Saw the film “The Ogre” today. The film stars John Malkovich as Abel who though a misfit and a troublemaker in the society does things which can be termed as grotesque and yet remains an empathetic green character. He is the kind of idiot who identifies with children and animals and believes that he has personal power and can guide his own fate.
The fable is expressionistic and shows how young adolescent boys are drawn to German mythology and Nazi ideology
The unusual thing about this movie in general was that it was made in the English language, in spite of it being very European, crawling with references to Goethe, the German folklore and the Nazi dogmas.
Monday, November 29, 2010
Sunday, November 28, 2010
The Juvenile or the Judge
Looking around, one can perceive that the stomachs are full but the minds seem to be empty. Rest but for a few, the mass seems to be gorging themselves off, with nary a mind of their own.
A long time back I read a story about a juvenile, who was poor and scared. He was put into prison for something that could well be described as tomfoolery. It turned out this was supposed to be a crime. The judge detested the idea of sentencing the child. He did not think that it was the right thing to do. But he could not help it as the law left him no alternative. He was bound by the law to pass judgment. It was an awful thing. The judge was doing something in the capacity of an official. Had he been man enough, he would not have thought of doing such a thing. The judge passed a sentence without any sense of responsibility, with any discomfort, just because he was acting as an official and not as a man.
Funnily no one seemed to have been associated in it. Not the Judge, not the Jury, not the Prosecutor, not the Complaining Witness, not the Policeman or the Jailers. No one felt any responsibility. No one took any responsibility. They just went about doing their ‘job’ as officials. No one acted as Men. The most shocking part was that even the general public did not consider these officials as criminals, but rather as straight, decent and honest men.
Now whether the juvenile or the judge committed a crime becomes a question.
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A long time back I read a story about a juvenile, who was poor and scared. He was put into prison for something that could well be described as tomfoolery. It turned out this was supposed to be a crime. The judge detested the idea of sentencing the child. He did not think that it was the right thing to do. But he could not help it as the law left him no alternative. He was bound by the law to pass judgment. It was an awful thing. The judge was doing something in the capacity of an official. Had he been man enough, he would not have thought of doing such a thing. The judge passed a sentence without any sense of responsibility, with any discomfort, just because he was acting as an official and not as a man.
Funnily no one seemed to have been associated in it. Not the Judge, not the Jury, not the Prosecutor, not the Complaining Witness, not the Policeman or the Jailers. No one felt any responsibility. No one took any responsibility. They just went about doing their ‘job’ as officials. No one acted as Men. The most shocking part was that even the general public did not consider these officials as criminals, but rather as straight, decent and honest men.
Now whether the juvenile or the judge committed a crime becomes a question.
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Friday, November 26, 2010
Learning to Subtract
Whether it is philosophy, science or civilization, our systems has always taught us to add. Add to life. We have not been taught that we must be able to subtract too. Life is a process of amalgamation and fragmentation.
Since the earliest Greek era, man has formed societies and political systems. But no societies or political systems has ever been able to eradicate human misery. We have only been able to add.
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Is it eccentric and uncharacteristic to keep asking question about the nature of the universe, about the human condition and what the human is actually doing here on earth, or on the contrary is it abnormal and weird for people NOT to reflect about it and unconsciously allow themselves to live life, as it were?
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Today we are ‘civilized savages.’ Once when we were ‘savaged savages’ and when one of the savages first saw his shelter destroyed by a bolt of lightning, he fell down on his knees and on his face in bewilderment, awe and terror. He had no notion of natural forces. He had no knowledge of the laws of electricity. He saw this as an act by a supernatural intelligent personality.
Today some of us don’t believe in fairies; demons; nymphs; sprites; elves; goblins; brownies; gnomes; Pan, the Roman god of forest; Haphaestus, the Greek god of fire; Zeus, the ruler of the gods; Juno, the queen of gods; Hades, the god of death. We interpret these as fables, imaginations, hallucinations, forgetting that once upon a time they were serious phenomenon to ancient man who ardently believed in them and whose mind explained that they were the products of some supernatural individual personality. Ancient man did believe that there was this super hero who exterminated the dragon. He represented the science of ancient times.
The unknown, coupled with ignorance brings fear. Whether it was the ancient man or the modern civilized man, his existence is based upon fear. He was born amongst fear. He was fed by fear. He will die with fear.
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Since the earliest Greek era, man has formed societies and political systems. But no societies or political systems has ever been able to eradicate human misery. We have only been able to add.
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Is it eccentric and uncharacteristic to keep asking question about the nature of the universe, about the human condition and what the human is actually doing here on earth, or on the contrary is it abnormal and weird for people NOT to reflect about it and unconsciously allow themselves to live life, as it were?
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Today we are ‘civilized savages.’ Once when we were ‘savaged savages’ and when one of the savages first saw his shelter destroyed by a bolt of lightning, he fell down on his knees and on his face in bewilderment, awe and terror. He had no notion of natural forces. He had no knowledge of the laws of electricity. He saw this as an act by a supernatural intelligent personality.
Today some of us don’t believe in fairies; demons; nymphs; sprites; elves; goblins; brownies; gnomes; Pan, the Roman god of forest; Haphaestus, the Greek god of fire; Zeus, the ruler of the gods; Juno, the queen of gods; Hades, the god of death. We interpret these as fables, imaginations, hallucinations, forgetting that once upon a time they were serious phenomenon to ancient man who ardently believed in them and whose mind explained that they were the products of some supernatural individual personality. Ancient man did believe that there was this super hero who exterminated the dragon. He represented the science of ancient times.
The unknown, coupled with ignorance brings fear. Whether it was the ancient man or the modern civilized man, his existence is based upon fear. He was born amongst fear. He was fed by fear. He will die with fear.
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Thursday, November 25, 2010
Fascism = Capitalism + Socialism + Slaughter
One time or the other, all forms of authority becomes predatory and all forms of authority become corrupt. At the least, in India, the overwhelming reality is that whenever people get ready to change that government, they can change it.
This is not the same in Pakistan. There is no political democracy in Pakistan. In Pakistan the state of affairs is like that of a musician who while playing, is consciously aware that there are gun totting crazy fundamentalist let loose by primordial doctrines. He cannot play in peace. He has to set aside his musical instrument, clasp a rifle and secure his own security, all the while hoping that he does not have to use it.
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Violence is the crudest and lowest form that can be used by the lowest of the lowest class of people. Paradoxically, violence has been used to acquire rights and freedom from tyrants. Perhaps once the rights and freedom has been established, human problems can then be resolved in a more refined and civilized manner by using the ballot instead of the bullet.
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Fascism = Capitalism + Socialism + Slaughter
Capitalism = Fascism - Socialism - Slaughter
Socialism = Fascism - Capitalism - Slaughter
Slaughter = Fascism - Socialism - Capitalism
{Socialism has been used keeping in mind not the classic Marxism Leninism Maoism
or communism but collectivism and/or communalism}
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This is not the same in Pakistan. There is no political democracy in Pakistan. In Pakistan the state of affairs is like that of a musician who while playing, is consciously aware that there are gun totting crazy fundamentalist let loose by primordial doctrines. He cannot play in peace. He has to set aside his musical instrument, clasp a rifle and secure his own security, all the while hoping that he does not have to use it.
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Violence is the crudest and lowest form that can be used by the lowest of the lowest class of people. Paradoxically, violence has been used to acquire rights and freedom from tyrants. Perhaps once the rights and freedom has been established, human problems can then be resolved in a more refined and civilized manner by using the ballot instead of the bullet.
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Fascism = Capitalism + Socialism + Slaughter
Capitalism = Fascism - Socialism - Slaughter
Socialism = Fascism - Capitalism - Slaughter
Slaughter = Fascism - Socialism - Capitalism
{Socialism has been used keeping in mind not the classic Marxism Leninism Maoism
or communism but collectivism and/or communalism}
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
On The Origin Of Species
Those were the days when science as a topic was learned as part of religious studies. The scientific establishments were closely tied to the Churches.
During this period of the 1850s, Lord John Russell, the grandfather of Lord Bertrand Russell was the Prime Minister of England, Nicholas I was the Emperor of Russia, Frederick William IV was the King of Germany, Napoleon III was the Emperor of France, the 1st transpacific telegraph cable was laid, the Mughal Empire was disbanded by the British, Russia on one side and Great Britain, France and Ireland on the other side fought the Crimean War, and the western world fought the Opium War with China.
This was also the time that Charles Darwin published in 1959 one of the greatest works “On the Origin of Species”. Since that day, the creation-evolution controversy still exists amongst the cultural, political, scientific, and theological communities. Fundamentalists have thrived on both sides. The US banned the teaching of evolution in schools. Man has not come around to accept that he descended from a lower order of animals. Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and other religions all have their own and different version on this subject. All in all, after many failed attempts, I finally got around to completing this difficult book. Though I must own up, the better part was beyond me to comprehend and comment. Nevertheless, with years passing by, a belief is being established that one cannot have science and religion in the same bin. Both are too diametrically viewed and going forward one does not perceive any scope or hope for reconciliation.
During this period of the 1850s, Lord John Russell, the grandfather of Lord Bertrand Russell was the Prime Minister of England, Nicholas I was the Emperor of Russia, Frederick William IV was the King of Germany, Napoleon III was the Emperor of France, the 1st transpacific telegraph cable was laid, the Mughal Empire was disbanded by the British, Russia on one side and Great Britain, France and Ireland on the other side fought the Crimean War, and the western world fought the Opium War with China.
This was also the time that Charles Darwin published in 1959 one of the greatest works “On the Origin of Species”. Since that day, the creation-evolution controversy still exists amongst the cultural, political, scientific, and theological communities. Fundamentalists have thrived on both sides. The US banned the teaching of evolution in schools. Man has not come around to accept that he descended from a lower order of animals. Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs and other religions all have their own and different version on this subject. All in all, after many failed attempts, I finally got around to completing this difficult book. Though I must own up, the better part was beyond me to comprehend and comment. Nevertheless, with years passing by, a belief is being established that one cannot have science and religion in the same bin. Both are too diametrically viewed and going forward one does not perceive any scope or hope for reconciliation.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Old WInes, Friends and Authors
Actors, Novelist, Poets and others try to live life passing themselves off as normal persons. They exist as if in a trance. Their ignorance about reality is a conscious effort. They are not in position to realize that we live in a ‘life threatening and dignity destroying’ environment. They cannot switch themselves off from this stupor and come to the actuality of the world.
Most of them live in their world of lies. They have more than one version of their autobiography and none of them are true. Even if they write fictions, people would presume that the contents were disguised autobiography.
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I am not sure that between the ups and downs of life, between the hills and valleys of life, a pattern exists in our life. There are so much of actions and catastrophes that occur in our lives, that sometimes I am led to believe that there could be some kind of pattern. Conceivably there isn’t or possibly we are inept in categorizing those patterns.
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It is said that one should drink old wines, have old friends and read old authors. Agree?
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Most of them live in their world of lies. They have more than one version of their autobiography and none of them are true. Even if they write fictions, people would presume that the contents were disguised autobiography.
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I am not sure that between the ups and downs of life, between the hills and valleys of life, a pattern exists in our life. There are so much of actions and catastrophes that occur in our lives, that sometimes I am led to believe that there could be some kind of pattern. Conceivably there isn’t or possibly we are inept in categorizing those patterns.
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It is said that one should drink old wines, have old friends and read old authors. Agree?
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Tuesday, November 16, 2010
Another take on . . . . . . .
Like Happiness, Freedom too is a myth. Otherwise how do we explain that as long as man is a slave to desire, ambition and necessity, the effort to try and unshackle him will never be realized?
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I guess we may be able to diminish our struggle for survival, had we instead of fighting for a country, fought for the earth to make it a better place to live (and die) in it.
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“It is lonely at the top’’. Most people believe in this statement.
Let us take an unusual take. Very few people no doubt reach the top. This could be because very few people care to take a trip further than the run of the mill course. It may well be that there might be a lot of space at the top
Most of them appear to be content and pleased with their accomplishments and thus restricts themselves to the boundary where excellence starts.
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Here is another statement: “The dignity of labour.”
People keep talking about the dignity of labour and about how man is recognized and accepted because of his (hard) work.
Here is another different take on work. Work is indispensable, but only the ‘poor human earthly condition’ makes it so. The dignity is not in labour. The dignity is in leisure. Leisure is directly associated with independence and freedom. More of leisure means more of freedom. A person who does not believe in ‘The dignity of Leisure’ does not have much independence. And if one still takes another look at work, one may discover that most works are irrational, detrimental, imprudent, depraved and pointless.
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I guess we may be able to diminish our struggle for survival, had we instead of fighting for a country, fought for the earth to make it a better place to live (and die) in it.
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“It is lonely at the top’’. Most people believe in this statement.
Let us take an unusual take. Very few people no doubt reach the top. This could be because very few people care to take a trip further than the run of the mill course. It may well be that there might be a lot of space at the top
Most of them appear to be content and pleased with their accomplishments and thus restricts themselves to the boundary where excellence starts.
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Here is another statement: “The dignity of labour.”
People keep talking about the dignity of labour and about how man is recognized and accepted because of his (hard) work.
Here is another different take on work. Work is indispensable, but only the ‘poor human earthly condition’ makes it so. The dignity is not in labour. The dignity is in leisure. Leisure is directly associated with independence and freedom. More of leisure means more of freedom. A person who does not believe in ‘The dignity of Leisure’ does not have much independence. And if one still takes another look at work, one may discover that most works are irrational, detrimental, imprudent, depraved and pointless.
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Monday, November 15, 2010
Prologue: A dream_____ Epilogue: A nightmare
I first had a dream. It was then followed by a nightmare.
But 1st - the dream.
I was a run of the mill person. I use to daily go about my life in a manner which was more or less living within a budget and within my means.
Then one day, I received a call from a Bank, which put an end to my daily chores and misery. The caller from the bank asked me to meet the manager of the bank regarding some considerable fortune left to me as a sole heir by some distant relative. I was to reach the Bank and sign some documents and receive the necessary authorization to dispose of my newly found fortune in any way that I saw fit.
Obviously, I hastily reached the bank to take possession of my wealth.
The wealth ran into millions of dollars. From this point, going forward, this was to have a formidable impact on my life. It opened up new worlds to me, now enabling me to afford to buy the things that I never could dream buying before. I can now afford to buy a new home, a villa perhaps. I can now afford to buy a whole new wardrobe, travel across the world, quit my current job that I have and I do not like. I could now live the life of a gypsy, living anywhere on this planet as I please, with nary a thought about the future.
I could get on to a business or invest and speculate in the stock and real estate markets. I would no longer be terrified of losing a few million dollars and still be very rich.
This would be my boom period of my life. My life would be easy, simple, trouble free, uncomplicated. I can do anything that I want to do and my prospects would be inexhaustible. For the rest of my life I would fondly and enthusiastically look back to this period and call it “The Good Times”.
Now the nightmare_
A second letter appeared which put an end to my life of ease and plenty. The letter said that it was proved that my distant relative got this fortune through some criminal means. This meant that the fortune did not belong to my relative and thus could not be passed on to me or to anyone else.
Consequently I was compelled to return the wealth. In view of that, the bank had to freeze the account and a court order was issued restraining me from spending any more of what I thought was an inheritance. The court also demanded that I return whatever fortune was left unspent.
I now find myself covered in a mountain of debt that I cannot repay. I must now sell my home and my dream villa in distress and at a price that was almost half of what I paid for. I had to get rid at a dirt price, the clothes and the many other goods that I had bought. My travels across the world were an overall loss. Also at a great loss were all the expenses that I incurred buying those luxury items. Given my deficiency of past financial success, I also could not make any profits out of my investment in stocks and real estate markets.
All this gusto of receiving my inheritance had turned out to be a financial disaster. With a lot of certainty and by erroneously leading me to understand that I owned a massive fortune, I made substantial purchases. The fact was that I did not own any fortune. But it led me to live a life far beyond my means. I squandered most of the little wealth that I had prior to my inheriting my inheritance.
That was the period of my life when I went bust.
So during my sleep, I went through a boom period and a bust period of my life.
But 1st - the dream.
I was a run of the mill person. I use to daily go about my life in a manner which was more or less living within a budget and within my means.
Then one day, I received a call from a Bank, which put an end to my daily chores and misery. The caller from the bank asked me to meet the manager of the bank regarding some considerable fortune left to me as a sole heir by some distant relative. I was to reach the Bank and sign some documents and receive the necessary authorization to dispose of my newly found fortune in any way that I saw fit.
Obviously, I hastily reached the bank to take possession of my wealth.
The wealth ran into millions of dollars. From this point, going forward, this was to have a formidable impact on my life. It opened up new worlds to me, now enabling me to afford to buy the things that I never could dream buying before. I can now afford to buy a new home, a villa perhaps. I can now afford to buy a whole new wardrobe, travel across the world, quit my current job that I have and I do not like. I could now live the life of a gypsy, living anywhere on this planet as I please, with nary a thought about the future.
I could get on to a business or invest and speculate in the stock and real estate markets. I would no longer be terrified of losing a few million dollars and still be very rich.
This would be my boom period of my life. My life would be easy, simple, trouble free, uncomplicated. I can do anything that I want to do and my prospects would be inexhaustible. For the rest of my life I would fondly and enthusiastically look back to this period and call it “The Good Times”.
Now the nightmare_
A second letter appeared which put an end to my life of ease and plenty. The letter said that it was proved that my distant relative got this fortune through some criminal means. This meant that the fortune did not belong to my relative and thus could not be passed on to me or to anyone else.
Consequently I was compelled to return the wealth. In view of that, the bank had to freeze the account and a court order was issued restraining me from spending any more of what I thought was an inheritance. The court also demanded that I return whatever fortune was left unspent.
I now find myself covered in a mountain of debt that I cannot repay. I must now sell my home and my dream villa in distress and at a price that was almost half of what I paid for. I had to get rid at a dirt price, the clothes and the many other goods that I had bought. My travels across the world were an overall loss. Also at a great loss were all the expenses that I incurred buying those luxury items. Given my deficiency of past financial success, I also could not make any profits out of my investment in stocks and real estate markets.
All this gusto of receiving my inheritance had turned out to be a financial disaster. With a lot of certainty and by erroneously leading me to understand that I owned a massive fortune, I made substantial purchases. The fact was that I did not own any fortune. But it led me to live a life far beyond my means. I squandered most of the little wealth that I had prior to my inheriting my inheritance.
That was the period of my life when I went bust.
So during my sleep, I went through a boom period and a bust period of my life.
Wednesday, November 03, 2010
“The ‘Right’ to be Left Alone.”
6th and 7th Nov., 2010 will see the US President Obama in Mumbai. I wonder will he ever grasp the fact that throughout the world, the US is perceived as setting less of spiritual standards and more on materialistic ones. Will he realize that the US is seen as a conceited, egocentric, gluttonous country engrossed in Guns and Dollars? Will he ever understand that the US is not seen as a country interested in people, their hopes and aspirations? Or will he be just like those American citizens who never had this opportunity to see the world and thought that the world is America?
Sometimes I wonder, has he as a US representativem come here to gloat over us? Sometimes I even wonder whether the Americans think that they are the only human beings in this world!
Anyway south of Mumbai will be closed to us mortals. The question is : Is it worth to waste so much time, money and energy on one man?
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Like the Right of Privacy - Is there a right called “The Right to be left alone?”
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The struggle to survive, struggle against poverty, hunger & disease – these are basic struggles. There is another struggle. The struggle between the individual and his sacrosanct right to express himself and ‘The Authority’ that looks for compliance, obedience and repress or stifles free thought and free expression that may determine our fate. The Authorities seek to regulate free speech, putting a limit on the range of discussions that one should or can have, censoring or limiting thoughts and subjects that appear to be taboo and reminding us constantly that holocaust is not actually over.
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I guess it simmers down to two things that one should aim in life. One is to go out and get what you want. The other is, after you get what you want in life, to enjoy it. Very few have achieved the second.
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We work our way up to own something. We work hard to own a house. We work hard to pay off the loan. When finally we own it, we don’t find anybody living in it.
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Sometimes I wonder, has he as a US representativem come here to gloat over us? Sometimes I even wonder whether the Americans think that they are the only human beings in this world!
Anyway south of Mumbai will be closed to us mortals. The question is : Is it worth to waste so much time, money and energy on one man?
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Like the Right of Privacy - Is there a right called “The Right to be left alone?”
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The struggle to survive, struggle against poverty, hunger & disease – these are basic struggles. There is another struggle. The struggle between the individual and his sacrosanct right to express himself and ‘The Authority’ that looks for compliance, obedience and repress or stifles free thought and free expression that may determine our fate. The Authorities seek to regulate free speech, putting a limit on the range of discussions that one should or can have, censoring or limiting thoughts and subjects that appear to be taboo and reminding us constantly that holocaust is not actually over.
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I guess it simmers down to two things that one should aim in life. One is to go out and get what you want. The other is, after you get what you want in life, to enjoy it. Very few have achieved the second.
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We work our way up to own something. We work hard to own a house. We work hard to pay off the loan. When finally we own it, we don’t find anybody living in it.
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