‘‘Have you ever noticed, in traffic, anybody going slower than
you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?’’
Our driving skills lie at either one extreme: the idiot or the maniac.
Is it probable to be sane and somewhere in between? Not in India.
Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Monday, August 30, 2010
polarizing one world
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.
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.
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'.
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