Infinity Crisis
Speaking of crisis, my thoughts drift to my curriculum and the Indian educational system. All it implies is that the wise become wiser and the dumb become dumber.
Have you ever wondered why the symbol of infinity is a loop? It is because a loop never ends. Infinity is an undeterminable value on which life depends on. As a matter of reality, the infinite loop depicts the vicious circle of man’s accursed life. How they mock us!
Life and Death. The two most mediocre events in the history of mankind until they happen to you. Sometimes I still do wonder if “i” prefix is a clever scheme employing man’s unlimited greed and selfishness to their advantage. Look at it, even Steve Jobs’ book’s name is iCon. What a con you have pulled Jobs ji.
For one thing I have never understood mathematics after a certain period in my life. Looking back now, I feel that since the appearance of infinity in the number system, everything seems so approximate and inaccurate. As if the very fabric of the space is exist on is being challenged. Infinity is nature’s greatest parody on man’s life. Buzz Lightyear says, “To infinity and beyond.” I ask you, isn’t beyond infinity still infinity? Interesting, or maybe not. Do I look like I care?
Search for salvation is an infinite crisis. Salvation, my guru says, lies within one’s self, or maybe not. Every molecule, on which various establishments of faiths are built on, has been brutally questioned in a line. Teachings of every religion are purely subjective to suit needs of a particular region. When the flaws of the land influence the force of the mind, shouldn’t we be free to choose our path of glory. Glory for not only self but even the society and the entire human race! Yes, but didn’t you see the microscopic “Conditions Apply”. Too bad, for you.
Freedom. What is freedom? Is it the right to remain free and exploit your liberty beyond your domain or is it the right to choose the chains that will bind you? Man is never born free nor does he die in chains. Freedom to me is the Blacksmith of light. Nay not Lucifer, but like a blacksmith, it slaves in the dark to serve the light. It is the true essence of creativity. An idle mind is a devil’s workshop. An idle retarded insomniac inspired me to get creative and she happens to NOT be a worshipper of Satan or the guy who was given Posidon’s trident painted red to act badass. Well though the idle mind does reap its own destruction. Honest opinion has no commercial value thus is rendered useless.
Paradox is personified thought parallelized to parody the Plan. Yes obviously the Plan is life, the sketch by God. Few of the most mocking are, the lie paradox (I’m telling the truth about the fact that I’m lying… wait, say what??!), the salvation paradox (also known as the CheeseCharmer’s paradox), knowledge paradox (The more you learn, the more you don’t know), txtin paradox (Though the meaning is conveyed, the convention is expected to be followed) and the most important, irony paradox (Life….. Yup, that’s about it. Basically smaller the question, bigger the answer.) A paradox is once again a mockery of a different stock, of a different flock. Well God does have his angels. BTW angels were never mentioned to be pretty and Miss Goody Good. Seen the movie Legion? Yeaaa, thought so.
EPILOGUE:
1. Chaos. It is infinite. Does crisis bring about never ending chaos or does chaos bring about an infinite crisis?
2. Ridiculous. One sane word to define the educational system. Or should I say the educational industry private limited. Or educational industry private and very limited?
3. Insolence. Man is by far the world’s least suited survivor in a natural environment. Does he deserve to be at the top or is it analogous to the Indian test team’s ratings?
4. Selfish. Power and potential. Life is a rat race. No matter if you win or lose, you are still a greedy sneaky rat.
5. Idiocracy. Monarchy of mathematics is never the murder of the meticulous and the meritorious but of the meek. Well you know what God said, “And the Meek shall inherit the Earth.”
6. Sic. Life is never meant to be understood. When you feel you have completely understood life the alphabets rearrange. Especially letters 6-9.
7. Unique. Popularity is not so popular. Similarly neither is common sense. You choose to read this blog post. Not like I shared the URL on Facebook and tagged you in it.
8. Life. Life is a race. A race between a tiger and a deer. The deer will win because purpose is more important. But then again, didn’t you see the microscopic *Conditions Apply? Too bad.
PS: The post has been carefully written in ascending order of number of lines per paragraph. It terminates at 8 in order to appreciate the beauty of the magically harmonic number. I hope someone must have noticed that 8 also looks like the vertical version of infinity and I have carefully planned to make it come in the 3rd paragraph as 3 looks like the symmetrical half of 8. Similarly the first letters of the first words of the first sentence in every point in the epilogue results in the title of my laments. The mild nature of my laments is also a hidden symbol to signify the chains I am held by. The use of the word sic is thanks to the new Literary Club I’ve joined in my college. Life is nothing but commercial crap. And yes, Epilogues don’t have Post Scripts. CRISIS UnLimited \m/
i read it shravan and i should say it was good but wait. Have a few things to ask.
ReplyDelete1.the angel thing. If an angel is portrayed bad then it should not be call an angel right! or should i say she?
2."they mock us" they is the nature's forces or the people who coined infinity?
3.Why did the i prefix concept come here?
4.Teachings of every religion and purely to suit their own needs? If you observe closely at all the religions i think that all the religions (even when they have different things to say about God,traditions,food habits,ways of worship) tell the same thing about salvation. And i don't think it is within one self.
P.S. It was a pot pourri of many things. And the freedom part was awesome!
Thanks! :)
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ReplyDeleteNice way to look at infinity and life. In my mediocre mind, I have perceived the concept of infinity as something different. Infinity is our substitute for failure. It's the ultimate abstraction of unknown information or truth. Say, I ask you, "Where is god?" One can say, "At infinite distance from man." He would be looked upon as a wise man with a deep understanding of life. But infinity is something that the entity being referred to understands while it's smartly hidden from others who try to understand it.
ReplyDeleteSay, you ask me how much I love someone, I can say "Infinitely" which reveals nothing and at the same time hides nothing. Understanding of Infinity is the EPR paradox of mathematics where infinity being the Schrodinger's cat.
Good one :)
Did you, by any chance, have a thought overflow? How many things have you talked about here? Its very abstracted, yet it was fun. :-P Lengthen your post or clarify each topic better because you do that well. Anyway, that's just me, good post :)
ReplyDelete@anusha:thanks you for your most valued feedback :). really means a lot to me :).
ReplyDelete1. yes exactly :P. d concept of the devil is that he is a fallen angel.. that part was inspired by another awesome blog n her take on the devil..
2.That's d whole point :). the question is a never ending one, like the chicken and the egg as to which came first :). did man enforce infinity on nature due to his incompetence or did nature enforce it on man to hide his incompetence ?? i don't know but i know man is incompetent..
3.oh tat :D iUseless concept is my term fr people who are Apple product virgins (like me) because Apple's marketing strategy is partially based on the thought incepted in our minds that, well if you don't have an Apple product, You are not cool :P.
4.Yes :). this was purely Vignesh's idea :). like the secret works of ramanujam i found this in a corner of his book :). i'll share you the link to his blog post :) it's TOOOOOO COOOOOL :)
thanks once again for reading it :). and the word a day is awesome :) :) :). i am even using a few words in my daily life :D. i'm addicted to sic :P:D
@vignesh: SO TRUE !!! mathematics is suppose to be the language of science... that is so ironic in many ways !!!!! and yes :). but truely God is at an infinite distance from man :). even if he is within us we can't reach him :). what a word play so very well played :). and yes :) the cat :). how can i forget the cat :) :) :)
ReplyDelete@rajkiran: well ya :P. i believe that each of my post should inspire some one to think about what i've written and may be inspire them to write about it :). as Vignesh said :)all you need is a little inspiration :). i hope to give it :). and thanks for your opinion :).
ReplyDeleteShravan, wonderful display of your thoughts !!!
ReplyDeleteYou have touched upon many issues & as Rajkiran says, it would be better if you elucidate more about each topic !
I particularly liked your views on "Infinity and Beyond" and outlook on "Life and Death" as the two most mediocre events in life, till they happen....WELL SAID :)
I completely agree with your opinion on the various paradoxes...especially the "Knowledge Paradox" (extremely true in today's education system).....
So altogether, great work Shravan !!! Keep up the good work :)
@aishwarya: thanks so much fr ur time n valued feed back :):). Yes I know but d variety of topics is intentional
ReplyDelete:):):). Bus d paradoxes r d best thing in d world if u ask me :P:);). And thanks a lot once again :):););)