As my friend is in the other room, shredding bad guys to death on ‘Death Space’, I pulled up my laptop as a means to end my boredom. The restlessness you experience when there is nothing to do is pure agony. I unequivocally realise what I need is a girlfriend.
Now you can see how bored I am.
Well, I didn’t start this blog to publish my personal life and you can thank god that I am not going to change that.
Ignorance; we come across it every day. My English teacher used to harp away “Don’t betray your ignorance” all the time. I never stopped to figure out what she meant to say. See, now that’s ignorance.
Ignorance, I believe, is intertwined with ego and stupidity because for ignorance to propagate through society the propagators should be egoistic or plain stupid or both. We would think ignorance is rare among us and we are all epitomes of fine thought. Wrong! Ignorance is the lack of knowledge or understanding. Knowledge, we have, but understanding, that is a tad bit difficult to come by.
The elections are just shoring up. So far, we Indians have put up a poor show of just over 50% turnout. So the question arises, how ignorant and nonchalant are we on who should run our country? How many of us really understand the intricacies of our democracy? Let’s hope we don’t have to pay the price for that.
Then there are the environmentalists, they scream murder at SUVs from their puny electric cars, knowing little that the CO2 expelled to produce the batteries and the electricity to charge them are more than the SUV does in its lifetime. The dams we create for renewable energy are done so by inundating flood plains rich in flora and fauna, probably even forcing some species to extinction. Wind turbines kill more migratory birds than humans ever did directly. Hydrogen power slated to be the future for only emitting water vapour would seem a good idea, but with increased water content in the air, it could probably change climatic patterns and bring in disastrous storms.
There are millions of examples where ignorance or a blithe unconcern in understanding the system has led to peril.
So when was the last time you did something without ignorance?
