Open the eyes

Lets open our eyes
To our dreams

Comes back

Nature would return to us
every vibe we send on

Smile at life

What for trees flower
Other than to smile at life?

one and the same thing

Things that protect us
Could hamper us too

Dimensions

Two into three,
Three into four
Dimensions keep
On changing

Combination

Happiness is a combination
Of circumstances

What need

When you are in the right
What need is there for fright?

What changed?

Here in Picasso its the aural into the specular,
But now in the world its the otherway round
What did change? Reality?

Phases

Love is a strange mixture
of something ferocious and
Something dove like- both
swelling and fading like tides

Point of view

Its not the objects that
Alters, its our point of view

Navigation

Navigation is an art
That comes only
With experience

Never backwards

Its an upward graph
Never a downward one

Our reality

Let’s do a recap of what I have been saying for the last two years for the fun of it. I think it’s necessary to keep such thoughts alive in these murky times. But what is at issue here? What are we actually discussing here?

Okay admitted, only freedom is at issue here, only our right to survive as a free biological entity is at stake here. Oh, only that? I thought they are going to bring on new taxes! Dude, they may bring on new taxes, but that’s not what this is about. It’s only about freedom. But then what is opposing it? What make this so called “entity” not free? You just can’t think of any reason can you? You think it’s an open era. You think that you could get any information you ask for don’t you?

You dream. You have been made to believe so. In fact you are being controlled day and night -Science fiction fantasy? Only just.

We need to be aware of this new reality we are facing and of the need to oppose it with everything in our hand. In the past the methods of controlling people have been more physical and more visible. There was an element of predictability in such events. It is not the case anymore. From now on all wars would be fought within the realms of human consciousness and unfortunately the attackers have the advantage of tools and the cover of power. They have all the means and accesses available. All this goes against the very grain of human freedom. In fact it would make most of the humanity complete and utter slaves.

You might think that I am going over the old territories once more. Yes that’s what I intend to do here. I have been called names before for saying this. I am ready for another truckload. Make no mistake about it; I would enjoy it very much. If I can’t make a dent in the quarters that I wish to dent, what the hell is the purpose of wasting ones breath?

Everybody knows that I have a freedom fetish. Some may even think that I am a fool for freedom’s sake. I don’t deny it, yet I feel it in my bones that it has to be stated again and again till it intrudes into the very consciousness of all that read this. I want people to know what freedom feels like, what its content feels like. I don’t want them to stop at the definition on offer, I don’t want people to succumb to glossy terms………

We can’t just sit back and allow a cunning oligarchy to ride our lives just because “its sooooo boring to discuss freedom”. The hell it’s boring, the hell it’s unimportant, the hell it’s anachronous. If it’s bloody boring let us bore ourselves to death with freedom, let’s go to a boring hell of freedom than to a wonderful heaven of the masters and slaves. I would drink freedom morning, noon and night and starve to death than gorge myself full with the caviar of slavery.


Now please don’t jump up and ask intelligently what freedom is (though that action itself is an evidence of that inherent quality itself!) and whether there is absolute freedom anywhere in the world. That’s all very cute and intelligent. I am not talking about being intelligent here, even a machine could be made intelligent in these times, even a computer could be made to think logically and it’s no more science fiction now. And furthermore, intelligence has a bloody submissive element in it. It can only flourish with external data, it relies on ‘others’ as it is to stay alive. It’s a bloody slave not a master.

So you can keep your great intelligence to yourself and be happy with it. I am talking about a basic human necessity here, like food cloth house and sex. None of them are bloody intelligent are they, unless you are some damn teleologist? Needs are not intelligent, they are necessities of life.

All these have been discussed thread bare. I am not going to define it here, yet not because I can’t but because it is not necessary. Instead think of the occasions that you felt completely bound in mind and spirit and had to submit to the will of someone else either physically or mentally. Think of your reaction to it. If you are not totally masochistic and goes all gaga about the thrill of it, you would normally cry. I strongly suspect that even masochists would not like to be manipulated without their consent and would resent it if their mind has been taken over by others.

Mental freedom is necessary even to enjoy such perverse pleasures. I call it perverse not in an accusatory manner, to me, to the extent they don’t infringe upon the freedom of others and anyway harm others in the community; all activities are acceptable, all view points are normal. Then there is also another aspect to it. Such out of the ordinary desires like sadism, masochism, oedipal complex etc etc would lose half their pleasures the moment they are recognized as normal. They would lose the aura of magic that Freud et al gave them, searching for their careers. This is the whole point of the liberalism that’s in vogue.

This is the common human denominator, that of an inclination towards freedom. I am yet to find someone who would willingly become a total slave of anyone else. So in all my arguments I would take this as an already existing and self evident fact. There shall not be any discussion on the existence of freedom; there shall not even be any discussions on the nature and limits to it. These can only be discussed at normal times, not on periods like that we are having at present.

Then why is it being stated here? I believe and with reason that; there is a conscious and sadistic effort to take the world over by mind manipulation. No one, not even the highest officials of the people are free from its influence. Who knows how many of them pawns in the hands of the power hungry elite are. I know that your brows are rising by now, but just bloody wait. Imagine what if all the current incumbents are put there by such manipulations. Just think about the rank outsiders coming to the front out of nowhere. Recall anybody’s names that came up like that out of the blue, seemingly?

Don’t just phoo phoo it, and call it conspiracy theory or science fiction. Those periods of the mind fantasies are over and done with. The presence of such techniques and tools are no more in doubt. And if there are such tools (as it is admitted by the super powers themselves), there is a hundred percent chance that they would be used irrespective of the gravity of the situation. No one would take the risk to rue later if things go wrong.

We are all mind controlled. Those of you who are smiling complacently on hearing this are more so. May be you have been subtly instructed not to believe in it and not take it all seriously, who knows! I am not saying this to frighten you. But you need to believe that it’s much easier to control people subliminally than externally. Human mind has the unfortunate propensity to get attuned to submissiveness. This is inculcated rather than inherent. Or at least I would like to believe so.

But any sane person would immediately realize that his /her life is influenced more or less by everything he /she come across. I am not merely speaking of the media here; there are other kinds of influences which come in many disguises. If you care you can find out about them yourself. My concern is that one could misuse this technology ( I know the moment I start speaking of technology, the great guys would quake and little girls would start advising me on ‘The Hitch Hikers Guide to Galaxy’ and Pleiades and Andromeda. Anyway I like it that way, not because of the pleasure it brings to me but because of the importance of the subject, I would prefer it being discussed even ludicrously than not being discussed at all.

So what is at issue here? Human freedom and free will is at issue here and we direly need to keep the discussion alive!

Its going down

Well the bastion seems to be totally crumbling now, it’s sad, but it’s a fact. These are perhaps the last days of its existence on earth, I have no doubt about it and they know it themselves too. May be to some of you this might appear as a brutal and vengeful analysis of the current situation, and a blow below the belt, but let me assure you it’s not. It’s based on hard facts. The signs are so clear that one has to pry one’s eyes out not to see the light of this terrible day. There is utter confusion among its rank and file. The leadership is not capable of deep reflection and by misusing and coercing the intellectuals in the fold, that class has become more of a nuisance than a help to them. They of course still rely on old methods of analysis (look up their views on post modernity. They still consider it as an off shoot of late capitalism), they have not even recognized that action has become more internalized now and all wars have to be fought within the mind rather than on the outside.


Yet this is what is happening all over the world and unfortunately the intellectuals have played their part in it. This of course has not been understood by its rank and file. How can they do that if the analysts themselves failed to grasp its import? But they have sensed that the general atmosphere has been changing. This is an animal sense rather than a result of careful thought. They are in the twilight zone and are not sure of where they are going. This fact is reflected in everything that they do. It is a sorry sight and I am pained to see it.


As a last effort they have embraced the very forms of its opponents make use of and are trying to defend it. This is no wishful thinking on the part of its enemies because it’s a self evident phenomenon. It has alienated all its remaining supporters who support it because of the instability and vulnerability of the other structure which has a penchant for falling into the hands of the power hungry. It has its good points too and I cannot but admire its vigorous stance for the rights of the individual. But I doubt whether it would go much beyond mere assurances or lip service on safety. The checks and balances would only function, if everything is transparent.


But they are not are they? Even the rights to information would not be allowed to cover everything. Really, it’s not the absence of laws that we should be afraid of, it’s the presence of innumerable laws and the exceptions carefully integrated into them that need to be worried about. A law in the hands of those who know how to use it becomes an instrument of oppression rather than of help When we consider this frailty in the background of the tools available to them we can only shudder at the future of mankind. Only a miracle would prevent the 90% of the race becoming entrapped in a giant biological zoo covering the whole earth. Don’t think of this as a fantasy, the reality could be more bizarre and more violent than what we even imagine it to be.


There is no infusion of fresh blood into it. Its ranks are deserting it, it has placed itself in a spot that not even fools would care to occupy, and it’s defending its enemy whole heartedly and adopting its methods to do so. But only in a docile way, not in a way in which it could use it to better it. It has decayed, worn out and has become seedy. It a triumph of the opponents, in more than one way and people like me fear that its days are finally over.


Honestly I am ’worrit’ about it and I do mean it seriously. The bastion was good when it was functional, not in the sense that it propagated everything that was good and was intelligent about it. But, it at least had its priorities right. It stood for the downtrodden and it had a right and pedigree to do that. And now there is a big hollow in its place. I am not patronizing it, no, I feel for it. It was the last defense against the onslaught on our minds. Strangely they began the onslaught, but soon were out distanced in the war, may be this led to their down fall. There must have been some who still believed in human freedom among them and loathed their effort to control the mind in heinous ways.


They say it’s a law that an empty space would be filled up sooner or later. Well may be its so, but there is no guarantee that the new intruders into these vacant spaces would be better than those who vacated it is there?

To bear

Compassion, though cathartic,
Has many a burden to bear!

Unknowingly

Unknowingly we may even be
Providing shade to others

Shorn

As we grow up we lose
The wings that we had

Synch

Movement, whether its of the hands
Or feet or any other parts of being
Aims at synchronising life
Into a meaningfull whole

Exterior

When there is voluptuousness
There is often nothing within

Extinct

( Don't be confused with this rambling post. It has a purpose behind it. I hope I can achieve it. So those who has nothing to do with it can skip it and read my shorter posts)

Oh, yeah, it’s about music and mayhem, and yeah again, it could be about something else too, but about that later. First things best, or is it said some way else? Keep forgetting things! It could be the result of aging. Or it could be something else. Some 'kind' philanthropist friends have even tried to help me with this!

People should be like that, helping others!

There are drugs to keep the mind alert all the time they say. I haven’t taken any, but I think the guys who suggest that to me need to take some ‘forget-pills’ urgently. I mean, immediately, straight away, at once, promptly etc, etc. They are remembering too much and that could be the vilest shit one could find oneself in!


And what shit at that!


Oh let us not ramble but return to the matter at hand.


They say one should not play a violin into the ears of the buffalo. There I go again, I am talking in riddles it seems!


So you need clarity? That’s alright, everyone does, it’s all murky out there. I need some too, the problem is, there is no place on earth that sells the stuff.


Imagine a conversation:


“What would you have sir?”


“A ton of clarity man, a giant, imponderable, ocean of clarity.”


“We are at presently out of stock sir! Could you call some time later?”


One thing I like of capitalism is this willingness to serve people. I mean, there is no shitting the shitters, is there? We need to admit that “ a rose is a rose, rose rose”


Emily Dickinson would have said “A Violin is a violin and other things are other things”. There is something in stating the obvious like that. For one thing, nobody states the obvious and what is not stated is what is not seen. This is a subtle point, you need to think hard (try holding fast to your chair while doing that) to grasp it in full. It’s mystical, but not psychological, so you need not worry, no Freudian myths are being utilized here, no Oedipus, Electra, sado - masochial stuff.


So what was I talking about? Yeah, it’s about music, the most democratic of all arts. This guy who plays the violin gets invited to a gentleman’s house to play before his kids; he did not know the house so he goes to ask the way from the place the gentleman works. To catch attention, the man starts playing the violin in front of the administrative building, and boy, would you play violin to….. You know whom! Certain guys rush out and smash his violin to bits. It’s costly equipment, and he is not a rock musician who could break an instrument in a fit of artistic inspiration and buy a new one.


So with the only source of income gone (he plays on the streets for a living) he is destroyed, the poor guy is seen in tears, but then would our hearts move, would we listen? You see even with the violin he was invisible.


Didn’t Adorno et al speak of the invisible mass man? Visibility can only be granted to those who have labels.


Poor guy……..

(If you ask me what the above stuff means, well, one can’t tell meaning these days can one? It’s a Bengal Tiger; it’s a beautiful myth, the meaning.And another thing, I have lost the touch of writing long posts. Thats a cause for worry!)

Silence

What do you tell silence when
Its making faces at you?
You just shout, and it splinters

Realities

Its only when we juggle with reality
That we learn it is unbelievably plastic

Shades

Sometimes the only shade out
there would be the shade of love

False sense of mastery

Some comparison's give us
A strange sense of mastery