Howto bring about an awareness in a Dumb Ass Citizen!
This post has been in my mind since a friend of mine spoke about few embarassing situations in hostels and mess when she tried to convey few general, common sensical awareness things, which people are finding too difficult to pay heed to. Had been delayed long enough! Now, here we go, with a new and entirely bizzare solution to the problem!
Really! I'm pissed of that people barely sense their environment which is in a real bad condition! And my temper goes real bad when I see those people NOT switching off their electrical appliances when not in use! Henceforth, tired of repeating things to be observed by all, I’m declaring a cold war against all those dumb asses who do not do what is considered something commonsensical. This war, which when declared by an individual puts him/her into an isolated state in which he/she is seen as a lone struggling idiot, whose contribution doesn’t change the world. But this open war is, as it says, open for subscriptions from anyone who is daring enough to do any of the following things…
- If the room/location is lit up on being locked/not used, switch the damn thing down or pluck the fuse off! You should never, never mind those fellas barking back or yelling at you, and most important thing is, don’t answer those maniacs when they resort to such stupid things! They deserve not a word of reply!
- If you see some idiot had the taps on, with water gushing down unnecessarily, bother not to turn it off and bother not to answer him/her back, if the same yells at you for doing that.
- If you find there are dumb asses in your friends, that should not stop you from being one in the war, on my side!
And this is for those dumb asses I was referring to: You don’t join this war and do these things and still complain about power cuts, Y.O.U are one big dumb, sucking ass! Fuck off!!
And guys with me.. Let’s hook up to these two things first and see the result. I’ll get back to tidbits whenever I find a relevant update. Dumb asses… bahuparak!!
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Common sense is the most
Common sense is the most uncommon thing in the world.
A friend of mine reminds me:
Bura Jo Dekhan Main Chala, Bura Naa Milya Koye Jo Munn Khoja Apnaa, To Mujhse Bura Naa Koye!
Don't be surprised if you'd have to war with yourself!
I hope someone translates it
I hope someone translates it for me :)
hahahaha ... "embarassing
hahahaha ... "embarassing situations in hostels and mess when she tried to convey few general, common sensical awareness things, which people are finding too difficult to pay heed to"
That is because they know that and they don't need some shivir/session/lecture/blah about it.
Its just that they might have missed/forgot this tiny little thing in their never ending list of things and tasks to do.
As the tasks become bigger this tiny little things tends to perish.Theory of relativity u see.
bloody blah wars .... try to do something which helps ...
dont let ur frustration initiate a frustoo-chain-reaction.
if you do any of those things in ur list to me, i'd may be do the same thing to you. Ofcourse with a small change.
The first one wud be done, when you are in ur room and may be even lock u up.
war ata war ... talk some sense ... Guess whoz the dumb ass citizen ...
i can understand your anger ... but mind you, everybody gets angry ...
hey hey.. mind your words you
hey hey.. mind your words you crazy person! I termed them embarrassing not without a reason! When you ask people to do such plain and simple things, and you hear a bull shit answer/retort from a so called "educated" section, then this is how my answer would be!
Yeah, again you can well lock me up in the room and say it equal.. what a bloody shit, again! Come on??? What the hell was that?? Do you mean I wanted all that saved power for me and my descendants???
"i can understand your anger" - thanks! then please help me with the situation instead of barking back some bullshit!
"then please help me with the
"then please help me with the situation instead of barking back some bullshit!"
My point, precisely.
try to come up with something that works. i just presented you with a perspective.
Cut this "open war" crap and get real. Try to think on what can be done.
preaching/lecturing stuff wont help.
your "open war" :D ... definitely ---- help. (fill in the blanks)
whatever you want to do, just keep one thing in mind ... People are not totally senseless ... its just that they are a bit frustrated... try to change your approach instead of getting frustrated :D.
*your "open war" :D ...
*your "open war" :D ... definitely ---- help*
It has! I have seen fellows doing stuff that they din't before, and I'm happy!
I have already done enough campaigning, I'm sick of it, as you might have understood.
But yes, there should be some long term solution which ends this hassles, which unfortunately hasn't popped up. When it does, all those like me can keep their mouths shut :)
Sorry if I have been little rude, kaani tappaledu..
what ?? that "open war"
what ?? that "open war" worked ?? are u sure its the "open war" thing ?? ... ee lite ra bhai ... This world doesn't run on logic ... i rest my case ...
What the Doha (couplet)
What the Doha (couplet) roughly means is:
"When I went off, trying to find evil, I did not find any. At last, I looked within, and I found that there was nothing, or noone, more evil than myself."
In my opinion, my friend, the first thing to do is to set examples from your personal life. Something I've been striving to come anywhere close to.
All the best with your campaign.
As Pranav rightly said and
As Pranav rightly said and Aniket rightly translated, I see it is more of lack of sensitivity of a human being towards himself which is causing the problem.
When resource consumption itself becomes source of Happiness for a human being then it is bound to get depleted. There is bound to be lack of availability of resources for everybody. There is bound to be a feeling of deprivation in everybody. There is bound to be exploitation since when I feel deprived then I automatically exploit, it leads to corruption, opposition, struggle, wars, world wars and this is chain and unfortunately we all are into it.
Problems which we see at the level of Nature, Society, Family and even at the level of an individual all boil down to the understanding of a human being i.e. ourselves. Starting has to be Right Understanding within ourselves about ourselves.
I could not correlate this to
I could not correlate this to the situation. Could you kindly fit this text into context? :)
Thanks for being frank and
Thanks for being frank and asking that :)
What I meant to say that, as you rightly pointed out that sensitivity need to be increased in order to bring a change. In addition to it I wanted to say sensitivity of a human being need to be increased in all the dimensions of one's living,
1. Himself (what he really wants and how can he achieve that).
2. Sensitivity towards the relationships with others.
3. Sensitivity towards how a society should be or what kind of society one wants. It includes concentration on following points
-- Right Education
-- Justice in human relationships and protection of nature.
-- Production and distribution while maintaining cyclic form in nature.
4. Sensitivity towards nature. What is the kind of balance in nature and what production and distribution modes we can apply in order to serve our purpose while maintaining balance in nature.
Generally we feel that a human being understands right but is unwilling to change. What I want to say is, when a human being understands right then he automatically does right. If he is not able to do right then there is lack in understanding. If that understanding is ensured then he will automatically do right.
He human being by birth has this expectation of Happiness, fulfillment in relationships and willingness to do and work right. But due to lack of right education/sensitivity/understanding he is not able to ensure the capability to do right and work right and hence is the problem.
If we can ensure the right kind of education then things can change a lot.
Currently the thing which is being given on the name of education is the skills to earn more and more money and become successful, so everybody is some race in which nobody knows where one really wants to go. It is just teaching how to earn a living but not how to live. It is making careers and NOT responsible human beings.
We need an education system which can develop such kind of sensitivity right from the school level.
There is a lot which can be added to it. I think it is sufficient for now. Let me know in case it still doesn't fit into the context.
It sure does. Thanks for
It sure does. Thanks for taking time in putting this up.
But, Sir, with all due respect to you and all the people behind Jeevan Vidhya Shivirs, do you think, with the kind of image JV has in the general student body, could build a sustainable platform which could teach and educate people on these grounds?
If you say, "yes, it is doing so", I would immediately consider it as a "no". Because with in IIIT Hyderabad, the ratio of people who are pro-jv-shivirs to people who are anti is quite low, indicating it dint really take off as it should have. What do you think is the problem? The way the instructor(?) conveys the things? Or is it the typical blah/preaching/teaching mode of conducting it, as our "A Crazy Person" puts it?
My personal opinion - Instead of conducting those shivirs in those four walled, closed rooms, let them happen in an interactive mode. I don't have a clear cut idea of how could this be interactive. But if it is, then I guess there could be more active participation from Students.
Thanks for providing a
Thanks for providing a constructive feedback.
At least you would agree with the need for increase in our sensitivity towards those things which I pointed out in my last comment, in ourselves or in fact in every human being and also the need for change in the education system.
If you agree with this then whether it is done in the JV way or some other way remains a different issue altogether.
In the end I would just say that if the problem is identified correctly then the means to resolve that may always change for better as you yourself suggested rightly.
First of all, are you the
First of all, are you the only person on this earth responsible for this mighty environment. Some "educated fellow" taught us with some funny statistics that our environment is in bad shape, and you expect all of us to believe this.
How many things are we bringing from mars or venus on this earth to destroy the balance? whatever people call "pollution" is just modification of earthly matters. Nothing is alien to earth. Everything belongs to her. Nothing is coming from outside. What we call pollution is just our selfish desire to survive and a selfish desire does not give you liberty to preach anything. The earth has enough resources to take care of itself, if we are bothered about it, we are fools, we can not do anything against the will of nature. If we still think that we are spoiling the nature or environment, we are just overconfident. We have this wrong notion that we can interfere in the cycle of nature. We can not. We can not interfere. We are too small to do anything against the will of nature. So my suggestion is that let the life be as it is and forget about the environment. Whatever we are doing ...its the will of nature, if at all we consider ourselves as part of nature. But still if you want to think that we are spoiling nature, then think once more, you are not out of nature. You can not do anything that nature does not want.
Dear Amitash, Your point is
Dear Amitash,
Your point is very very very general - it's like saying we are humans, a sub system of mother nature.
I'm too specific on a particular issue, a very ground to earth one - Resources that we are generating for our own use. Which means if we use them or exploit them without proper sense of use, then we have to *pay* for it, both physically and morally! If you are still willing to continue your argument on this *particular* point, I'm happy to welcome you.
Last point, but important - Where did you read that I'm the ONLY person fighting for this? Can you spot some reference which says that??
I know I am commenting on a
I know I am commenting on a dead post, but I just read it. I agree with devnash - People change only if they see a relation between their actions and consequences (understanding). If u can provide those dumb asses with right kind of understanding, it is well and good. But losing your temper does not yield any good.
Yeah, I should tell you that
Yeah, I should tell you that I can't agree more :)
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