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State sponsored or private violence

State sponsored or private violence

Can we justify or rationalize individual or private violence? From the time of the primitive world, Governments have brought about violence in the form of war, against the civilian population, against states and countries. So why does a struggle arise to prove whose thoughts are right when an individual does the same for any political reason?

In a democratic social order, violence is accepted and even justified against persons or organizations that operate under the cover of the law. But when the legal cover is removed, the violence shock and alarm us.

Are we aware that we exist in these times where the governments in all countries are indulging in all sorts of tomfoolery and monkey business? They tax more, regulate and control more, stage manage and maneuver more. The have become more pretentious, haughty and ambitious. Governments have cut off employment opportunities of entire generations, looted the nation, their reps have bank accounts abroad, and has even made it impossible for its citizens to provide for their own savings.

The public is beginning to form its own opinion and have increasingly become aware not only of the problem but also the source of the problem. The common man’s anger towards the political and bureaucratic elite is on the rise, especially as the economic depression intensifies. In times to come this mass anger will turn violent.

So how do we solve these problems that distress us today? Well, the government needs to civilize itself and understand the realities of our times. (Is Rs 32/- enough for the BPL lives?). It needs to disband its machineries of control and regulations, harness its police and armed bureaucrats, and permit society to develop and flourish on its own. It is not complicated. So why does not the Government take this path? Well, it cannot and will not since it flourishes on domestic and international violence.

Someone had so rightly said “Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.”

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After fulfilling all their wants, needs, desires, dreams, ambitions and fascinations, what do the mega-rich do?
They can’t go out and put up pyramids these days what with labour cost, issues and other paraphernalia.

So what is the next best thing that they do? Well they put up museums with their names attached to it!


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Read the following somewhere and really like it :

Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;

He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do your worst, for I have lived today.

Be fair or foul, Let it rain or shine
The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.

No power itself upon the past has power;
But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour.

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Why Do Kids Hate School?

Parents rarely give thought as to why their children hate school — after all, aren't kids supposed to? This thought process relies on the hypothesis that children are genetically inclined to loathe learning. More likely, however, is that kids dislike the system of schooling they're forced into rather than education. What they're subjected to daily, characterized by mass-standardization and orthodoxy, is adversative to the human spirit, and is likely the source of their absolute contempt for school.

Children are cleverer than they're given credit for. They recognize bad teaching just as well as adults can. They know the pace at which they're learning is always too fast or too slow — never just right. They realize that much of the material they're learning will be of little value outside the walls that surround them. They're also aware that in the eyes of the state they are (literally) just a number.

Children are no different than adults — they will always have to do things that are beneficial to their well-being but not necessarily enjoyable. It is, however, reasonable to expect that if provided with education that is effective most kids would enjoy their schooling.

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People talk of apartheid and racialism. People talk about being leftist or rightist. People talk about god and sins and whether after leaving this earth they would settle in heaven or get thrown in hell. People discuss politics. I guess people cannot stop distinguishing between the blacks and the whites, being a communist or a capitalist, going up or down or showing interest in such trifling like political beliefs.

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We will never have enough proof that Corporate Interests, Elite Bankers, Military Establishments and Politicians are all in this together to form a country’s policy to suit them in the best and all possible means. Either you join them or shut up.

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One of Aristotle’s famous phrase is “Man is a social animal”. This phrase has been twisted and translated in as many ways as could be. Society has become so damned fundamental and necessary that trying to live in isolation has become a spectacular Herculean task and challenge. The idea of living is isolation is dauntingly one both of horror and fascination.

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War is essential to the very existence of man. It is paradoxical but rational. One has never remembered a time when there was no war in this world. The most astute and prudent of leaders, the most benevolent and gracious of kings nor any religion or religious institution has ever been able to stop war. War can never be stopped; and there is no such thing like a rational or justified war,

There will always be thousands of thousands to whom even such a war will be senseless and unjustified. Quite simply, no state can live without war, which is one of the state's essential functions. ... War is the price we pay for living in a state. Before you can abolish war you will have to abolish all states. But that is unthinkable until the propensity to violence and evil is rooted out of human beings. The state was created to protect us from evil. In ordinary life thousands of bad impulses, from a thousand faces of evil, move chaotically, randomly, against the vulnerable. The state is called upon to check these impulses — but it generates others of its own, still more powerful, and this time one-directional. At times it throws them all in a single direction — and that is war.


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Kinds Of people

There are three kinds of people. One who leads, one who follows and one how neither leads nor follows. Which kind are you?

How To become Rich

There are three ways to become rich

They are (either\or\and):

1. Inherit

2. Work Hard

3. Steal



If you know of any other way, please do let me know.

Modern Day Slavery

• You navigate through existence and enter into nothingness. In between you sleep every night and that is probably what keeps you sane.

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• One does not have to spend the rest of one’s life fearing hell or thinking about heaven if one does not believe that there is life after death. In any case just imagine how boring heaven would be!

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• The Creature Man was created under mysterious circumstances.

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• The so called proud working class is nothing but another form of modern day slavery. The working class is always overworked by their master; eight hours of daily labour does not seem to be enough; most of their time is spent in trying to afford enough food supply, shelter, and the necessaries and comforts of life, leaving them very little time to further their education or to indulge in leisure, amusement, sleep and a little vagaries of life.

The lowest and most degraded form of human existence is the experience when the individual has to toil, labour and be depended on others for wages to pay for food, shelter and the necessaries and comforts of life.

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• The human race has no interest that everyone should be educated, fed, have access to medical facilities, or promote peace, well being, happiness to every man, woman and child regardless of their class, sect, colour, party or country.

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• There are people who believe in flying saucers, in telepathy, in astrology, in the Bermuda Triangle, in reincarnations, in gods, in satan, in Vastu Shastras, in Feng Shui, in Falun Gong, in heaven and hell, in Raelism, in black magic, in ghosts-spirits-souls,. . . . . .

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The ghetto in the sky

In a city like Mumbai, with it slums, high-rises and fancy apartments, the entire population lives in a ghetto. To me a ghetto is an overcrowded, over populated urban area. There is not much of a difference between people living in a poor area and of those living in high-rises. Both are squeezed into small places and this makes them very angry, exasperated and frustrated. These people are more likely to commit crime.

In the poorer area, because of the overcrowded, social and economic living conditions, crime rates are high. In the areas where there are high-rises, streets below are unsafe. The higher one lives, the higher is the possibility of crime being committed. If one lives on the ground floor, one has more and immediate access to the streets. One’s car is much safer on the streets if one lives on the ground or the 1st floor. The higher the building, the more people are lifted from the street level.

Now the ghettos are in the sky!

The Art of Bargaining

At the end, I don’t want to lie on my deathbed and wish that I had spent more time in the office with those gloomy fluorescent lamps, those countless emails & phone-calls, those colleagues stabbing you in the back, those over paid bosses, those talents going unrewarded, the countless absurdities of office life. No sir, I would not like to spend time at that frustrating and most illogical place on earth.

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People don’t take much interest on other people except for their social positions

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The Art of Bargaining
I spent sometime in Linking Road trying to understand how stuffs are bargained and purchased.
Bargaining must be an art, otherwise how do we define the following
1. The customer disagrees, bickers, squabble with the shopkeeper.
2. The customer points out defects in the object that is to be purchased
3. The customer sweet talks, coax, pursue, entices.
4. The customer displays, irritation, displeasure, annoyance.
5. The customer derides, mock and scoff at the shopkeeper
6. The customer intimidates the shopkeeper never to come to his shop again
7. The customer shrug shoulders.
8. The customer cautions and reprimands the shopkeeper
9. The customer feigns walking away from the shop displaying resentment.
10. Finally when the bargain has been won, heads are shaken in melancholy as if
defeat has been acknowledged with resignation.

So the next time you intend to purchase something, try out the above points and see for yourself the art of bargaining

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