Category: Conversations

Rights and Wrongs

One of the many things that keep floating in my head and are then converted into scribbles on paper. Posted it in a Comment on Vasudha’s Blog the ther day.

Rights and Wrongs are majestic concepts. They are independent of time and space. They hold good for any age and any nation and any person. They are the compass needles and signposts which tell people of the right directions to take in every situation. They are infallible concepts. In other words, they are too good to be true. Too utopian, too romantic, to actually exist.

History

The end of an evening argument with a friend:

X: History repeats itself.
Y: Repetition is redundancy and redundancy is substandard. I’m wont to think that the story of man is anything but substandard, and that we’re capable of more than just going about in circles. Ergo, the adage about history repeating itself is a gross generalisation.