IT or NON IT sector- A new R & D in Trend Prediction is required

IT or NON IT sector- A new R & D in Trend Prediction is required

Really very good and timely article as it is an eye opener for all.

It lays on table the harsh realities and facts as they are and also suggests the much needed course correction.

It is easy to sit in media rooms and do analysis and post mortem, though they may be necessary to not to repeat similar mistake or prepare for similar eventuality.

However, this genre of problems is not just for IT but applies to all activities across the spectrum of economy and business where the churning process is happening at great speed and also throws many factors tangentially.

Therefore it becomes difficult for anyone even to predict trends.

I keep saying that the changes happening in economics and politics are so attractive but unpredictable, including the tools used or prediction that what happens is like designs that may emerge because all aspects and arms of modern economics, present day politics as well as the means to implement them through various technological tools are too complex and operate with multiple dimensions and myriad dynamics involving various factors.

Besides, they keep changing their patterns as unpredictably like those of a kaleidoscope in a monkey’s hand. 

But what happens in digital technology and cyber world is like a monkey sitting inside a kaleidoscope.

So, vulnerability and volatility of the patterns of change are difficult to comprehend and even see.

Therefore, I think, along with many new and emerging technologies and fields of studies with R&D holding its relevance as always, innovations, AI and so on trade, commerce and business must also have specialized field of study for predicting probable or emerging economic trends in some scientific way taking into consideration the exigencies of circumstances and imperatives for a advancing human life styles making use of immense data, surveys , statistics, mathematical models, AI  that are already available.

Most importantly we all must works on new models suitable to our milieu rather than merely copying what someone has produced somewhere else presuming that it would work everywhere and can or may be a panacea for most of the ills of our economy.

We may come up with many models some useful some directly going into dust bin but does not matter.

That is better than merely copying and living on illusion then it will be like the monk story [1]

Barbara Marciniak said, “Everything changes when you start to emit your own frequency rather than absorbing the frequencies around you, when you start imprinting your intent on the universe rather than receiving an imprint from existence.”

To me economics, like many things in life, is all about unbiased observations, unprejudiced perceptions, doing away with defensive statistical justifications, cutting off camouflaging irrelevant logical fallacies, chaffing off bombastic jargons, curtailing the instinct to churn out untested or untestable theories  and instead engage in interpretations of all the observed facts  uninfluenced by any ideological affiliations taking into consideration various factors that impact and/or involved in these facts appropriate to the context and relevant to the region.

[1] A new monk arrives at the monastery and is assigned to help the other monks in copying the old texts by hand. He notices, however, that instead of copying the original books, they are copying the copies.

So, the new monk goes to the head monk to ask him about this. He points out that if there was an error in the first copy, that error would be continued in all of the other copies. The head monk says, "We have been copying from the copies for centuries, but you make a good point, my son”.

So, he goes down into the cellar with one of the copies to check it against the original. After many hours still the head monk does not return.

So, one of the monks goes downstairs to look for him. 

He hears sobbing coming from the back of the cellar and finds the old monk leaning over one of the original books sobbing and also banging his head against the wall. He asks what's wrong.

You have really awakened us, we have missed the ‘R’ [I am not referring to any party leader here].

“In the original the word is celebrate” says the old monk with tears in his eyes.

Confession is hypocrisy

Confession is hypocrisy whereas care shows conviction and courage.

If you really care for them then you must go live near them and help them rather than sitting in air-conditioned comforts of media houses in India and USA alternately.

Instead of making unsolicited confession about his pleasant relationships with Pakistan, as if someone said it was a sin or mistake. I would suggest and also ask sponsors to enable him to find a house in Pakistan.

Anyway this is not even real confession but profession of pandering to pay masters.

When you SIT near HEARTH WHERE the RAJ was RUN as during previous regimes of taking money from foreign entities to dance to their tunes.

But now the whole of or at least the majority of humanity is globalized and thankfully interconnected through technology and interrelated for a better and happy living where xenophobia, religious bigotry are slowly becoming outdated.

And because of these very facts anyone who harps on or insists on identity based victim hood projections or biased opinion peddling without having the guts or spine to condemn nonsense as nonsense and terrorism which affects everyone’s life as terrorism is exposing himself as part of the clan of leftover LEFT of India and paid media mafia of India who I would like to see carry on living in Pakistan rather than pathetically confess about his connections in Pakistan.

Social Media’s many voices mute the MSM mafia.

                              Social Media’s many voices mute the MSM mafia.

The 24 hours of inevitable churning involving contradictions and constant change throws out of gear the control freaks in the form of mass opinion molders.

       1. So desperate is the MSM that they do not miss any opportunity to show their disgust  for this social media          calling them as ‘‘English –driven social-media echo chambers’ because Social media are trumping paid and      prejudiced news.

        2.Jealousy driven, frustration filled club of media mafia who lived in the sanctuary of  comfort where they     felt that peddling lies, opinions , twisted presentation of news with hidden agenda of provocation were their           sole preserve.

3. Their only qualification being misinterpreting, misquoting and maligning their chosen targets with impunity               and worse still gloated over their status of mass opinion molders.

4. These media channel room heroes, in some cases Romeos thought that their sanctuary will never be invaded by any force and they could burn anyone or any truth or fact in their toxic gas chambers of Left or paid patrons’ ideology.

5. Unfortunately, they have been upset by unexpected technology which enabled people to capture facts in real time and also vent their views on various dimensions of any issue so they call this force of social media users as ‘English –driven social-media echo chambers’ as this echo is gradually silencing the 24/7 news channel cacophony.

6. What about paid MSM extremism before and after advent of social media.

7. This debate itself is because biased and paid MSM feels unsettled by social media. [SM]

8. Confirmation bias promoting, opinion and judgment peddling are no more sole preserve of MSM.

9. Everyone can express what touches the heart, triggers the adrenal or tosses the mind or makes one feel that it can be good for humanity.

10. MSM alone has no exclusive copy rights for social engineering anymore.

         11. It is an age of missiles of multiple mindsets and aspirations and myriad perspectives and perceptions                  where moderation is marginalized and aggression is adored.

12. Social media’s popularity itself stems from some of the above and besides, of course, the usual human attributes of attention seeking, gossiping, rumor mongering and impulse to communicate and share.

13. In these processes SM has taught Newton's 3^rd   Law of motion to MSM.

14. If people want only palatable sermons plenty of scriptures out there, literature and life are lively because of stories and experiences.

15. Avoid attempts at homogenization and control of opinions and aspirations. It has failed everywhere starting from craze of Roman Empire to Nazism to Stalinism even in limited geographical area because nature is variety.

16. Life goes through its own churning process and evolution plays its part in all spheres unmindful of lofty preachers or news and nuisance peddlers.

17. Sense of balance must prevail over emotionalism. It would be nice if everyone and everything also evolve along with awareness of these inevitable facts.

18. Science and technology must be used as a medium for this along with providing physical and mental comforts.

19. Religions must emphasis utility to life rather than parading and taking pride in number of adherents or superiority of cult like following.

20. Economies must ensure better and happier life for maximum number with collective participation of all while ensuring minimum damage to environment.

21.Nations and politicians must realize that humanity is better served if  it functions as a global unit devoid of specific real estate veneration, refrain from interfering in others affairs, avoid hysteric reactions to historic blunders etc.

22.So, social media extremism or exchange of ideas, ideologies and information and so on go to reflect all the sensitivities of  identities which are prevalent in the society, which resists unity amid variety.

23. A society where social media savors the benefits of globalization but supports xenophobia.

24. Where on one side traditional practices are giving way to rational questioning and another side emphasizes more and more of traditions with justifications and excuses.

It is ok to be disorderly when you are busy with other things.

It is  ok  to be disorderly when you are busy with other things.

Voilà I have got a detailed justification manual for procrastination and disorderliness.

http://timharford.com/2016/10/theres-magic-in-mess-why-you-should-embrace-a-disorderly-desk/

In my  Pre University College [called as PUC] days I hunted and read books titled as C.E.M. Joad’ s ‘That there is no such thing as Morality’; Bertrand Russell’s ‘In praise of Idleness’ and that attitude of  titles questioning existing status of virtuous behavior continued.

They have not disappointed me as they gave me an opportunity to questions beliefs, myths, faiths, doctrines and then study, appreciate, accept or reject, evaluate if required everything on certain inherent merits or contextual relevance to my life and that of others.

Then I veered into studying lot of books on philosophy and science; topics that intrigued me like what is actually meant by consciousness, knowledge, understanding, thinking, thoughts, perception, reality  and so on and so forth.

It is a continuing journey of learning where I keep on reading lot of serious stuff.

In that line of attitude this article caught my attention

http://timharford.com/2016/10/theres-magic-in-mess-why-you-should-embrace-a-disorderly-desk/

as I have been wanting to organize my writings and my files for the past 15 years and I cannot  even say it is work in progress I have not even started.

Voilà I have got a detailed justification manual for procrastination and disorderliness.

In many domains most of us prefer to follow or believe blindly as it is a more convenient and easy option.

But instead when we start to question the why? What? And How? We stumble upon lot of interesting information and learn and gain some knowledge.

Without why?  What? And how? Our lives would be unimaginative, dull and passive like inanimate objects.

Note that the why  also implies why not.

It is not only in questioning but exploring to seek the answers for these why? What? And how? Whatever source they emanate from and in all possible ways, is what educates and emancipates mankind.

In this process of enquiry, we must steer clear of impenetrable jargons, lukewarm sea of half-baked theories, the illusion that life and its meanings and problems can be reduced to some specific straight-jacket dogma, and delusions of fettering axiomatic certitudes like something is said to be so and therefore, it is so; and a whole lot of other such aspects of the culture of escapism, and indifference and lies.

Of these ubiquitous trinity of why? What? And how?

Let me take up only why here. The word Why is a magical word.

Small children use it to keep their parents talking on and on without end.

Unfortunately, it is not only to keep their parents talking but also out of inquisitiveness.

Inquisitiveness is what produces a wide range of characters starting from an eavesdropper, a scandal monger or a clandestine voyeur or a gossip giant or a spiritual mediator or a social inventor, etc.

So the type of reply a parent gives to a child’s enquiry of a why? (out of inquisitiveness) will produce such a “deep” impression that, the child’s mind would start using the question why to get a particular expected answer and also produce any of the above referred characters depending upon the parent’s reply.

Very often parents tend to give clever replies like a tourist guide who, when once, a lady asked him “How a row of fine rock formation were piled up”, said “they have been piled up here by the glaciers”. When she anxiously asked him “Where are the glaciers?” he replied “Madam, they have gone back to get some more rocks”. Such replies are often the result of ignorance, half-knowledge or impatience or all of these.

I, for one, would rather like to go to the maximum extent possible to find the answer for all the whys that arise in me, for, I believe in what Phenella writes in “The Unwritten Comedy”.

“To be ignorant of many things is expected
To know you are ignorant of many things is the beginning of wisdom.
To know a category of things of which you are ignorant is the beginning of learning.
To know the details of that category of things of which you are ignorant is to no longer be ignorant.”

Blind Beliefs, Whys, Ignorance and Kilo

Whether it is science or religion, most of us prefer to follow or believe blindly as it is a more convenient and easy option.

This whole preamble is to take you on a journey to explain the funny details behind ‘kilo’ as per science, link given at the end.

But instead when we start to question the why? What? And How? We stumble upon lot of interesting information and learn and gain some knowledge.

Without why?  What? And how? Our lives would be unimaginative, dull and passive like inanimate objects.

It is not only in questioning but exploring to seek the answers for these why? What? And how? Whatever source they emanate from and in all possible ways, is what educates and emancipates mankind.

In this process of enquiry, we must steer clear of impenetrable jargons, lukewarm sea of half-baked theories, the illusion that life and its meanings and problems can be reduced to some specific straight-jacket dogma, and delusions of fettering axiomatic certitudes like something is said to be so and therefore, it is so; and a whole lot of other such aspects of the culture of escapism, and indifference and lies.

Of these ubiquitous trinity of why? What? And how?

Let me take up only why here. The word Why is a magical word.

Small children use it to keep their parents talking on and on without end.

Unfortunately, it is not only to keep their parents talking but also out of inquisitiveness.

Inquisitiveness is what produces a wide range of characters starting from an eavesdropper, a scandal monger or a clandestine voyeur or a gossip giant or a spiritual mediator or a social inventor, etc.

So the type of reply a parent gives to a child’s enquiry of a why? (out of inquisitiveness) will produce such a “deep” impression that, the child’s mind would start using the question why to get a particular expected answer and also produce any of the above referred characters depending upon the parent’s reply.

Very often parents tend to give clever replies like a tourist guide who, when once, a lady asked him “How a row of fine rock formation were piled up”, said “they have been piled up here by the glaciers”. When she anxiously asked him “Where are the glaciers?” he replied “Madam, they have gone back to get some more rocks”. Such replies are often the result of ignorance, half-knowledge or impatience or all of these.

I, for one, would rather like to go to the maximum extent possible to find the answer for all the whys that arise in me, for, I believe in what Phenella writes in “The Unwritten Comedy”.

“To be ignorant of many things is expected
To know you are ignorant of many things is the beginning of wisdom.
To know a category of things of which you are ignorant is the beginning of learning.
To know the details of that category of things of which you are ignorant is to no longer be ignorant.”

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2012/07/kilogram-story-how-much-is-kilogram-by.html

Humility, tolerance, humanitarianism and wisdom

Humility, tolerance, humanitarianism and wisdom

Here in India more frequently we indulge, interfere or are indifferent rather than involving with humanitarian concerns.

We suffer from two extremes of unloving criticism and uncritical love.

Greater than anything else is the attitude of humility, tolerance and real wisdom evolving from them.

We need to evolve many behavior patterns to make life better on planet Earth [ which itself is a wrong word used for something which has more than 70 per cent water] which  has unfortunately been divided by the atlas of national boundaries and spoiled by excessive dominance of human species.

However, evolution fortunately has ensured in all spheres and in all its manifestations that variety has been held in tact which human beings unfortunately have misunderstood as differences.

No one is either big or pig. All are morsels of biochemical organism infused with energy and interrelated in many ways than individual human brains can understand or have bothered to understand.

Love for any language, art, culture, tradition, religion etc need not necessarily lead to either identity veneration or vilification.

It is not what language we speak, what tradition we follow, what culture we love that matter.

What ultimately matters is how we treat others? How we treat other species? How compassionate are we? How humanitarian are we?  

But I feel while everyone has every right to feel euphoric about something close to their emotions, heart and mind it also must ensure to imbibe a spontaneous or subconscious or studiously developed sense of humility and tolerance towards others and what others are trying to say and wanting to say with all sense of humor and subtle sarcasm.

These alone can bring many of us out of both egocentric and ethnocentric whirlpools of self deceptions and complexes [either superior or inferior]

There could be multiple versions of wisdom in various forms imparted through myriad scriptures and religious practices.

But real universal wisdom in my humble opinion may be like this whether sanctioned or sanctified by either social mores or religious morality.

Wisdom is the work shop where works of evolutionary trends and experiences of everyone in it emerge to express wisely the essence of everything to enlighten everyone;

A wisdom which prioritizes living in the present context and along with practicing certain time tested values which have relevance in present context but with global perspective to bequeath a livable planet, a lovable society with lovely infrastructures and improved living conditions;

A wisdom that evaluates everything and everyone with contextual relevance and based on the inherent attributes or merits of what or who is being evaluated without extrapolating any  presumptions, opinions, judgments, perceptions, expectations, ideologies, doctrines, identity based ideology and so on;

A wisdom which is willing to make minor adjustments, small compromises, spontaneous cooperation to create compatible and conducive atmosphere with humility devoid of any egocentric pride;

A wisdom with the realization and a perspective that must be aware that life is a constant process of learning of the multiple dimensions of many things and the various dynamics of those dimensions involving the constant interaction and interrelationship with everyone and everything.

A wisdom that is willing to accommodate multiple methods or means of life with some overall tolerant attitude embedded on humanitarian concerns towards all human life and environmental or natural concern towards all other species.

A wisdom that gets its clarity of understanding through a churning process that takes into consideration several aspects from the practical to the philosophical to the all fantasies of the mind.

Thinking or Thought

                                                  Thinking or Thought

The topic of Thinking or Thought is a heady mix  of many things even if we exclude mere articulation  of  ideas, reproduction of information, opinions, prejudices from the purview. But we  cannot leave these. 

Surprisingly these reveal the inherent vulnerabilities of thinking and the whole thought process and if we add the multiple dynamics of external influences to it then we may realize it is after all not that great a tool but still a very useful one for want of any other better and rational alternative. 

We may spice it up with other concomitant aspects like wisdom for enhanced and humanitarian  approach.

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2015/06/thoughts-and-thinking.html

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2010/02/real-perception.html

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2016/09/knowledge-and-understanding.html

Elaborate explanation of brevity

I would like to elaborate on the actual meaning of ‘brevity’.

While everyone agrees that moderation is the sign of sanity but context is the deciding factor in vicinity and visibility.

Wise political strategy requires venting of natural mass emotions and also moderating it with voices of moderation from higher authorities.

When we ‘quote’ something it conveys what we want much better /effectively than what we may have to struggle to come out with an articulation of our own.

But the problem with quotes is that when they are used to convey the hidden intentions the covering up becomes conspicuous at least in contours [perhaps like the hidden anatomy of heroines in rain drenched transparent cloths of Bollywood  films].

Even Shakespeare made it very clear that ‘Brevity is the soul of wit’ please note he meant only ‘soul of wit’ and not in anything else.

Perhaps we may add brevity in emergency situations or for reasons of diplomatic wheedling where the recipients are made to get embroiled in multiple interpretations.

But definitely brevity is not meant for any detailed and planned military operations or the resultant expressions of spontaneous eruption of emotions [joy or sorrow], more so, when they manifest as mass euphoria or mass frenzy due to the much awaited paradigm shift in attitude of often  ending  up in a situation where each one of us say desperately or out of indifference say, as very well conveyed in this quote,  ‘I don't have a solution but I admire the problem’. The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.-Hugh Trevor-Roper - Men and Event

Basically human beings are animalistic by instinct and impulse but use or expected to use or obliged to use the sixth sense when they want to become or be or behave like a social beings.

There has been initially some over dosage of war and victory in the whole of history.

Then slowly the intellectual giants injected through epics and myths wisdom and values as justifications to ensure that humanity accepted wisdom and values as inevitable dosage of medicines in order to evolve as better social beings to lead life together with all other species with some ethics and rules.

This, I feel was perhaps the larger intention and subtle message of all epics, and not prowess in archery or skill in using all sorts of crude weapons for gruesome results or for cinematic effects.

It is all well known that whenever there is a victory or success in any field of activity people go gaga over it and also resort to all sorts of claims.

It happens when any country wins a game of football or cricket and it is nothing but a manifestation of jubilation.

To my knowledge Shakespeare himself, had he been brief in debating over the dead body of Julius Caesar the world would have lost one of the most inspiring speeches by Mark Antony and the others  and also lost a marvelous piece of literature and multiple templates for logical and emotional justifications.

What about Shakespeare’s famous soliloquies and sermonizing speeches of his characters.

If brevity alone has been insisted as in SMS or Twitter, then, perhaps, only didactic sermons would have survived and all literature buried; only poetry would have survived and not music and songs; only bed rooms would have existed and not wedding celebrations; only dictates of powerful leaders and not political speeches and debates; only barter system and not the complicated economic structures and so on.

We need to remember over simplifying, over generalizing and over homogenization are all against natural evolution.

Brevity in many contexts is like raw vegetables and plants, one cannot eat them as they are; they need elaborate cooking and attractive dressing combined with the aroma of enticing spices.

Shakespeare whose ‘brevity is the soul of wit’ is often quoted out of context.

Shakespeare himself  knew that his spontaneity of expression and elaborate exhibition of emotions of his characters needed lot of elaboration and realized that even the existing vocabulary of the language was  inadequate that he ended up coining at least 1700 new words and expressions and introduced them into the English language which ultimately enriched both the language and literature.

It was good that he never misunderstood the meaning of brevity out of context.

Can anyone define the ‘brevity’ or at least recommend it in all contexts.

Had Lord Krishna chosen to be brief, in fact that is the expected line of activity in crisis, and instructed Arjuna to just go and plunder the enemy with arrows the world would not have got the Bhagawat Geetha running into several chapters of great philosophy.

The world would have been deprived of  great rational and philosophical lecture on professional integrity if the architect in Ayn Rand’s Fountain head just said he wanted to do this or that ,instead of  elaborating the reasons.

Elaboration is both excellent and inevitable [1]

Even abbreviated attire is recommended for swimming [gender neutral] not while strolling in chill weather.

On what basis can one decide brevity?

I can furnish single sentences, meaningful ones, not the unpunctuated ones like mine, which run to pages.

So, can someone produce one such sentence and claim that he has been brief as he has used only one sentence. [2]

The level of enthusiasm and exaggeration varies from individual to individual and from context to context when it comes to expressing and communicating.

Stories of revenge and restoring relatively better option through all means, sometimes involving violence as a means,   fills the pages of history of humanity and is also the main plot in many epics be it Ramayana or Mahabhratha.

In all such episodes in history and epics there has always been celebration of victory and condemnation of defeat.

Both are wrong and everyone who can pitch in either in main stream media or social media have their right to express their opinion in their own way, of course, with the rider, to ensure that whatever they say does not ignite further trouble or foment more violent reaction and escalate animosity.

But then in success and victory always as a rule covers all blunders. When India wins a match no one question about shot selection of a number 10 batsman.

So, we need to debate and define ‘brevity’ with context specific meaning. [3]

[1] http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2015/11/elaboration-is-indeed-important.html

[2] http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2015/11/length-of-sentence-in-language.html

[3] http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2015/10/definitions-and-debates-too-much-of.html

Why case to case different positions are taken.

Why case to case different positions are taken.

1. There is no such thing in socio- legal system as status quo with axiomatic certitude.

2. In every case various aspects are factored in according to the situation/ context [exchange of prisoners to save lives of many high jacked personalities- in every field there are exceptions which are considered with due discretionary powers].

3. In some issues lot of things are decided [like in Cauvery river water dispute] depending on the  parties involved in dispute along with over ignited emotions of many [either with real concern or hidden motives ] and exaggerated controversies along with politicized passions of the public and many more hidden and unknown issues.

4. So normally in such situations it is better to find techniques like delays, diversions till intensity of passions subside and sanity returns.

This is done intentionally so that a solution can be brought about or at least discussed with minimum hurt, damage and a preferably in a  conciliatory atmosphere.

5. Everything cannot be and need not be explained to media or social media.

6. However, everyone has a right to vent their feelings or voice their opinions.

7. This is what silently Vajpayee did when he created 3 new states within a week's time.

8. Whereas, you see what happened in Telangana people who were colleagues and neighbors all of a sudden were made to feel like aliens and enemies speaking the same language.

9. Let us appreciate what Chandrababu Naidu has done in the recent 9 months. He has built a canal to link Krishna River and Godavari River.

He silently solved the problem rather than making it an issue creating loss of lives and property etc.

10. Life's socio- political churning process seems to get struck in identities of various hues and colors

Unfortunately, in the whole world Life's socio- political churning process instead of becoming and being more rational, scientific and humane, seems to get struck in identities of various hues and colors indicating a mindset worse than that of the sixteenth century.

Identity crisis is becoming one of the greatest curses of this century

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2015/08/identity-entire-gamut-of-identitys.html

11.  In ThinkEdu16 conference in concluding session Sri Sri Ravishankar answered spontaneously very well to VC of a university in very simple terms how to avoid irrational depressions due to high expectations and corresponding disappointment.

He used just three very effective words. He said you definitely need 'Passion' to perform effectively but 'Dispassion' to carry on with shortcomings and failures. He said when you succeed in Passion you enjoy, when you have this 'Dispassion' then you do not 'hate yourself' between these two if you have 'Compassion' then you do not hate or blame others. So he said you need Passion, Dispassion and Compassion -all the three.

12. I think this simple mantra can contribute enough moderation and sense of balance which is the ultimate test of a matured person.

13. No one starts and must not start or cannot start or need not start all aspects of life in moderation.

14. Aggression, passion, influence, impact, intensity are the things that spice up the adventure of life but then everyone must grow out of these experiences into a matured balanced person acting with moderation.

15. http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2015/09/composed-mind-is-all-about-balance.html

16. But it is also high time that all individuals and institutions which feel responsible for youth, future generations, and posterity of humanity must emphasis and consciously promote  virtues of moderation, tolerance, forgiveness, compassion, accepting facts, happiness, contextual relevance of whatever is done  etc as most important tenets of emancipated human beings practicing a universal religion.

Schooling for mass literacy has its short comings but are there many easily adaptable alternatives out there ?

Very interesting, important and impactful speech but……then ….

I got it last week itself through the link given below.

https://www.scoopwhoop.com/Rapper-sues-education-system-in-powerful-video/#.fpwan2plp

Everyone cannot but agree with this person on many issues but….

Subject of speech: - Homogenized and uniform literacy.

I have already seen this and as you rightly said excellent and I rate it as among the many speeches which have had a great impact on the listener that they force the listener to think.

In fact when I listened to it the first time it took me back to the movie ‘ And Justice for All’ wherein Al Pacino used to argue his case and come out and sit on the stairs of the court or the wonderful arguments of  Howard Roark or the great talks of Osho and JK.

I am using all these for the impact that they have on the listener.

Of course, there are innumerable examples in the plays of Shakespeare, Kalidasa and many epics across several languages which got men to think of multiple possibilities and many logical approaches and evolve many systems and methods to lead a life.

In this particular subject I have also read some 26 years back De–schooling society by Ivan Illich and such similar stuff.

Having said all these, mass literacy, like democracy or anti-biotic, is accepted for want of a better alternative and sometimes we adopt it in totality as if it is the only method or succumb to it and unfortunately it also becomes  inevitable in certain circumstances.

However, within it or along with it or beyond it we can always play around.

Until and unless we have better alternatives or keep trying for better alternatives or at least allow space to think of better alternatives and also ensure to make the vested interest groups involved in promoting certain methods  all great thoughts, ideas and speeches will remain as unfertilized potential eggs pandering to  few moments of sensational titillation.

This also , invariably happens because of our utter disgust with existing systems we tend to oversimplify or over generalize extremely complicated and complex issues which as bad or little less  as those who have been trying to homogenize human beings, especially their psychological aspirations, feelings and creativity .

All these emanate as a result of a fundamentally wrong perspective based on bias towards homogenization and uniformity.

You may if you have time and want in detail links 1,2,3,4 given at the end on literacy, education, homogenization and the presumptions of success.

We need to carefully tread on issues where the speeches tend to be too judgmental, even if well meaning because their impact is so heavy that anyone can fall for them and that is what they are meant to be.

It is perfectly alright and nothing wrong but they may not be the ultimate solution especially without clear cut, easily adaptable alternatives.

Because such speeches are meant to be taken seriously as those who are making them are doing it out of total sincerity.

This is what I have learned while reading modern judgments, I mean the legal ones.

On Judgments:-

I have read many historic judgments (including some from the international court of justice as they used to get published in the 90s in some British magazines and many magazines which were using some of those judgments as tools to justify certain events and happenings).

Some excellent verdicts which I used to categorize and read based on clever interpretation of legality of the land; mastery of verbal articulation involving both logic and the 42 major logical fallacies; verdicts which showed the intellectual sharpness as well as concern for the principle of humanitarianism based on the philosophy of optimum benefit to the maximum number without hurting the feeling of many.

On articulation:-

Articulation is both an art and science but must not be mistaken as a mere mastery of words or linguistics skills.

Its greatness is its ability to deliver effective communication for various occasions and on several topics.

It is because articulation I believe is the flow of thoughts and ideas that use the wings of expressions to weave appropriate and appealing patterns.

That's why all great leaders, especially political and religious ones are very articulate and they do not exercise any restraint unless for diplomatic wheedling.

Articulation with appropriate definition and adequate elaboration brings out multiple nuances and niceties like canine senses of smell and which are all cleverly and pleasantly ensconced in the colorful expressions with a beauty like the multiple shades of pavonine splendor.

All said and done everything evolves and we must evolve along with active participation and involvement of wisdom, by wisdom I always mean these.

On Wisdom:-

Wisdom is the work shop where works of evolutionary trends and experiences of everyone in it emerge to express wisely the essence of everything to enlighten everyone;

A wisdom which prioritizes living in the present context and along with practicing certain time tested values which have relevance in present context but with global perspective to bequeath a livable planet, a lovable society with lovely infrastructures and improved living conditions;

A wisdom that evaluates everything and everyone with contextual relevance and based on the inherent attributes or merits of what or who is being evaluated without extrapolating any  presumptions, opinions, judgments, perceptions, expectations, ideologies, doctrines, identity based ideology and so on;

A wisdom which is willing to make minor adjustments, small compromises, spontaneous cooperation to create compatible and conducive atmosphere with humility devoid of any egocentric pride;

A wisdom with the realization and a perspective that must be aware that life is a constant process of learning of the multiple dimensions of many things and the various dynamics of those dimensions involving the constant interaction and interrelationship with everyone and everything.

A wisdom that is willing to accommodate multiple methods or means of life with some overall tolerant attitude embedded on humanitarian concerns towards all human life and environmental or natural concern towards all other species.

A wisdom that gets its clarity of understanding through a churning process that takes into consideration several aspects from the practical to the philosophical to the all fantasies of the mind.

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2015/05/literacy.html

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2016/09/education.html

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2016/09/success-and-happiness.html

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2016/10/uniformity-homogenization-and-panacea.html

Reason and science -let us respect

Reason and romance are the two most influential  things that impact maximum the minds of impressionable age.

Misplaced messages belittle science and the holds guilty the religious freaks.

Science is a different ball game.

Let us give full  credit to whoever has discovered something for the benefit of humanity.

Claiming credit, consistency, ancientness, superiority or greater number of adherents is not going to make anyone or anything greater but on the contrary it is a symptom of pathetic attention seeking or desperate marketing.

Instead inspire children to listen talks like the one at the end  really inspiring to all and instructing to the elders and intimidating to some but will enable  children to think without biases and also more brilliantly.

Though like all domains it may have its own known or unknown, accepted and unaccepted short comings.

In simple terms it involves unbiased observations, in depth research, experiments carried out and empirical evidence well documented with universal applications along with a rider that it can or may be disproved or replaced with newer or better evidence without the original discovery or invention resisting it.

I am not even venturing into the minimal  jargon like hypotheses, target group, sample survey etc.

The greatest beauty of all scientific discoveries is that they benefit everyone irrespective of any extraneous considerations.

However, we all must remember that every scientific discovery or invention or creation involves many hours, days and years of research which should not be belittled by claiming that some tradition somewhere knew it already.

There is a growing trend of this illogical and fanatical resorting to refrain of  trying to assign all credits to religious past glory, whereas, in reality many aspects of religion has crossed their expiry date.

Worse is to do this resorting by trying to find some connectivity or justification devoid of logic and this will only push further the youth away from any good that the role of religion or the political ideologies may have .

Actually this is doing a disservice to the vulnerable minds of impressionable age because using these illogical statements/observations/claims the pseudo liberals will fill the gap with some counter logical fallacies.

So, stop doing this for the sake of religion, science, humanity, logic, youth and human race.

Let us always seek and search for synergy between science and spirituality, that too not religion or tradition.

There is nothing wrong in highlighting synergy or similarity but then that must be done before hand rather than claiming ‘we said so’ ‘we knew it already’ etc. Then where the hell have you stuffed in all that useful knowledge.

By claiming credit after the event you become guilty also of not sharing useful information for the benefit of all in a manner that everyone could have used rather than tucking it under some cloak of tradition or packing it off as some religious practice.  

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2015/03/singing-our-past-glory-popular-refrain.html

SCIENCE AND SPIRITUALITY

http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/balayogiv-1483709-science-spirituality/

http://www.scribd.com/doc/101198033/Science-and-Spirituality

Our education systems have killed inquiry, experience and have replaced everything with grand theoretical texts to be learnt and reproduced either with or without understanding. Science  has enhanced human living, made life more comfortable and helped human beings understand about life better and  far beyond what religions or arts or politics or perhaps all put together did or do. Their impact and influence is obvious in every sphere but unfortunately humanity respects and reveres science less and scientists are pushed into oblivion.

http://www.reckontalk.com/this-15-year-old-quit-school-in-9th-grade-and-you-wont-believe-what-he-did-next/

This whole write up is for people from various religions who are claiming that fasting rituals already knew what this year’s Nobel Laureate has discovered ‘autophagy’.

We are all aware that all human beings have to necessarily fast almost every day at least while sleeping.

This year’s Nobel Prize for medicine link here:

https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2016/press.html?ctkey=autophagy