Elucidation from the Loony Side

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sorry temporal sahib -- dont really get the time to do any outside reading these days --

Ummm... help?

z

Ps. Who`s the nut? The other nut.

zuhair
we are sinking fast........say something

omar:

...t.s. eliot sir...t.s. eliot!

...buried in the i-logs i accidentally dug up where he got the `song` in alfred j prufrock...(from a short story by rudyard kipling)...the poem is not a song...the prelude to it is in latin...

...i apologise for a bad joke gone awry...

rgds,

t

temporal ??? -- this isnt your ilog sir -- so u will have to be a little less abstruse if you want me to understand what your talking about

omar:

...let us see if i can put this delicately to you...oh never mind!...instead have a good day sir

...t

haha temporal -- sorry havent heard that song -- shandana -- btw u havent responded to my emails -- so i ask u here -- have ya got the check or not we sent?

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zuhair:

that was not called for

;)

we never came down from the trees...

Shandana:

I was simply thinkng how good Larra Dutta looks in the rain. Only a matter of passive conviction here, i guess, nothing complicated.

regards

Well okay...but one could argue that madness has existed since we came down from the trees and insisted that a God created Adam and then Eve...can this be boiled to:

1. Life is complicated.

2. Truth is complicated.

3. There is no one way of being/thinking/interacting in this world

4. Because I realize this and don`t God myself up, I`m f`ed up.

5. Ergo I take drugs

6. And thus going crazy.

If this is it, I`m not convinced.

hey zuhair,

is this your first piece on chowk? if it is, welcome.

this is what i got out of it...

the writer has recently been told he needs to go on medication for depression/mood disorder/OCD or some such `mental illness`. he is unsure whether he is really depressed/manic and wondering how much of it is simply a natural reaction to the state of the world as it is today, as reflected in the news/music/entertainment/newmedia projects. if this is the case, i can relate. i can also relate to the need to ingest illegal substances to cope, a lot of people with `mental problems` self medicate with dope etc.

now zuhair, why dont you tell us (simply) what you were thinking :0

shandana

well said s-t!

i think this article should strike a chord with anyone who reads it. what the writer has done is, ever so slightly, amplify the incoherence that lies at the basis of what passes for human thought in the times we find ourselves in.

the process starts early. raw minds are fed the staple diet of mass education that more often stunts natural impulses and gifts. a certain degree of conformist radicalism is allowed to give an illusion of free will. information is fed and intuitive knowledge is considered quaint, to say the least. with our fragmented thought processes it is so much easier, like the writer said, to become mere `receptors to an inferior outside stimulus`. our minds have been so enchained (or institutionalised, as morgan freeman said in shawshank redemption), that we cannot even see the shackles anymore.

but some can see......

there is an edge to this article that elevates it above the plane of unadulterated crap that the fitter, happier Omar Qureshi projects it down to.

quite surprised by the subject and the intensity of the introspection too.
what he seems to be saying is that the over-exposure to media, combined with a gullible disposition, can lead a person (not necessarily the author, though the possibility is not excluded) to drug use in order to still the fierce but temporary protests of his original nature against the vegetating (and other dissipating) effects of said exposure.

interesting theory, but perhaps not applicable in its entirety to a large and heterogeneous population. some elements here and there, certainly, to some people, but not all to all. which might explain the consternation provoked here.

note to eds: needs some editing ``in my humble opinion``.