Epilogue - South Asian basket cases..

epilogue
-noun.

1.
a concluding part added to a literary work, as a novel.
2.
a speech, usually in verse, delivered by one of the actors after the conclusion of a play.
3.
the person speaking this.

The definition of the word lies above.
I refer to the noun, as in definition 1 throughout this post. I am also doing definition 3.
And it is a reference to a "play" if you will, after its conclusion...

Its been over 72 hours since Benazir Bhutto was slain. Bullets, bombs or a car lever - it doesn't matter. A woman, an ex-PM, a person fighting to maintain her father's legacy in the country of her origin is dead.
The repurcussions of red-letter days, or historical events are always to be seen in perspective. It is important to not get swayed by tear-jerking montages, pithy platitudes, and fake tributes - by the like of Barkha Dutt and Karan Thapar on their respective channels. Heck in fact 24x7 can now be renamed, the Bhutto channel.
The woman was PM at one of the times India almost went to war with her country. Her legacy of going soft on the Taliban has cost both America and India dearly, but the biggest price has been paid by the Pakistanis themselves. If she is dead, she is dead for a reason - if you play with fire, you ought to get burnt sometime. Whether she deserved death for it is debatable, but the bastard love-child (Taliban) has turned judge, jury and executioner - so its not a decision for us to make anymore.
While we in India usher in 2008, with trips to shopping malls, talking of the sensex reaching 20k, and talk about India's nanotech policy, Pakistan, the rogue-basket-amputee limb of India is being eaten away by the very maggots that created her in the first place.
I have no remorse or sadness on the ex-PM's death. Hers has been a legacy of death in India, either directly or indirectly, and for that she has paid the ultimate price. It is Nawaz Sharif's turn up next, and possibly Musharraf's after that. Very well - this country is ripe for American intervention, and I'd be a banner holder for American troops on her soil. They are best suited to protect its nukes from the mullahs and fanatics, and they indeed should do that as soon as possible.
There is talk of her 19 year old son succeeding her. Probably we in India are not that sycophantic. And it apparently says so in her-will. It is her legacy to her people. To be led by an immature 19-year old. It is her legacy to the people to be led by her family, even if it means paying the ultimate price herself.. The family name must go on!

What ails this fragile heart?

I am by the sea-shore...
I beseech the calm ocean - ye of strong under-currents to swallow me. I yearn for an end to this life. I do not call it death. Death is silent. Death is in the passing of the earthly being. I crave not for the decimation of this earthly body.

What do you say of a man who wish he'er never born?

This is a day of achievements I am not very proud of.
I have accomplished all my life's goals.. (strange feelings leap from the chasm that would be my heart)
I feel as empty as I was when I'd set out to achieve them!
I've strained every nerve, every sinew of my now fatigued ageing body, in search for the highest levels of accomplishment.
Here I stand at the top, lone victor I truly am!
Yet I feel vanquished.

The dichotomy of my existence
The duality of my existence
The paradox of my existence

I cry
but the tears are dry
I weep
yet the sadness is locked within
My penance
My penance has no meaning
All around there is joy
But I am still so numb
Inside me a million stream of tears flow
But I am still so numb
I am dead
But I am still so numb

Chaos and World Order

Some, maybe you the reader, would like to think there is a lot of chaos in the world. Your observation may be based on the assumption that anarchy, lack of self-determined governance, access to the country's own resources, lack of free speech and demonstration, and absence of legal franchise leads to the conclusion that most of the free world is not quite free. And then there are those who believe we are better off than people were, say 100 years ago. It depends on which country you are from, and it is quite possible that any one of these observations might be true.
What has not changed, is my observation that while we may over certain periods be "better off" than we were at some other time, we as a race of people are just not well off altogether.
The reason, which I propose to highlight, as root cause of all our problems, is quite shocking and something which would make you shrug in disbelief.
A peep into your high school physics tells you that the most natural state for a particle with a lot of energy is to lose that additional energy and go down to a more balanced natural state. As with your simple electronics gadgets where a potential difference leads to a charge migration, it is but human nature to violently resist being in a high energy state. You can define this kind of energy, as potential energy - a form of energy you get in springs which are happy in their most natural, and relaxed state - however when wound, suppressed under external influence, it gets tighter and tighter, beyond which it snaps and goes back to its original state. If wound too tight, it could break or implode.
We need to make similar decisions about us as a race - we have far continued living in viciously violent socities - and the only reason we are that way is because we have been tightly wound - bound by laws, rules, regulations, emotions & religion. Human beings were successful in their evolution not because of structure but primarily due to the lack of it - when we have a problem to solve, we evolve - something like this is not out of place in today's socities, but our roles have become so straight-jacketed that it doesn't allow for radical thinking.
The best form of society, if given a chance, would be one where we are not bound by laws - death will initially takes its toll, but we would survive - knowing the survival of the species depends on our ability to work together - but for this we need to break down the artificial barriers of today's society. In other words, we need to go back to where we started from...