Saturday, February 10, 2024
Tuesday, February 06, 2024
Understanding
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Education that murders
Unfortunately, the beggar minded
society values education as a means for acquiring money, power and security,
and not as an outcome but the very reason to educate. For majority of desperate
people, in this unjust nepotism driven corrupt world with acute poverty and characteristic middle class insecurities, this
surely is true and they end up as dehumanized lives chasing little world they are
eternally trapped in. When this becomes defining parameters of society is where
the problem is. Education therefore becomes goal oriented for gains, and the
worst of people pose as motivators to attune impressionable minds and hapless
people into this crude value system as eternal calling. Exams are conducted with much fanfare -the absurd nature of these competitions doesn’t really check the innate strength
or ingenuity (indeed the best educationists have questioned the stupid questions
they ask, as also the exaggerated IITs are tech coolies striving for status quo
world and gaining from opportunities herein to write success stories for herds
back home. It is the worst evaluation of education where humans are reduced to pawns. Ofcourse there are some who gain from better education understanding in West). The failure of education,
and with it potential of human, has much to do with this increasingly crass
control that is encroaching into core of humanity. The beggar minded society
stampeding to authenticate itself through increasingly meaningless competitions
ties itself in knots and strangulates itself. The beauty of life is taken away
and the confused alienated youngsters are evaluated on ugliness of society. Either
they systematically degrade themselves into this ugliness and goal orient for
power, prestige and money, and keep striving as best of herd and act as role
model for crass world, or else face the most important question there is:
whether to live? The goal oriented values and crude education system doesn’t really
factor the awareness of vastness of life and essential existential absurdity. Sisyphus
therefore has to suicide.
What is truly heartbreaking in this suicide note, apart from the soul wrenching innocence, is that the teenaged girl has chosen to write this extremely emotional last message to loved ones in a language that she is evidently not comfortable in. It points to deeper alienating factors, including likely lack of communication with people around. The desolate last line “this is the only option left” -a matter of fact evaluation of life by young mind, is a failure of society at many levels. It should shudder human conscience.
Monday, January 22, 2024
A nation awaits
...there is a mirthful contentment in this ethereal face. Hope it brings the same to millions of believers and make the world a better place. Om shaantih. Let there be peace.
Thursday, January 18, 2024
On the home stretch
Monday, January 15, 2024
Free will and nature of reality
There is/there is no/ free will.
Do we decide what we do? Ofcourse, we do. We are also
responsible for what we do. We are not primitives decided by fate or herd
manipulated by systems or animals driven by instinct. This question is seen as
an insult by most, and affront to their self. There is though complexities
involved. Is what we decide decided by us? Human beings pride themselves for
free will unlike animals who are motivated to action by desires and instinct.
Humans have intellectual capacity to pause their instinct to deliberate and to
choose with their free will. The question though is: Is this decision really
based on free will? Answer is as complex as life itself. Many philosophers
assert that there is no such thing as free will. It is an illusion. We are
driven by chance, or atleast choices are significantly shaped by forces that are
outside our control. While scientific insight into human neural circuitry
points to decision already in action before our free will -that is our mind,
has even decided. We feel we have decided but a subconscious process has
already begun before conscious self claim the free will. Brain activity can
predict a choice before conscious decision is taken. Indeed, UN has even
created framework to protect neuroright as human right. Brain data is valued.
Schopenhauer, one of the world’s prescient philosopher whose
ideas have influenced thinking of best minds over centuries, asserted that
humans have no free will. Human decisions are determined by body’s reactions to
stimuli and causes, and motives. Schopenhauer famously wrote that “we can do
what we want to do, but we cannot choose what we want”, and what we want is
determined by our nature, evolutionary pressures and contexts, causal factors
beyond human control. For free will to exhibit it must be determined by nothing
at all. Since that seems an impossibility does that mean that free will is a
lost cause, and that we are, for all our pretentions, predetermined? He however
adds that with deliberation relative free will is possible, which brings about
a relative freedom from an immediate determination to action. Even one of the
most vibrant mind Einstein admitted “I
claim credit for nothing. Everything is determined, the beginning as well as
the end, by forces over which we have no control”. Einstein adds “I
believe in intuition and inspirations. I sometimes feel that I am right. I do
not know that I am”. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is
limited while imagination encircles the world. What emerges from brief analysis
of these two brilliant minds is that free will is restricted and needs nothing -no
influence, to exhibit, while intuition and imagination better approximates what
is expected from free will in a given situation. So, although free will is
controlled by forces beyond human control a combination of knowledge,
imagination, intuition, and awareness of nothingness, makes the probabilities
of thought overlapping free will a high possibility, hence human assertion over
unknown factors to decipher the nature of reality.
This gap between
decision and free will is the fertile ground that determines how human mind
evaluates the world and assert its indelible presence. It is difficult to know
whether decision is based on free will, we can only intuit, we feel “we are
right” and only know when the decision is made. This decision is free will. If you
intend to know free will it vanishes. The intention destroys the free will. Since
we know that there are unknown variables, indeed unknowable variables -as the
world is limitless, but we also are aware that these variables are quantified
or addressed when the decision is highest estimation of reality. Free will is
what we decide. At quantum level the world is made up of probabilities of event,
binaries are exhibited when we observe. Non quantifiable reality vanishes in
this observation. To grasp reality is therefore essentially play of words. We
don’t take decision through matrix of binaries but complexities of increasing
probabilities for free will to align to the intricate realities we face. This kind
of high probable estimation of reality can happen when subconscious is
cultivated in nothingness, what Schopenhauer refers to as “determined by
nothing at all”, -so that all fiction driven reality denying externalities of
culture, tradition, influences, habits, reactions so on are negated. You have
to keep an open frame of mind receptive to senses, knowledge, and imagination
that ensues. There are no goals, as goals create intent hence influences the
reality into narrow frame thus away from nothingness that compose much of reality.
It’s an awareness of not trying to get anything out of life. What saint Lao Tzu
-a constant source of wonder for best minds, keep emphasizing wei wu wei
-do not do. In this fertile purposelessness there is an awareness that acts
without acting, action by inaction. (Hindu seer’s ‘detached action’ is coopted into devious overwhelming
degradation without meditative quality or deeper meaning with nothingness -it
works in the frame of ‘duty’). Meditation equips to connect deeper nature of
reality, and all the wise people beginning with Buddha have emphasized on leaving
mind in its state with nature. The presence. Here and now. Just be, the being
that is human. Shoonyatha. Lack of desire must be understood from this context,
and not negation of life. “Don’t try”, you don’t try to create, write a poem (Bukowski)
or work your imagination. Creation originates from accumulated thoughts,
actions and experiences, but can near aesthetics of art and expression of
creator in stillness. Scientific/technological/philosophical/artistic
expressions of quality nurtured in this vacuum before finding
practical/objective ways of expressions (this intent of action is the appearance of objective reality or goal, it collapses all the possibilities into action in awareness). This is also how species evolve. More you travel without purpose more
you are aware; it is an iteration for deeper self with reality. Aim of music is
to listen. Art is to watch. Dance is to dance. Sing is to sing. There is no
goal, not winning or to be best, it limits, the moment it is judged it is lost,
loses the presence hence cannot produce. It is a quantum reality. Miraculous Kabir
looks beyond nothingness, the observer is the ego, the observation tarnishes
the reality with its projection. To have goal is to conform your will thus reducing
your humanity -this precisely what systems like market and religion has done. Religion
tries to equate awareness into its staid futile ways by obfuscating the
semantics of faith and fate into rational and vibrant. They create fear of
‘unknown’ and manipulate immense as ‘power’. They degrade humanity into its
lowest denominator. Power creates and controls binary of success and failure, hell
and heaven, leading to predictable and replication of past. It grants
favour/boon/blessing to control fate denying the everyday complexities and surprises
of life. Goal degraded market value system create hierarchy of merit to pander
and perpetuate the system/program without adding anything meaningful. Striving
for narrowest estimation for highest gain. These impresses herd into limited
controlled imaginations hence overwhelming mediocrity.
So how to have awareness
and senses attuned to give high probable estimation of reality for meaningful
response or decision or as Einstein says “I sometimes feel that I am right”. A
society that intrinsically value excellence will be better placed than an ignorant
malevolent one. Russell proposes an ‘intellectual culture without emotional
atrophy’. Intelligence needs to be cultivated, it is alert curiosity, an
aptitude for acquiring knowledge, an open minded and inviting mind. He values courage
as “impersonal outlook on life”, that something which takes us beyond self
without effort, where instinct is free and intelligent is active. “Perfection
of courage is found in the man of many interests, who feels his ego to be small
part of the world, not by despising himself, but through valuing much that is
not himself.” Love, knowledge and art holds possibilities for impersonal life. Pleasure
of being alive and inquisitive to surrounding will by its very nature make it
easy for objective study of situation.
Truth is eternal to the approximation of our reality. It is not flawed but not entire. We can only attempt to understand. This humble realization is the wisdom on which we strive everyday reality and the possibilities, and very likely, awareness of better future, a larger truth that encompasses more. A deeper pattern of reality, a better understanding. Perceptive writers like Szymborska refer ‘i don’t know’ as an emphasis to our eternal humility, an apprehension of mystery that we are part. Camus brings in vacuousness hence the beginning of awareness of human condition, the absurdities that create path for comprehending complexities. This moral vacuum is what modern human faces when ‘god is dead’ hence an opportunity to explore emergent reality using critical mind without restrictive priori.
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Wednesday, January 03, 2024
Matter of aukat
Aukat is a term that loosely translate to status or stature in english which is as expected inaccurate since it removes the derogatory intent and sociocultural value system. Aukat is much depraved as it carries the debauched context of primitive society hence loses the meaning in translation, and so caste cannibals easily take patronizing western fattened fluffs for bull ride of egalitarian oasis blessed by mahatmas and pandits. Few centuries back aukat was ordained by devious squatters from sanctum and distributed to bidders. Nincompoops posing as rulers queued up to be authenticated by wastrels so as to control the herd by playing on their faith and insecurities until ofcourse reality struck and were eviscerated in attack, sanctum ransacked and squatter hung on the nearest pole while people went about their fate. Britishers encouraged this crave for ‘intelligent equals’ hence to get into the colonial system, it also kept substantial population of youth from revolting against racist colonizers -they needn’t have worried nincompoops had already placed themselves into elevated next to white people over common people. Caste cannibalism had much in common with racism, they sought parity and pride. It was easy for racist brutes to play on the egos of primitives through titles and cheap sundries hence extend control without much resistance. Aukat was now distributed by racist colonizers. Bureaucrats, as carrier of colonizers legacy, were deemed as having high aukat that expected common people to supplicate. Mere cog in machine who were expected to implement policy, on whom intellect was lost, were valued as intelligent and knowledgeable by primitive society.
These have percolated into the degraded society. Hence dimwit egoist bureaucrats are marker of intelligence for hapless people, unathletic cricketers as sports, nepotistic mediocre movie makers as artist lacking aesthetics or sense of exquisite or deeper meaning, producing art as sentimental to nurture superficial thinking, fickle minds and loose values, cronyism and consumerism as business, herd controller opportunistic cheapskate as local leader. There is least concern for common good but ulterior motive and greed. It is all neatly packed as wonderous diverse society. Meanwhile humbleness is practiced as competitive sports with scores, slights and mishaps keenly recorded as defining factors for future dealing. Humility is not for desire to respect but self abasement to acquire credit, sharpening hypocrisy by falsifying basic human instinct. Self obsessed essentially mediocre in attribute and gross in attitude most are acutely aware of their lack hence stampede for power, position, money, award, records…to authenticate their aukat over teeming herd.
In an evolved society intelligence
is inquisitiveness and awareness for better world while bureaucrat minor facilitators,
sports display of athletic prowess and delight of physical possibilities and
not money manipulation for lowest denominator herd entertainment, artistic
expressions hold meaning and insight, innovation in latest technology is
business model, enlightened ways and empathy is representation. Aukat hinges on degraded pattern of crude that salivates for more power, more money, bigger records, higher position, glittering awards…constant
salivation, fear of oblivion, ego and pride as meaning of life and transactional human relation as attribute. Highest, biggest, largest, tallest, richest… are
aspiration model. In the aukat defined world even size of chair is a defining
moment and essential lesson to the herd to keep them in their place i.e. aukat.
Tuesday, December 26, 2023
On meditative stillness
So I was
trying to find some good writers to read. Reading is an investment of time, presence
and effort; hence you have to choose carefully as if your life depends on it or
else do not read, go for a walk or hang upside down, just don’t degrade
yourself by reading mediocre nonsense that forms much of writing these days. Crass
stampede to get attention, they demean the medium as also devalue humanity. Your
presence is important to life don’t disregard by participating in the orgy of degradation,
the sickness that invades the soul if you are not discerning and vigilant. Your
attention is precious to your being. As I was meticulously flipping through website
to anchor on to the best of writers I was in presence of remarkable human being
and a brilliant writer. I really haven’t heard of Harry Martinson before, and
so here I was trying to find more of his writing. Harry Martinson was a Swedish
writer and poet. He was an orphan who had a tough life, while a teenager he ran
away from foster home and picked up odd menial jobs. He eventually got a job as
a stoker labor, shoveling coal into the boilers firebox to power the engine of
the ship -the same that was used in steam engine of railways that some of us
have seen in old movies. This one of the poems that I happen to read:
Meditative
stillness is unique evolution of human mind and relatively rare communion of
society. It is not chance or providence but unique characteristic that is
patterned in ideas, freedom and expressions that leads to stillness, a deeper
involvement with life. Political and economic stability plays a significant role
but isn’t the defining. Ancient Greeks and Egyptians are examples in its varying
and unique expression of thoughts and aesthetics that survived in unique
strands to emerge as and when society stills and individual meditates. Societies
were not egalitarian but majority enjoyed spaces that had access to meditative
stillness. This stillness is not satisfaction but absence of crave. It is inquisitive
awareness of human condition necessarily hinged on compassion. Primitive
societies survive on fear and crave, they herd to exist. Even with material
comfort and economic security they are trapped in their pathetic life of want
and control. Individual minds remain putrid pits while society becomes sinkhole
that attract the worst. Much of world is trapped in this vicious state, and any
number of opportunities of modern technologies and egalitarian options is
wasted. Their occupations are daily struggles of negation of life and possibilities.
Their crude expressions and stale ideas nurture crass entertainments of want
and inspiration for crave.
Much
of framework for human enterprise and progress stems from meditative stillness
that seeps into all forms of human expressions and thoughts. It needs constant strive
to reach this luxury of stillness. For hundreds and thousands of years nature
provided this stillness for life to thrive. This created brilliant expressions
of biodiversity. With consciousness human mind reach meditative state. Very few
regions of the world have achieved this evolved state that a self-taught man living
in worst of condition could produce such astounding expression of subtlety and
finesse. Such spaces are precious. Ofcourse in the last few years virtual world has created such spaces that is accessible from all across the world.
Harry Martinson also happened to visit Bombay (now Mumbai India) in 1920s while his ship was docked for few days. His observation in those few hours that he spent in Mumbai is a testament to sensibilities that I rarely find in Indian writers who spent lifetime in putrid pit lacking compassion or connection with life except as patronizing or self-justifying redemption of miserable life cloaked in blessing. Martinson writes “Sometimes my whole being shudders at the inconceivability of the throng, at the unimaginability of the multitude of sights”. There is poignant mention of his witnessing ‘dancing girls’ on the streets, compassion as he documents his observations. “Small groups of dancers, the youngest of the dancing girls not more than five years old at the most, wild, tormented, ecstatic, most of the time commanded by an old man, continuously shouting and threatening, ugly and repulsive: a sensational and upsetting contrast to the slender beauty of the whirling little dancers” Martinson writes “Bells are ringing wildly on the ankles of the tiny ballet dancers. He, the ugly one, shouts when the dance shall go over into acrobatics, and the tiny ones go backwards on their hands and feet, their bellies pointing up towards the sky. He shouts, as if he wanted to kill them, and they throw their legs up as they dance on, standing on their hands while he, with a murderous expression, plays on a monotonously humming string instrument; with the form of a fish and the appearance of a museum specimen, prehistorically evil”.... “What if John Bauer had seen you, dear little heart. How happy he would have been. John Bauer was our great fairy tale painter. He drowned in a long, spool-shaped lake called Vättern. He would have painted a dark picture of you, deep as a fairy tale. You would be sitting on an enormous lingonberry tuft within the woods of Holaved, blinking with your eyes, as dark as a wood-mere, so that the mere itself would rumble like thunder down in its mud, rumble out of envy”. Martinson pays money to the man to stop the exploitation, and writes that he wanted to hurt the man but avoided such a confrontation as he was concerned for the girls. “I could never be that cruel, not even if I was so angry with both the entire Brahminism and the vast constipation of the English lord system”. With this prescient line he was able to put his finger on the pulse of this degraded depraved society that generations of mediocre Indian writers nurtured to control narration lacked in moral capacity. And if you glimpse through the literary awards, you will see this urge to control narration as also nepotism of squatter camaraderie breeding the most mediocre but with high sense of self-worth of blessed gift. Like everything else most Indian writers are embarrassment. That they couldn’t sufficiently appreciate writers of caliber, like say, Mohd Basheer speaks of beggar minds haggling for next meal while stampeding for power and connections. Here artists are cheapskates who create slum cakes while marketeers define art. Mediocre nurture crass to justify itself.
Sunday, December 17, 2023
Friday, December 08, 2023
condolences
Immense loss
They're looking for victims and poets to rent.
They represent me without my consent.
Steal our souls and make their documentaries.
Inform daily on our community.
Without Black suffering they'd have no jobs.
Without our dead they'd have no office.
Without our tears they'd have no drink.
If they stopped sucking we could get justice.
The coconuts are getting paid.
Thursday, December 07, 2023
A minor news
Indians will know the nuances and
all the intricate depravities hidden in the news. Western fattened fluffs will
be least aware, the imperial laziness affliction in colonial comfort, and
ofcourse squatters have already swarmed their little mind space to interpret
and indeed represent, to efficiently suck out the patronizing goodies of
colonial angst and victim binary. For last many decades charlatans and their
litters have spread out across the west to represent us Indians and accrue
immediate benefits, and yes, simultaneously -as a posture of great concern, our
local guardians against specially carved out evil forces that we common people
based in India are least aware -indeed too low intelligent to even comprehend.
They perform their entitled role as some kind of great personal sacrifice for
highest morals that keeps the fattened fluffs stupefied to match. It has
reached an influx point. We cannot take it any longer. Fattened
fluffs-squatter arrangement mutually benefited in an insular world. Moving a*se
as sign of debating point discomfort, noting the wonders of turn of sentence,
haggard desolate expressions, were how crucial issues dealt, and agreed with
orgies and immediate schemes to pass it on to litters. Internet has opened up,
and this devious alliance of wasted western fattened fluffs and caste cannibals
to contain Indians in a narration for mutual benefit will not be allowed. We are
not your fodder.
So, coming back to the minor news,
what really happens when “used plate touch” someone? Is the fear about
infection? Hygiene? Rest assured it cannot be hygiene. Caste cannibals as a
characteristic trait are low on hygiene, but high on purity. Purity has nothing
to do with hygiene. It is a squatter tutored mental illness, infection of soul,
that is passed onto society. It is the beginning of depravities. It is how
caste system works and grades. Interesting word here is “used”; it
doesn’t even carry minuscule sense of what it intents in english. Caste
cannibals therefore have benefited from this loss in translation, nor could
they find reason for a suitable word considering that they gleefully introduced
‘pundit’ and ‘pariah’ with the help of racist colonizer. Alien language lack
the nuance to carry complex meanings of the origin. In hindi the trigger word
is “jhoota” that can tizzy squatter balanced world of depravities into utter meaninglessness.
Words like “jhoota” carry context of barbarian culture hence cannot easily be
translated nor understood. The other word that needs attention here is “touch”.
Note it doesn’t mention that the food spilled or cloths got spoiled but the ‘used
plate’ touched. This touch is where purity line is drawn. Squatter scums had
scheme and list of ‘touchable’, and they still squat in sanctum as a c*ntdick
right while equally depraved scale highest moral grounds in west into
multiculture orgasm.
So the inanimate object -plate,
becomes carrier of demon incarnate appearing to vandalize pure blessed world with
its touch -accidental or not -this distinction is meaningless in the context of
breach. Purity is as fragile as squatter’s hold on the world and this is passed
on to fate driven herd hence the bewildering reaction that is valued in life of
hapless man. The beleaguered man working as a waiter -by its very logic is ‘not
blessed’, hence further adding to the idea of impuring the blessed people and
pattern of caste cannibalised world, furthermore gravity in debilitating incursion
into pure blessed world that must be stringently dealt. And like the racist christian
nutcase American ready with gun to defend from hallucination caste cannibals
pounce with all ferocity on to a likely malnourished harassed man trying to make
out a living. They kill him, dump him and move on. Human sacrifice to keep the
world pure and blessed.
Fattened fluffs in west will be
conveniently translated to see this as minor skirmish nothing systemic of
diseased mind nor caste cannibals complicit. They don’t really matter anymore. They
nurtured monster mullahs and caste cannibals and unleashed ecosystem of uncouth
under their influence across the world. They
will not be allowed to control narration, nor patronize. They don’t really measure
up to the challenges of contemporary world.









