mY 2 ceNts tHAt mAy bE woRTh nOThiNG

hmmm everyone is so serious. they're all talking about the ram sene. [ first of all, thats a rid-ic-ulous name. they should so consult an image consultant. i'm thinking being an image consultant to these ppl wud be a fantastic way of raking in the moolah....but i once again digress... ]

so some ppl went and hit a few drunk women in m'lore [ < wince > yes i know, my town. gawd do we always have to be notorious for the worst reasons possible? ]
and so my friend despaired and wrote this piece on it [ long diatribe on the whole issue, how those ppl are rotten finks [[ my words not his, don't want to get him beaten back home.. ]] and so on... ] and another replied with another piece on how we need to analyze the political agendas behind these things [ how politicians study demographics, manipulate ppl yada yada yada... ]
so one vented and the other rationalized...
and normally in my younger and more brash days i'd jump right in, and join the fray, wail along with the rest and beat up a few politicians [ i wish! but if its any consolation i did once consider a career in real-life-politician-beating-up ]

so how come a fool like me, who has an opinion on everything on the planet, wants to keep mum on this? and is strangely reluctant to put my 2 cents in?

hmmm

boy where do i even start?
:P

ok in conclusion [ waat!! :O we're concluding even without the whole debate?? wat are you? nuts?? ] i think, that it all boils down to educating ppl on the right thing to do and thinking rationally. so you have these ppl being swayed by politicians? and they go insane and beat up women [ heyy dude , thats so not cool. if i know my mythology right, only shikhandis beat up women. actually wait, even they had more honor than that..... ]
ok so you have id'd the problem as politicians and their ability to sway impessionable fools [ lets all agree that these here are fools unable to reason out a lying SOB's false propoganda ]
but think about this. why are there so many of these fools?
how do we turn them into rational ppl? [ i mean if a politician came to you and told you that women drinking in a bar was harmful to/hurting our 'culture', what would you or me do? laugh at him to his face and spit in his eye. yeah... ]

so you want this mass of frustrated confused ppl to be able to rationalize. to think for themselves. now think about this [ take baby steps here ] how come you have the ability to rationalize? coz your educated. you finished college. ok pre-college. ok high school. [ you haven't even finished high school?? why are you removing your hockey stick? are you gonna break my bones now? aaaaaaaaah. run. ]
so basically you have to improve ed-u-cat-ion for all. [ AAHA. NOW YOU KNOW WHY I WANNA TEACH IN INDIA ]

now it would be blasphemy to suggest that we had it coming. no no, i don't mean those women had it coming. [ thats plain stupidity to say that ]. i mean WE as a nation had it coming. why?
well for 50 years we all pursued our own goals, improved our lot without really bothering about helping the rest try to improve their lot. come on. do you really believe that everyone is responsible just for themselves?
look at history. [ you don't read history books just for pictures you know ]
look at it. everytime we had a large disparity of wealth distribution, we wud end up with mindless idiotic dolts who were impressionable to propoganda and then out of sheer jealousy would wreak havoc on OUR life.
if they don't know better, its coz our apathy never bothered to teach them better. we led myopic lives that were intent on making our and our children's lives better. is it wrong? no. but its exceedingly short sighted.
democracy is not just a stupid right to vote. its also a responsibility. to our nation as a whole. in our everyday lives. your supposed to think of the country too. everyday. your supposed to give something back. have a lil nationalistic pride mebe.

ofcourse its a dicey concept. i still don't know how you can trust a majority to make the right decision for the minority. thats cagey by itself. but we also don't have a gr8 track record for altruism. we don't have a gr8 track record for not being greedy.
its unfortunate but there you have it. given the opportunity. there will be atleast one person who is greedy and power grubbbing and money grubbing and plain evil. he becomes a politician.
[ atleast in most places ]

so is there no hope? hey i never say that. i'm the person hoping i'll pass the drive test today. [ talk about hopes.. ]
but it requires a mass change in basic cultural mindset. it starts with us. in our homes. with what we teach our children. and our neighbours children. and some adults too.
its how we teach them to think. and reason. and make the right choice. and spit in a greedy persons face. you know whats cool about education? it never fades away. like giving ppl jeans. you teach one to think, and i'm hoping he tecahes another and right then and there you got yourself a national epidemic of rationality. thats what the world needs. a lil more thinking.

50 years? 100? who knows. all we can do is but try. and if someone beats us up. we try again.

ps: now i might have been a lil random and all over the place. thats coz i gtg in 10 min for a drive test. [ oh boy u shud hear THOSE stories. i promise they're HILL-AR-IOUS ]
and i'm a wee bit tensed and that tends to make me ramble. but u know that...
oh man. i wish i had sweaty palms [ ok now your just plain losing it ]
but you fill in the gaps. you shud have learnt by now to make those quantum leaps in logic.