"Democracy is simply a system of inter-generational bribery."Just about sums up the recent elections.
Saturday, May 28, 2011
The state of my State
Monday, May 16, 2011
Moldovan paradise
A real life fairy on a unicycle, a standing drummer, and the next fashion craze. Hold on to your hats!
Thursday, May 5, 2011
The Big Lie
"You know politics, I know party chicks!"
If you are going to lie, you may as well lie big.
Preferably have it exposed only after you die.
I wonder if developments in the world have outpaced institutions that we have grown up with and become accustomed to. Huge concepts burdened upon us at birth.
One of the first grand concept that I abandoned was religion. I probably didn't think really hard about it.
This would be followed by money. What is money? How does it work? (well.. economics in short). Why do I want it?
Then there was nationhood, which got killed very quickly by National Service. Will the concept of a "nation" persist for much longer?
Currently under intense scrutiny, is Science itself. Is there an objective reality? One universe, or many?
The Big Lie that is unraveling itself, is that the United States has a free market capitalist economy. Got found out, so to speak.
Scientology is another one that is evaporating under Wikileaks.
The entire 9/11 - Osama - war in the Middle East business might be another lie, or a half-truth.
The Nazis purportedly carried out a Big Lie, supposedly killing millions of Jews and effecting a brutal fascist state. Some say this is itself a Big Lie.
Man landed on the Moon in 1969 (purportedly). Unfortunately, we've been looking back ever since.
A bunch of clever physicists devised a very nice model of the elementary particles, so beautiful and profound... except no one else could appreciate it. Missing a certain "Higgs boson" (promoted as the Holy Grail of physics, and the "God particle", and having the intellectual upper hand, they convinced politicians to splurge 7.5 billion euros on the monstrosity called the Large Hadron Collider. Will this turn out to be a Big Lie? A philosophical question -- does the idea of a fundamental particle even make sense?
The Human Genome Project promised to tell us why we are the way that we are. You know, with the central dogma, genetics and all that. Of course that wouldn't have gotten it much funding; it also promised huge advancements in medicine. Turns out, it might also be a Big Lie. (Disclaimer: this is my layman perspective).
Governments have been known to lie..... big. This elections, little bits of filth have been painstakingly dug up and hung for everyone to see. The fear is that the rot runs far, far deeper. We'll see. At least they can be exposed. But if the Universe itself was a Big Lie, could we ever find that out?
Will you berate me for asking David Hume's innocuous question: Will the Sun rise on the 8th of May?
If you are going to lie, you may as well lie big.
Preferably have it exposed only after you die.
I wonder if developments in the world have outpaced institutions that we have grown up with and become accustomed to. Huge concepts burdened upon us at birth.
Gold today is no longer related to the normal economic cycle of supply and demand, jewelry, Indian wedding seasons, rain in the Middle East. All those things are passé, forget about them. Gold is driven today by one overriding and I am afraid, at least in my opinion, an irresistible and irreversible trend. A fundamental, global and growing insecurity… A fundamental, global and growing lack of confidence of the world in everything they were brought up to believe. Institutions, insurance companies, banks, issuers of mortgages, ratings agencies, equities, sovereign debt, Federal Reserve Banks. Portugal and Iceland. Greece and Spain. Currencies. What is left? What is left?Obviously not written by me. But substitute "Gold" with just about anything you are familiar with, and it still stacks up --- love, careerism, democracy, capitalism, socialism, money, nationhood, science, religion, Facebook.......(and theoretical physics of course).
One of the first grand concept that I abandoned was religion. I probably didn't think really hard about it.
This would be followed by money. What is money? How does it work? (well.. economics in short). Why do I want it?
Then there was nationhood, which got killed very quickly by National Service. Will the concept of a "nation" persist for much longer?
Currently under intense scrutiny, is Science itself. Is there an objective reality? One universe, or many?
The Big Lie that is unraveling itself, is that the United States has a free market capitalist economy. Got found out, so to speak.
Scientology is another one that is evaporating under Wikileaks.
The entire 9/11 - Osama - war in the Middle East business might be another lie, or a half-truth.
The Nazis purportedly carried out a Big Lie, supposedly killing millions of Jews and effecting a brutal fascist state. Some say this is itself a Big Lie.
Man landed on the Moon in 1969 (purportedly). Unfortunately, we've been looking back ever since.
A bunch of clever physicists devised a very nice model of the elementary particles, so beautiful and profound... except no one else could appreciate it. Missing a certain "Higgs boson" (promoted as the Holy Grail of physics, and the "God particle", and having the intellectual upper hand, they convinced politicians to splurge 7.5 billion euros on the monstrosity called the Large Hadron Collider. Will this turn out to be a Big Lie? A philosophical question -- does the idea of a fundamental particle even make sense?
The Human Genome Project promised to tell us why we are the way that we are. You know, with the central dogma, genetics and all that. Of course that wouldn't have gotten it much funding; it also promised huge advancements in medicine. Turns out, it might also be a Big Lie. (Disclaimer: this is my layman perspective).
Governments have been known to lie..... big. This elections, little bits of filth have been painstakingly dug up and hung for everyone to see. The fear is that the rot runs far, far deeper. We'll see. At least they can be exposed. But if the Universe itself was a Big Lie, could we ever find that out?
Will you berate me for asking David Hume's innocuous question: Will the Sun rise on the 8th of May?
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