A Momentary Lapse of Reason!

This is me, and this is my manifesto

My nourishment of choice is Love.
My addiction of choice is technology.
My religion of choice is music.
My currency of choice is knowledge.
My politics of choice is none.
My society of choice is utopian though I know it will never be.

You may hate me.
You may dismiss me.
You may misunderstand me.
I can only hope you do not care to judge me, because I would never judge you.
I am part of one massive, global, tribal village that transcends man-made law, physical geography and time itself.

Until the sun rises to burn my eyes by revealing the dystopian reality of a world you've created for us, I dance fiercely with my brothers and sisters in celebration of our life, of our culture, and of the values we believe in:

Peace
Love
Unity
Respect

My enemy of choice is ignorance.
My weapon of choice is information.
My crime of choice is breaking and challenging whatever laws you feel you need to put in place to stop me from celebrating my existence.

The music will never stop.
The heartbeat will never fade.

This is me..and this is the manifesto of my generation...

Some Earthling... Am I part of the Cure or am I part of the Disease? 

This is just another thought that popped in from a news report i was reading. In this piece of news a guy was wondering whether or not to reveal the fact that he is an American on overseas trip! He believed that by telling everyone he was Canadian he was gonna have a safer trip!

That brings me to an interesting thought. How many people do we know who still like America? By people i mean from different countries.And by America i mean it's policies and not the people of America or the place itself. Invariably people from most countries seem to have a problem with American policies and actions. To the effect that i can safely say that apart from the Americans themselves very few people actually like America... So when did this happen? Were people always unhappy with American polices? did we all always hate America the way we do now?
The answer is an obvious and a resounding NO! There was a time when America was the big Indian dream! it still is in many ways! There was a time when the world was an America-phile!

We Indians understand things best when we put things in particular contexts. Best of all is cricket. In crickets ye days there was a period of absolute dominance by the West Indies. It began with the likes of clive lloyd, andy roberts and michael holding, and the great viv richards.
They dominated cricket completely for about 10 years. There was no matching them in their deadly pace attack or their swashbuckling batting! Likewise we have also had a period of Australian dominance in world cricket. This I would say is slowly coming to a grinding halt now.For the last 10 to 12 years the austrlians have absolutely destroyed all competition and are without doubt the champions. But there is a striking difference in these two eras of cricket....

Back in the days when west indies were the champs, they were amazingly popular winners. They were famous winners and were liked and loved by all. Every team which played against them had almost a reverence while opposing them. Every team looked up to them and wanted to emulate their practices to gain success. However this was and is not the case with the australians. The australians were ruthless and aggressive just like the west indies but they often took their tactics and methods too far. Sportsmanship gave way to ugly gamesmanship far too many times.Their cut-throat and arrogant ways made them unpopular winners, which they remain to this day. WHAT DO U THINK WAS THE DIFFERENCE? Why were the aussies the way they were?

The difference is simple, and when i tell you this you will know why i have wasted so much time on cricket history. The simple difference was that the Australians were a team who were afraid of losing. Their game was driven by this fear which would lead them to go on to any means to win the game.The West Indies were simply inspired human beings.

The conclusion is by now in your head.The Americans have always been inspired leaders of the world.They were popular superpowers and every country in the world adhered to Americas word.All the countries looked up to it and its polices...this was at least 10 yrs ago...
People may say the change happened with Mr.Bush, others may argue it began before but the fact is .... America is driven today by FEAR. Be it Fear of terrorism, of lack of resources(oil etc) or of rapid climate change... All of americas policies are influenced by their inherent fear and insecuity. Decisions made out of fear are seldom the right ones.Their actions, their methods of dominance and crude policies are quite frankly hated by the world today. America once respected by the world for their policies is now just that, an unpopular superpower.

"The only thing we have to fear is fear it'self - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance." -- Franklin D. Roosevelt

At the UN - 

A representative from India began: 'Before beginning my talk I want to tell you something about Rishi (Saint) Kashyap of Kashmir, after whom Kashmir is named. 

When the sage Kashyap struck a rock and it brought forth water, he thought, 'What a good opportunity to have a bath.' 

He took off his clothes, put them aside on the rock and entered the water. 

When he got out and wanted to dress, his clothes had vanished. A Pakistani had stolen them. 

The Pakistani representative jumped up furiously and in support of Pakistan, he shouted, 'What are you talking about? The Pakistanis weren't there then.' 

The Indian representative smiled and said, 'And now that we have made that clear, I will begin my speech.'