This is really quite weird. i wish i had belonged to the Addams' family. Never before have I regretted the fact that my family is conformist. No one in my family both immediate and extended has had a history of breaking norms. but today i realised the importance of belonging to a non- conformist set up. ignorance is bliss. i so think that is true, coz once u start learning things about ur own decisions and what they were governed by in the past, u feel like a moron.
and that's how i felt after krishna Ananth's class yesterday. we are a bunch of loser kids. that's what we are. just swallow everything that is given to us without any questioning at all. and u feel even more moronic to realise that u don't even know how u are falling for illusions that are built up for u. and all the time u are actually walking right into their trap. willingly. mutely. while we go on ra- ra-ing about the information revolution we quietly accept distorted information. this is what is dumbing down, distorting information such that u actually feed people with dumbness. dumbing down isn's about ruby bhatia or mandira bedi hosting cricket.
we are so scared of breaking rules, that non conformists are comfortably branded as being loony and attention seekers. its only in our generation, that doing the usual thing is actually seen as earth shattering. so u have a Narayanamurthy and Infosys praised to the hilt . not because he is doing what is supposed to be done, but dared to do it when everyone else is not doing it. that is the level of distortion and dumbness we have reached.