There are no divisions, goes a Sanskrit saying, except those that intelligence causes.
Per this perception, the dividing attribute is an embedded, inherent attribute of human intelligence.
There are advantages of having this 'dividing' intelligence but using it to make smart bombs, or how to put your girlfriend on your bank's payroll, or figuring out how to bribe a Sheikh so his country will be buy fighter jets to keep British blokes, or, for that matter U S guys, employed doesn't seem to be one of them.
Jobless Britons are a whole lot better than those remoting mayhem elsewhere by making deadly doohickeys in exchange of sausages, bacon and a plate of fish & chips.
Joblessness always brings out the agitating animal who can scare the establishments of the world. They would, otherwise be too busy acquiring unearned derivatives, doing insider-trading, engaging in money-laundering, kick-backs, carpet-bagging, feather-bedding, and taking cuts in 'deals' to help Africa, Asia and Latin America.
The World would be a much better place if there were a little less do-gooding happening. The less you have the less fearful you are. If you are not sure where your next meal is going to come from, you have - unless you are an idiot, too - less time for airy nonsense. The haves admit they suffer from a paranoid condition of insecurity; the have nots - and I should pass muster as a so-so have not - are perceived to be suffering Often, and out of a certain generous kindness, we have nots put on an act of suffering because that is what comforts the insecure haves - for a while at least.
I have been recognized as a good, but thank God, not famous - actor. I get to hone up my emoting skills by hiding my CV so head-hunters can't find it. R Buckminster Fuller, one of my 'offshore' inspirers to whom I owe a fair bit of my 'outsourced' wisdom, once introduced himself as "The most successful failure in the world".
A few years ago, I stumbled into the best kind of joblessness, the one that is voluntary. That is far from being idle because it brings out the quiet and the creative animal hidden in us, - not the frightened but the trusting sheep who has a divine Shepard.
Non-European cultures. blessed as they are to co-exist with a greater variety and flora and fauna, know that, from the large elephant to the tiny ant - all are provided for on this planet-sized spaceship. The Psalm-sheep is correct when it says "...and I shall want not".
It is, therefore, a somewhat unnecessary and ridiculous tragedy that Capitalism was able to cast the the modern man into the role of a 'wanting', insatiably consuming animal whose sense of wealth and security are so out of kilter that they now manifest themselves as 'Climate Change', disappearance of species, water-wars and needless strife and adversariality all around.
If the democratic U S population elects yet another disaster as their next U S president, they might find that he/she could sell both his/her mother and his/her soul for petroleum. In a different context, R Buckminster Fuller did observe - in the Mistake Mystique chapter to his book Intuition - that we humans have been given inventive memories that incline us to self-deception.
For the modern, i.e., 'educated', volunteering to NOT work for money requires, as a first major step, de-educating oneself of the nonsense that the well-meaning world massaged into our heads; this step is comparable to delousing; the other option is to go bald, literally as well as figuratively.
Not much sticks to a bald surface for long; and what does, doesn't stay stuck for long because it shrivels and crinkles from the external heat of the sun and the internal heat of a mind that has voluntarily shed the fiction of security and other such recent man-made fantasies, printed on processed bamboo, wood and plastic e.g. money, that can induce and hallucinate you with. When I hear people say "This is 'real money'" I translate it to mean that it is a 'real fantasy' just like there are 'true facts'.
All of the above is a preface to the following infliction that I call the Links Shower. When you are not used by the world for its various purposes of war and peace, you go fishing and harvest ideas. When everything is taken away from them, my friend Anil Gupta says, the poor are left with nothing but their ideas. The repo-men cannot get at your ideas and the Grunch lawyers haven't figured out how the governments could tax them. If anyone is interested in this sort of thinkng there's the transcript of a video aptly titled Patently Obvious.
As a D.A.D. Asian, the idea of the Links shower grew out of my need to keep track of where the information of what was going on, was. If you have a slow dial-up Net connection, or, one that is broadband in name only, hitting any link on a search engine makes you feel like a cat on a hot tin roof. You have no idea how long the webside will take to open, or when it does, whether your 128 RAM enabed pre-Cambrian PC - which can't even let G-Mail load itself up without aching its mother(board) - will be able to save and store the information.
Then, one day, I remembered that 'one small step for a man' thing The first thing Neil Armstrong did on the moon was not salute the U S flag Otto Preminger's team had planted there with some wire inserted on its top edge so that U S senators and their patriotic ilk down here could see and feel patriotic to keep the NASA funding going. What Neil sesnibly did was grab a contingency sample of lunar pebbles and rocks, in case they had to get out in a hurry.
For me, that memory was a Eurika moment. I'd copy the links and paste it on a ready-made html that email services providers provide you - and then send the email to myself; Cc-ing it to friends who are tied up to jobs that don't allow them much time to surf the Net was no sweat. They can then take a look at the links list, extract and store those that they they think they might need to look at, or, to use later, or, time permitting, open those really interesting to them.
From next week, they will be spared this weekly email infliction because all they need to do is save Link Shower and click on it periodically to check what I have posted on the blog.
I even had a name 'Global CogniMaps' for this links-shower but have been dissuaded from using it initially without the 'aka' on the grounds that it was 'far out'. I kind of like it though;
The 'Maps' is CogniMaps is 'Spam' spelled backwards and 'Cogni' is for 'cognition'. Global CogniMaps stands for "What the world has been thinking/talking/worrying about". If enough visitors vote for it I'll drop the aka links shower.
To reflect that the world is thinking in several directions that cannot be linearly sequenced, the Links Shower is like a flea market, where you find someone selling a crumpled faded fedora next to someone offering a rheumy parrot.
This time, between the G-8 summit and Paris Hilton's ongoing notoriety, there's a fair bit of technology, science, health art, culture, business, politics and downloadable miscellany.
There are more links from and about India because that is where I am currently based You're welcome to eavesdrop on this past week's Links shower which actually is one third of an opinion of one man on what the world has been up to these last seven days. The other two-thirds of my opinion, having to do with an IOU, can be found in the Nishta's Vision Statement
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Until Wed 
Listen to Discovery for the firstt of a new series on everyday inventions that we take for granted. This week its the match and the matchbox
Listen to Discovery for the firstt of a new series on everyday inventions that we take for granted. This week its the match and the matchbox Patent sought on 'synthetic life'
Nanogeneration - 21st Century's energy
Iceman 'bled to death on glacier'
Green light for flash fantastic
Nanogeneration - 21st Century's energy
Iceman 'bled to death on glacier'
Green light for flash fantastic
| Until Sat Listen to Science in Action which takes up Satellite imagey show logging change Cen. Africa L1-L2-L3 Atop the East African Rift, S W Tanzania is 'quake prone L1 UK engineers have a simple way to kae quake-proof walls, |
Cannabis hospital admission upUntil Mon Listen to Health Check for John Hopkins students devised New Rotavirus vaccine Mexican Children living with HIV, Higher rates of cervical abnormalities in girls with HIV
Parental drug testing of Italian children for drugs use and how Kick-boxing can cause brain damage
Until Thurs Listen to One Planet where Mark Whitaker reports from Nepal on one of the developing world's greatest killers – woodsmoke.
Listen to One Planet where Mark Whitaker reports from Nepal on one of the developing world's greatest killers – woodsmoke.  Art/Litrature/Culture |
The pursuit of luxury How To Design A Broom - BR
Eschewing meat North Indians are gorging on fish
Ensureing toddlers get the right kind of food
Eschewing meat North Indians are gorging on fish
Ensureing toddlers get the right kind of food
The Oxford India Nehru BR Modesty Blaise BR Bibliofile
Sightings: Rakhi Sawant Dharmendra Shilpa Shetty
Sightings: Rakhi Sawant Dharmendra Shilpa Shetty
Until Tues Listen to The Word for interviews with
Listen to The Word for interviews withDanish author Morten Ramsland, the phenomenon of Slum Scribes in India and why London Underground has decided to feature six works by African poets
Until Tues Listen to Culture Shock's Dubai special to learn about The Mall of the Emirates get an opinion from Greek born architect George Katodrytis, hear about migraant workers, The "foot soldiers" for the advance of globalization, how it feels to be a minority by native Wael Al Sayegh, and why Saeed Al Muntafiq democracy is not a priority for business-driven governance in Dubai.
Listen to Culture Shock's Dubai special to learn about The Mall of the Emirates get an opinion from Greek born architect George Katodrytis, hear about migraant workers, The "foot soldiers" for the advance of globalization, how it feels to be a minority by native Wael Al Sayegh, and why Saeed Al Muntafiq democracy is not a priority for business-driven governance in Dubai.Until Wed Listen to On Screen in which the pretty presenter Nichola Christie talks to Lantana director Ray Lawrence about his movie, 'Jindabyne', author Jason Woods about his new book 100 Road Movies; Nannie Haley, and Bill Haley the wife and son of the late Alex Haley describe on the 30th anniversary, the seminal status of "Roots" in TV history
Listen to On Screen in which the pretty presenter Nichola Christie talks to Lantana director Ray Lawrence about his movie, 'Jindabyne', author Jason Woods about his new book 100 Road Movies; Nannie Haley, and Bill Haley the wife and son of the late Alex Haley describe on the 30th anniversary, the seminal status of "Roots" in TV historyUntil Thurs Listen to The Beat man Jon Stewart meet the Balkan Beat Box, discuss Michael Jackson's control over Eminem's back catalogue through a huge music publishing deal, the line-up for the 2007 Glastonbury Festival, asks whether Music is getting louder and listen to a track from Mauritian singer Daby Toure's new album 'Stereo Spirit'
Listen to The Beat man Jon Stewart meet the Balkan Beat Box, discuss Michael Jackson's control over Eminem's back catalogue through a huge music publishing deal, the line-up for the 2007 Glastonbury Festival, asks whether Music is getting louder and listen to a track from Mauritian singer Daby Toure's new album 'Stereo Spirit'For the nexxt 2 weeks Jah explores the connections between music and spirituality by introducing musicians from the world over for whom music is a route to God.
BBC's Lyse Doucet asks the Brazlian author the secret of his parable-like stories that address Life's big questions
Until Sun Listen to Close Up where Brad Lochore talks about his fascination for the color blue
India links
Listen to Close Up where Brad Lochore talks about his fascination for the color blue India links The World Politics/Business UK family reigned tropical islands for 150 years
Chinese wife fights for own money
Catholic group tackles HIV/Aids and conflict
Nato wary on joint missile shield
Geneva protocols helped define war crimes
Catholic group tackles HIV/Aids and conflict
Nato wary on joint missile shield
Geneva protocols helped define war crimes
Napoleon's sword goes under the hammer
Until Tues Listen to Global Business in which David Skilling of the economic think tank in Auckland, the New Zealand Institute and former British Labour MP and native New Zealander, Bryan Gould explain how a small island nation of only 4 million people can grow its markets to become a global player.
Listen to Global Business in which David Skilling of the economic think tank in Auckland, the New Zealand Institute and former British Labour MP and native New Zealander, Bryan Gould explain how a small island nation of only 4 million people can grow its markets to become a global player. Miscellenks christianity.guide[AT]about[DOT]com Mary Fairchild
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