The other side of the story!

Suspension of rational thinking, whether it is based on what we are told happened 1,400 years ago or 2,000 years ago or 5,000 years ago puts us in a vulnerable state. When one’s own thinking process stops, as it does for any radical fundamentalist, then we become ripe for our minds being taken over by others. What are the right behaviors and how one’s life must be led, then get hijacked by the crafty and wily with an agenda. Everyone else but us, seems to have an agenda, a blade to grind, don’t you think? If trapped we end up just becoming mouthpieces of the crafty. Their thoughts are parroted by our mouths day after day while our brain lies in suspended animation. We all have that strain of vulnerability in us. Thinking is hard. Rational thinking even harder.  The ones that want to control us, first overwhelm us by building imposing physical structures, then dress up in imposing costumes to convince us that the best place for thinking to happen is within the walls of those buildin...

It’s been a few days since we celebrated India’s Independence Day. The congratulatory messages and nationalistic fervor has settled down now. For some of our “intellectual” brethren, all of this amounts to Jingoism, which is all good too. We have the freedom to have our opinions and live our lives accordingly. Here is America too Independence Day is celebrated in a similar fashion on July 4th. Some traditions are similar and some different. But by and large, people take pride in commemorating the day when they threw off the yoke of the colonial masters. In either of the countries, not all problems got solved that day. But clearly a good day to commemorate. The evil in both cases, a tiny Island in Europe called Britain. It exemplified along with other colonial aggressors like Spain, Portugal and Holland the absolute worst of human behavior and thought. The cruelty and decadence of stealing a people’s pride, property, lives by the millions over generations for the greed and power of a fe...