For thousands of years, intellectuals, leaders and philosophers have tried to change the world and the ways of the people. But the irony is, people who started following them attracted by their ideologies, later started worshipping them. This is how an ideology slowly metamorphoses into religion, which ultimately defeats its very purpose. And with the new-found rituals, the parent ideology and the person who was its advocate slowly evaporate, leaving behind the residual meaningless or symbolic rituals and practices and persons.
Guess I am out of touch with everything right now, so no blog entry for many days. From many days, a question is bothering me. I haven't found a satisfactory answer yet. So I'll write it down here. Maybe anybody who reads this may know the answer. "Just because we are journalists, writers, opinion creators and thinkers, do we have the right to judge others? Either personally or professionally?" I think we don't have the right to judge a person, even if we are right. But as writers, we would have to judge others whether we like it or not. And it's very difficult forcing people to think, but that's what we are doing or pretending to be doing right? Another question: "How come life is so simple if you just let it live by itself without bothering much and so complicated if you try to manipulate it or even understand it?" Blessed are the ignorant. We who can understand everything, try not to let anything go by without understanding and thus miss the b
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