experts and their expertise

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less till he knows everthing about nothing.

Experts remove the holistic approach to any topic and view it as a control in an experiment rather than a situation which has to be dealt with..

its in the best interest of the expert to keep you in darkness...its a place that we've got to as a civilization when we need to be dogmatic to be heard and heralded as leaders/experts . The experts/leaders whose thoughts move to accommodate more opinions and views are not considered powerful or followable...in the words of the brilliant economist or should I say freakonomist Steven Levitt

"The typical expert...is prone to sound exceedingly sure of himself. An expert doesn’t so much argue the various sides of an issue.... That’s because an expert whose argument reeks of restraint or nuance often doesn’t get much attention. An expert must be bold if he hopes to alchemize his homespun theory into conventional wisdom."

And the above is what we want our experts to be....

In the end all I can say is...with the current expectation of experts that we have now...

Experts, we can't live with them we can't live without...oh wait a minute, we CAN live without them :)


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The Sweetest thing!!

a beautiful beautiful song....Sweetest Thing By Bono and the video is also kind of funny.
The word just are absolutely to the highest degree of superlativeness amazing.

Expresses the feelings of a romantic who is absolutely confident on everything else but just can't seem to understand and give his love all that she needs...In a valiant attempt he writes this song and the words are just beautiful...

"(My) Baby`s got blue skies up ahead
But in this I'm a rain cloud
You know she wants a dry kind of love"

(I'm almost exactly what she doesn't need right now)


"I know I got black eyes
But they burn so brightly for her
Guess it's a blind kind of love"

If only she could see how much she means to me...but its a blind kind of love


"Baby's got blue skies up ahead
But in this I'm a rain cloud
Ours is a stormy kind of love"

And though I'm not what she needs now and tho she cant see what she means to me we'll make it work and its our special kind of live and love:)

(After thought: a rather mushy one..but worth it)

The video

Revolutions for change!!

Revolution...Change...Radical...
There is almost a undeniable and irresistible character that these words have. They seem to possess me even before the thoughts are crystallized. There are just too many things that are wrong...Justice as blind as it is supposed to be does nothing but turn a blind eye and the anger and the discontent grows. There are just too many things to change and Revolution it seems is inevitable. On the verge of this impending revolution (even if its a revolution of ideas) I'm reminded of these words which should make people think before moving ahead....

"They don't talk about the glory of killing for the revolution. What's the glory in taking a man from his bed and gunning him down in front of his wife and his children? Where's the glory in that? Where's the glory in bombing a Remembrance Day parade of old age pensioners, their medals taken out and polished up for the day. Where's the glory in that? To leave them dying or crippled for life or dead under the rubble of the revolution.." as spoken by Bono during a live performance of Sunday Bloody Sunday
Words to remind us that passion and aggression must back revolutions that change without destruction...Destruction and a new beginning is something we have tried over and over again and it always fails. We need to adopt a policy of change. Its possible and it shall be done.

A Revolution for change...the word revolution inspires passion and a promise of a land free of the dogmas of the present. A revolutionary's role doesn't end with the end of the wrong and the unjust. The dawn of a new age with new ideas and mechanism for change is the culmination of a revolution otherwise like most if not all revolutions of the past we shall remain unsuccessful.

As adrenalizing as a revolution may seem the ultimate aim of the revolution should be to ensure no further need of a revolution..

Its just a matter of time...The intellectual revolution is inevitable and the will to change will bring it to effect..

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night and day

Going through some of the stuff that I had written and saved up for nostalgia sessions. Somethings hurt no matter how hard you try to forget...

Chanced upon a night one day
listened very carefully to what the silence would say
with devilish intent I saw that blinding light
My guardian angel, there she was, in my sight

Now shes gone, in forsaken thought
I have myself a question bought
Sins in heaven are to break
though in spirit my soul it aches

Knocking doors and ringing bells,
Walking away with my sins to hell,
I questioned HIM if prayers would say
what is it that made me pay???

The title

My peppermints with fruit...I didn't expect this one to go unnoticed but somehow it has. I somewhat believe that the truth need not be bitter and the correct path need not be the most difficult one.

Gandhiji was a great man, now whether you believe that or you don't you must agree that the title of his autobiography was pretty good...and it was indeed "My Experiments with Truth" This blog was, and in the future is supposed to contain what I perceive to be the truth, but the truth can be tricky and ambiguous.

and now I hope the title of my blog makes a little more sense, for the truth can be nothing more than "My peppermints with fruit"

Welcome to The Human Network..

Cisco Systems Inc.,

We're way more powerful together than we ever will be apart...

A badly drawn boy gets a taste of the human network...
This is just a beginning...the beginning...

Living excuses...

When you start seeing too many things around you that have contributed to your success or failure, when you know you've been repeating yourself for too long now, when all you can think of is trying not to think of the things that made you start thinking in the first place...When nothing is going the way it should even God is only an excuse...

There are reasons why you exist, there are excuses why you don't..

You stop existing when your reasoning is replaced by your excuses.
And the funny thing is reasoning is an excuse to be right...

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Out of....

Something I had penned down a long time ago..thought it still makes sense

Out of Control
Out of Bounds
Out of Luck
Out of Riches
Out of hope??.....not yet

out of money
out of chicks
out of friends
out of things
out of faith??...not yet

out of a family
out of a home
out of a community
out of better things
out of life??...not yet

out of sorrow
out of pain
out of jealousy
out of anger
out of misery??.. just not yet

if I'm
out of desire??
out of belief??
out of love??
out of
simply put me out...

It is!!!!.......isnt it? yup its time

Time...a very real concept and a concept which shapes almost* everything in the world that we know, and yet we know so little about time itself**

It seems to be an abstract and intangible thing inasmuch as we can't touch it or sense it in any physical form though we do feel its effects.

Imagine having a person know everything that you do, number of breaths you take and who sometimes follows you and sometimes already knows what you are about to do and does it for you (sometimes successfully and at other times not so much).

This someone is TIME.

Now imagine this person to be your enemy...A scary thought because there is no way that you can get back at him^^ but we somehow seem to live with it.
Now imagine this person as your well wisher....Think of the possibilities..

I am have a lot of thinking to do before I befriend time


* I say almost because we don't know what we know

** well isn't that ironical

^^and we all know the best thing about having an enemy doing wrong to you is REVENGE