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Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Wealth and its use

Actually one I don't have enough wealth even to park my car for more than a few hours at airport. So, no question of parking wealth in tax havens.

Strictly speaking I must not even bother about that subject.

But I do not like to be indifferent to anything that comes into the radar of my view.

I personally feel investing, parking wealth, choosing to live all must center around how lively a place is; how best is one's wealth being used for oneself, one's family and friends and to the society.

Some places have great infrastructure , imbued with beauty of nature , serene atmosphere but for several kilometers one does not come across other lively human beings no bustling of life, no children playing around, neither any human emotional nor intellectual interaction happening, no social life at all. 


We live not merely to eat, drink, enjoy, move around in palatial houses and big buildings,  large fields with hardly a few human beings around. Not enough security etc.
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Tossing wealth from one tax haven to another just to save it is monkey hopping from one tree to another for another fruit.

Sometimes, excessive crowds may be irritating but deserted places can be depressing for many.

India's economic potential are great

Oh what a coincide just now I was telling someone to read zerohedge to know what is happening in global financial circles.  

However, non of these need to put of​f​ the optimism regarding India's and some other Asian countries economies  because of their inherent strength and potential, only ​thing is that it remains a ​potential which has not been unearthed or optimally used till date. 
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India's unique strengths are too many but its massive shortcomings are lack of cooperation and coordination in implementing anything; lack of proper management; bureaucratic hurdles; regulators harassing in the name of implementing regulations; still unrealistic tax structure devoid of justifications in terms of the trade of the tax payers get; lack of practical inputs on ground realities; excessive and illogical freedom to media to sit on judgement over everything and scarring officials through media trials ( no one has the spine to control them); ministers are inaccessible and still lobbies decide. 

If only India's unutilized resources and potentials are fully exploited India can become 5 times bigger than US economy.

I am sure the present governemnt is addressing the issues one by one to create a stable platform to take off the developmental agenda in top gear 

Matured disposition/behaviour

PASSION and intense emotional involvement enables one to perform activities with interest and also relish.

Attachment.


COMPASSION enables empathy and conscious interaction to cooperate. 

Concern.

DISPASSION enables one to accept with humility that the ultimate results or happenings may occur beyond and besides our wishes, will power, wisdom and well developed intellectual reasons.

Detachment.
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Poise and sense of balance involving the proportionate , appropriate and diligent use of all three PASSION , COMPASSION and DISPASSION must be the manifestation of matured DISPOSITION.

Why writers repeat thier ideas and refer their own works



Writers feel the love of thoughts and ideas and manifest their romance through the way they use the language or weave a story or a narrative.

It is inevitable that their love pops out often.


Only those who review or evaluate or criticize or analyze any writing mention as author reusing his/ her own aphorisms or repeating himself/ herself and so on.



It is not confined to a few authors. I have noticed this aphorisms in many authors because they ( aphorisms) convey authors' passion filled renewed romance with certain thoughts, opinions , ideas, reasons, emotions, reactions etc ( in some cases strong prejudices) which are internalized not as vague pr​e​mises or hypothesis but as some well grasped, deeply felt, clearly understood, conviction filled, fully crystalized concepts, ideologies, philosophies.

These are then ensconced in the safe soft corners of subconsciousness and may have some consistency.

They pop up often, even in pure fictions.

Incidentally, very often a writer prefers to refer to his/her own previous works or may automatically use similar or same expressions to convey specific ideas that will be made to be communicated through specific characters or topics.

Ideas, stories, the way language is used, the way a reader understands them are all interrelated and interconnected like the various parts of a fruit like kernel, nut, pulp and skin.

Which enhances ​the ​'what​s​' and ​the ​'how​s​' are subjective and this is the case even in epics and historical narratives. 

Which one compliments what and who knows it ? Is it the story of mahabharata or the 700 verses of bhawad geetha?

Stories are required for impact and thoughts and ideas for internalizing as reference manual.

Every product needs a good packing and every container becomes relevant and gets its value only based on its content. 
 


Trade and business are global let us get it right

We need to let certain facts set in.

The posting on Amazon making huge sales has instigated me to write briefly for want of time what I have in volumes to convey.​​


Business is global and global economic powers decide selective protectionism and collective sabotage. They can manipulate using quota, sanctions etc.


World leaders see trade as one more weapon in their artillery.


Citizens anywhere and anyhow have the option of choosing what is beneficial to them.


Smaller economies cannot afford to harp on protectionism under any name or rule.


When we fail to create institutions with facilities and faculties of the standard of Harvard or Princeton ( when we can do so easily) for years we pay in lakhs ( sometimes in crores) and choose to provide an almost life of servile obedience for our Indian students movements which are constantly under scanner in the name of academic discipline.



What is preventing India or Indian companies from selling its crops and food products like wheat, sugar, onion etc when there is excess production at low prices and kill others sellers in other countries with our low prices?


What is preventing Indian government from setting hospitals with best facilities and pay fat salaries to good and efficient doctors and retain them here?

What prevents India from providing great infrastructure and promote tourism. Why not an elevated metro or big winch connecting. Shimla , Mount Abu, Tirupathy, kanyakumari , Konarak and Assam?


ITC and TAJ group of hotel today won't get investment  but OYO and MakemyTrip will get it because they are able to market space, hotel is no  more hospitality industry it is space selling business where the food a customer wants can be ordered from outside.


Automobile is not a car or van manufacturing industry it is mobility industry.


Family or individual consumption is not item specific. I may buy a cooker, television, dress, mobile and medicines for myself or other members of my family if I can order all of these online at a cheaper price rather than travelling to various places, spending time , energy struggling for parking space or waiting for transport options. So, all purchases are consumption industry. No more home needs, pharma , garments etc.



India is exporting it's cheap manpower either skilled or highly educated or qualified to the same US where they need to pay 4 times the salary to their own citizens and that's why they are grumbling.


If consumers are anointed as the kings, then goods and services providers are the queens. 

Then quality, cost and prices are the aspects of romance.

Let us remember that  in love and war anything and everything is justifiable or justified
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What prevents any Indian entrepreneurs from  engaging in these types of legalised transnational marketing and sales ( no more import or export) if one may call them so, of online trading.


We have TRAI which went nonexistent when AIRCELL closed its operations overnight. We have RBI which is silent when PMC has let down millions of people of their hard earned money.

So, when our own institutions are not able to control or ensure service or security despite all the good intentions and great efforts of the present government how can we even think of exercising any control over some international players.

In the same Pune area SUVARNA SAHAKARI CO-OP bank and before that similar CO-OP banks not only went bankrupt ( euphemism for either misuse of funds or abuse of customer faith or both) and the burden of loss was shifted to IOB. When there is history of middle class poor small investors getting duped by chitfunds in Tamil Nadu and Bengal and co-operative banks cheating in Maharastra then both the authorities giving permission and the gullible public must be vigilant or stop encouraging such entities.

Indian government, especially,  the present government which is prioritizing economic development must incentivise big businesses and investors to build great universities of excellence and hospitals of greatest care and specialization. 


We have two vital elements for  both these activities qualified people with relevant skill sets ,  vast areas of land and perhaps even some big investors both in India and overseas willing to invest why not encourage that?


Has Indian government ever quantified monetarily the vast amounts that get out of India for higher studies to USA, UK, AUSTRALIA, CANADA, RUSSIA, NEWZEALAND etc.


Rather study overseas is a brand which gets proudly imported and even inducted in vital places in India. All wealthy people go abroad for treatment ( ironically where Indian doctors perform surgeries and give treatment).



We as a nation have huge pride of ancestry but lack hope for the future because we have been tutored to put down own potential, mass opinion peddling main stream media sponsored by international propaganda mechanism has injected a sense of inferiority complex among us.



Though the present government with our Honorable PM Modi and his team is trying hard to bring back our forgotten ( fortunately not lost) glory back into our attitude, still the majority of the population have failed to realize what are the contextually relevant priorities for present day glory i.e. 


1.ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT as a GLOBAL POWER with all its concomitant benefits and therefore, a more broader COSMOPOLITAN OUTLOOK is needed beyond and besides our well cherished culture,  traditions and heritage.

2. Military might as a deterrence.

3. Intellectual and intelligent operations for national and global interest.

With these three  we can conquer the world through the strength of economic empowerment;  conquer the minds through soft power of our intelligent service​,​ and control thoughts of aggression and violence from any other nation through our military might.


There are thousands of things India and Indians can market; there are millions of ideas that get generated; thousands of activities that can be commercially made profitable.


Our ignorance, inability and unwillingness and different ( wrong ) priorities that are holding us back.

Have we quantified the enormous money that goes into the stereotyped and stupid film industry in the past 50 year?

Imagine just one tenth of it could have created 10 Harvard Universities.


We must not get swayed by knee jerk reactions promoted by mass media sponsored  opinions. Instead do some introspection. 


The most important App we need is a new AOP Attitude, Outlook and Perspective.





Food we eat




On World Food Day think of this.
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Almost 80% to 90% of our food contains or is predominantly made of these 13 items which may be remembered through a simple acronym as:-


WRECKED MY TOPS

Wheat
Rice
Egg
Corn
Kinds of sea food
Edible nuts
Diary products

Meat
Yummy oils

Tomato
Onion
Potato
Some fruits and vegetables .



Migration

Migration is the major topic about which I want to write in detail because it is going to be the major social issue in the near future with all its positives and negatives.




Migration is a single term used for a wide range movements of people for various reasons and multiple causes.



It has some obvious and many not so obvious dimensions and its dynamics  organically evolves based emerging events and situations.



I have scrupulously noted down hundreds of articles, huge data , actions , reactions etc on this topic.


I am also aware that lot of serious research is also going on in this subject.


People and nations were happy as long as they had positive contributions and benefits and they failed to foresee that no mass human activity is a one way path.

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Impacts, reciprocations and expectations of trade off are inevitable in any mass activity.

Chennai tourism

1.  Chennai to Kanyakumari a single long beach a great tourist attraction if we build a 4 or 6 way elevated corridor at height of 100 to 150 meters as buildings are blocking view.

2.At every 30th km we can allow a diversion for a 10 to 12 storeyed star hotels ( 3 to 7 star) with transparent glass walls or big windows for see view and also connect all important temples and heritage centers along the way.

3. Descending loop ways from elevated corridor at important view points connecting local villages too.

4. It can beat the following road in link. If we can get it done then we can get big mileage in the election.

5. Name it as Swami Vivekananda road starting from Vivekananda memorial on Chennai beach to Vivekanda rock in Kanyakumari.​​



Rational and humane synergy

Natural cultural and national identity and affinity along with broader cosmopolitan global outlook and outreach are the manifestations of uncompromising firm sophistication and civilized life styles which allow space for rational  and humane synergy leading to accepting  diversity and assuring unity.


OM -Outrage and Migration


Let us start the year with OM

It is about two words starting with the letters one with ‘O’ and another with ‘ M’ that are either going  to cause lot of things happening around or  will be caused due to many things happening around.

The activities referred by these two terms will dominate the socio-political, socio-economic, geo-political and multitude of media space.

Well, to those of you who have not guessed them yet, they are ‘OUTRAGE’ and ‘MIGRATION’.

Both emanate out of some justification [right or wrong is relative and debatable] manifest and encounter unreasonableness.

As we are going to discuss in generalities we are not going to take any sides for or against any specific Outrage or Migration.

Outrages are exaggerated and /or instigated to outrageously unreasonable proportions affecting too many people, damaging many things and sometimes even the environment as whole.

Migrations are encountered with too many unreasonable restrictions and restraints.

We need to go to the root of these two issues.

Both have a few things in common which are, of course, not new roots that have taken place on this great planet [great because it is the only planet known so far that has continued to allow our existence] but have existed for several centuries.

These roots have created and destroyed several lives and civilizations for their sake- they are ‘Identities’ of various hues and colors and all their concomitant factors and manifestations.

To make it more easily understandable they are identities of religion, region, language, ideologies, political and cultural affinities, social and economic conditions and many other manifestations of variety in the lives of human species.


Most of these identities mainly and mostly are almost an inevitable outcome of the socio-cultural milieu where we are born and they evolve along with us and permeate into us as our second nature and at times has so much control over all our actions that we are not even aware what is our original nature, if at all there is something distinctly like that.

Everything associated with such identities are constantly encouraged or enforced to ensure that we fit into to be glued into a set of group identity through the language we speak, through the religion we follow, through the political ideology we support, through the social system we are in, through the cultural values that are inculcated and so on.

There are many such sets of group identities where each group identity creates at least a sense of belonging that provides a comfort zone whereby one is basically recognized, classified, labeled as having such and such specific identity or identity of a specific group which in addition may get many other benefits like certain privileges and entitlements.

So, most identities, per se, there is nothing wrong with them considering more than the compensatory trade-off one gets and the comfort zone one enjoys due to the identities.

Many aspects of identity are, at least, partly decided naturally by the socio-religious-cultural milieu into which one is born. In some cases, identities are also scrupulously and enormously nurtured through rewards and fear of social exclusion etc.


So, most individuals cannot afford to ignore or be indifferent towards these identities at least till their teens because per se there is nothing wrong in some of these inevitable identities.

Besides, even when one is grown up as identities having permeated into the socio-psychological and emotional life of most beings and acts almost like a second nature and hence, difficult to ignore or to get rid of.

Also the fact that most aspects of every identity [cultural, religious, ideological, political etc] have contributed something to the individual and society, which both the individual and the society may enjoy, participate in, get entertained, celebrate and, perhaps, for some activities connected with those identities will be the profession, survival element and everything connected with life. So, totally getting away from certain aspects of identity [like mother tongue, native food habits, local traditions etc] may cause a disorientation that may land one to lead a life of in vague inanity or inane vagueness. So, instead what is required may be a willingness to accept various and different identities, and if possible entertain and enjoy them all.

Life is lived and experienced as a nonstop motion and live activity within the very limited time space conundrum of a few years and limited space wherein one cannot afford to sulk away from many activities [ however meaningless or useless they may sound] with too much of seriousness.

We must humbly accept and understand that neither mere utilitarianism nor much accepted materialism nor much projected spiritualism nor ever enjoyable Epicureanism nor egoistic self venerating narcissism nor much hyped capitalism nor socialism nor any of the many other ideologically conceptualized or visualized as a single most ideal ‘ism’ as the most suitable one for social engineering and hence, can be homogenously applied for the whole of humanity because none of the above can exclusively satisfy or offer or fulfill all necessities and wants of all human beings. Nor can anyone resort to noncommittal cautious escapism.

Perhaps, at best one ‘ism’ that may be labeled as ‘contextually relevant pragmatic humanitarianism’ which can have a mix of some or all the multitude of ‘isms’ referred above may be worth considering.

As Irving Babbitt says, “A Person Who Has Sympathy For Mankind In The Lump, Faith In Its Future Progress, And Desire To Serve The Great Cause Of This Progress, Should Be Called Not A Humanist, But A Humanitarian, And His Creed May Be Designated As Humanitarianism.”


We all must remember that no one is Omniscient, no single thing or idea is a panacea and no single specific way of life can be said to be the best one for all everywhere. Therefore, no one can deny or defy the importance of anything.

From the time we are born we are married to many things connected with life either with or without our knowledge or wanting it or the list of compatibilities that we expect etc. Most aspects of various identities are also such things. The moment we are matured enough and see the uselessness or non relevance of certain identities or come across a different identity which we may feel or think is a better we always have the option to give up our marriage to the existing identity or identities but as Robert Anderson says, “In every marriage more than a week old, there are grounds for divorce. The trick is to find and continue to find grounds for marriage”, because sometimes it may turn out that a known devil is better than an unknown angel.
   

So, it is wiser to accept multitude of identities because multitude of identities manifest the inherent variety of life as well which also we can neither do away with nor deny their existence.


However, the most ideal life is one where everyone must have a freedom and option to choose any belief or also a lead a life of dignity without any belief, as Jodi Picoult writes. ‘I consider myself spiritual and I am married to a man who is both atheist and humanist. My kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. Everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe”. And I would like to add one should be also able to live without the need to have any specific belief or any belief at all.


The most important thing is when we have left a particular identity we must not feel left out.


So, identity emerges and evolves, variety is inherent aspect of life and the corollary is obvious that differences are inevitable.

Accepting and understanding differences, contradictions and diversity are the seeds of creativity and resolutions leading to harmony and these are very well explained in this one page write up




Stefan Zweig  writes, “As one who knows many things, the humanist loves the world precisely because of its manifold nature and the opposing forces in itdo not frighten him. Nothing is further from him than the desire to resolve such conflictsand this is precisely the mark of the humanist spirit: not to evaluate contrasts as hostility but to seek human unity, that superior unity, for all that appears irreconcilable.”

At first we need to accept and try to understand these facts as they are.

Once we accept and understand them as they are, then, we may also avoid the chronic psychological and intellectual weakness of viewing various or different aspects of life as ‘this versus that’ ‘ us versus them’ and contribute to creating divisions, magnifying them and messing up the whole of social, psychological, emotional and intellectual aspects of life. This may be replaced with ‘this and that’ ‘us and them’.


For these to happen we need to keep a check on our PA – Perspective and Attitude.

Perspective is to see the differences, do the analysis, use all energy but work towards synthesis and synergy.

D.J.Mercier, the Archbishop of Malines has said even “Sound Philosophy sets out from analysis and terminates in synthesis”. 


Attitude is how we relate with everyone and how we relate to or react to ever changing situations /circumstances /scenarios/events/environment/new relations etc irrespective of whether we continue to cling on to our identities.


Don’t get outraged thinking that I am migrating from the main topic.

There are some inevitable, inherent, internal factors as well as external influences and instigations that are vital to a better understanding of these two issues
‘outrages’ and ‘migrations’.

Differences and variety may be projected as divisions by vested interest groups to divide and prevent unity and oneness.

Differences are
Inevitable;
Variety is
Inherent and
Synergy is
Indispensable to
Offer
Nicely the Oneness of all.



There must be ‘acceptance’ of all the differences and variety and ‘fulfillment in our relationship’ or at least ‘a sense of satisfaction, conviction in how we relate irrespective of how others relate’.

Life is never fulfilled with unfulfilled relationships within the family, with others in the society, with the environment, with the many sciences, subjects, systems that we come across which are useful to us, used by us or we are used by them and so on. So, the quality of life is the manifestation of the quality of the inter play of these various relationships.

Even in parenting after donating a sperm and leasing a womb and initially taking care of the physical well being of the Child it is all about weaving meaningful and mutually respectable relationships emotionally and psychologically all the while factoring in many socio-cultural changes and the generational differences.

How can we succeed in overcoming the difficulties and fulfill all our relationships?

Probably, we can, if we sincerely, seriously and sanely try to understand them through two important primary factors, namely completely listening and curiously learning followed by involvement and responsibility and all these done with total intensity and intense totality. 

Very often the greatest mistakes in our relationships, overall perceptions and evaluations occur because we read three fourths, listen half, understand quarter, think zero and are indifferent to the impact of our actions, reactions, thoughts and words on humanity and the environment.

“In the end nothing less than the whole of everything can be the truth of anything at all”- William James

So, how we accept or deal with our own identity/identities and how we relate with identities of others is going to help us deal with these two issues of ‘outrage’ and ‘migration’.

Mostly, we deal with identities with fondness, ferventness, faith and fanaticism as the multiple frequencies of the spectrum of affinity- ranging from subtle to substantial to sabotaging impacts.

These frequencies are not mere verbal nuances but can be nice or nasty depending on how they manifest the intensity of one’s reverence, reaction and how everyone relates with those identities.

If we adopt the armor of sense of balance and the tool of refined rationality devoid of any identity based reaction to anything, though this may sound very idealistic or even utopian, then, it serves to provide a level playing field for all individuals irrespective of any identity.

Rational approaches refine what is otherwise viewed as contrasts that divide into variations that seek synergy.

Life is impregnated with the inevitable polarity principle in many aspects and identities are no exception.

Identities of all hues while they enable creating social groups at the same time enfeeble options for universal acceptance or peaceful and compatible cohabitation.

I have very often held that identity, though inevitable, excessive and exclusive veneration of it is at the heart of many problems be it in the realm of religion, region, language, tradition, culture, nationhood and so on.

In a sense identity symbolize a fence, while it draws a boundary it is also the link that recognizes outside area or other person’s arena.

Most importantly, we must acquire the wisdom to make unbiased balanced views on everything concerned with life so that we can try to grasp the meaning of life with all its harsh realities and real hues and facets of variety that life is made of.

There is a wonderful explanation of identity creation in Cognitive neuroscientist Bruce Hood's exploration of the building blocks of what we experience as the “self” in "The Self Illusion: How the Social Brain Creates Identity'[1]

Unfortunately, unintentionally, unconsciously we may all end up extolling the wrong things.

Both our individual self and social self are to a large extent shaped by how we relate with our circumstances and how our contexts relate with us.

Most of the individual problems and group pogroms are the result of identity crisis. This [identity adoration/affiliation] is a very important part of study of personal psychology and socio-psychology which gets neglected or does not get the prominence it deserves because the predominant factors that create these identities and factories that produce these predators are the patrons and promoters of ideologies. Now recently, technological advancement has also jumped into this band wagon

There is nothing wrong with identities per se nor are they avoidable. For example if someone  is born physically beautiful, mentally brilliant, in a  highly respected family in a particular nation following certain language, religion, culture, tradition etc with some type of specific behavior then that person would be identified with all those things. What can that person do about any of those identities which he is born with, born into, groomed up with along with social inculcation, indoctrination, insistence or voluntary inclination or interest etc?

There is nothing wrong even in human mind getting into judgmental mode based on these identities which is one of the natural consequences of identity affiliation and which is what is happening all over.

There is nothing wrong even in the human mind making comparisons, analysis, criticisms etc based on these identities which are again natural consequences of affiliation to inevitable identities. 

The problem crops up when these identities create narrow walls of prisons of the mind and thereby creating incompatibilities and intolerances in the functioning of many vital tools of life and not letting life to move on smoothly in its tracks.

In brief our thoughts, ideas, actions, feelings, interactions, attitudes  are all to a very great extent influenced by how we relate to changing situations /circumstances /scenarios/events/environment/new relations while clinging on to our identities.

Even within specific identities there are varying degrees and intensities of manifestation.

Any identity is /all identities are a stumbling block to any realization or unbiased relating/relationship as well. 

As James Braha writes, in the wonderful book ‘LIVING REALITY-My Extraordinary Summer with “Sailor” Bob Adamson’,

 “You can only know yourself by being yourself without any attempt at self-definition and self-description. Once you have understood that you are nothing perceivable or conceivable, that whatever appears in the field of consciousness cannot be yourself, you will apply yourself to the eradication of all self identification, as the only way that can take you to a deeper realization of yourself. You literally progress by rejection—a veritable rocket. To know that you are neither in the body nor in the mind, though aware of both, is already self-knowledge.”

The real nakedness devoid of any cover of identity may enable us and equip us to face reality unbiased and without any pre conditioning.

Some great souls have even opined that we can even pose real questions only from this state as Terence Mckenna says, “You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then, essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche…and it’s from that position, a position outside the cultural operating system, that we can begin to ask real questions about what does it mean to be human, what kind of circumstance are we caught in, and what kind of structures, if any, can we put in place to assuage the plan and accentuate the glory and the wonder that lurks, waiting for us, in this very narrow slice of time between the birth canal and the yawning grave. In other words we have to return to first premises."

Do we create our identity and getting confined by it?

Or whether some identity actually influences and/or creates us?

Or can we tweak some parts of the brain surgically and create a complete leap away from affinity to identities so that individual perceptions, actions, attitudes and social behavior can be freer and at least devoid of problems caused by contradictions and ideological constraints?  [After all, physiologically even DNA is tweaked to produce unimaginable results].

Outrage epidemic is the  manifestation of individual disagreements and disenchantment that have always existed but has become easily collective, inflated and exaggerated due to Outrage industry which is promoted as a trend, originally confined to a few privileged and propaganda peddling outfits is now empowered to engulf everyone everywhere though advanced and easily accessible misuse of technology. Many gullible and vulnerable people are caught into this whirlpool that dangerously sucks everyone around.

Whatever is happening today is a heady mix of many highly volatile things/aspects which can turn anytime anywhere equally provocative and aggressive. These manifest certain feeble atavistic tendencies; histrionic reactions to historical blunders; self created or aggravated problems further fueled by sensationalism seeking media, scandal mongering journalists, victimhood peddling outfits, guilt inflicted international manipulative operators, fanatical bonding with misinterpreted superficiality of  certain ideologies and edicts, perverted unsolicited participation into the internal affairs of ideologically different outfits, extrapolation of certain ideologies across vast areas of human activities, urge to homogenize and so on . There are certain common factors to all these: like misguiding and misusing certain individuals by emotionally charging them, funding them etc.

Levels of scrutiny, extent of criticism, limits of tolerance, philosophical consolations and so on and  all of them  become very elastic or rigid depending upon whom they affect at that particular instant and how the affected people take them or react to them. 

Depending on the nature, circumstances, situations and nurtured attitudes, proportionately, the reactions, retributions and revenge will manifest.

If by nature and nurture the creatures caged inside the identity cages are soft and mild, then, their reactions also will be manifested in varying degrees of intensity like soft and sophisticated exhibiting either gentle acceptance of inevitability or graceful withdrawal from the cage or a meek surrender out of utter cowardliness or silent fuming in frustration or total fatalistic indifference.

However, if those inside identity cages are wild by nature or nurture, then, the reactions towards any slight disturbance to their caged comfort will be very violent, aggressive and criminal. 

On one side while the outrage industry keeps magnifying the short comings or discomforts, either real or projected through propaganda and injects a sense of insecurity to one’s identity cages, one feels that the comfort zones are shaking and no more reliable and contemplates on migrating to a better place or ideology, which though may be good or great in reality or in projection, the transitional period will cause further disturbances. While outrages may be earth quakes of varying magnitude the migrations are tremors.

Perspective of Learning the importance of following are required:- Unless and until there is a natural or socio culturally initiated importance given to sophistication and adjustments necessary for a collective  cohabitation of civilized life with humanitarian concerns and environmental well being ( which means addressing many problems of vast number of people and also acknowledging the sensitivities of modern life styles without compromising on certain very essential aspects of life and a responsibility to leave a livable planet for posterity) all sorts of chaos and cut throat activities will continue and they can get further fueled if the economic conditions are also poor.


Attitude of Adjusting relationships that is required for these transformations:-

All relationships effect a transformation, a transition from a present status influencing and impacting ourselves, others, our environment and our very relationship which causes this and so on. This transformation happens due to many of the factors mentioned above in the normal process in a gradual way or sometimes by suddenly overcoming the constraints of time and space, and due to different affinities to various other identities.

This happens when there is unqualified complete love as Jeff Brown points out "You don’t measure love in time. You measure love in transformation. Sometimes the longest connections yield very little growth, while the briefest of encounters change everything. The heart doesn't wear a watch- it’s timeless. It doesn’t care how long you know someone. It doesn’t care if you had a 40 year anniversary if there is no juice in the connection. What the heart cares about is resonance. Resonance that opens it, resonance that enlivens it, resonance that calls it home. And when it finds it, the transformation begins…"

I have used the capital letters ‘L’ and ‘A’ for Learning and Adjusting to indicate that life is a LA LA land, it involves a process of constant Learning and Adjustment.

We have evolved from kuru disease attracting cannibals to crew travelling to other planets.

Let us forget what must be forgotten and remember what requires to be remembered.

We must not forget that we are all human species and we must remember that this wonderful planet is meant for many other species too.

It would be pertinent to mention what ― Idries Shah the great Sufi writer says in Reflections
“You have not forgotten to remember;
You have remembered to forget.
 But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.”

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[1] Amazon review of the book runs  excellently as , "Most of us believe that we are unique and coherent individuals, but are we? The idea of a "self" has existed ever since humans began to live in groups and become sociable. Those who embrace the self as an individual in the West, or a member of the group in the East, feel fulfilled and purposeful. This experience seems incredibly real but a wealth of recent scientific evidence reveals that this notion of the independent, coherent self is an illusion - it is not what it seems. Reality as we perceive it is not something that objectively exists, but something that our brains construct from moment to moment, interpreting, summarizing, and substituting information along the way. Like a science fiction movie, we are living in a matrix that is our mind.

In The Self Illusion, Dr. Bruce Hood reveals how the self emerges during childhood and how the architecture of the developing brain enables us to become social animals dependent on each other. He explains that self is the product of our relationships and interactions with others, and it exists only in our brains. The author argues, however, that though the self is an illusion, it is one that humans cannot live without.

But things are changing as our technology develops and shapes society. The social bonds and relationships that used to take time and effort to form are now undergoing a revolution as we start to put our self online. Social networking activities such as blogging, Facebook, Linkedin and Twitter threaten to change the way we behave. Social networking is fast becoming socialization on steroids. The speed and ease at which we can form alliances and relationships is outstripping the same selection processes that shaped our self prior to the internet era. This book ventures into unchartered territory to explain how the idea of the self will never be the same again in the online social world." 

The author does all these while analyzing the biography of the most paradoxical character Howard Hughes, at once a legendary aviator, movie mogul, tycoon, and socialite, and a reclusive billionaire housebound by his deathly phobia of dirt. He was a fearless aviation pioneer who set and broke countless records, yet he remained terrified of dying from germs. Hughes spent his final days unbathed, dressed in rags, with long sticky hair, curling nails, and the remnants of five hypodermic needles in his arms. He was worth $2 billion!!