Saturday, January 06, 2007

Belief in Idealism

1. I love a film showing the extremum of idealism and nobility, for it shows the fundamental nature of the human mind to be able to imagine and soar to the heights of idealism and strive for it. It makes a statement that...this is how I want the world to be... It makes you feel good that not only in thought, but in action, some people like this do exist. It tells you what to strive for in your heart, in people and in a society...

2. I hate seeing a film showing the extremum of idealism and nobility, since the world is not made this way, it is ironic to show such a world, it is making mockery of all those suffering with the basic problems of life... It is sad, it is like making fun of the human race, it is sad since we know the world is not like this and there is a long way to go to construct such a world by 'purushaarth'... One wants this dream to live in eyes of each human being, each one in the creation, and till the dream lives and fulfil in and every each eye, it is incomplete, painful and calls for a need to repair.

-Varun
7-Jan-2007

PS: I watched Vivah yesterday. I thank Barjatiyas for celebrating goodness, simplicity and Indianness. They have come a long way from Dosti to Vivah. We need Vivah, but we also need Dosti... We need to know what to strive for, but we need to also know how it is ... Please give us Dosti again...

2 comments:

Naveen Mandava said...

Doubt everything or believe everything: these are two equally
convenient strategies. With either we dispense with the need for reflection. :-)

- Henri Poincare

Varun said...

thanks for the comment. :)

I 'believe' in using the tool of analysis and rationality till the very end, till it becomes useless due to the inherent incompleteness of logic. Then need to succumb to doubts or beliefs, or be satisfied with unlabeled data.

But in my experience, logic takes you far...and mostly till the end for all emperical purposes.