Modern Leaning

Hello Reader

Hope you are okay today.

Altruism, duty, family, country, humanity are the prisons of the soul when they are not its instruments.

-Sri Aurobindo

I was thinking about some new topics to discuss today.

let me tell you what was in my mind: the first one I wanted to write was about: cyber-dyne with an artificial intelligence theme the name is taken from James Cameron’s fictitious company which produces computer chips which are deployed into terminator androids which would replace humans, that's for later; I changed my mind and thought I should write about trends this time around.

What is a trend? It is nothing, but what people follow or the waves of appreciation is going towards a particular theme of music, art or sport, the latest trend of fashion and so on.

Is this world driven by trends, yes of course! We all live in a trending world.

So what are the latest trends that you follow?  First on the list would be your clothing? Supported by technology especially your cell phone, which you always want it to be at its edge and updated.

Who sets these trends? Celebrities? Of course yes they are the most successful and appealing in the marketing industry, we buy what they promote and automatically develop that brand preference and loyalty.

I agree that following trends is like the stock market sometimes there would be a buying trend which supersedes the selling trend and the rest of the time vice-versa.

Ok, that  was about the commercial trends let us talk about some other type of patterns, for example, your ideas of a healthy society, if you try to record it on a sheet of paper in a survey mode certain criteria’s you would come across points like what are the views of an individual to make it a better society? How can we think proactively to improve the systems working around us? how can you make our country corruption free?

Even though many of us may be apprehensive about the ideas which I discussed in the previous paragraph and say these are not trends but as an opinion and ideas which need great implementation, so be it, because my motive here is for you to get the idea of what I am trying to convey.

It is essential to discuss this because I see a very vague kind of living among us the gen y or the youth or known by several names, we are wasting too much time fan following celebrities fashion trends the immediate example that is striking me now is the IPL!

I agree that I don’t like the concept of sportspersons being sold to big business tycoons like horses! in the name of cricket, and now if you see cricket well it is no more the cricket the beautiful game I knew which involved skill and perseverance. It is just smashing the ball all around the ground like some artificial batting machine and also it is commercialised to the core I truly feel the spirit of the game is gone, some people say it is entertainment but I fail to agree because it more or less looks like a social media relief for social media addicts who want their selfies to be posted on the internet!

I may be a critic or one amongst hundred who does not like the idea of this level of commercialisation in any sport for that matter.

At least I appreciated when they came up with the idea of Indian football league, hockey league and Kabaddi league, as these sports do not have so much recognition in India, even though Kabaddi and hockey is an original game of India.

Why can't we think of methods to uplift our Olympic participant count?

The IPL example is just one example there many examples like these, where we waste too much of our productive time.

So my dear readers please try to follow better trends which would add value to yourself and also our country, try to analyse the political situation of the nation, think what can be your contribution to make the situation a better one, come out of the smartphone cubicle and walk to a library and start reading books and understand India as broad as possible.

let us not be the cult of ignorance!

Please remember all types of freedoms we are enjoying today, we have got it at the cost of sacrifices of millions of people, and they sacrificed thinking and hoping that India will have a better future, let us make their aspiration come true, let us make our modern leanings in the right direction.

Thanks for your time, hope you liked this blog.

Hey, this is 200th blog. I thank all my dear readers for all your support, comments and feedback.

Helios.

Newfangled Relationships

Hello reader

Hope you are happy today.

I wish my life had background music so I could understand what the hell is going on.

-Anonymous

So what is happiness according to you? Is it doing what you like, or following your passion says being part of a band, or following your favourite pop star or being part of your favourite sport can be considered happiness. Ok here is question number two: Is falling in love or being a close friend of someone a passion or an experience, should you take responsibility for it? I will try to put down my thoughts about this today.

The times are tense and very dry, people have lost meaning to words like compassion, empathy, care, sympathy and love. Every word which is linked to an emotion or a value is just taken at its face value, and nothing is considered solemn, and above all, there is this one thing which people look at money.

Do you think it can have an impact on a person’s life if you play with a persons' feelings or emotions?

Of course, before I even tell, you know the answer for this is, so sighting that it is a yes, why do people play games around others just to hurt them and make them feel as if they were fools to "believe" in them or “trust” them and finally end up in a hollow mind.

Even though belief and trust are synonymous I see it as comparative and superlative degrees, you first develop the belief in a person which will later become trust which is stronger than belief/faith.

I feel it is more of a psychological game when we think why such ordeals happen.

Think about this if you decide to manipulate someone for your gains and become that “close friend to him or her” or give that new trade name which is a boyfriend, girlfriend or a gig.” 

And once what you accomplish it is achieved sideline that person or start a gossip shows on him or her among your peers and destroy his entire morale is it fair?

I think the person at the receiving end would have had a very tough time digesting all this garbage if he or she is healthy in mind.

Unfortunately, who is very weak and sensitive, end their lives because of this, I don’t think the people who commit suicide are not thinking about their own lives and the people whom they care about before they take that extreme step.

 For all the people who are in weak mind, why do you care for someone who dumped you, be thankful to them because they made you understand that people can do this to you too! And you were not all “so special” to them after all? Do you think your birth just happened as part of a biological process? Of course, not all the cosmos is responsible for your delivery, so please don’t wash it away by just strangling yourself!

For the people who play, manipulate or cheat with their close buddies in the name of love, affection true friendship, bonding, my god! The list of these catchy words is endless! Don’t think you are victorious just because you were successful in what you think was a game plan.

Games are always meant to be both won and lost, next day it will be your turn to suffer and feel broken about it, so it is better you don’t try to invade in somebody’s mind who trusts you, at least then if someone ditched you there will be others who will stand by you and console.

I hope you liked this blog, please let me know your comments and thoughts on this passage.

Remember money lost can always be earned again, but once you lose a person’s trust or his compassion for you I am sure it won't be the same as it was the first time, I think the only exception here can be a mother.

Thanks for your time.

Helios.

Sequestration - The right to privacy

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Hope you are doing well.

I will ask you to respect my privacy, respect my decision and just respect my right to be myself.

-Eddie Compass

The last blog I wrote about our lost old culture and the marvellous intellect of our ancient people needs to be studied and understood in detail surely will write more blogs like those shortly. Coming back to modern times let us discuss a more recent and “in the media” subject which is data mining.

We all have heard about the above term in one or the other channels of social media, the internet the sources are almost many.

There are concerns about this term called data mining, the word was first quoted by CIA in the mid-60s where the cold war was at its peak with the Soviet Union. Data mining was carried out to know if the Russians possessed some secret advanced technology that would be a threat to the USA. Imagine they quoted the term even before the internet came into existence?

Well, that was one phase of data mining, but later after the cold war was over, the CIA continued their data mining activities not any foreign spies or intelligence officers but on its citizens.

 The first whistleblower who exposed that Government agencies data mine was Mr Edward Snowden who was exiled from the USA on the grounds of conflicts of interest and not abiding by the NDAs of his workplace. He is presently living in Russia.

Question: Are we all confident on the statements released by large institutions like NASA, FBI, CIA and KGB are right to the end or is this answer a little shaky?

The truth is that there is a significant PR (public relations) department in each of these institutions which are trained and told to what to disclose to the public and what not to, the ex-employees who worked there confirmed this.

I had to go out a little bit out of the topic of data mining because it is also part of discourse and secrecy which I tried to discuss in the previous paragraph.

Data mining can be defined as the examination of an extensive database to extract new information.

An example will help you understand, imagine you have the database of 1000 employees and you are the and your company deals in the big data business which is a method business analytics which is used by Google and Facebook to understand customer behaviour and manipulate the market and make their subscribers more profitable.= by introducing only the ads relating to the most sold phones for instance.

So everyone should be aware that we are almost data mined either through our phones or our computers including our location details.

Recently I saw video which was being circulated in WhatsApp, where a person spends a day with two android phones with one of them in which he had switched off his location and another in which he had switched on the location at the end of the day when he compared the results by loading it to a software, it reported very accurate results like location, the time and date when the person visited those places.

 The kicker is that the results were almost same on both the phones the on with the location off and the second one in which the location services were on.

To conclude, modernization and technology is no doubt convenient and has taken our communication to the next level, but don’t you feel it has taken control of our privacy from us?

Why should always be glued to social media applications and websites, why can't we get stuck to books? And try to get some real knowledge; I am sure we have a lot of secrets to unearth.

Thanks for your time.

Helios.