I Am The Maitreya

Focus is one thing I lack, for that matter I lack many things in life, lets not get into my ‘nikamapan’ and shortcomings, and get myself depressed, anyway, a little too old to change now. I realized, I haven’t put anything in my blog for almost over a month, for I am a very impulsive man, nothing is planned out, so are my blog entries. Lately work has been keeping me busy, but not that busy that I don’t have time to blog, just a lame excuse for my lethargy. At a time, you feel everyone is moving too fast, except you, the whole world is changing but you. I used to be a news junkie, but these days, talking heads on the TV gets on my nerve. Media corporate in US, doesn’t report news, they manufacture them, like Pharmaceuticals, they first invent the drug, and latter search for the disease to cure with. So, I have gave up on news, I don’t watch them any more at least form the
US networks. Reminded me of, I am a part of Orwellian society of ‘1984,’ just a minion in the giant cog wheels. May be I should read, a Chomsky’s ‘Manufactured Consent’ to have a different perspectives on the matters, a good catharsis for the conditioned mind, I guess. Lately, news cables have been flooding with ‘Virginia Tech Massacre,’ and it shows how news business is not different than any other business—profit making. 24 hours, all major networks reported the news, making the jamboree out of tragedy. They had all sorts of experts on their show to have their take on the killer’s mind to fill the 24 hours slot. The debate swung from lack of security in campus to influence of video games on young mind. Surprisingly, debate on ‘Gun Control’ was non-existent, few networks gave few minutes to it, but it was smothered by the shills of strong gun lobby. Amazing, they call themselves civilizes society. Cho’s action might have had a backlash on the Asian community, but at the same time, it gave an unsolicited image of ‘Crazy Nuts’ to the people of small eyes too. I will tell you why? The other day, few of my friends and I were at the bar. I am an introvert, and I don’t like going to bars, but once a while its fun to see the circus. It reminds me of a documentary on National Geographic on matting habits and ritual of insects. On how crickets make that ‘kit-kit’ noise, on how bugs give out scents, and change into iridescent colors to attract opposite sex. Same thing happens in the bar but in a subtler ways, just a different setting and different ecology. I usually take my drink, and try to find the darkest corner, where I can hide myself and my insecurities, and watch the circus with amazement while tucked away in the safety of social seclusion, my corner. And my hopeful (hopeful of getting laid) friends went ahead to mingle with the crowd. For I have been to this country for a while to understand that a white guy with a leper has a better chance of scoring a white blond/brunette than the brown prince. So, I said to myself, few things are better learnt on your own than taught. So, told my friends, go tigers go, go get them all, with patronizing smile, for I knew, by the end of the night, their egos would be perforated more than ‘momo pakaune vado.’ Finished my drink, had to come out of my corner to get another drink, while I was walking to the bar, there were few pool tables on the way, and the place was crowded like hell. I was wiggling through people, and I realized I just bumped into a guy who was going to shoot a ball; I just made him miss the cue. That’s not a good thing to do while people are betting on their game. So, I stopped there to apologize, and this guy turns towards me, he was over six feet, and a huge black dude. And, I told him I was very sorry that I made him miss his shot. To my surprise, he started apologizing to me with the same earnest that I had been apologizing to him with, he says in his defense that it was not my fault, he should have been more cautious in a crowd like that. He feared me as much as I feared him. We both apologized to each other, and I walked away much amazed, didn’t understand why would he do so. Then on the way to the bartender, I realized, it’s just been a day that Cho incident had happened. No sane person wants to take a beef with a crazy nut like Cho looking guy, that’s me. So, I bought next round of drink and cheered it to the tormented soul of Cho—rest in peace in hell for empowering a pale people. By god! White boys can’t dance, there were shit load of people dancing to the music, but these two white boys were noticeable at least to me. One was dancing like, when your both hands are tied together, and you need to scratch your butt crack badly, and you do so by wiggling, that is how he was dancing. It seemed pretty funny to me. And the other white guy was dancing like ‘nagin’ to ‘sapera’s’ bin. Reminded me of Hindi movie, where Sri Devi dances like snake while Amris Puri plays his bin, forgot the movie’s name. But, it’s all about call for mating, birds do it, bees do it, so do we, in our own crazy ecology called society. But some are freak of nature, like us, brown and smelly, who would never get to mate, until mother finds you one.

Note to all the readers: I appreciate you guys reading my blog. It doesn’t mean that I don’t reply to your comments means I don’t value your readership. In fact your comments encourage me to get off my lazy ass and put up something here.

Thanks people!

Once in a while, I do try to delve into realities of this world by reading non-fictions. I take my toes out and dip into the global pond to gauge political/economics/social/cultural temperature, but each time the chill shrivels my balls, and I retreat to my cozy fantasy land—reading comics or fictions. Sometime, you wonder how smart people are amazingly dumb. I guess; their passion turns into conviction, and conviction into blindness. And, they start flying like a bat with no vision, but only with an acoustic sense of reverberating adulations mostly from groups/lobbies that are at benefits from their theories that they espouse. A good example would be Global Warming Deniers, who are supported by Christian Right, what would they care for this world when they are going to the next one in the day of rapture? What to talk about, crazy nuts (children of Jesus, mostly the white ones residing in North America), but there are few genuine scientists who doubt the inferring data of impending Global Warming disaster on the ground of science, but sadly most of them are in the pay roll of Oil companies. But today, I am going to pick on one particular blind bat—Tom Friedman—the author of best selling novel ‘The World Is Flat,’ who is also a columnist for the New York Times—the poster boy of ‘Free Market’ to throw rocks at by the Left (I am taking about economical left, not the liberals nuts, when it comes to national interest of America, there is no Left no Right, it’s just about their comfort/status quo. They stand left or right only on the issues like: who fucks your ass, or whose ass you fuck aka gay rights, or on choice to life, issues which don’t concern rest of the world, I am talking about non-Abrahamic world. Unlike you getting castrated on groping women’s ass in some local market in Afghanistan. By that measure, I guess most of the males traveling in Ktm. bus would be castrated. This argument doesn’t even make sense. Crazy me had to babble something. Anyway, to tie it together, it doesn’t mean that we are morally better off than anyone of them, infact, we shine in some other stupid issues like: eating COW, my favorite animal to this day.) After reading quarter of the book, I just got disgusted by his preaching of the mighty Capitalism and Free Market, I just threw the book away. I couldn’t stand his canonical claim that there is no social/economical problem that can’t be solved by GREED. Let me be clear here to my readers that I am not a Marxist, might have a flavor of socialism but not of Ghadhinian type, more of capitalist-socialist, something like a child conceived by ascetic Ghandi fucking decadent Paris Hilton. My read was all fine until I reached the chapters dealing with India. His claims on how great the new
India is doing since a whole middle class is moving a notch up in the social ladder is pretty myopic. Nonetheless, his claims are very true, middle class access to service sectors at global market has indeed made possible the life style which was unthinkable in Nehruian socialist structure just a decade and half ago. A surge of economic growth almost by 8% every year trailing
China, and a sheer econometrics favoring China and India at present suggest that these two would emerge as global economic giants. May be may be not, but it’s more likely than not. But, Friedman miserably fails to point out that the same surge in the economic growth in
India has not been enjoyed by the other 50% of the population who are below the poverty line. The benefits haven’t trickled down. Obviously, Indian Gov. policies are at more fault than the Friedman’s linear observation. His analysis are very astute and most of the time correct (well, I am not an economist to make that judgment, but who cares, this is my blog, so I am the all mighty), but to espouse that all the miseries of Third World can be alleviated if not completely eliminated through the right tools of Capitalism is tad ignorant/arrogant. Well, India might emerge out to be a roaring tiger with such a pace of economic growth, but with such a biased modal of resource distribution, it would be an ailing tiger, one Dharmendra would beat up in his every movie. Any Nepali would know this better than Tom Friedman with our own Maoists decade long insurgency. Another thing that got on my nerve is: he almost manages to come out as a humanitarian/egalitarian global citizen, preaching from the pedestal of American centric global views. Not his fault at all, from such a dizzying height no one can see the abject poverty in India for that matter anywhere else.