29.11.04
The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind...
How many times can a man turn his head
and pretend that he just doesn't see?
— Bob Dylan.
and pretend that he just doesn't see?
— Bob Dylan.
10.11.04
arindam's pearl
in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king...what happens to the two-eyed man???
4.11.04
Short Leash Syndrome
the way people are losing their tempers with each other here, either everybody has only now started showing their true colours, or this place is getting to them...i suspect its the latter...
all i hear all day long is people snapping at each other; moa included. like the stanford prison experiments, i suppose the natural reaction of people in situations of complete control and subjugation of free will, is to turn on each other. i really feel like going and telling the faculty that this is hardly the way to foster bonding. i don't know about the others, but for me, the attempt to convert me from a thinking individual to just one in an unthinking herd makes me want to scream. i guess it is especially torturous for me because its been a good 10 years that i was last told what to do, when to do, how much to do and with whom to do it with. school was the last place i was under some sort of regimentation. i consciously chose to go to college in a creative campus, where the emphasis was on self-development, which does a far better job of inculcating a sense of respopnsibility. the philosophy there was "here are all these world-class facilities, here is faculty that boasts of some of the best names in the field in the country (and some in the world), here are courses designed to excite you, enthuse you and teach you amazing skills...you want to take advantage of them, please do, that's what we are here for. if you don't, fine..your loss." after that this place really really sucks. i mean forcing people to watch movies and folk programmes is really taking things a little too far.
They teach us Theory X (people are essentially work-shirkers and unless whipped, won't move a single lazy, good-for-nothing muscle) and Theory Y (people derive meaning from their work, which gives them a sense of fulfillment and achievement, are self-motivated and therefore need not be forced to do anything) here...they ask us to follow Theory Y, but themselves follow Theory X to the hilt. Talk about hypocrisy!
and i'm sorry, but the bullshit explanation that you must learn to live and work with whoever you are assigned, because that's what you will face later in the services, doesn't cut any ice with me....enough ranting for a day....
all i hear all day long is people snapping at each other; moa included. like the stanford prison experiments, i suppose the natural reaction of people in situations of complete control and subjugation of free will, is to turn on each other. i really feel like going and telling the faculty that this is hardly the way to foster bonding. i don't know about the others, but for me, the attempt to convert me from a thinking individual to just one in an unthinking herd makes me want to scream. i guess it is especially torturous for me because its been a good 10 years that i was last told what to do, when to do, how much to do and with whom to do it with. school was the last place i was under some sort of regimentation. i consciously chose to go to college in a creative campus, where the emphasis was on self-development, which does a far better job of inculcating a sense of respopnsibility. the philosophy there was "here are all these world-class facilities, here is faculty that boasts of some of the best names in the field in the country (and some in the world), here are courses designed to excite you, enthuse you and teach you amazing skills...you want to take advantage of them, please do, that's what we are here for. if you don't, fine..your loss." after that this place really really sucks. i mean forcing people to watch movies and folk programmes is really taking things a little too far.
They teach us Theory X (people are essentially work-shirkers and unless whipped, won't move a single lazy, good-for-nothing muscle) and Theory Y (people derive meaning from their work, which gives them a sense of fulfillment and achievement, are self-motivated and therefore need not be forced to do anything) here...they ask us to follow Theory Y, but themselves follow Theory X to the hilt. Talk about hypocrisy!
and i'm sorry, but the bullshit explanation that you must learn to live and work with whoever you are assigned, because that's what you will face later in the services, doesn't cut any ice with me....enough ranting for a day....
3.11.04
jha speak
"the best governance is no governance. we need controls to introduce insecurities..."
— prakash jha.
brilliant!
— prakash jha.
brilliant!
