Cerebral Zephyr

Productivity is a point of the matter. How do we ascertain the productivity of a person? And more importantly, how can anyone dream of becoming productive in the Hustle Bustle of today. Feeding our lives incessantly to these giant corporations, trading our last values and souls for the industrial devil.

So this is what it has finally come to. People no longer see the side of reason that constantly urges for a life that is untouched, rather we are drowning in a deluge of mass consumerism and no one seems to realize, but a precious few. Our present generation is still awake, to a certain extent, but our suceedors will suffer for the short sightedness of their predecessors, whose legacy we slowly and unconsicously are adopting.

Think! my fellow men and women. What has this blind consumerism and militant industrialization got you? We all start with aspirations and dreams, but a closer look only betrays us, because we start off by first conforming ourselves to a standard. The current system is so masked, that nowadays rule breakers, anarchists, and the like have disappeared. The government too is not visible, but it silently pulls the strings.

We are a gullible lot, because we have always played around the rule. Going by the view that more the better, little realising that it is to an extent unsustainable. Engineers earlier were rule breakers, exceptional people, inventors to an extent, fine technical minds, and what do we have now? Their predecessors, a bunch of incompetent fools with no aim or inkling of anything technical, just having a qualification to have a graduation certificate.

We no longer produce humans, we just produce numbers to fuel the so - called growth. Where is it? That fickle thing that they call growth? Is it something that is read off the share market chart??? Is it something so significant??

What about human growth? It is denied….it is pushed under the carpet, or displayed on some fancy furniture (gathering dust) just to show how much the developed countries do to alleviate the pain and suffering by pouring money, but not help. By being under the misconception that money solves age - old problems.

Wake up!

Yours,

Cerebralplay

Dehumanization and its prevalent mechanization. It won't be long……..

Been reading a book. Its called the "Manufature of Evil" by Lionel Tiger (Anthropologist). Uptil now by how much I have read, the book documents the advent of the Industrial Revolution and the changing face and values of the human race. I guess its worth a read.

Yours Cerebrally,

CerebralPlay

It feels good to be back. Good to feel the zephyr that brushes against your face. And the fact that something somewhere is different. It sounds pretty vague isn't it? Sounds pretty, obscure. Well what the hell! This thought just flashed my mind….the thought that maybe we live in a meat grinder world. That we ought to rethink before we feel ourselves on the edge, waiting to be thrown over it. Waiting to be grinded to small obscure pieces of flesh that is not distinguishable from the rest. Ever seen the Pink Floyd video, "the Wall"? There is a particular frame that shows children coming out of the school building on a conveyor belt(All this setting resembling our industrial system) and falling into the meat grinder. The closing frame shows processed meat coming out of it endlessly. Has implications doesn't it?? Industrial Revolution was a revolution indeed, more of the devolution(The process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality) kind. Sad isn't it? But worth a play of the cerebral nature. Think people and let me know. Yours, CerebralPlay

Dear all,

Here's an interesting thought….what if you were told to stand and stare at the exhaust pipe of a vehicle? And the thought that would bother your gray cells at that moment would be this…Can I make any use of the smoke that is being spewed out? Can I change the by- product of this reckless consumption back to its original form? What are the implications of this burning?

The questions are myriad and can be fired from angles that can make us squirm, uncomfortable or to be more precise plain disgusted. This applies to all and every aspect of life. These questions that i applied to just one aspect can spawn many more that sound similar but only their context is different. Everywhere we go, or atleast we plan to go lead us to the same dead end of self induced extinction.

Interesting concept ain't it? But its scary all the same. We explore other planets, in a hope that once we run out of this beauty plane,t we can go elsewhere. Don't get me wrong, that's all fine and also appears glossy, but till then what?

Do we continue to squander and plunder this place? This article must be similar to the millions around the world dealing with the same issue. But to think of it, it shall be a pity if we don't live the words we so passionately punch in as keystrokes. The point I am making here is, lets not fly so high off the ground that we can't see the place to land.

Pity isn't it? Our levels of consumerism have reached such levels that we no longer seem to give two hoots to where we are headed. It'll be taken care of by science, we got technology to restore it all, thats whats the common refrain and argument. Yes, and its true to an extent. But to what extent, when the ground itself is washed away , where can you stand?

Where's the Terra Firma that made our previous generations have that intrinsic knowledge of nature? Where are the tribes that we call "uncivilized" lived in Harmony with mother earth, rather than molesting her mercilessly to extract that last pound of flesh?

We seldom weep for the people affected by natural calamities, or man induced environmental disasters. As long as it is not on/at our doorstep, our vision seems strangely impaired. Activism is for fools. It threatens the System.

What system are we talking about? The system that can barely withstand the fury of nature or the ecosystem that supports our very living? Taking up cudgels against our man-made systems is forbidden and if you are brave enough then your freedom is stifled and curtailed. Or to put it simply you are ridiculed.

People shed a tear or two, feel sad for sometime and move on…….

Sounds bleak doesn't it? Well thats the whole point.

yours,

Cerebral Play

Dear All,

Our system: these buildings, these factories, these units of production that spew elements unknown to nature. These units that are inanimate but are run by us humans so that their final goods appease and satisfy our continuos and burgeoning demands.

Such is our insensitivity that we laugh at people that talk about the ecology and nature. Looney brains, thats all we remark and go on about our business. Ecology classes are thought by people who have as yet never practised what they preach.

our life is surrounded by examples when we take the easier way out. no struggle, no hard work. pure brains. but this has come to such extents that our thinking is rather becoming our unbecoming. our actions are shrouded by such repitition that we no longer seem to see the other side of the river bank (so to speak).

We want to go somewhere, we whip out our car keys or motorcycle keys. We run over something, but its effect is pretty minimal over us. We just regret the action and by evening we are back again living our (so called) happy lives. Our intelligence has become that mechanical. We no longer think. We no longer are possessed by taking the bull by the horns and finally turning it all around.

We are comfortable basically because we see no end in sight. We see noting anymore just ourselves, we fail to see the increasing shadow of our problems that shall finally consume our very existence.

yours

Cerebralplay