Hello 2012 livers!
The first post of 2012 is taking place on 1st day of the 2nd month of the year, in which we all are expected to be converted to dust and dumped to The Dumpyard! Hahaha...Well researchers have proved that the entire 2012 is a hokum, just like the announcement of inflation going down, by the Indian government. So here we are, to pay more for everything and to do more than anything, beyond limits. Happy New Year!
Let's begin with a news article this time, read The Lost Generation by Pravin Mishra. Some of the readers have read this and I would like that you scratch your head and recall that. But in nutshell for all, it is an article that was kind of blaming youth and their short term adoption towards the dazzling ephemeral life of celebrities and attention seekers. Usual for me. That article was quite interesting as there always has been a phrase, "Generation Gap" which we all know. What hit my head and turn me into the Tony Montana of Scarface was that at each and every line there was a pseudo intellectual blaming of youth. Every present problem was indirectly a product of youth. I am going to conduct a cruel and visceral postmortem of that article by putting down some lines: (By the way I also had an opinion published on the same in the same paper. To read it, click here.)
Line: They jump into the ‘Cat’ race and then the rat race without having any idea of where the race leads them to.
That's a very great word, "Cat race". Human beings will be prosecuted in Hell (definitely!) by animals in Heaven under the accusation of blaspheming their names! Haha. Getting serious now, define "Cat Race". This blog won't answer, you yourself have to answer that and keep it in your mind. Cat race is seen in each and every field of today's world. A vestigial impediment in education and livelihood, especially. How the young generation is pushing the "Cat Race"? Ask yourself, if you're a parent, haven't you wished that your child be the topper of his class? If you're a child, haven't you seen a gleam in the eyes of your parents when they hear something delightful from the parents of your counterparts? Don't you wish to push your limits and prove yourself? Don't the parents feel that by personal tuition, their child may score better? Anyway, the point is that the creation of rat race or cat race is based on fulfilling desires of the older generation. Stunned? An example. Why it has become inevitable to achieve >75% in HSC now? Why graduation was considered to be a great qualification in early 80s or 90s, whereas it has become a necessity to become masters now? Why the livelihood of a person has rose so high? Young generation? No. Older generation. The reason is their unnecessary craving to "stress" their child to success. Their fault? No. Fault of the parents who had a Baker's dozen of children. Corruption? Yes by the rulers born between 1940s and 1970s. Isn't it true? The elders won't understand that the politicians of their "batch" are sucking their "batchmates" and killing their children's progress with corruption. Many a lot things that are existing.
Line: (Today's youth)....are comfort-seeking unconcerned species with single-point agenda of accumulating wealth in their lives.
Bullshit! More and more young people are much getting addicted to a peaceful life rather than accumulating money. A great sense of content is rather prevailing. To the extent that they risk their entire savings to start up something innovative, which maybe a non profit organization. Comfort seeking? I ask the young generation of Mumbai local trains? Are you in comfort seeking mentality? No. Ask a young teen studying in Std. 12. Their parents will admit that his entire day is much much busier than theirs. Ask a corporate executive? No, just see him and you will tumble looking at his schedule.
Line: Patriotism is participating in candle light protest without fully understanding the cause.
This line is a bitch. Check Indian politicians' corruption list and then accuse the youth. I don't favor candle march, myself, but at least they are doing it. Not like the politicians, government officials who are in their "1 year minus from being sexagenarian" age and who are not even interested in listening to problems.
Line: With iPod plugged into their ears the urban youth today has turned deaf to the real world. They are busy talking or texting but are disconnected to the world around.
What? See the other way people. The youth is frustrated everywhere. The only thing they ask for is not love but a drug that will distract them from the danger that they are being thrown into an ever lasting chasm of grim life, where they won't hold respect. Where no one will understand them except their peers. No one will try to be their guide but definitely the elders will be there to nail them, because it is young generation. An iPod wearing youth is depiction of how the elders turn a blind eye to their grievance, leaving the youth no other alternate but to ignore themselves. That iPod studded youth is a potential suicidal person because he has nothing more than his own ears, which have gone deaf amidst the silent high pitched slap of the previous generation. Where the numbness in their ears have accelerated their reason to lose belief in others and start afresh on their own. A silent heart rending cry that will slash the souls of the previous generation blaming them, leaving the civilized "elders" dumb founded and stirring their souls!
Closing the post with two great quotes:
"Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant!" -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." -Henry David Thoreau
Offlining
*Dump*
The first post of 2012 is taking place on 1st day of the 2nd month of the year, in which we all are expected to be converted to dust and dumped to The Dumpyard! Hahaha...Well researchers have proved that the entire 2012 is a hokum, just like the announcement of inflation going down, by the Indian government. So here we are, to pay more for everything and to do more than anything, beyond limits. Happy New Year!
Let's begin with a news article this time, read The Lost Generation by Pravin Mishra. Some of the readers have read this and I would like that you scratch your head and recall that. But in nutshell for all, it is an article that was kind of blaming youth and their short term adoption towards the dazzling ephemeral life of celebrities and attention seekers. Usual for me. That article was quite interesting as there always has been a phrase, "Generation Gap" which we all know. What hit my head and turn me into the Tony Montana of Scarface was that at each and every line there was a pseudo intellectual blaming of youth. Every present problem was indirectly a product of youth. I am going to conduct a cruel and visceral postmortem of that article by putting down some lines: (By the way I also had an opinion published on the same in the same paper. To read it, click here.)
Line: They jump into the ‘Cat’ race and then the rat race without having any idea of where the race leads them to.
That's a very great word, "Cat race". Human beings will be prosecuted in Hell (definitely!) by animals in Heaven under the accusation of blaspheming their names! Haha. Getting serious now, define "Cat Race". This blog won't answer, you yourself have to answer that and keep it in your mind. Cat race is seen in each and every field of today's world. A vestigial impediment in education and livelihood, especially. How the young generation is pushing the "Cat Race"? Ask yourself, if you're a parent, haven't you wished that your child be the topper of his class? If you're a child, haven't you seen a gleam in the eyes of your parents when they hear something delightful from the parents of your counterparts? Don't you wish to push your limits and prove yourself? Don't the parents feel that by personal tuition, their child may score better? Anyway, the point is that the creation of rat race or cat race is based on fulfilling desires of the older generation. Stunned? An example. Why it has become inevitable to achieve >75% in HSC now? Why graduation was considered to be a great qualification in early 80s or 90s, whereas it has become a necessity to become masters now? Why the livelihood of a person has rose so high? Young generation? No. Older generation. The reason is their unnecessary craving to "stress" their child to success. Their fault? No. Fault of the parents who had a Baker's dozen of children. Corruption? Yes by the rulers born between 1940s and 1970s. Isn't it true? The elders won't understand that the politicians of their "batch" are sucking their "batchmates" and killing their children's progress with corruption. Many a lot things that are existing.
Line: (Today's youth)....are comfort-seeking unconcerned species with single-point agenda of accumulating wealth in their lives.
Bullshit! More and more young people are much getting addicted to a peaceful life rather than accumulating money. A great sense of content is rather prevailing. To the extent that they risk their entire savings to start up something innovative, which maybe a non profit organization. Comfort seeking? I ask the young generation of Mumbai local trains? Are you in comfort seeking mentality? No. Ask a young teen studying in Std. 12. Their parents will admit that his entire day is much much busier than theirs. Ask a corporate executive? No, just see him and you will tumble looking at his schedule.
Line: Patriotism is participating in candle light protest without fully understanding the cause.
This line is a bitch. Check Indian politicians' corruption list and then accuse the youth. I don't favor candle march, myself, but at least they are doing it. Not like the politicians, government officials who are in their "1 year minus from being sexagenarian" age and who are not even interested in listening to problems.
Line: With iPod plugged into their ears the urban youth today has turned deaf to the real world. They are busy talking or texting but are disconnected to the world around.
What? See the other way people. The youth is frustrated everywhere. The only thing they ask for is not love but a drug that will distract them from the danger that they are being thrown into an ever lasting chasm of grim life, where they won't hold respect. Where no one will understand them except their peers. No one will try to be their guide but definitely the elders will be there to nail them, because it is young generation. An iPod wearing youth is depiction of how the elders turn a blind eye to their grievance, leaving the youth no other alternate but to ignore themselves. That iPod studded youth is a potential suicidal person because he has nothing more than his own ears, which have gone deaf amidst the silent high pitched slap of the previous generation. Where the numbness in their ears have accelerated their reason to lose belief in others and start afresh on their own. A silent heart rending cry that will slash the souls of the previous generation blaming them, leaving the civilized "elders" dumb founded and stirring their souls!
Closing the post with two great quotes:
"Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant!" -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them." -Henry David Thoreau
Offlining
*Dump*
