Being Serious

I have never really been serious in my life. Others might say “Oh, that guy, he is so damn serious” Could there be some truth in it? Hmm what can one say…….

May be It’s my handsome face, or may be it is my demeanor, when I look in the mirror I seem so grave that I am some times afraid of myself!

But in reality, I could be like a child, full of pranks, full of whims and fancies, full of malice too on flimsy pretexts. I could be difficult, raging like a bull, roaring like a lion and several other things besides. But we are all like that are we not. Inside our very selves we are incomparable. We are the sum and substance of life. We are the place everything happens.

This so true that at times we feel the tremendous burden that we bear. It is the weight of information. It weighs us down. Most of our information is useless to add meaning to any thing we do in our lives. They take up lots of space inside us. They clutter our lives. But we feel compelled to absorb more of it. Why, because we think of them as useful, but useful in what way? Where is the use of having something we can’t use? Yes I mean that. Most of us have information that can not be used in anyway. I do not mean that sensitive information we come across in our official lives, if we have any, those which are classified and can not be disclosed.

The information I speak of is not classified, they come to us in streams, they speak to us from every bill board that we see, every bit of news item that we view. They cram us with their crap. There are Goebels’s out there to make us believe in what they want us to believe. They do not just repeat an untruth a hundred times; they repeat it a billion times. They come to us through the back door, they catch us unawares subliminally. There are methods to get into our heads without us being aware of it even. We are living in a world where the will is holding supreme and imagination is modified into a vassal of the will. It does not require a Schopenhauer to tell us that the will has a definite say in life. But the question is on whose life? Not the lives of them who are trying to modify our wills to suit their propaganda, but on us, the targets. We are not being modified in any way for the better in this campaign. We are being used to try out the force of will with the help of technology.

This is where the use of information helps them. They confuse the mind; they rob us of our valuable time. They hide their real motive behind the mass of information they supply us.

But are there any routes of escape for us? Is it better to keep away from all such sources of information? Andre Jid for example advocated keeping away from the media. In his time it could have been possible, for the media at that time was largely consisted of the print media. But the times have changed. Now the media is visual and it has many times the attraction than the print media.

There is simply no way of keeping away from it. The sophisticated technology would make that impossible. There is technology which can project ideas into you invisibly and unknowingly.

We are really in for it, it seems! Even our dreams are being produced for us.

But is there hope in this bleak scenario? May be not unless there is an awareness of the evils that we are facing and the future generation has to face, among the targeted populace and there is the development of a counter technology.