Choices and hypothesis

I am not sure about my fellow citizens, but I believe to have been raised with flawed morals and values. Let me reflect on my growing up memories, which I have realized to have an above average level of recall. My intentions is to hope that my reader, even if bad at acknowledgement or articulation herself/himself, can better understand the shaping of one's ethics/values. Growing up, "justice" played an important role in my everyday life. It may be fights with fellow kids, understanding some mythological stories, making sense of complex Bollywood stories, or a situation arising in kindergarten. Once "justice" is given, I found it unquestionable, accepting it to be the fairest of all.  There were some interesting aspects also, based from the emotional memories of my nursery times (It was in 1994-95, Jamshedpur. We stayed there for 10 months and I have some visual clear memories of few incidents. My younger brother was yet to make his entry, so I had less ...

Prelude I spend a lot of time thinking. I don’t brag or bore people around me, but that’s how I function. Some people want to hold to a 9 to 5 job to feel alive, I prefer thinking. Or rather bombarding myself with boundary questions and exploring answers. I prefer no company and often find myself sufficient to dialogue with. It’s more efficient, got no diplomacy to maintain and much of my time is saved from explaining the basic rules and ethics every time. But then one always faces some version of thinker’s block.   To deal with it, I try to ping a random friend or engage in some public commenting on Facebook. Apart from keeping me grounded, it provides me some very vital components to help me come up with tiny structures that help me write articles, as this one. Recently I finished reading a book by Philip Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep? It had been on my bucket list since few years but like many of my books I had deliberately postponed it. It is one of the ...

In a span of one hour I happen to make myself witness an incident (this is how I try to live by each day in my own way :) ). Micro-incident 1: I come across  this article , where Katie Couric, the journalist who had been a television host at all 3 big three television networks (ABC, CBS and NBC) and was recently the Global News Anchor at Yahoo had shared some of her experience at a tech giant. Micro-incident 2: One of my close friends shares this  video  on his Facebook wall. Please watch that video since the rest of my article centers around it. And then you may agree or disagree with my summarization here: It is about Bernie Sanders talking about the flaw in the principle which gives US President the supreme command over the military forces, which he proposes to be in hands of Congress. At the beginning he cites the examples of  Yemen war crisis and then at the end emphasizes on the triviality of this particular case, and its the principle on which US goes t...