Waste of Time

* If you are young, you may be talented. Have you ever seen a man talented when he reaches mid-life?


* It is not very difficult to do things that you don’t know. But if you know, then you cannot do difficult things.


* Maybe it is some ambiguity, some fantasy, some mystery, which eggs us on to live life. Had life been perfect, we may have ended it.


* Sometimes, everything looks like a waste of time.

Social Life and Loneliness

• Definition of a communist: Anyone the Americans don’t like!

• Everything in life is not where you live – it is somewhere else.

• To quote Ingmar Berman: “In that way, I'm very Swedish — I don't dislike to be alone”

• Over the number of years (and somewhere here one may tend to agree with Kushwant Singh) that a realization creeps in that most of the time, all our so called social relationships are restricted to gossiping and disparaging other people thoughts and their manners. This awareness may slowly push one to detach oneself from the purported social life. The days then passes in isolation.

• When you are young, you are so full of hope and life. You have your own view of life. You then think that everything that you touch would turn into gold. Gradually you realize that everything you touch actually turns to shit when all your views of life starts melting. You become conscious that the so called views of life don’t exist.

Ban it!!!!!

A cluster of people form a Government and usurp authority, thanks to the general public. Once they sit on the throne, they metamorphosis to an oligarchic status and manage to use their powers to curb or ban one or more of these:


Time travel,

Long hair, Spiked Hair, Hair cut, Games Consoles, Video games, Check Shirts, Tattoo,

Miniskirts, Social mixing, Bikinis, Music Schools, Sophocles, Ketchup, Spanking, Baby Walker, Baby Sitter, Twitter, Face book, Tolstoy,

Euripides, strikes, Aristophanes, Dictionaries, Yellow Clothes, Cell Phones, Sartre,

Mannequins, Freedom of the press, Marijuana, McDonald’s, KFC’s,

Women Drivers, Casinos, Pornography, Televisions, Internet & Websites, Wi-Fi, sociology, Gyms, Chewing gum, Beckett,

Bars, Night Clubs, Women in Pubs, Dance Bars, Milk, Alcohol,

Smoking, Smoking anything on the screen, Dostoyevsky, Being Gay, Valentine’s Day, Rap Music, Rock Music, pop music, Jazz,

Cycling, Prostitution, Movie and Theatre Halls, Foreign Films, Beef, Bacon, Books,

Movies, Cartoons, Paintings, Alice in Wonderland, Pets, Coca-Cola & Pepsi,

Computers, The Big Bang Theory, The God Particle, Online dating, Soaps, Feeding the Homeless,

The Hour of the Furnaces (Spanish: La hora de los hornos) - Fernando Solanas

Being exposed to Fernando Ezequiel 'Pino' Solanas will get you a glimpse of Latin America especially in the 60s.

His movie “The Hour of the Furnaces” whether one can take it as propaganda or a documentary work gives the insight of Argentina and Latin America in General and how the ”Organization of American States” the “OAS” made dozens of armed interventions trying to exploit the South American resources.

This work is about treason, exploitation, violence, poverty, hunger, oppression, suppression, colonialism, imperialism and how we are taught to think in English!


The work is divided into 3 parts, around 4 hours long

I Neocolonialism and Violence (95 min),
II The Liberation Struggle (120 min),
III Violence and Liberation (45 min).


The 1st part (Neocolonialism and Violence) is segregated in 12 series, viz., History, Earth, Everyday violence, Port city - Buenos Aires, Oligarchy, System, Political violence, Neo-racism, Dependence, Cultural violence, Ideological war and Alternative option. The part terminates with the face of the deceased Che Guevara for about 3 minutes.

The film endevours to perform a broad study of the history, geography, economy, sociology, ideology, culture, religion and daily life of Latin America

Among the many statements in the film, some that catches your attention are:

“Mass communications are more effective for neo-colonialism than napalm.”

"Artist and Intellectuals are controlled by the system"

"What is the only thing left for the Latin American? To choose through rebellion his own life and his own death."

A very eye opening and thought provoking experience.

For further studies : http://documentaryisneverneutral.com/words/camasgun.html

Le Couperet {The Axe} – Costa Gavras

Costa Gavras deals with the corporate gluttony and the consequences of scaling down manpower in his 2005 movie, Le Couperet {The Axe}. The corporate world and the CEOs don’t care about the effect as far as self esteem and sanity of a man is concerned. Exclusive profits without caring for human beings where man is reduced to nothing but a money making machine and is identified only with his job has become the socio-economic situation in today’s world.

Chronic unemployment does not leave you with much means of survival and what with the corporate world pushing up production and aggravating the use of merchandising to coerce consumption, leaving a man crazy, stressed out and depressed - reducing him to an entity where he is “what he can earn” - to obtain what?

You are termed as ‘smart’, if you can adjust to this overwhelmingly sick society.

The 4 Temperaments & -isms

The Greek physician Hippocrates (460–370 BC) integrated the four temperaments into his theories. The four temperaments are:

1. Sanguine (pleasure-seeking and sociable),
2. Choleric (ambitious and leader-like),
3. Melancholic (analytical and quiet), and
4. Phlegmatic (relaxed and peaceful).

The above ingredients are possibly mixed to churn out more temperaments.

Now the theory is this: you either fall into one of the above category or you fall into one of the below –isms……

Agnosticism, Atheism, authoritarianism , Buddhism, Careerism , Commercialism, Communalism, Communism, Capitalism, Catechism, Chauvinism, Collectivism, Cynicism, Darwinism, Deism, Dualism, Empiricism, Evangelism, Existentialism, Extremism, , Fascism, Fanaticism, Feminism, Fundamentalism, Humanism, Individualism , Idealism, Individualism , Jainism, Judaism, Kantianism, Leninism, Liberalism, Hinduism, Maoism, Marxism, Nihilism, Nationalism, Objectivism, Optimism, Pacifism, Paganism, Pan deism, Pessimism, Pythagoreanism, Racism , Rationalism, Realism, Materialism, Stalinism, Spiritualism, Stoicism, Surrealism, Taoism, totalitarianism, Utopianism, Zoroastrianism, Zionism,

Either way – you are catalogued!!!

Costa Gavras

Any similarity to actual persons or events is deliberate. . . .And so the journey with Costa-Gavras began with Z.

After watching:

{1969} - Z
{1970} - L'aveu (The Confession)
{1972} - Etat de Siege (State Of Siege)
{1982} - Missing
{1983} - Hanna K
{1988} - Betrayed
{1989} - Music Box
{1997} - Mad City
{2002} - Amen
{2005} - Le Couperet (The Axe)
{2009} - Eden à l'ouest (Eden Is West)
{2012} - Le Capital

One should be a bit ashamed if one has not been exposed to the above works of Costa-Gavras and still exist in this world as if all is well.

99.99% of the Movies don’t let you think. It is Directors like Costa-Gavras, Andrei Tarkovsky, Kenji Mizoguchi, Santiago Alvarez, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Lars von Trier, Fernando Solanas, Masaki Kobayashi, Michael Haneke, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Yasujiro Ozu amongst others, that trigger your cells. A good film director should be able to give his audience a blow in the head. He should be able to bring them out of their complacency and their apathy. But before you get exposed to these directors, prepare yourself. Don’t expect the director to fill you in.

Reading some events disturbs your mind, but when those same events are exposed in a cinematic form, it just blows the mind. Such is the power of Costa-Gavras’ movies. Most of his movies have a very Kafkaesque tone. Kafka was a man ahead of his time when he saw the future as an intimidating, inexplicable world in which Man is crushed by the wheels of a faceless bureaucracy. A large number of his films depict Totalitarianism, Authoritarianism, Law and justice, Oppression, Authorized or Illegitimate violence, Torture, Persecution, Intimidation, Domestication and Enslavement of Citizens and misusing the power which is in the hands of the Government and not the people.

The dilemma is that Man defines man strictly by their Ideologies.