Turning and Turning in the widening gyre.
The falcon cannot hear the falconer.
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
(WB Yeates- The second coming)
People in this century are in a mad scramble to swallow more beliefs than they can digest. Like cripples we cling to our beliefs desperately like dear possessions. Chekhov‘s prophesy seems more true now than ever- “Man is what he believes”. Animals have fought for food, for territory and for mates, but never before have animals engaged in deadly battles to preserve one set of beliefs over another. The stronger the belief, the greater the intolerance.
Nothing is easier as to delude oneself. When are we going to remove our blindfold of beliefs? What we need is well said by Betrand Russell –“What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite”.
Pessimism prevails. I am scared whether sanity is soon going to be a silly slogan. Whither our salvation?
4 comments:
nicely written....i didnt knew u r such a good writer too....[:)]..
@ sunita
Thanks :)
dude..nice stuff.. i think :P
thats written well.. i guess we are coming back to history for insanity's another form.. and sanity was never ever there apart from textbook,quotes and imagination.. and "We always pay for somebody else's sin" the point is Newton's law works in a bizarre manner sending the message that there is no "I" and unless each and every person demands sanity in unison we have to look up to the stars.. "making everybody believe in sanity" move had already started in long long history but "greed fallacy" always did not let it penetrate.. hope it does not take much longer time at this juncture:)
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