On Sunday 30 October 2011 02:39 AM, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
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Capitalism is a demonstrably failing or even failed system, even
though any reasonably grownup adult of a country today looks to
economic development and growth as barometers of success. The lack of
an alternative has everyone worried, but at least for now apart from
China no one else has an existential-boot-to-the-behind to explain
their ideology. If one isn't found soon, the public will supply one as
always, anarchy.
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Since when did the human race need pills regularly for digestion,
sleep, good humor and sex?
I posted this a few days ago. www.missinghumanmanual.com. The more I
read stuff there, the more I am convinced we are shooting ourselves in
the foot. Once we fix ourself, the system will fix itself I think.
Digression... rant.... begins.
We are ourselves to be blamed for this situation. All of us. The
collective homo sapiens sapiens. As humans, we are lazy and greedy.
Except for the holier than thou, self righteous hypocrites and the truly
noble (the true 1% actually). So we're lazy to do our work and want
someone else to do it for us. We're greedy because we want more for
less. Value for money. The most important phrase that defines most of
us. If we want more for less, there are those who will prey on that
weakness and will entrench us in ways to pander to that greed. And thus
begins the vicious cycle.
I remember when I was school and had told myself that if I save Rs 5
lakhs, I would stop working and do something that would be
charitable/community oriented. I don't think that those thoughts occur
to me anymore. Why, I ask myself sometimes. And I don't have an answer.
Brutally honest answer to that question scares me and the hypocrite that
I am, I don't want to be told that I am greedy and am just not being
satisfied. I can blame it my current state of a grahastha, but that
would be just a rationale that I truly know is only to fool myself. Now,
if I, a mere middle class chap thinks like this, imagine how the super
rich should think. It's all just a relative thing. As much as we all
think we are like the pandavas we really are like the yadavas. Those who
just wanted more and the excess wasted them.
Now I am done ranting and saying stupid stuff. I can now do this for a
few more days without killing myself, or rather my conscience killing
me. If y'all thought this was a post that was adding to the intellectual
capital of the smarties like Cheeni, you're wrong. This was just to
clear the air with myself really. Now I can go back to my materialistic
existence and justify my deeds for a few more days.
--Venkat
