Thursday, May 9, 2013

Good morning

Mornings begin with tea and news on internet.Keeping abreast of the current events has been ingrained in our psyche and it has become all the more easy  now that technology has made news accessible anytime anywhere.

 I like to browse through different online newspapers and news channels, although I sometimes wonder why do we even listen to news or read them. What is it about crime and human brutality that fascinates us. Is it our way of patting on our backs and saying we are not as bad as those brutes out there , either killing their boyfriends or kidnapping people or just mass killings to prevent a revolt? Or do  unscrupulous politicians robbing the downtrodden, cheating sportsmen make us feel like heroes in our own twisted sense of morality?

Fascination with the dark side of human nature is prevalent in our society. It might be because, although we don't understand how someone can torture somebody, or kidnap and abuse for a decade, knowing that they are one of us, humans, makes you wonder what inexplicable cruelties we as a race are capable of. We all have that evil gene hidden and hopefully suppressed, yet I find it scary and often wondering what triggers such behavior? Although I am not too keen to admit it, I do believe some people are evil personified, and that is the only way to explain their behavior. Maybe it  gives us the opportunity to be  morally indignant, to be the superior human being. It is the only way to justify our obsession with gossip magazines, and how eager we are to judge and look down on the very people we admire and in some ways envy. 

I have to say that the depths of human behavior, the layers, our intricate and complex emotions have always fascinated me. The deeper you go, the more intriguing it gets. The mysteries inside our own minds are as vast and complicated as this universe we live in. Our conscious, subconscious, our dreams our nightmares all are shades of our personalities, although we might actively just embrace the conscious as being our reality.

So for now, I will keep on riding on moral superiority,wondering and abhorring the evils of the society, feeling  smug and confident in my own goodness. A good way to start the day indeed. Good morning!





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