I seem to have this uncanny knack of suddenly remembering the joys of blogging when I see someone else's nicely written blog. All of a sudden it dawns to me that I love to write and always am brimming for an outlet for all of my ideas. Funny enough, life has a funny way of making other stupid things seems horribly more important.
Looking back the blog-less times I had for more than half a year now, I realise that I have been actually trying to de-politicise my life! I tried to toe in the line of "I do not wanna care and I just wanna have fun!!". Sure enough, life has a funny way of showing you what you truly love. Ever since school, I've been a largely political animal. Sharing a keen interest in all things political. I ended up being picked up for a debate just because I decided to ask some hard hitting questions at a measly school debate competition. Of a lot of things that has happened during this peroid of blog inactivity, I have found myself drawn in and again to the political world that so surrounds us! What I found disturbing was the fact that suddenly, it was a whole bunch of stupid ideas floating around that seemed to be getting a lot of attention!
Sadly our world is an imperfect. No surprise there since my vision of perfection is someone else's vision of chaos! But by and large, most people want to have a relaxed life. They don't want to be drawn into the complexities of the whole political drama and just want a position where they can simple chose between a yes and a no. To know the facts needed to answer that yes or no question, they look towards some "intellectuals". Unfortunately for us, many of the so-called intellectuals are not so different from the lazy us. They go ahead and do what I did for my geography project... Google for information... Though not a bad tool, (since I did get good marks for my geography project :D )it does sometimes give you an imperfect picture. Another bunch of intellectuals (the scary ones) are the guys who have the nasty habit of distorting truth and painting a very different picture to what really is out there to suit their needs.
It is these people, who have infected my poor lazy soul. So much infact, that it rose from its comfortable slumber and decided to take the path that it swore not to. The path of having a political opinion based on facts.
Debating always was a joy for me. It resembles a nice little chess game, where we outwit the opponent. Unlike chess however, this is not a game of set pieces. Here, your kill is made on the basis of ground crushing facts and honest questions that have the lethality of an atomic bomb. Nothing truly stands against it in a fair world. However, ours is not a fair world. The atomic weapon can many-a-times be neutralized with muck! Muck seems to have this wonderful, short-circuiting property of misdirecting you in such a way that instead of launching an attack tho break the back of your opponent, you are stuck dodging and defending your personal honour.
The best example for me, has been Mr. Shashi Tharoor. Unfortunately, for him, he always finds himself in the middle of all sorts of controversies, that quite honestly, are cooked up in the strangest pots and the have ingredients coming from the rear ends of indigested cows!
The one thing that eludes me, is how do we dodge muck and launch that atomic weapon? I might not know it for now, but I am going to find out for myself in the best place that a modern, thoughtful man can find.... er... internet forums... :D
Before you criticize me for being lazy, let me warn you. Though I might be in my warm and cozy room typing away, internet boards can be the toughest place to convince someone. People here, are excellent at misquoting and lifting all sorts of "proofs" out of context. Winning in these debates, takes more than a single man's effort. Such is the data and muck presented!
So wish me luck! I intend to get down and dirty! To be able to look at both sides of the fence, and deducing the truth by myself...
A leaving quote for those interested in debates. A very very useful one in case you have a horrible one sided topic and you have no choice but defend your case..
"If you cant dazzle them with your brilliance, baffle them by your bullshit!"
As always, please excuse me for the horrible grammar and the spelling.. :D
