Subscript: To the uninitiated, the title of this post plagiarises part of the refrain from one of my favorite songs; 'Society' by Eddie Vedder.
One night I did something that everyone who has 'eaten a brownie' (for want of a better metaphor, and in pursuit of plausible deniability) promises himself, but never quite manages to: I managed somehow to pen down my random thoughts and for once won the battle against 'instant short term memory loss' which comes with eating one too many brownie.
So I'm reproducing it here in its erratic entirety, with the only changes being due to my inability to decipher some of my own scrawl, and leave it up to my long suffering and scant readers to judge whether it makes any sense.
Society, you are a crazy breed.......or are you not??
It is essential, when I think about it now. I have always been suspecting of society and Eddie Vedder's 'Society' has always resonated with me.
But today I realised it may be a 'necessary evil'.
For the generic person atleast: the sheep and not the shepherd. All people have the same insecurities I realised.
The psychological nature of man has not remained just the second nature of humans I feel, it has become one with his intrinsic nature.
So, the greatest leader, read Indira Gandhi, and the lowliest schoolgirl share the same insecurities, same paranoia, same confusions; in short the same propensity to take senseless, illogical decisions based on nothing but inner makings of an utterly, perpetually confused mind.
The mind is such a deadly cocktail of incurably infinitely many 'chains of thoughts', nay, 'schools of thought', even 'universes of thought', so to say.
If there were no social framework, no 'right answer', no precedents, no such 'fixed algorithms for moving forward', then would even a single human, forget the majority, be capable of taking a sensible, logical decision?
So, maybe my much hated nemesis, society, is the very reason for our survival. Its a scary thought that my most parochial opponents have been proven right!!
Maybe society is the only 'binding factor' that takes humankind forward in a discernible direction, even if on a disastrous course, and not zig-zagging in random motion without any 'displacement'.
One night I did something that everyone who has 'eaten a brownie' (for want of a better metaphor, and in pursuit of plausible deniability) promises himself, but never quite manages to: I managed somehow to pen down my random thoughts and for once won the battle against 'instant short term memory loss' which comes with eating one too many brownie.
So I'm reproducing it here in its erratic entirety, with the only changes being due to my inability to decipher some of my own scrawl, and leave it up to my long suffering and scant readers to judge whether it makes any sense.
Society, you are a crazy breed.......or are you not??
It is essential, when I think about it now. I have always been suspecting of society and Eddie Vedder's 'Society' has always resonated with me.
But today I realised it may be a 'necessary evil'.
For the generic person atleast: the sheep and not the shepherd. All people have the same insecurities I realised.
The psychological nature of man has not remained just the second nature of humans I feel, it has become one with his intrinsic nature.
So, the greatest leader, read Indira Gandhi, and the lowliest schoolgirl share the same insecurities, same paranoia, same confusions; in short the same propensity to take senseless, illogical decisions based on nothing but inner makings of an utterly, perpetually confused mind.
The mind is such a deadly cocktail of incurably infinitely many 'chains of thoughts', nay, 'schools of thought', even 'universes of thought', so to say.
If there were no social framework, no 'right answer', no precedents, no such 'fixed algorithms for moving forward', then would even a single human, forget the majority, be capable of taking a sensible, logical decision?
So, maybe my much hated nemesis, society, is the very reason for our survival. Its a scary thought that my most parochial opponents have been proven right!!
Maybe society is the only 'binding factor' that takes humankind forward in a discernible direction, even if on a disastrous course, and not zig-zagging in random motion without any 'displacement'.
