It is foolish to expect goodness from a person who is not informed, intelligent and logical enough. I have met many people who were good at heart, but later on I found them to be very stupid and I fell off. UG, SAML, MKS, AM many others.
I have repeatedly seen that just faith or purusarth is not enough to make a person good, make his actions bear good fruit. Faith in right direction helps, but is insufficient. How good we can be is often limited by our knowledge. How good we can be in our feelings and self assessment is another matter and often not the correct measure of how good we are in objective world. I have seen people with very good intentions, kindness, empathy, doing stupid things.
There are things written on piece of paper, which feels to be right, working. And then there is man, who is subject to not only the cold reality on piece of paper, but also to dark world of emotions, feelings, brain mechanisms/workings, about which he has very little knowledge, about which very little has been written, and even less has been read, so an ordinary person knows extremely less. To control or intervene is even more difficult, but knowing is first step.
In everyday life, I meet people who are full of faith but have stalled the another horse of their chariot, Just thinking is not good enough. Most humans think. First person can do GOOD with incomplete thinking and feel his thinking is complete. Second person can do things resulting in BAD outcomes with incomplete thinking, but staying in a shell he doesn't feel it. The first one of these is more dangerous. It is like that guy with 5-6 keys, opening 5-6 doors. Since he is able to open each door in the first or second attempt, he thinks all keys open all the doors. Only a complete thinking (eternally unachievable) can ensure good results over time in different situations (which itself means one needs to rework and understand). We Hindus failed and lost because of our Hubris. We were like first one.
Confidence people have in their belief, their feelings are very often not justified objectively. People who sit in higher position or belong to so called higher social status, or national status, they automatically are more confident about their views in my observation. However baseline remains same, we human beings are statistically very similar BIOLOGICALLY across the groups, nations, religions, races. So even if someone belongs to certain privileged group or nation, he/she still needs to do objective thinking from scratch. That hard work most privileged people dnt do, hence a lot of dissonance between their views/confidence/social ratings and reality.
One history teacher in school used to say, "whosoever has came up, he will go down, no nation or group is at the peak forever". He said that in the reference to many golden periods in Indian history upto 1200 AD. I think this happens because people become sloppy once they are doing well and are privileged. It is like Marine Diesel Engines (which are most well functioning only when loaded to 75-80% of MCR), we need stress and pressure all the time to perform. Our bodies and minds become useless otherwise.
Those who have imagined superiority on the basis of birth in certain religion, or caste, or country are careless lot. No wonder India has produced nothing good in last 800 years. Our role in shaping the modern world has been next to zero.
Our main asset is not our passport, our birth cast, or affluence. Our main asset is our mind and on the development of our mind rests everything else, more or less. And while dealing with that you cant afford to be over confident, delusional, careless. __________________________________________________________________________________
I guess at least 50 million Indians must have played cricket for few years in life. The number in New Zealand would be 0.5 million I guess. But still they are able to challenge us.
Hebrew university of Jerusalem, Israel has produced more mathematics than entire Indian universities combined. We Indian just like quantity. 99% of our universities are welfare projects to keep people busy and feed them. They produce nothing of scientific value whatsoever.
Everything which has to do with thinking, that tiny edge is all that matters. Difference between our genes and that of Chimps is very less. Smart societies focus on that extra edge, that one successful research even if 100 fail, that one entrepreneur even if 50 fail.
Mediocre societies focus on numbers. They can't imagine, they can't see the importance of that.
They don't see the difference between one successful work and 1000 mediocre work.
So people in India focus on buying flats, owning land.
But very few take genuine interest in science and technology or even philosophy or psychology.
In our daily life, most Indians talk without going into details of matter. Without any thorough analysis. We are in habit of silly talks and shallow thinking.
Suppose ideas are stones or projectiles being thrown in the sky to move around the earth or into the space out of earths gravity. Ideas should be powerful enough to defy the gravity, to escape the gravity and set its own inertia, other wise idea will die. The weak idea will only start moving away from earth if a second planet with similar strength will come close to the earth. In that case also the projectile will have probability to spin around the second planet, not take its own path.
Group have their own inertia/gravity. The culture of mediocrity is contagious and pervasive in India. When everyone is doing same thing, it feels to be right and normal. Our herd mentality kicks in.
When hundreds of human sing a song in a religious gathering, and even if no-one remembers it, you hear the same song which was intended. Even you sing out of tune , you soon adapt to the tune. It will not depend on a particular person. (Result will be different if hundreds of monkeys start singing. Monkeys have completely different set of vocal and brain.)
In vortex induced vibration analysis, formation of vortices about a pipe in sea water depends on the flow velocity and diameter of the pipe. Suppose the natural frequency of the pipe is 0.5, if vortex shedding frequency comes close to this natural frequency, around 0.4-0.6, it will adapt to the natural frequency in very very small time, and vortex will start shedding at 0.5 Hz. (please ignore the numbers)
We humans are very close to each other in genes, such that we can have sex and can produce similar kids. We are not far away from each other like chimpanzee and baboon are from us.
No wonder, most human are predictable in many ways. And behave in the ways in which a person of our group in that particular situation is likely to behave.
A person born in Syria, even with very good innate nature, in most of cases is likely to become part of one of the parties to the war. A person in government job in India will need extremely high will to not do a single act of corruption in life.
A person in an inefficient system will most likely be tuned and bring poor results in-spite of his initial intentions and efforts.
On 14 August 2018, four people were chosen to give slogans during a lamp march in evening (RSS people do this every year, to mourn partition of India). There were hundred people. I was one of them. Few people were assigned to give slogans, others followed. Initially I also tried meekly to give slogans, but I failed. Later on others weakened and my voice grown so loud that I could drown the other sloganeers, others had to stop. If I was not that loud, I would never get opportunity to lead. So remember the fate of your ideas.
If it is too strong to pull you out of the gravity, all ok. Idea will survive. If it is strong but not enough to pull out then it's fate depends on other factors, a wait for another source of energy, inspiration, gravity. It may come in short time if idea is lucky or it may never come.
You will be part of the system, moving with the inertia of the system, like an ant on the back of a camel.
People in Somalia, nice people, one of them helped me without asking. But they can't escape (most of them) from the fate that average Somalian has, the effects on psychology, drug habits, crime, doing nothing.
Why almost all Japanese soldiers would commit harakiri than escape during world war? There are few planets in the solar system and few moons. Fate of the dust particles, stones is fixed on those planets.
Idea here can be replaced by another set of system, habit, etc or it can be many other thing.
What I mean is when you make effort for something very difficult, think about it. If it doesn't have enough momentum to escape the current situation then result will be zero. You need to cross a very high threshold to get out of it to a different situation. If it doesn't acquire that then output of the efforts will be naught.
Unless you jump out of well with certain minimum energy, you will be trapped and only lose energy by jumping more and die sooner. You simply don't have energy to collide with that big mass again and again.
Every stone you throw out of the earth will fall down to the earth. It doesn't have energy to keep fighting against the gravity for very long.
What I meant is your conviction should be very high and must not hope a change with moderate effort
Or otherwise luck is helping you a lot.
Second thing is detailed plan, responsible brainstorming. Even for satellites, apart from utilizing available energy, a detailed plan is needed and must be executed with precision in time.
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I used to watch motivational videos in past, but these videos didn't seem to change much.
Different solutions apply to different situations and one definitely needs deep experiences to be able to apply.
Those who try to swim in shallow in the safety, cannot cross ocean.
Mostly only those ideas, about which I have well thought out, read properly in detail, are retained by my mind a bit.
It is like theories, only well studied theories can be applied. Only well thought out plans can be executed, rest are waste of time.
Essentially good habits are not just trick, in many cases these demand a change in unconscious habits of person. Those habits come by drill. There is no shortcut.
Every time a person needs to do the same drill.
People read about Buddha, that doesn't make them Buddha.
Buddha had best education available in that time probably. And he knew his questions, he had thought enough, before leaving home.
After leaving home also, he spent seven years.
Assuming he spent 40 hrs a week 10 months a year, he spent 13000 hours, sincerely thinking, experiencing, experimenting.
Those who just dally with things, are essentially wasting time.
If putting 10 hrs a day in study brings some result, putting 5 or 7 hours a day wont bring half result, it will bring zero result. It is waste of money, effort (I don't mean it literally).
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My email to somebody: "There is one similarity between you and many third world people.
If someone asks you about some complex problem, you wont understand much, you will say I believe in doing good person to person and kindness, rest is beyond my understanding.
Muslims say the same, they don't get into all this confusion about human rights, Darwin and all that.
For them whatever is written in the Quran that is right, moral.
It is a lot more simple and easy than law books and thousands of pages of constitution.
Also primitive laws were very simple. Be it Hammurabi's code or shariya.
Similarly millions of my efforts at millions of different points of time, don't add.
It is repetition of simple emotional reactions. It doesn't matter if I react millions of times the same way, or a similar type of millions of people react the same way in a few moments.
Bukowski said "I am a thousand year old soul". What he meant is that, he has lived much more intensely in one life, than many would live in ten lives.
Just as billions of Muslim believing and reacting to Shariya in emotional way millions of times in their lives, don't help them understand much reality.
Democracy is better than dictatorship, or aristocracy.
But democracy doesn't mean the masses will elect wise leaders.
A billion people trying to solve Fermat's theorem, doesn't mean they will be able to solve it.
For their efforts inside their minds, don't add. Every effort dies inside the brain of an individual.
Like 7 billion trying to throw stones to the moon, will not be able to make it, just like they thought in the old days that the sky would be maybe 500 meters away.
That is the approach of people to their brains, mechanisms.
Before it can be added, it has to be solved to such an extent that it can be articulated on paper.
Since human beings don't understand their emotional reactions very well, they are never in a situation to write much in detail.
Hence they are never able to add up.
You always bring numbers, that so many people contradict me so I must be wrong. But you won't succeed.
Emotional reactions are very simple in nature. These can't solve complex problems.
Emotions flow like electricity in humans, just like you received this idea of being enlightened by virtue of belonging to Dutch nationality.
Real knowledge, hard thinking is like trying to flow electricity from a semiconductor.
Below a certain bias voltage, the semiconductor will simply not pass any current. No matter how many times you apply the low voltage.
You don't work on your brain and like me you keep repeating your reactions.
That is at the heart of effective thinking. To get out of repetitive emotional reactions and make some progress.
Why masses like simple ideas, it is like passing a thread through a thousand needles.
Only that thread which can pass through the narrowest needle hole will pass through.
Same way our emotional reactions, which are very simple in nature, and we exhibit them in every hour of life.
While thinking is like a thick thread, it takes a lot of energy to arouse thinking, and can't pass from moment to moment, we are simply not ready to think.
So these things have to be reminded again and again and again and again and again, millions of times, to get something done in life. "
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If you don't know who your are, and if you get manipulated by anything and everything then you are the problem.
Why popular story looks normal, real, to people?
For the same reason as people know their facts.
From media; it is not that media shows facts; it is that whatever media shows becomes fact.
There have been thousands of cases of piracy close to Somalia.
Those who do piracy, Africans, they are mostly illiterate, dumb. They are like animals.
But they don't do the main work.
Main work is done by some white man, who writes to the shipping company, to owner, charterer.
He negotiates. Africans don't know much, whom to contact, whom to mail.
But not knowing who is who, and just getting manipulated, makes a person dangerous.
People like Rahul Gandhi, Shekhar Gupta are those white coordinators, who tell to Muslims do this, we will manage, you get this I get this.
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And at this point it is important to discuss who among the so called great authors said anything or expected anything like partition even after so much happening? They were Tagore, Premchand, who wrote anything about that? Most important event for India and they were as clueless as one can be. Did Subhash Chandra Bose know what is going to be fate of Bengal? He did not learn from 1906 partition. Wasting his energy in a futile battle, British would leave India anyway after WWII. Only Ambedkar and Savarkar did some thinking, and predicted it coming. Others did not think, they were like typical Hindu, doing chamchagiri, being nice. Coward, slave of habit, wanting to please people, wanting to be seen good, instead of thinking. Hindu bravery only comes in false show of ego during personal fights and wedding etc, which every dumb person lacking any vision and even animals show. What thse authors and leaders said or wrote was usually not genius. Most of them did not show element of strong independent thinking. They did not make some big flight of imagination. They mostly learned, what one can learn by reading books, and seeing west.
Gandhi did not think, people did not think. People of India worshipped Gandhi and Gandhi came to his conclusions mostly by belief.
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