellectual. Will we ever rid ourselves of prejudice? Will we ever know in the first place that we are prejudiced? Knowing is the first step - rectification or assimilation or acceptance is the next. How would we know?
"Be good.Do Good." That is the worst piece of shitty advice that you can give to your children. Rather it should be "Be opportunistic. Be clever."
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What prompted this angst? And oh, whatever did that, am glad that it pushed you back into blogging. I like causticity in spiderman, quietude and calm despondency is so totally not his style! Welcome back, I hope :-) P
Anon:
A combination of many a incident at the same time. I think I have got a few more things to say. So am back.
Thank you !
dude, when u retire, u shud go like Steven Waugh... in style...
not say I retire, then come back and confuse us all...
anyways, now tht u r back... keep writing
"...There is so much anger. So much hate. So much to cleanse. Will it ever go?..."
No it wont go. how can it go? But why this anger... what is to be cleansed.. ?? First let us decide that.
"..Those innumerable lines of thoughts borne out of a sense of being educated and just not literate only go to compound the problem..."
I agree... talking machines solve nothing.
"...The most dangerous and damned discovery of the human race has been the mirror...."
If only the mirror could have shown more... More of mind then body !!
"...If only they knew that they were the last lot. ..."
They were not the last lot and no group of people will ever be the last lot..
"..A liberated mind is the toughest thing to survive with. It is funny how people try to suppress thoughts which are way beyond their capacity by terming them as elitist or intellectual..."
All such self-perceptions are relative. How does one know that he is correct and others are wrong..liberated or otherwise..
"..."Be good.Do Good." That is the worst piece of shitty advice that you can give to your children. Rather it should be "Be opportunistic. Be clever."..."
Do you mean to say that the world is a big mess because people are good and they good... or is it in such a condition because everyone tries to be opportunistic and clever.. let us take a boundary condition as in Calculus ..if all are good and do ggod then the world is surely a better place... but if all try to become clever and opportunistic then we would be in a worse world..
There there will always be some people who are good and will do good while a vast majority would be opportunistic & clever... Hence it explains the condition of the world..
And yes.. I forgot..
Welcome back !! I always believed in reincarnation and eternity of Atman.
SRK:
Lets say I am Wasim Akram.
Gaurav:
Was not exactly referring to talking machines, but you are correct.
The mirror does show the mind and not just the body - only, I repeat, ONLY if you know how to look.
If you have the capacity to be tolerant of a thought which you can never agree in principle and not be obsessive about your own, then you have a liberated mind.
Complete agreement with the last paragraph.
And, thank you, but am still not in a position to comment on the existence of atman - let alone its reincarnation !!
hi thanx for visiting me and for the comment!!! hey just let it all out!!! its ur blog so u can say whatever u fell like!!
ps.- u must really be a big spiderman fan!!!!!
7confessions:
Am actually not a fan of the movie Spiderman. There is a bit of history on that one. Someday, I will write a post on it.
Thanks to you too for the comment !
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