Stupid

There’s no cure for stupidity. There’s no cure for my need to write of emotions triggered by the stupid either. I don’t sympathize with this kind of stupidity. NO. I don’t even think its worthy of any Pity. People are what they are. They are young and they are stupid. Perhaps, they didn’t have a teacher like mine who used to tell us, ‘be careful of what you do when you are young, for the way you are perceived will mostly be the impression you create for yourself as a young person.’ The ‘others’ opinion doesn’t really matter but being sensible and responsible when you are young is still a virtue and not a vice. But I can’t ‘view’ the world with my Kant like ‘what if everyone did so’ logic here, because others mayn’t see things that way. And ‘doing maximum good to maximum people’ doesn’t seem to have occurred in their brains before revealing their stupidity either. The emotional gibberish only surprises me. Not to forget that I am now fully convinced that ‘The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.’ ( Harlan Ellison)

Here’s some advice from the ‘great people’ to thy stupidity:
‘Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. – Abraham Lincoln

But according to Einstein: “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” So, in this case, my thoughts are best spoken out by an anonymous person who says ‘ Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.’

Amen.

Intellectual Poverty

There is a distinct pattern to the workshops, public discussion and lecture series that take place in Kathmandu. Firstly there is the speaker or pundit or whatever name they are called by. They are supposed to have mastered the issue in question. In most situations the experts live up to their name. And in a rare case scenario the ‘expert’ clearly demonstrates a lack of understanding to the extent that they ‘boldly’ or ‘shamelessly’ allow someone else in the audience to take control of the discussion. Then there is an audience which is diverse and has come to attend the discussions for various reasons. Some come there with the sole purpose of listening to the speakers with no strings attached. They are there to learn whatever they can. Another kind are cynics. It doesn’t matter if their knowledge of the issue is nil: they are there to criticize and will not leave unless they have done so. The third type of attendees are the flamboyant ones. They are there to show off what they know. If the speaker utters a single word which they know of, their response will not stop until they’ve finished narrating the entire history of that term. The weapons they use will be jargons and sentences quoted verbatim from a book or else theories that the person in question knows by heart.

Wishlist

Things I wish for, as of this date ( March 17,2009) and this time ( 8:07pm) as I start to write this entry.

Impulse

Pokhara In Pictures

Three Boats

कामका कुरा

गुगल रिडरमा आफ्नै ब्लग स्क्रोल गर्दैथिएँ, एकैछिनमा २००८का एन्ट्रीमा पो पुगेँ। २००८ मा मैले निकै कम लेखेछु। लेख्नलाई त धेरै कुरा थिए तर छुटाएछु। किन लेख्नुपर्थ्यो भन्ने कुराको मसँग कुनै राम्रो उत्तर नभएपनि मलाई लेख्नु पर्थ्यो भन्ने लाग्छ। जेहोस् अहिले मलाई बच्यौली, चितवनका एक कृषकको प्रश्नको उत्तर लेख्नु छ। उनी सोध्छन् ‘आनुवांशिक स्रोतमा पहुँच र लाभको बाँडफाँड गनुपर्ने प्रावधानले प्रविधिमा धनी नभई हामी जस्ता प्राकृतिक स्रोतमा धनी राष्ट्रलाई फाइदा गरेपनि त्यस्ता धनी राष्ट्रहरू हामीलाई ए.बी.एस प्रणाली लागू गर्न किन मद्दत गरिरहेका छन्?’ यो प्रश्नले निकै दिन मेरो दिमाग रिङायो। हुन त यहि प्रश्न धनी राष्ट्रहरूले हामीलाई सहयोग गर्ने हरेक क्षेत्रमा लागू हुनसक्छ र सुन्दा पनि निकै सरल लाग्छ। तर विषय निकै गम्भीर छ। हुन त म सधैँ खुला दिमागले हाम्रा सदावाहार दाता र सहयोगी राष्ट्रहरूले ‘विश्व शान्ति’ खोजेजस्तै वास्तवमै हाम्रो हित चाहन्छन् भनेर सोच्न चाहन्छु तर मुद्दा त्यति सरल छैन। त्यति सरल हुनै सक्दैन। प्राकृतिक स्रोतमा चाहिँ खुला र स्वतन्त्र पहुँच र एन्ड प्रडक्टमा चाहिँ बौद्धिक सम्पत्ति माथिको अधिकार। यता ए.बी.एस भएपछि पहुँच पाइयो अनि आइ.पि.आर पनि पछि सुनिश्चित गरिहाल्छन्। कस्तो रमाइलो है? अब यहि धारमा थप केहि लेख्छु क्यार तर के थाह अध्ययनले वास्तवमै गरीबको हितैशीहरूको अस्तित्व उजागर गर्ने पो हो कि?

Raw thoughts

At a time like this the music should be turned low to calm the senses, to gain focus and not lose hope. But the music is loud…loud enough to interrupt my flow of thoughts and what perfect timing that this song in particular should start just the same time I begin writing this …