outrage epidemic

                                      Outrage epidemic


1. We all, especially those in media business and those who are news hungry must reconcile to the fact that news, information, data etc are mostly aggregated and so  no one can be either held responsible nor claim ownership nor can anyone exercise absolute control over them 

2. With technological advancement and a relatively better informed society opinion molding or opinion generating is also no more a patented and exclusive service.

3. Once upon a time, perhaps even a generation ago, knowledge was the preserve of a few who had accessibility to it.

4. Now it is all changed. Anyone and everyone with accessibility to technology ( which means almost at least 60% of adult population ) can have acccessibility to knowledge and information ( not to be confused with either better understanding or application) and are at liberty to express and exchange their views.

5. The larder has a collection which is too vast, uncategorized and thrive despite all sorts of entropy, trends, tastes and so on.

6. This outrage epidemic is the  manifestation of individual disagreements and disenchantment that have always existed but has become easily collective and inflated and exaggerated due to technological tools that are available now..

Seek meanings and enable better understanding

Seek meanings and enable better understanding 

1. Too many issues are involved and all of them are claims and counter claims.

2. Modern, and I would say rational approach requires documented evidence to authenticate claims.

3. In a sense certain very ancient cultures like India, China, Iran which are much admired and looked upon with awe by the whole world do not have well documented and recorded proofs for certain aspects.

4. However, every now and then there pops up evidences in the form of archaeological findings and new interpretation of ancients scriptures, references in some ancient literature etc.

5. But then the world is entrenched in a certain specific versions of facts and history which have been offered as templates of reality and accepted tradition. It becomes hard to reverse this  trend  even with hard  facts with proofs.

6. These versions have been further reinforced with the concomitant perspectives and frames of reference well tuned to selectively enhance them.

7. Besides, in a way every one knows that everything that is known or knowable existed or exists somewhere.

8. However, they get discovered or revealed or made known to the whole world through some medium at certain times in a form and structure that is understandable to many and start getting noticed by many.

9. Was gravity non existent before someone explained? Were musical structures non existent before someone composed a sweet melody? 

10. But, it does not mean those who explain it in a way that it becomes useful in application of many technological utilities for the welfare of the world or impacts and effects some change in the course of civilization must not be given the credit or recognition for that.

11. Everything happens in the process of evolution.

12. They happen and get their prominence or preference which do not depend on any specific later day evaluation, certification or approval.

13. Some teams, themes, thoughts, trends, topics, traditions etc get to win or get prominence in the scheme of or scheming of narratives.

14. In this process of victory there emerge some heroes.

15. So, if we reconcile to these types of philosophical perspectives and accept that everything happens as per some known or unknown; definable or undefinable designs of evolutionary trends and cycles, we may desist from our temptation to pat ourselves on our past glory, though everyone has a right to be proud about his/her ancestry, tradition, culture etc.

16. However, this ethnocentric pride must not become a restrictive ideology or identity.

17. http://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2016/10/reason-and-science-let-us-respect.html?m=0

18. Our interpretations and perspectives must enable us to go beyond mere knowledge and seek meanings and enable better understanding beneath information loaded with stereotypical responses and interpretations.

19 They must enhance our understanding, and if, we are conscious enough they must lead us towards enlightened understanding.

20. Some recently published books seem to initiate such process.

21. These books either wade through multiple events that shaped modern history; describe in brief a gamut of happenings and inventions; deal with a wide range of ideas etc and try to extract the essence of the whole and present a very comprehensive interpretation based purely on the impact of those events and ideas.

22. Almost all works of John Brockman, some works of Steven Pinker, some of Neale Donald Walsch and some others.

No one can be a master at everything

Can anyone ever claim comprehensive comprehension with clarity on any issue considering that there are multiple possible factors to be considered with many frames of references, all of which in turn get churned up in the cauldrons of concomitant contextual relevance and the interactions of inherent attributes of the issues, events or things evaluated along with the kirn-staff or churning stick of individual's interpretation based on his or her attitude and perspective.

I sometimes wonder on what basis  mortal human beings use such terms like always ( probably a convenient synonym for in 'most circumstances presumably'); how come a temporary life span and limitations of knowledge talk of ' absolute' ( probably indicating most likely according to the narrator); everything ( probably the range of things one construes to be complete) and so on.

Here I am sharing just some parts of the preface and introduction to a wonderful book which I read after reading a very scathing review of it by another scholar.

Human intellect can churn, scrutinize, evaluate, criticize and keep on drilling deeper or mentally go on scratching like it does to an itching sensation physically.

Silence of the mind

Silence of the mind is the most difficult thing!

Silence could also be an indication of passive acceptance or arrogant or ignorant indifference.

Let's take life easy. Why try too many difficult things? 

Mind is meant to listen, learn and express and meant to be silent only at intervals not forced to be silent. 

Sometimes, too much of silence may be viewed as being subdued or passive.

A whole nation was forced into excessive and sometimes forced mental silence as meditation in the name of religion and now they are almost losing their very identity as a nation, I mean Tibet.

Too much of noise or aggression are also bad.

Coming back to misconceptions like level of difficult, self inflicted suffering or torture as an offering of sacrifice etc are at best unwarranted remnants of very ancient belief systems and do not necessarily bestow any goodness or greatness to the practitioners.

It obvious that merely because many follow them, those practices by themselves do not carry any intrinsic value either to the individual or to the society.

Just because being awake 24 hrs is difficult it does not mean it is good for health. Similar is fasting 24 hrs or eating 24 hrs or controlling urination 24 hrs. 

Mind and mouth are tools of  creations by nature meant to express and not to be silent.

Silence of the mind may be difficult for normal mortals but not for meditating saints or patients in coma or those fully drunk or drugged.

Human life  predominantly revolves around repetitions, recreations and reactions.

All the three Rs indicate active participation rather than passive reception (which is a virtue of the innocent and sometimes that of the ignorant).

But a silent mind is a necessity for listening and learning.

Silent mind can also be an irritating symptom of indifference as over noisy reaction is an irresistible manifestation of intolerance.

However, normal reactions and criticisms, go on to improve or at least effect a change in the outcome

Allopathy

Allopathy need not be afraid of competitors.

So, ascribing motives to Allopathic docs as a whole is presumptive defence.

Allopathic medicines, like all medicines definitely have adverse side effects and after effects which are known to everyone.

Allopathy mentions all ingredients.

This forward does not mean that other streams of medicines are either wrong or ineffective.

I too know of 1000s of cases where only Ayurveda and Homeopathy have cured the patients where Allopathy has given up.

Similarly, all  operations are available only in Allopathy .

Every system has its strengths and weaknesses.

Every system need not suit everyone.

But when any medical issue is brought to knowledge people with domain knowledge or expertise  must counter it or refute it medically.

Others can only forward the message, if necessary.

It is like someone causing an accident death due to rash driving and then resorting tovdefending by  blaming bad roads in general, more deaths due to dengues, poor signal, manufacturing defect of the vehicle etc.

Blind defence or blind blaming must be replaced by relevant reasoning.

I can go on on with multitude of examples of skewed and hasty justifications by Indians in many spheres without ever accepting their short comings or doing anything to rectify them

Global perspective over xenophobic exclusion

Global perspective over xenophobic exclusion

We are all living and sharing a single planet called Earth ( this name itself is wrong because of human centric view when more than 70% of this planet is water and not earth).

Besides, the world is becoming more beautiful and enjoyable because of it is becoming more and more easily interconnected.

This interconnectivity enables cross cultural awareness and the inherent quality and beauty of various cultures.

There are certain or perhaps many inevitable positives like interrelationships, interdependence and interconnectivity.

This being the case any group or nation or instituttion or individual who refuses to be part of this great evolutionary opportunity and instead chooses to remain in isolation and exclusion in the cocoon of either ethno centric or egocentric or ecocentric pride will be defenitely a great loser.

While everyone has a right to venerate and value one's traditions and heritage it does not mean one has to resort to any sort of phobic protectionism and block and protest against every emerging trend.

After all evolutionary trends in every domain and the trajectory of nature's course do not care for anybody's opinions or reactions or ideas.

So, let all of us stop over zealous xenophobic reactions and aversions.

Instead let us accept the existence of differences and adopt and assimilate whatever suits us.

Let us all remember that we are living in 21st Century and not 11th century.

We use and live in the luxury of all evolved scientific, logical and technological utilities which do not belong to any single nation or region or religion or culture but to the whole of humanity.

It would be utter hypocrisy and immaturity to object to anything based on any extraneous identity.

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2017/01/synergy-to-become-global-citizen-and.html?m=0

Homogenization, Identity veneration and stereotyped profiling -The three great dangers

Homogenization, Identity veneration and stereotyped profiling -The three great dangers

https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_story

There is a heady cocktail and sure recipe for polluting perceptions and perspectives.

What is that poisonous cocktail.

It is a mixture of homogenization trying to make everything uniform and worse still developing a publicity and propaganda narrative which is enhanced as an identity.

This is followed by seeing everyone and everything only through the prism of such prefixed identity germinated out of homogenization.

Then  assigning of labels and appropriation of credits are carried on along these lines.

Final dressing of this recipe is spiced with stereotyped profiling.

These emerge in various or perhaps, we must say in all domains of human activity.

I have always felt that while classification and categorization are inevitable necessities for easy identification and administration in certain realms of human activities the other side of these classifications is that they also contribute to exaggerate differences and ignite divisions.

Link number one along with its many sublinks may offer a slightly deeper observation of this recipe.

Some great souls have suggested the antidote to this inevitable malady and that is ability to see and create 'synergy' and 'synthesis'. Link two spells the importance of this.

"The spirit of Advaita is not to keep away from anything, but to keep in tune with everything." -  Swami Chinmayananda

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

1.http://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2016/10/uniformity-homogenization-and-panacea.html?m=0

2.http://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2018/03/life-is-all-about-synergy-and-synthesis.html?m=0

Recently one day during a long travel I thought of a title ' Illunination of inumerable ideas fades fixed frames of reference.

Learning and urge to express

Good one and for your info dear VS I have been following almost all the write ups of Hans Gersbach and Volker and Winker.


They throw open lot of unbiased observations, good ideas too in the realm of Finance, Economics, Entrepreneurship, political system.


Their criticisms and suggestions are very nice and useful but unfortunately not implementable in all regions or societies, especially those in the process of social engineering involving weaning away from entrenched in religious doctrine oriented traditions and excessive adoration of the past etc.


As proposing and penetration of new ideas and systems becomes tougher in terrains occupied by luddites of various hues and colors like status quo addicts, confirmation bias admirers and venerators of their own past tinged with an inherent insecured xenophobic reactions.

But sooner or later the inevitable changes will inundate life as a part of evolution beyond and despite all resistances.

I even went ahead and suggested to classify many such good articles in the realms of socio-political economics into categories like the unexplored, worth exploring and the unknown to bring in a big pool of idea bank from which the administraters can choose their cup of tea.


X says :One sociologist said that all statements are political. I would rather add that all desire to issue statements is narcissistic....more so in the so-called social media.

But then I say everyone needs some platform to express their views, interpretations, criticisms, appreciation etc. SM offers one, till the advent of SM it was the preserve of a select few


X : True. Now it has become Equal number of pearls before equal number of swines as Huxley foretold. We are all well and truly into the era of over- simplification and over-generalisation.

I reply :Learning starts out of curiosity; saunters through limitation; steps into conscious observation and stops to savour into expressing whatever is learnt through some medium and in some way.


Ironically the very process of excessive spawning of multitude of expressions through Social media throws up enormous variety which extinguish over simplification and over generalization and renders orchestration of mass opinion ineffective.


Though all opinions need not be sane or sublime but nonetheless gives room for everyone to express what they want and that is perhaps the very reason for its popularity.

Writing suggestions

When a young girl seeks suggestions to improve her writing I can only say these sir.


Follow your own impulses, intuition, imaginations but do not get contented with your intelligence, ideas, ideological affinities and interpretations as they may inadvertently, sometimes overlook certain areas of a topic and may miss out certain nuances.


Writing, like teaching, is basically a very interesting journey of learning, interaction,  introspection etc.


The best way to improve writing is to keep reading a lot and keep writing every day.


Constant practice is important.


Don't get obsessed with rules or notions of perfection or endorsement by others.


Observe different styles, enhance knowledge and more importantly improve understanding of any topic without any restraining bias or restrictive ideological pinnings.


Ensure whatever is being written is contextually relevant.


While interpreting any issue, idea or imagination never allow limiting frames of references or parochial perspectives to prevent broader vision and greater view of anything.


Also, If it may be of any significance when you get time read the following.

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2017/12/writing-why-i-do-it.html?m=0

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2016/02/blank-page-language-writing-and.html?m=0

https://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2018/08/writer.html

What if ?

Many of us most of the time, unless very imaginative or creative, feel comfortable starting with some template, premise, hypotheses etc- all geared towards facilitating our pursuit or perception at least with some clues, if not concrete answers and solid solutions.

This process is safest but the problem is that this process often bypasses  'what if?' quotient to a great extent, especially the what if? that is lingering in the tangents of the circle of template, hypotheses and premise and therefore more likely miss the radar of attention of the subject or topic as they are outside the radius.

I have always popped up questions of What if?; at times merely to counter a statement and sometimes seriously to find out why not?

In this genre I was even hunting for some titles on various subjects and as a matter of serendipity yesterday I came across Randall Munroe's book titled ' WHAT IF?' and in today's TOI center page Amit Varma's article '....cricket is not dying, it's changing' throws up lot of logically appealing 'what ifs?'.

liberal is a dirty word in India's new lexicon.

Today's TOI ' liberal is a dirty word in India's new lexicon.

Well, it has been rendered so all over the world when media mafia started appropriating it.

1. The whole world knows that social engineering or socio economic structures or socio cultural systems either promoted or proclaimed by political, religious or other mass opinion molders like media mafia have many aspects beyond and besides the dichotomy of Left or Right; Liberal or Conservative etc.

2. Main stream media platform has been misused by some to peddle their putrefied perspectives, petrified ideologies, prefabricated extrapolation of such ideologies to everything involving human life and putative selective silence. So, no sane person would bother to notice the egocentric appropriations by this club or mafia.

3. Majority of the populations across the globe have kicked out the dubious designs and dupes of this mafia and slowly this tribe because of its well entrenched inflated ego tries to hide its self pity seeking through affected and condescending portrayal of social perceptions and reactions which have through multitude of Social Media forums exposed the hidden agenda of media mafia.

4. Now that they ( misusers of platforms of MSM) have been rightly left out of any serious consideration on any issue. I think no one needs to recapitulate and emphasis the glaring results of many major decisions and elections despite and in spite of the constant noises this media mafia was making.

5. I feel sorry for the unhealthy condition that this media mafia created for itself and the whole society at large.

6. The following link lists the unhealthy aspects.

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2018/01/healthy-wings-needed-to-soar-beyond.html?m=0

7. Since there was hidden agenda of emphasising appropriation of the term 'Liberal' in the article the following link will throw some light on that coveted but often contaminated term Liberal.
Read the link

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2016/01/liberty-liberal-and-freedom.html?m=0

8. What further damages this term is the extrapolation of multitude of associated ideologies that take umbrage under this term  'Liberal' , to almost all aspects of life

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2017/03/can-any-single-ideology-arrogate-itself.html?m=0

Women safety

Debates regarding safety of women in India are unduly and exaggeratedly negatively projected.


However, it is still an issue in many areas of India and that has to be addressed at individual, family, social and political levels without either seeking or reacting to endorsements, certificates, adverse comments.


Still worse is resorting to justifications comparing with nations far worse on various parameters.

Documentary films

A very senior and reputed serial and documentary producer came home to discuss about some documentary around 8.30.


Had fruitful discussion because of his vast experience.


I ended up sharing my perspectives about Indian regional language documentaries.


These may be of interest to some especially www.nasdaily.com

a must watch stuff

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2017/04/documentary-films.html?m=0

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2014/05/indian-tv-serials.html?m=0

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2017/04/farmers-suicides-left-politics-and.html?m=0

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2016/03/india-project-india.html?m=0

Music simple and nice ones

What great songs like instant coffee these melodies bring instant nostalgia.


Everything about these songs is so sweet, simple and yet sumptuous.


Sound structure wise simple harmonic motions but beautifully woven with well calibrated vibrations and correct frequencies.


Neither a single faltering note nor extra frills.


Almost all songs of Mukesh, Hemanth and Talat fall in this category.


Some more in  that category.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7LtH-YJ8Os&feature=youtu.be

https://youtu.be/_7LtH-YJ8Os

https://youtu.be/TlbtmRGKF9g

Words have enormous power.

Words have enormous power.

But equally powerful are the interpretations, connotations in context, perceptions, and perspectives, ability look beyond and beneath the words.

It is therefore, important to pay very minute attention to the nuances and learn the art of diplomatic articulation.

At the end of the day, even if we are not able to create a great impact or convince and make others accept our stand or a particular stand, at least we must be able to get across what we intend to convey to others in a way that they can grasp or preferably how we want them to grasp.

The earth may be rotating on its own axis but the world is getting rotated by multitude of axis of various versions and carefully crafted narratives.

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2016/02/words-have-colourful-wings.html?m=0

https://contentwriteups.blogspot.in/2017/07/why-we-need-to-peep-beyond-and-behind.html

social success

Someone asked me how even docile people start becoming assertive when given power or position.

I said docility and meekness could perhaps have been nothing but silent observation waiting for appropriate time to blossom.

Then based on assumption even their ascendency to power or position is questioned.

I said it could be a blessed metamorphosis of providence or is a very cleverly and consciously developed skill set and perhaps helped along by some luck and links.

However, we cannot brush aside or ignore certain positive credentials and capabilities of anyone in any position.
I also feel that we must always respect the post and diplomatically point out the mistakes or activities performed by the person holding certain specific posts because they can tarnish the post or bring down the very image of the institution they are in.

We must also bear in mind not to over indulge in too indiscriminate or excessively aggressive criticism of some people and be conspicuously silent on lack of initiative or involvement of many for many years on multiple issues.

Limited

Limited Insolvency Examination!!!

Today a friend shared his happiness about passing an exam after 50 years of age.

But what I saw was shocking.

Surprising that the certificate issued by
Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India
reads as LIMITED INSOLVENCY EXAMINATION

We must examine the limitation of language usage skills of Government boards and why this bankruptcy of excessively worded university degrees which we used to get with too much of legalese and which used to read as hereby declare that X having undergone examinations conducted by the appropropriate authority and having....bla bla

Anyway it is not only a question of a very ambiguous use of adjective but the citation is too abbreviated and clumsily crushed, crumbled and jarring to the reader's mind.

What is limited?

Followed by next logical question what is the measurable limit of whatever is said to be limited.

When there is abhaswaram ( in carnatic music) going back to Shadjamam or Panchaman and setting the sruthi and resuming is the thumb rule in classical carnatic music.

Similarly, whenever there is any ambiguity in the usage of adjective or participle acting as adjective the thumb rule is to hyphenate.

I am sharing some relevant materials at my limited disposal and I am open to examination.

Specialties are inevitable.

Specialities are inevitable.

Probably we may have a specialist for olfactory nerves one for the left nostril and another for the right nostril.

But jokes apart it is the serious research and empirical data based specialities in health care that have contributed to increased number of aged people and many cures or at least remedies and comforts to several diseases.

The medical profession in general and private hospital based health care in particular along with advanced diagnostic equipments have made huge strides to the betterment of society.

Unfortunately, the society has a whole fails to appreciate and realize the difficulties and duties of all medical professionals from nurses to paramedics to hospital administrators to doctors.

Their jobs are very tough.

The worst part is day in and day out they deal with sickness, diseases, trauma, tragedies, troubles as part of their profession.

It is physically tough, psychologically tiring and emotionally very demanding but with all these they are expected to maintain their balance, put aside their personal life and perform their duties with seriousness and careful attention with a uneasy but intense involvement.

Incidentally in today's TOI i.e.2nd April Chennai edition central page has a wonderful article 'Medicine at Crossroads' by Anoop Misra Chairman Fortis.

https://blogs.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/toi-edit-page/medicine-at-a-crossroads-why-todays-populist-demonisation-of-doctors-and-private-healthcare-is-counterproductive/

Human vulnerabilities

he world has been always lead by a supposed better or promised state of happiness which is lacking -for various actual or projected reasons- and therefore one must aspire for that promised pleasant state of existence. 

Religions framed rules, regulations, restrained behaviour patterns towards attaining such a status; political rulers framed their own structures through propaganda, brain washing technics and victimhood peddling etc. 

Human beings are perennially vulnerable due to jealousy, attitude of comparing, sense of insecurity and above all seeking absolutes in everything while leading a life which is mortal in any case.

degradation

Intolerance brigade to Impeachment band wagon

Selective, obsessive and addictive focus for a brief period on some issue is like a dark passing cloud- a clear indication of some desperate lobby to draw attention and generate sensationalism and controversy.

They try to further project it in global arena  by zooming it, exaggerating it and take the help of some global outfits to endorse it presuming that would provide some credibility.

Unfortunately time and again, they are counter- productive and expose the hidden agenda of the perpetrators and this is the reason why Main Stream Media will lose even the little respect that they are left with.

From Intolerance brigade to Impeachment band wagon there is pattern and obvious bunch of participants.

My only worry in this new low in politics and MMS projection is that there is a subtle pollution of the minds of gullible youth who allow their mind space to be occupied by these passing clouds which neither promise rain during dry season nor protection from direct sun light on a hot summer day.

alphabet

We had world's best alphabet teaching system more brief and nicely injecting social moral values without even a tinge of any religiosity.

However , unfortunately we killed it because of our new enthusiasm to develop a new breed of linguistic laundering to suit selective political ideology.

In which other language we had alphabet teaching like our Aathichudi Aram saiya virumbu, aaruvadhu sinam...; it was marvellous.

Even in English starting from teaching alphabets to defining the logic for or justification as to why alphabets have retained certain shapes, their significance in terms of sound.

Besides all these even for alphabets there is an etymological and socio- cultural background.

If we study more languages we shall find that every language, it's alphabets, words, expressions, idioms and phrases carry with them the real and true history of the times when they have evolved along with both human idiocies and intelligences; human exalted  perceptions and excreted perversions; social performances and prejudices; impactful events and happenings and politically and religiously instigated and engineered attitudinal changes etc.

Above all and despite everything the onward march of evolutionary changes that have held the intrinsically important,impact wise indispensable and individually and collectively internalized imprints intact.

Having said these words and expression wise among the languages that I know a little Sanskrit unravels enormous meanings; French and Telugu attract you with their pleasant sounds and English offers a wholesome buffet of flexible menu while Chinese ( though I don't know it personally but as explained by an author as great as Ezra Pound) is the first most visually logical language.

Multilingualism

Want to be more rational? Multilingualism might be the answer

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/02/speak-another-language-more-rational/

The point that the author tries to make, perhaps, could be among the many tools of perception available knowledge of multiple languages may probably take one out of the ghettos of single language based cultural milieu and its concomittant range of frames of reference.

Language by extension carries at least a tinge of culture along with it and that impacts reasoning as well as perception or at least supplies multiple frames of references to perceive.

For example:- very orthodox Tamil ( only Tamil) speaking innocent, nice and sometimes naive village folks cannot even accept or tolerate leave alone adopt easily to or assimilate the shopping mall strutting foreign lingo speaking folks.

They squirm in complexity whether justified or not.

I am not making judgements on whether either one is right or wrong.

But the reality is so stark and no one can deny that.

If one were to explain the role and revenue of mall culture to such innocent culturally monolingually groomed person it would be difficult to even understand.

Whereas, if the dynamics of life of innocence of village bred  monolingual folks were explained to the mall strutting folks they may understand it and react according to their attitudinal levels either sympathetically or arrogantly or merely accepting the inevitable state of life as it is.

Any additional knowledge as well as knowledge of more number of languages, more cultures, more sciences, more technologies, more scriptures and along with that more in depth study as well, all of these may at least throw up greater number of options which may enable better reasoning rather then a fixation to lesser  ambit of knowledge or lesser number of sciences or languages.

A person who has the ability to learn different genres of music definitely appreciates every music better.

A person who tastes different types of cuisine definitely is in a better position to judge about tastes of food.

Nothing is superior but the more the merrier and variety is not only the spice of life but sign qua non of happy living.

Monotony is so boring in any sphere of human pursuit.

Greek tragedy

Greek tragedy was what was happening at national level as to what is happening to our railways and banks.

There are 3 times more pensioners than employees and the pension amount is almost 60 percent of railway expenditure.

This needs to be balanced.

We cannot let down the old and besides it is only a promised deferred payment of salary.

However, on the other hand because of this more number of educated and qualified youth are not being recruited and that creates educated unemployed youth who can turn into potential depression patients or criminals.

All these will have to be balanced at a macro level for which responsible individuals must act reasonably at family level with social responsibility at micro level.

With more elders to take care medically and more children to be fed and educated ,  the earning members will get fed up soon as they need to spend at both ends without even having time to think about what they are doing with their earning.

At least for earning members it is ok. Imagine the plight of those who are neither earning nor have inherited wealth nor sponsors.

That's why employment, earning, social security, minimum wages insurance in the event of lay off or no work are very vital aspects of the economy at micro level.

If they are not addressed properly as an important aspect of social engineering then the adverse impact will manifest at macro level.

More than wealth disparity and inequality, which are inevitable for various reasons and justifications it is mounting unemployment tjhat would create more vulnerable youth who could be easily exploited by the vested interest lobbies and mafias as their foot soldiers

Evaluatiions

The problem is we as a nation work on defending the undeserving, justifying the unjustifiable, resorting to unloving criticism and uncritical love, hero worshiping and deifying and many other vulnerabilities so much do that we seldom see and observe facts as they are and fail to appreciate performances anyone in existing contexts with immense limitations, enormous compulsions and exaggerated expectations and on top of it all media manipulated narratives and misinterpretations etc.

Evaluation is a very deep science to be performed dispassionately and which must be devoid of prejudices and factor in various aspects with inherent attributes of the issue or thing and their contractual relevance along with considerations for the sensitivities of the performers and so on.

http://contentwriteups.blogspot.com/2016/01/while-evaluating-or-judging-anyone-or.html?m=0

perspectives wider ones

Marvelous and this reminds why some of the  greatest authors with wider perspectives were pilots.

If we bother to observe closely scholars are of two kinds those who want to know why things and lives are so and those who seek specific outcomes out of lives and things.

I am not saying either one is preferable or better than the other.

While great Saints, Scientists, Mathematicians, Philosophers have all explained well the world and its workings with wide ranging frames of references, still, they are restricted to a certain extent by the very love and mastery of the means and tools they used to observe the world.

However, among them , some evolutionary biologists, neuro- surgeons, some astrologers, astronomers, astrophysicists, geologists, top mathematicians, poly glottal linguists and pilots seem to observe the inherent complexities, varieties and infinitely comprehensive patterns and structures, all of which may elude the normal comprehension but the above referred category of scholars are able to see without any inhibition all the above facts as manifested in micro details as well as macro view, and are able to reconcile with some amount of equanimity and deep sense of balance that there are many things that are still mysteriously marvelous and beyond the ken of human intellectual explanations.

Therefore, their perspectives about lives and planets are more observation oriented than opinion and ideology based.

Hence, more tolerant as they merely observe how lives and planets are and try to find out why they are so.

While those in certain domains like politics and religion try to fix how lives and things must be and proceed to find out what must be done to make them fall into fixations.

That's why there are fights and controversies among religions and politics.