Lazy Saturday. That's what we decided to name it;
Accentuated intermittently with a slight drizzle, a nice light sloth hanging around , the sun -making, but a guest appearance,and, looking at the peaceful slumber of Bangalore's millions, deciding to call it a day early- a warm kitty to cuddle on my (I must admit, now quite ginormous) belly , nipping away at my fingers, while I lazily watched-no that's the wrong word-was in the presence of - some high scoring football(soccer for the uneducated lot among you) from a quarter away across the globe- making me feel quite like a scheming villain in pursuit of the next dastardly plan to take over the world; the name fit.
As Arya- we decided to name le kitteh (is that French or just bad English) after the GoT character, but she doesn't respond to anything anyway so you might as well call her Michael Jackson- continued her scheme of alternating dozes with nipping sessions peppered with Whiskas treats, it felt good to be in the company of one,who always viewed you objectively. No hearsay information, no reputation among other cats to worry about, just plain objective judgement based on immediate events pertaining to a given set of situations- the purest kind in my opinion. No obtuse line drawing or inferencing based off of unrelated past events.
Too much of what goes on in this world is based of of image and repute and how many people agree with what they think you said. Second (and higher order) hand information governs way too much of who decides what.What happened to the simpler times when people actually thought for themselves about someone/something and made an informed choice? Or tried something out for the first time with a pristine state of mind unencumbered by the flotsam of everyone's opinion?
You want to see a movie, your journey starts at IMDB and probably ends up at the movie buff in your aisle at work. You take the information of every Tom, Dick,Harry,Mia, Susan and Mary (my new work environment really drives in the diversity aspect of things I guess) before you even decide to ask your friends/family(those who havent seen i t yet and each of whom have made a similar jourey) if they want to see. And based off of whether or not they want to see the movie or not you make a decision. It's the same with restaurants, bookstores.
And this is the way everyhting seems to work. Most importantly that driver of capitalism , that bastion of economic freedom - the stock market.
Abe Mastbaum , who took my course on capital markets in NY said the same thing . I had asked him a question to which he replied -"And here we have an individualist. One who makes the decision on his own. The market doesn't go by the whims of people like you. "
And that is what is so sad about this world.
In a time when we value the freedom to express, the loudest voices are often those of a single person with an army of mindless zombies following the leader.
When enough people say it, the notion of truth itself changes.
Does democracy indeed kill free thought?
Accentuated intermittently with a slight drizzle, a nice light sloth hanging around , the sun -making, but a guest appearance,and, looking at the peaceful slumber of Bangalore's millions, deciding to call it a day early- a warm kitty to cuddle on my (I must admit, now quite ginormous) belly , nipping away at my fingers, while I lazily watched-no that's the wrong word-was in the presence of - some high scoring football(soccer for the uneducated lot among you) from a quarter away across the globe- making me feel quite like a scheming villain in pursuit of the next dastardly plan to take over the world; the name fit.
As Arya- we decided to name le kitteh (is that French or just bad English) after the GoT character, but she doesn't respond to anything anyway so you might as well call her Michael Jackson- continued her scheme of alternating dozes with nipping sessions peppered with Whiskas treats, it felt good to be in the company of one,who always viewed you objectively. No hearsay information, no reputation among other cats to worry about, just plain objective judgement based on immediate events pertaining to a given set of situations- the purest kind in my opinion. No obtuse line drawing or inferencing based off of unrelated past events.
Too much of what goes on in this world is based of of image and repute and how many people agree with what they think you said. Second (and higher order) hand information governs way too much of who decides what.What happened to the simpler times when people actually thought for themselves about someone/something and made an informed choice? Or tried something out for the first time with a pristine state of mind unencumbered by the flotsam of everyone's opinion?
You want to see a movie, your journey starts at IMDB and probably ends up at the movie buff in your aisle at work. You take the information of every Tom, Dick,Harry,Mia, Susan and Mary (my new work environment really drives in the diversity aspect of things I guess) before you even decide to ask your friends/family(those who havent seen i t yet and each of whom have made a similar jourey) if they want to see. And based off of whether or not they want to see the movie or not you make a decision. It's the same with restaurants, bookstores.
And this is the way everyhting seems to work. Most importantly that driver of capitalism , that bastion of economic freedom - the stock market.
Abe Mastbaum , who took my course on capital markets in NY said the same thing . I had asked him a question to which he replied -"And here we have an individualist. One who makes the decision on his own. The market doesn't go by the whims of people like you. "
And that is what is so sad about this world.
In a time when we value the freedom to express, the loudest voices are often those of a single person with an army of mindless zombies following the leader.
When enough people say it, the notion of truth itself changes.
Does democracy indeed kill free thought?
