Rant & Reason

What's common between electric vehicles, public metros, solar power and home schooling? The opposition to them by people who have their ways cemented in their opposites: fossil fuel powered vehicles, bus/car travel, electricity and schools. Each comparison plays out in the exact same way: shoot the messenger, not in a way that makes people evil, but in way that makes change impossible. They're so defined by one reality that the other reality has to be held to standards at least thrice as high.  Let's take the case of EV vs. fossil fuels. People who know cars and petrol have a large, consistent network that they can base their trust on. It's become a normality that they've never questioned, and oil companies love the profit (just a side comment from my Earth-loving side! Ha ha!). If you compare the behavior, trust, access, and fears that make up petrol users' ( which consist of most of us) relationship with petrol, you will find that they match the chances of t

If necessity was the mother of invention, and mankind had to invent marriage, this invention would not need a mother because it wouldn't need to be invented - at least not the way it is now. It is the strangest thing, yet, that humanity has prided itself in, parading it around confidently, minus the clear cracks of course.  In macro-evolution, there is a well-recognised concept of animals changing their bodies over centuries and millennia to adapt to the challenges they face in their environment. Over many years, beaks get longer, scales become different, hair grows or falls, and sometimes even new parts grow - just so that they can adapt to harsh environments.  Mankind is an animal and has his fair share too. This is found in a switch hidden in all the mushy entanglements that is the brain. It developed as a result of being immersed in the culture of idealisation and idolisation of marriage. It remains switched off until the very first day of real married life post the honeymoon. 

Why?  Why what?  Why do you feel that way about them?  Because I have my reasons. This is what happened to me and they did that to me. By "they", you mean specifically those individuals? No, I mean those specific individuals are their ilk. It's the same thing.    Did you make the association or did they claim the association?  Neither. It's as plain as day. You can see the common colours from afar. So if it smells, feels and comes across like something, it has to be that thing? You couldn't be more profoundly clear. Clear about who the exact individual perpetrators are not - as plain as day?  No. Clear about where the conspiracy that the injustice done to me roots from. One is just like the other, and so are all the rest. Got to nip it in the bud before it blossoms.  Ah! So even if you're right, they are not the actual people who did it to you.  That doesn't matter. If one is just like the other, and so are all the rest, hurting anyone directly hurts the o

Radha was 2 when she first heard from her mother that a carrot a day kept cancer away. Of course, her mother started telling her that even before she could chew one, and nothing stopped her from topping up the cerelac mash with carrots then. Soon it was Radha's first lesson of life. She grew to love the taste anyway. As she grew,  she was shocked to hear that it couldn't be true at many occasions during multiple phases of her life - at 6 when she asked her classmates how come they don't eat as much carrot, at 10 when junior science classes took a turn for the worse, and far more frequently between 11 and 18 when the world was opened up to her in so many ways. She soon started to debate as to whether she should tell her own child the same thing i.e. a carrot a day keeps cancer away when she was discussing family life ideas with her fiancee - exactly where her mother was at the start of the story. 2-25, how the tables turned. Surprisingly, her dilemma isn't far from almos