Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Violence

So uncool it is and yet is so omnipresent. There might be many instances in life where you must have felt to wrangle the next soul who irritates you in the most economical way-may be even a friend who is teasing . Probably you would then count, remembering the moral science lessons, one up to ten strictly under your breath. Thats it. The moment is gone. Violence in it's little dose is stored up in the reserve. The next soul gets it even stronger.

The inherent violence these days, especially in the hot weather, finds the most unexpected vents. Few of them include

  • Giving a politically correct answer and yet senseless , in an involved discussion.
  • Never letting people build their illusionary pleasantness and braking them off into reality
    (only few would survive by counting one Mississippi up to ten Mississippi.)
  • Going to a sweating shopkeeper and asking him “garam kyan hain?” ( “What's hot?”)
  • At a hotel, not providing leg room for the poor soul behind you (in a back to back seating) and making him crouch as if in high gravity conditions.
  • Violating traffic rules, calling for a revolutionary change, Vision 2020 , demanding dismissal of a state government, declaring your house as a union territory are a few, but potent symbols of evaporating brains in this torrid heat.

Rx-
Things would be different :

  • Had you punched your bench mate ( later your best friend) in kindergarten, when he took your pencil and threw it out.
  • Had you punished the idiot box (with a hockey bat of course) for those tele-shoppe ads in the middle of your favorite spiritual program.
  • Had you written some poetry concatenating the rhyming words to form some obscure picture out of an already hazy outline.
  • Had you argued for Aristotle, that heavier bodies fall. ( “The lighter body” has not yet fallen into place in this sentence)
  • Had you asked some question when president came to your school and gave a vision 2020 presentation. ( You stood mum in the audience while the first rank kid asked a question scribbled on a piece of paper that the teacher just gave him)
  • Had you purchased that red Che Guevara's shirt from a Gap outlet.

These are a few symptoms and their approximate causes. The real ones are yet to be stumbled upon. You can try “We the people” on NDTV for more stumbling and trampling ( of ideas, facts and even classic skewed arguments).


So folks, there is no stopping here . Go on get 'em and knock 'em down. Violence cannot be postponed.



2 comments:

pranabk said...

How dare you humorize violence!

Protussa said...

beautiful..its the only word that comes to mind dude!