"Civilization is a hopeless race to discover remedies for the evils it produces."
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Sure it is! Humans started out simple, one fine generation tried to make things simpler and then with every one thing they simplified, at least another(generally more, I'm just trying to be polite) they made complex. The world has been simplifying things for so long that we now have uncountable more complicated things than we would ever have had if the process of simplification had not seen its inception. So much so, that I don't know how to define simple any more! No wonder there is a "generation gap"(that is another problem created by us too -- or them.). Generation gap is basically an argument about 'who is the simpler one'.
Almost everyday my loquacious mother and laconic me get into a cat fight about how my Samsung Galaxy Ace is much easier to handle than her almost obsolete Nokia Supernova. You might guess the results of those quarrels. But thinking deeper, I did have to Google to get an idea of certain functions of my phone and my phone doesn't receive any business cards(I have to actually download an app to get phone nos. -- one of the basic functions of a phone!) and against that her phone just had the trouble of an invisible screen in daylight.
Digging even further down under, I make simple situations complex so that I understand them and can work out a solution to them except that simple problems should be easier to solve! I can conquer calculus without much effort but elementary arithmetic?Hell! I can consider myself a 'top student' on account of having answered the toughest parts of the question paper but the easiest ones always find a way to stubbornly sit on my head! And surprisingly(or not) I am not the lone ugly duckling. "Complicated" has trickled down to our genes and today complicated is simple and simple is complex.
I'd sure like to think about what life has come to today as:
"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
--Sigmund Freud.
-- Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Sure it is! Humans started out simple, one fine generation tried to make things simpler and then with every one thing they simplified, at least another(generally more, I'm just trying to be polite) they made complex. The world has been simplifying things for so long that we now have uncountable more complicated things than we would ever have had if the process of simplification had not seen its inception. So much so, that I don't know how to define simple any more! No wonder there is a "generation gap"(that is another problem created by us too -- or them.). Generation gap is basically an argument about 'who is the simpler one'.
Almost everyday my loquacious mother and laconic me get into a cat fight about how my Samsung Galaxy Ace is much easier to handle than her almost obsolete Nokia Supernova. You might guess the results of those quarrels. But thinking deeper, I did have to Google to get an idea of certain functions of my phone and my phone doesn't receive any business cards(I have to actually download an app to get phone nos. -- one of the basic functions of a phone!) and against that her phone just had the trouble of an invisible screen in daylight.
Digging even further down under, I make simple situations complex so that I understand them and can work out a solution to them except that simple problems should be easier to solve! I can conquer calculus without much effort but elementary arithmetic?Hell! I can consider myself a 'top student' on account of having answered the toughest parts of the question paper but the easiest ones always find a way to stubbornly sit on my head! And surprisingly(or not) I am not the lone ugly duckling. "Complicated" has trickled down to our genes and today complicated is simple and simple is complex.
I'd sure like to think about what life has come to today as:
"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
--Sigmund Freud.
