So a sorry-ass State Transport Bus Driver decides to take an empty bus out for a Rampage drive, obliterating 8 lives while maiming scores of others...And the entire world is after his maniac of a sorry-ass, calling him "Pathetic" and "Delluded Beast" and whatnot. Probably justified.....but what I wonder is how this world hadn't the slighest notion of Insanity when millions were going gung-ho over that fad factory viral-'subject of Elite- B-School case studies'-'the next hip-n-hot thing in Japan(as reported by TOI, credebility can certainly be questioned)-Kolaveri Song!!!
Well, I guess the madness that millions indulge in together goes out to define the boundaries of sanity and insanity. I'm sure the friends and Kin of the dead and maimed won't be amused, and I'm taking the liberty of making a hopeful assumption that reading my online posts or my diary memoirs is not exactly the top of their priority list, and anybody else doesn't really have any right to be offended. For they're only confusing their 'Shock n Awe' with abstract emotions such as compassion and empathy, long dead and burried down the annals of our modern economic story, on high moral grounds....with which they can harldy fool themselves, let alone fooling me. In a way it is refreshing to see the shock n awe jolting us out of our eternal urban sedation. Although it sure indicates towards a sad state of affairs, to know that it's going to take mass killings & 'Kolaveri' type fads for us to be shocked and awed...for our endless apathy to the gross scum that we live amidst and a trail of which we leave behind, harldy leaves anything for guessing. The usual, regular murders, rapes, killings here and there regularly occupying the mid sections of the not-so-interesting pages of the newspaper daily, which barely, if ever manage to hold our quick glances for a few seconds, have become just as familiar a part of our lives as the dust on the television stand in the living room or the cobweb on the upper corners of your room...you don't like it perhaps, but don't wanna take the pains to remove it anyways.
Some people are saying that the guy is sick, crazy, lunatic, although nobody who knew the guy thought so. Not before today anyways. "Sagli Duniya Majhi Dushman Aahe," "The entire world is my enemy," he says after being apprehended.
What could he possibly have against the entire world?? What made him lose hope in the entire fucking humanity?? But more importantly, if he was sick, as many have claimed him to be, how did his sickness go unnoticed to all the people around him?? People living in the same house with him, people working at the same place with him, people talking to him, laughing with/at him??!!! It sure seems preposterous to think he became sick with a snap of a finger. What happened with a snap of a finger was the outcome of his prolonged sickness.A slip of the mask of supposed sanity of the modern urban society, built on a phony caricature of human emotions and human urges... Mental Sickness is harder to diagnose than physical sickness, some might say...But the answer that we probably don't want to hear is that, perhaps it's become so hard for us to see how sick we or others are, is because we don't really know who we are anymore....we have ideas, but nothing's for sure...for both, as a society and as individuals we have become so self-indulgent and hedonistic that we hardly ever notice anything outside our bubbles these days. The bubbles we keep walking in, thinking we're self-sufficient & independent, lost in our self-created, self-centred virtual universes, constantly feeding it a million digital impulses through social-netwoking and world-wide-web...constantly buying dreams of happiness and joy from multinationals selling consumer products, moving on from one dream to another, all the while hard selling ourselves in the ubiquitous markets of the society.....
As for the guy, he probably just needed a good lay is all!!!
Well, I guess the madness that millions indulge in together goes out to define the boundaries of sanity and insanity. I'm sure the friends and Kin of the dead and maimed won't be amused, and I'm taking the liberty of making a hopeful assumption that reading my online posts or my diary memoirs is not exactly the top of their priority list, and anybody else doesn't really have any right to be offended. For they're only confusing their 'Shock n Awe' with abstract emotions such as compassion and empathy, long dead and burried down the annals of our modern economic story, on high moral grounds....with which they can harldy fool themselves, let alone fooling me. In a way it is refreshing to see the shock n awe jolting us out of our eternal urban sedation. Although it sure indicates towards a sad state of affairs, to know that it's going to take mass killings & 'Kolaveri' type fads for us to be shocked and awed...for our endless apathy to the gross scum that we live amidst and a trail of which we leave behind, harldy leaves anything for guessing. The usual, regular murders, rapes, killings here and there regularly occupying the mid sections of the not-so-interesting pages of the newspaper daily, which barely, if ever manage to hold our quick glances for a few seconds, have become just as familiar a part of our lives as the dust on the television stand in the living room or the cobweb on the upper corners of your room...you don't like it perhaps, but don't wanna take the pains to remove it anyways.
Some people are saying that the guy is sick, crazy, lunatic, although nobody who knew the guy thought so. Not before today anyways. "Sagli Duniya Majhi Dushman Aahe," "The entire world is my enemy," he says after being apprehended.
What could he possibly have against the entire world?? What made him lose hope in the entire fucking humanity?? But more importantly, if he was sick, as many have claimed him to be, how did his sickness go unnoticed to all the people around him?? People living in the same house with him, people working at the same place with him, people talking to him, laughing with/at him??!!! It sure seems preposterous to think he became sick with a snap of a finger. What happened with a snap of a finger was the outcome of his prolonged sickness.A slip of the mask of supposed sanity of the modern urban society, built on a phony caricature of human emotions and human urges... Mental Sickness is harder to diagnose than physical sickness, some might say...But the answer that we probably don't want to hear is that, perhaps it's become so hard for us to see how sick we or others are, is because we don't really know who we are anymore....we have ideas, but nothing's for sure...for both, as a society and as individuals we have become so self-indulgent and hedonistic that we hardly ever notice anything outside our bubbles these days. The bubbles we keep walking in, thinking we're self-sufficient & independent, lost in our self-created, self-centred virtual universes, constantly feeding it a million digital impulses through social-netwoking and world-wide-web...constantly buying dreams of happiness and joy from multinationals selling consumer products, moving on from one dream to another, all the while hard selling ourselves in the ubiquitous markets of the society.....
As for the guy, he probably just needed a good lay is all!!!
