Death is inescapable and inevitable.

Someday we’re all going to be six feet under and dirt. The sheer contemplation and fear regarding something that’s inevitable is probably the most nonsensical emotion that man still retains to today.

Today’s man is such a slave to societal norms already created through our evolution cycle that has now become beyond him to comprehend why exactly he feels the loss for someone he does even know more than the occasional greeting. At times, even a strangers death is known to make a person re-evaluate this life and how he lives it. Re-evaluation wouldn’t even be necessary if the person begins by understanding this feeling of remorse and why exactly he feels the need to emphatize with relatives of the deceased.

This probably began at a time when the earliest of man began to form smaller groups necessary to hunt and to become the first hunter gatherers. Small hunting packs ensured a catch over a solo hunter and the numbers were also useful to defend land and the tribe itself from other such tribes. This is comparable today, with your absolute immediate circle of friends. People you confide in, people you trust when drunk and people you can think being stranded on an island with. Naturally, in both timelines, a death is perceived by the immediate circle/tribe as lesser numbers. Its one person lesser that you can trust and depend on. After family, we’ll regard this as the second circle of grief. We feel grief even though we know of how inconsequential our grief is. What we also feel, is a deep sense of loss, no of the actual person though. We feel the loss of the life we’d planned around the person. With each of our close associates today, we have a fair idea of where we want that relationship to head, and we’ve all projected into the distance future with regards to that person. Death distorts our plans completely and makes us redo the whole plan. This again, is an emotion that isn’t allowed by society, since in the first timeline, a death in the tribe, would weaken the whole tribe. The sense of brotherhood would be broken, only to be replaced by a sense of weakness with respect the tribe, and inability with respect to being able to save the person in question. Society does not permit us realizing this as a core emotion anymore, because now, it is politically incorrect to think of “survival of the fittest” as a concept conducive to society (even though we all know it exists). Therefore death in the immediate circle is accompanied by the deepest regret which would manifest itself as profound sadness. This is best observed in couples where one person survives the other.

How we feel towards the death of others now is all a relative scale to the above argument. Our grief or sadness regarding it, is always directly proportional to how well we tie in with this society and how much we crave acceptance from it.

How do we relate to this now? How does this tie in with our current everyday lives? It doesn’t yet. But soon, very soon, someone related to someone you know will die. This person wouldn’t affect your life in the least and your total personal experience with this person will barely be adequate to fill a nutshell. At this point, remember that you’re programmed to feel sad for this and be atleast a bit grief stricken only by society. You’re original intention for feeling bad was good, but now society has made you guilty about now feeling this same emotion for everyone around you, after all, aren’t we all just one huge big tribe now?





Of course I agree, there are multiple sides I’ve overlooked, I assure you these are intentional, I have no ambition to write a thesis about this here (cause I’m lazy), but since you asked nicely here they are in point form, well some of them.

1) Religion has made death a sacred affair. It isn’t, although now it is too late to redo that much of early inculcation that death is a door way to something greater. This however completely clashes with our evolutionary trigger of feeling a sense of morbid loss manifested through sadness. This is why even as the priest mumbles nonsense about how the person is in a better place and how this was God’s plan, the immediate family cannot help but sob into the next month.

2) The Hindu concept of death is much more appreciable. Not the reincarnation bit, that is idiotic. Not the Hindu Heaven too, that is well, let’s say flawed. I’m talking about northern Hinduism where death is death, and just that. Where the self has to realize that death is not to be feared or conquered. Death is just to be realized as death. Pondering over death, fearing it or planning your life around it, is as inconsequential as you buying a chimp a computer.

3) You feeling sad/grief regarding the death of anyone else is a wasted byproduct of our evolution. It does not facilitate you or the person’s immediate circle in anyway. It only suffices to reassure the person of a sense of false security for a while, until the next death sets it off again.

4) People will never realize this. Ever. Never ever. Ermm, Ever! They’ll still cry at deaths, they’ll feel a sense of deep sadness. They’ll call you cold for not feeling the same and they’ll even call you heartless at times. All the while, bending over forwards to facilitate society’s hand up their arse to better move their lips whilst they attempt to maintain a false sense of superiority over you.

To Vote or Not To..

I think, and sincerely believe that voting is a joke. Here’s why.
In my “area” of elections, let us consider three political parties that may be contesting the forthcoming elections.
1) Shiv Sena
2) BJP
3) Congress

For the purpose of understanding to readers not from India, the numbers are also an accurate representation of their ranks with respect to criminal acts/criminal associations. In ascending order, they represent blue collar crimes, riots, extortions etc, In the opposite order, they represent white collar crimes like misappropriation of funds, bribes for permits etc.
Now given that my choice is amongst probably five candidates, the fourth one usually is a cast in by one of the major three. Someone to contest the elections split the vote base and drop out later. The fifth guy usually is a goon with enough of political pull to be able to create his own party.
Oh yes, I seemed to be forgetting an elemental part of this, they all hate me! Apparently I fit their bill for the devil, should they ever need him personified.
I’m Christian! Well by birth anyway. (How undramatic you say? Indeed.). We’re loved for a two month window during the elections, not before, not after.
I’m not a native of the land. I live in a state called Maharashtra. My lineage is originally from a state called Goa. Which means that even though I was born here, spent my entire life here (so did my father), I’ll never be a Maharashtrian when politicians decide to play this card.
I have a job. In accordance with the above point, I’m robbing the job of some hard working Maharashtrian boy somewhere who just lacks the resolve to actually go find one.
I’m a musician with, brace yourself, Long Hair! Yea, this unfortunately isn’t even a stereotype anymore. The land of Bollywood already isn’t kind to us without receiving aids from the central government in way of Taxes on performances and ridiculous import charges on musical instruments. Come on! We’re making music with it! Not gold! *sigh
Western Culture: And this should be obvious. If you’ve considered all the above points, you’ll realize that I’m from something the media likes to call generation X, or Z, Or something.. We “inculcate” western culture and values in the innocent natives of this humble place. Culture like Valentine’s Day! And Proms! Speaking in English! Us with our western influences! How distasteful! We encourage the natives to dress immodestly and swing their barely clad bodies immorally to hypnotizing beats.

Now, there’s a certain section of people out there who would no doubt object by saying “If you don’t like what’s happening, do it yourself”. This argument has so many flaws, it only works to reinforce my stance on the whole “we’re letting a bunch of ill informed idiots do the voting, for issues they don’t even fully comprehend” idea.
Me contesting the elections is like me jousting with a toothpick against “Sir I-Have-a-huge-iron-lance”.
Apart from the fact that I have zero political pull, and not criminal associations (This is a bad thing for electoral contestants), I also don’t know the regional language (Marathi) we enough to appeal to the broader demographic. I can always be cast as the foreign ‘devil’ trying to convert the innocent minds of, er, haven’t you been paying attention all this while?
What's the saddest part of this whole sordid deal is that the intelligent or even literate percentage of the voting population is so negligible, that even the audience facebook reaches does not compete. I'm expected to fall in line as a drop in the ocean of people who don't make wise financial decisions, personal decision, heck they don't even know what to eat, wear, way or THINK beyond what the television tells them to, I'm expect to stand in line with them to propagate some nonsense of how my vote will make a change? When the system changes, affair are made more transparent or when they establish at least a basic standard test of IQ before allowing people to vote, call me up. I'll be the one first in line..