Life seems increasingly unfathomable to me of late, increasingly tumultuous. You cannot make sense of anything in the absence of silence. Yet, silence seems more and more like the luxury I can never afford again. My grip on reality is bound to become increasingly uncertain, I know. But then, has it ever been anything but uncertain? Through silence and tumult, it seems, in time, life is simply bound to lose all meaning, all significance. That is why I will be able to let go of it, one day. Will it be near?
Month: July 2004
The Cannibalized Heretic!
In the back of my mind (or is it my consciousness?), there lingers a burning certainty instructing me that everything I am doing today, that everything I have ever done all through my life, is nothing more than a continuing loss of myself to the world. The world is a cannibal and I its willing prey. How can I fight against something that comes from within and without and from yesterday and the morrow, and is present in every tremor and every minute of my night and day?
Fear & Inaction
What is it that could make people mad enough to act? What is it that could motivate them into action? I mean, there are regimes out there that have persecuted, starved, and humiliated their peoples using all hideous tactics conceivable to the human mind, and yet, their victims remained inactive, inactive on account of their fear, of their sense of and desire for self-preservation. What does that mean? Is the threat of genocide the only way to get people to break through the barrier of fear?
Where are we now? A few observations on Tharwa’s progress
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