Edward the Terrible aka Snowden the Insane

Like happiness, increasingly the perception of liberty and freedom seems to appear mythical. The Net was once thought to be a truly global network. Not today.

In comes ‘Edward the Terrible,’ spy or 'NSA Leaker' to some and whistle-blower to others. He went ‘bonkers’ and decided to spill the beans. Now because of his insanity, we know that the National Security Agency (NSA) accesses our Emails, Phones, Videos, Facebook accounts et al by pressurizing US internet companies to divulge data. Perhaps the US government passes on these data to private contractors (who should not be having them) and make huge profits.

At these present times the possibility of ‘Talibanising’ the net into geological or judicial environment is not really far off. So far the western powers, specifically the US had been governing and controlling the Net. Going forward we may soon be heading towards an era where Europe may have their ‘European Network,’ and countries like Iran, China, North Korea, Russia, and the bulk of the Islamic countries may follow suit. No US based internet companies might be trusted in the future, when people realize that Apple, Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft et al are nothing but just essential elements of US cyber surveillance scheme.

We are presently thinking of sending out our data to the cloud. If we are thinking of cloud computing, then let us think again. There will be an increasing trend towards monopolization and privatization of cyber space. If we are to strife for and value our privacy and ownership - then perhaps the concept of cloud computing may merely end up as a fad.

In any case, we have failed to understand the message from Snowden the Insane. We are apparently too concerned about his whereabouts, his physical appearances, his rejections of asylum request from the brave countries, his traveling plans, whether he will move to Ecuador, Nicaragua, Bolivia or Venezuela, whether he will get a temporary Russian Visa, whether he will adopt Russian culture or learn the Russian Language, whether he will complete Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment, his state of mind (if he has any). We are not bothered about how NSA works in our truly networked world and which grotesque direction the system might be moving.

We are irredeemably apathetic


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Inability to do anything "great"

When you were young you longed to do something "great" that would give you fame. Now that you are not so young, you have set aside this notion and have acknowledged your inability to do anything "great,"

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A passage from ”Superstrings : A Theory Of Everything {1988}” Chapter 9 concerning Richard Feynman :

God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to explain those things that you do not understand. Now, when you finally discover how something works, you get some laws which you're taking away from God; you don't need him anymore. But you need him for the other mysteries.

So therefore you leave him to create the universe because we haven't figured that out yet; you need him for understanding those things which you don't believe the laws will explain, such as consciousness, or why you only live to a certain length of time — life and death — stuff like that.

God is always associated with those things that you do not understand.

Therefore I don't think that the laws can be considered to be like God because they have been figured out.

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Bits & Pieces 2

The establishment seems to have all the prerogatives to impose their preconceived notions.

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Communism is undemocratic while Capitalism is exploitative. Where do you go?

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Emotion and knowledge are inversely proportionate to each other – the less you know, the more infuriated you become.

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While Reading “In Praise Of Idleness and other Essays” written by Bertrand Russell in 1935, I found a passage which was quite intriguing:

‘First of all: what is work? Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relatively to other such matter; second, telling other people to do so. The first kind is unpleasant and ill paid; the second is pleasant and highly paid’.

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Man is a rational animal, so said Aristotle (384 BC – 322 BC). Did you find any evidence?

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Production and consumption – is that what we were destined to do - Production and consumption of wealth amongst other things?

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Bits & Pieces 1

God exists only in the mind of the people. We are slaves to consumerism.

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All is well that ends well – What rubbish!

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One And One = Two. It is sometimes intermittently useful to remember this suggestion.

Let us not confuse or bamboozle ourselves by saying ‘Eleven’.

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Life is nothing but a competition to be the perpetrator, the manipulator, the persecutor, the tormentor, the intimidator, the oppressor, the offender, the aggressor, the invader, the provoker, the raider, the intruder.

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Both the non believer as well as the believers think that one can know whether or not god exists.

The believers think that they know god exists, the non believer thinks that he knows that there is no god.

Both seem to be so certain!

In any case, if there is a god, wouldn’t it be highly unlikely that he would be so weak as to become perturbed and snubbed by those who doubt or deny his existence?

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Travelling

Sometimes I wonder whether it is worth travelling. Men leave one country and escape to another thinking that they are no good in their own. Time pass and most of them come back not finding anything new.

Maybe only the light characters travel. Isn’t there any work worthwhile to keep one at home? I am not trying to stress faults and raise objections about travelling. Every now and again I wonder how someone can fit abroad, if he was not able to fit in his home. Is it that he goes to hide his insignificance in a strange land? Does he think that he will find anything that he could not find back home? The bits and pieces of all countries are just the same. What is true anywhere is true everywhere.

Perhaps it is better to let him go where he wants to go leaving his home. He will find only such worth as much as he is worth.

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Man and his destiny

The intelligence and conscience of mankind is limited to their belief of their image of a religious heaven. They have existed without attaining a full growth and possession of their faculties by naively constructing a mirage of religions, gods, demigods, prophets, messiahs, saints and gurus, dignified by their ignorance and faith.

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All religions have been found on blood, predominantly resting on the idea of sacrifice and cruelty

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By and large - men have shaped their own destinies.

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Priests, kings, statesmen, soldiers, bankers and public functionaries of all sorts; policemen, jailers and hangmen; capitalists, businessmen and property-owners; lawyers, economists and politicians, farmers, firemen, office-goers and preachers, sailors, fishermen and marine engineers, musicians, actors, composers, poets, lyricists and painters, travelers, tourist and tour-guides, linguist, Psychologist and Consultant, pilots and analyst - all of them, et alii, down to the meanest grocers and butchers, have repeated in chorus what Voltaire said a long time back:- that if there were no God it would be necessary to invent Him.

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Of God the Master and of Human Liberty

You cannot wish God and you cannot wish Humanity at the same time.  They doggedly try to connect the term ‘God’ and ‘Humanity.’ They are not able to separate these two terms, not realizing that this term collectively contributes the destruction of each other. They say ‘God and the Liberty of Man’. They say ‘God and the Dignity, Justice, Equality, Fraternity, Prosperity of Mankind.’ This is despite the consequence of a grave logic that if God exists, all these things are destined to non existence.

If God exists, he is essentially the everlasting, ultimate, unconditional master. Now if this Master exists, then Man is basically a slave. So if Man is a Slave, then neither Dignity, Justice, Equality, Fraternity, Prosperity of Mankind is possible for him.

Throughout history, Mankind has represented God as the affectionate, gentle love of human liberty – a Master whoever he may be and however liberal he may desire to symbolize himself -will always remain a master none the less.

Since the bulk of the ‘meanest element of the social order’ believes in a master in heaven, they will always be slaves on earth.

His existence essentially connotes the slavery of all that is beneath him.
Therefore, if God existed, only in one way could he serve human liberty — by ceasing to exist.

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‘Meanest element of the social order’

I am Sick of People - the ‘meanest element of the social order’.

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All the ‘meanest element of the social order’ I know are filled with a kind of presentiment, and live a life of shuddering expectation of the imminent horrific future. It is as though their fundamental organs have been paralyzed.

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However hard I fervently think of accomplishing freedom, I am not able to liberate myself from the shackles of time, money, responsibility, misery, mundane affairs of the world and being enslaved to the meanest element of the social order.

Can the shackles ever be broken while we are still conscious of our consciousness?

Is my freedom linked to the freedom of ‘humanity’?

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The history and existence of all the ‘meanest element of the social order’, since time immemorial, has been laid out in such a manner, that some of the ‘meanest elements of the social order’ have seized power - destroying, conquering and enslaving the rest of the ‘meanest elements of the social order’.

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No System, no Theory, no Philosophy, no Goddess Of Democracy (GoD - the statue created during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989) can save this world from the hands of the ‘meanest element of the social order’. They have taken it upon themselves to annihilate this world.

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Amar Gopal Bose

There was Jagdish Chandra Bose, the scientist. There was Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, the Father of India. There was Satyendra Nath Bose, the God Particle guy.

Then there was Amar Gopal Bose.

He was a pioneer, a founder and the chairman of a Company which carried the Bose name around millions of homes, office, Hotels, NASA and other areas. He was a household name.

He was a MIT guy for 45 years.
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He was alive till yesterday (12th July, 2013).
Born: November 2, 1929, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: July 12, 2013, Wayland, Massachusetts, United State.

He was 83 years old.

End of an era.....

Funnily Pran too had to leave this earth at the age of 93 on the same day!
End of another era......

Signs of any remarkable ability are non-existent.

Do I possess a photographic memory?

Do I regardless of any prior training, have a flair for a musical instrument?

Do I have a penchant to solve complex mathematical problems?  

Do I have the ability to sculpt or draw replicas of objects that I have scarcely glimpsed once?

Does It Matter?

I won’t even attempt to answer these questions!

We Still Kill >->->->->->------------>

Now that we have iPods, Mobiles, WiFi, Drones, tablets, antibiotics, Lasers, computers and Internet, Jet Planes, International Space Stations, Stem Cell treatment, Super-fast Trains, Twitters, Face-Books, Emails, Nuclear, et al, we consider ourselves progressive, forward thinking, cultured mortals. Conceivably each generation likewise used to think the same as we do today. 

What breaks the myth is the world of cinema where each era is captured visually and contextually. The iconic Fritz Lang’s movie ’Fury’ (1936) and ‘M’ (1931) show the prevalence of mob mentality over civilization and law. The same mob mentality prevails today. (Is it necessary to dole out examples?)

Not much has changed. 

One thing remains constant – We still kill each other!

We are still the conscientious morally self-righteous killers.

The Herd Mentality.