It's true that true information is harder to get just as in the old days. When I was growing up there was just 2 channels by the same network. DD1 and DD2. So we had any information coming between our ears from 2 channels, one network.
You took that information and you formed your own opinions.
Now we have perhaps 30 news channels from varied networks.
And all 30 pretty much hum the same tune.
I doubt if competition or even multiple sources made any dent on the kind of information I am imbibing.
I think now, we don't form any novel or insightful opinions, we just go to the channel that plays our tune or are comfortable with. All of us pretty much hum the same song.
We have similar opinions about an event, we state the same causes for problems in our region and we pretty much voice the same recourse to a solution.
we are polarized to recite the same song without much ado.
and we seem to be doing a good job of it.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Sunday, August 29, 2010
good films
A film where you spent a bit of time thinking about it.
The film makes you want to believe in its story.
And if a film can make you want to believe at some level, even if it's all humbug, it does you in.
The film makes you want to believe in its story.
And if a film can make you want to believe at some level, even if it's all humbug, it does you in.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
new world liberalism
this new world liberalism that advocates about the power to do , the power to choose, the freedom to be or to do anything and this swashbuckling individualism that is purported in books, films and media, leads to some very confusing and skewed causality.
though the world advocates such, the truth about is that we're not in control of anything. we're not even like a painter who can say "I'm just going to go into my studio and do my work." But you need someone to appreciate that art or it has to sell or it has to move someone out there to actually reach out and accept your art.
And to our surprise we find that we just can't will that for all our ability to paint or desire to paint or even just plain passion to do some art.
we finally are waiting for somebody to hand us that acceptance & appreciation.
we're in this wildly dependent position.
In contrast, actors, who go from barely acting to being on the cover of magazines and tabloids kinda tells them that they have arrived in this world.
common folk can't really be surprised if such actors have a skewed perspective of their importance in the world, when common folk envy them and the media come together implying that these actors are the most important thing in the world now.
It can be quiet confusing and disconcerting, when the actors themselves believe this implication, I mean can you blame them for this skewed recognition and appreciation.
but then it is the actors who make us common folk believe about the new world liberalism and we common folk wait for our own recognition and appreciation believing this new world liberalism!
to nip this, the liberalism and individualism is a myth or for that matter poppycock. What we do has large 'effects on others' and if this is true then we are to a large extent a causality of the 'efforts of others'.
though the world advocates such, the truth about is that we're not in control of anything. we're not even like a painter who can say "I'm just going to go into my studio and do my work." But you need someone to appreciate that art or it has to sell or it has to move someone out there to actually reach out and accept your art.
And to our surprise we find that we just can't will that for all our ability to paint or desire to paint or even just plain passion to do some art.
we finally are waiting for somebody to hand us that acceptance & appreciation.
we're in this wildly dependent position.
In contrast, actors, who go from barely acting to being on the cover of magazines and tabloids kinda tells them that they have arrived in this world.
common folk can't really be surprised if such actors have a skewed perspective of their importance in the world, when common folk envy them and the media come together implying that these actors are the most important thing in the world now.
It can be quiet confusing and disconcerting, when the actors themselves believe this implication, I mean can you blame them for this skewed recognition and appreciation.
but then it is the actors who make us common folk believe about the new world liberalism and we common folk wait for our own recognition and appreciation believing this new world liberalism!
to nip this, the liberalism and individualism is a myth or for that matter poppycock. What we do has large 'effects on others' and if this is true then we are to a large extent a causality of the 'efforts of others'.
Saturday, August 21, 2010
the story
have more often than not, wanted to know how far one can go with belief in life. I mean if you really believe, you've got to have this passion that can make you tell the story every time.
At its very worst, It requires resilience and heart and self-belief(providence and purpose) even after it's been knocked out of you. It's a certain kind of a test.
And the story is just getting along and you've got to keep the passion alive. Most of all you've got to keep that love for what you are creating alive. And it's hard and the training alone will kill you.
And it tough to keep the passion alive for the love of the game. I mean if you don't love what you are doing, I doubt you could tell the story.
And that's before people start giving you a dig. and it does take awhile for the story to makes sense. But you've got to keep telling the story and keep it alive.
If ever, you do have your soul torn, you kind of adopt that kind of conflict, it's difficult to quit.
the real icing on the cake is I suppose: to have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, to believe.
At its very worst, It requires resilience and heart and self-belief(providence and purpose) even after it's been knocked out of you. It's a certain kind of a test.
And the story is just getting along and you've got to keep the passion alive. Most of all you've got to keep that love for what you are creating alive. And it's hard and the training alone will kill you.
And it tough to keep the passion alive for the love of the game. I mean if you don't love what you are doing, I doubt you could tell the story.
And that's before people start giving you a dig. and it does take awhile for the story to makes sense. But you've got to keep telling the story and keep it alive.
If ever, you do have your soul torn, you kind of adopt that kind of conflict, it's difficult to quit.
the real icing on the cake is I suppose: to have a highly developed capacity for self-delusion, to believe.
love, longing and belonging
my parents are settled in a sleepy town in Kerala, work keeps taking me around, was raised in Bombay, post graduate studies at Pune, have been to the east and the west and I just can't say where I like to be at the end of the day.
At some level I don't feel any solitude, if people ever do choose that feeling to live or call a place home.
I've managed to create a sense of banishment in so many different areas of my life.
That its hard to say where I really belong.
At some level I don't feel any solitude, if people ever do choose that feeling to live or call a place home.
I've managed to create a sense of banishment in so many different areas of my life.
That its hard to say where I really belong.
that moment
You can be ignorant about this for a long time, however there comes a a moment in life when everybody does ask themselves this:
'Is it really seemly for me to still be doing this?'
(on still watching cartoons and playing videogames...)
'Is it really seemly for me to still be doing this?'
(on still watching cartoons and playing videogames...)
the impression
Every once in a while we get to work with people who perhaps have not
quiet impressed us or have been impressed with.
When we're working with such people they can put us on the same level, and that
just makes our job a little easier.
And it creates quiet an impression about such people.
on the flip side, I have had the opportunity to work with people I would have
given more of myself to work with but you just aren't able to level with them.
And that quiet changes that first impression.
perhaps, the irony of relationships or expectations!
so really, what does make us level with a person.
ah, cést la vie.
quiet impressed us or have been impressed with.
When we're working with such people they can put us on the same level, and that
just makes our job a little easier.
And it creates quiet an impression about such people.
on the flip side, I have had the opportunity to work with people I would have
given more of myself to work with but you just aren't able to level with them.
And that quiet changes that first impression.
perhaps, the irony of relationships or expectations!
so really, what does make us level with a person.
ah, cést la vie.
the BIG one
every experience that we have, everything we do,
enlightens us a little bit or worsens us.
the question is which is the 'BIG' one, that does us in?
enlightens us a little bit or worsens us.
the question is which is the 'BIG' one, that does us in?
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