Monday, February 15, 2010

An Argumentative Idiot’s continuing conflict with himself and with the World

Humans are highly volatile in many ways. Most of them posses as much grey matter as is needed to negotiate their steps in a rather blood thirsty world. They have to be highly cautious and look around many times before they raise their first leg. All around them are entities which simply could be called as cruel entities. Humans know that they have to be as much careful so that they are not wiped out of the world. In this way most of humans have regulated and lived their lives in a rather topsy- turvy way. Humans very well know that the world often behaves in such a cruel way that they have to adopt means to reduce the cruelty imposed by the world. It is not that humans do not live a rather decent life on this Earth because they not only have adapted themselves for various kinds of situations confronting them. However they have to be careful.

The Argumentative Idiot have often failed, or misunderstood, the situation confronting him. He gets puzzled, baffled, scared and lost. In spite of such drawbacks the idiot has to, first, confront the world and second, make a place for him. Often the job seems almost beyond him; however, being a human, he has to adjust himself.

The Argumentative Idiot, when he was a child, saw the world in a many colored form. Some of these colors were pleasant to look at; some others just tolerable; and some others horrible. That made him argumentative in sense that he has to argue with himself, often lying in bed, to try to choose between these different colors. Soon he came to understand that some of these colors which initially seem to him to be pleasant to look at demanded certain adjustments in his world view, that is to say he has to adjust his attitude to look at these colors in a serene manner. Soon he realized that these pleasant colors often tended to change themselves into tolerable and even horrible colors. Such behaviour of the color led him to argue how he has to first of all in a sane condition and secondly to extract some happiness out of the world. What we mean by color is something which needs some clarification. By color we mean the way a painter looks at the world, looks at nature, looks at humans, looks at beasts and look at various kinds of obstacles. Hence what we mean by color is the way a human eye looks at the situation arising before his eyes. He has to avoid something, go near other things and tolerate still other things.

When the Argumentative Idiot started to use his brain to understand things he has, yet again, argue how to understand things. Moreover what things basically are and how they are to be understood and utilized if possible. Things, he started to know, where in millions. For example, a flower is a thing. Yet there are hundred types of flowers. Of course many of them are nice to look at, many of them pleasant to smell. Yet a large number of them unpleasant to look at and obnoxious to smell. Hence he has to choose between things. He has to choose what he initially understood, was a good thing or a bad thing. Again he came across the situation that some of the things were tolerable; for example a bull in a lane through which he is passing. He was not able to shoo away the bull, still he had to avoid it. Such situation has to be dealt with in a politically tolerable manner.

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