"I have come to the crossroads in my life, ..and I always knew the right path, but I never took it, Why? Cause it was too damn hard..."
-Colonel Slade(Scent Of a Woman(1992))
Isnt that so true for so many of us. Anything that is right, but is uncomfortable is never done. we have some how lost our sense of right and wrong in a world where everything is done to play it safe. An office stamps on a little guy, we call it bureaucracy bitch about it a little, and then continue to roll in the mud we fell in. some just get out of it, and walk away to let others fall in.
Who has the guts to stand up and question it? Maybe they would if they didnt stand to lose. We fear a backlash. It would displease the people in question and they would make life difficult for us. People who are that worried deserve no better.
If we ever feel that we are being wronged, we must by all means ask, for if we never ask, we will never know. and then find a solution for that, instead of throwing up your hands and saying, thats how the system is. why is it that when ever it is a matter of asking a superior for what is rightfully yours to know, we shy away. we look fr 1000 reasons not to ask, and just say leave it.
Large scale examples? Iraq war, the UN did nothing. small scale? The office charges you with unaccountable fees, we dont say a word.
i clearly remember a time when we were charged soemthing called "breakage" fees, not one person asked to know what it was that was broken. was it so difficult? its not right charging it, we know that, but then who wants to have issues with the office?
Despite this trend being so popular with todays youth, we expect a change in our nation. i dont think that will ever come, the idea of taking the right path probably didnt come with Gandhi, but it sure as hell died with him. Because we dont have the guts, we dont have the courage to say- "I know i am right, and i am willing to face the consequences" . thats what beats the system, and to know that u did the right thing despite what people might say, it feels too damn good.
Just a rant about today's Science in India
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So today I read an article about the state of Science in India written by
Prof. G. R. Desiraju, a professor of chemistry from IISc. Here is the
article.
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12 years ago
2 comments:
no, nothing is going to change. its everybody's decision weather to become and active rebel or a passive spectator, and one isnt better than the other by any means. both take the moral high ground.
this is xactly what I was talkin bout in my comment in ur previous post .... only here u hav summed it up nicely
its a dilemma we all hav to face at some point - for us Indians, we face it almost daily .... and we all adopt an escapist attitude & wash our hands of it
But I wonder the reason for it .... u know its a .... among the billions of species that live, only the human race is worried about the 'right' & the 'wrong' - the question of ethics & morality matters only to us - we are the only ones who suffer some guilt over doing something wrong ....
Now, man like any other organism follows the Darwin's natural selection/survival of the fittest .... any organism will do that which gets it the best result for self & which doesnt in the process jeopardise its existence .... we r no different
we choose to wash our hands off because it suits us - it would benefit us on a personal basis & also avoid complications that may make life either difficult or impossible to live.
ultimately, we are all selfish creatures & perhaps we are resigned to that selfishness by nature's own designs & by its own method of determining the 'fittest' as Darwin puts it.
I dunno if u agreed with me, but thats what I feel philosophically about the issue.
keep bloggin!
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