incoherent ramblings: on being hatke, distrust and the big bad world!!

Peace like Mongoose:

In cobra country a mongoose was born one day who didn't want to fight cobras or anything else. The word spread from mongoose to mongoose that there was a mongoose who didn't want to fight cobras.

If he didn't want to fight anything else, it was his own business, but it was the duty of every mongoose to kill cobras or be killed by cobras.

"Why?"asked the peacelike mongoose, and the word went round that the strange new mongoose was not only pro-cobra and anti-mongoose but intellectually curious and against the ideals and traditions of mongoosism.

"He is crazy,"cried the young's mongoose's father.

"He's sick, "said his mother.

"He is a coward,"shouted his brothers.

"He's a mongoosexual,"whispered his sisters.

Strangers who had never laid eyes on the peacelike mongoose remembered that they had seen him crawling on his stomach, or trying cobra hoods, or plotting the violent overthrow of Mongoodia.

"I am trying to use reason and intelligence,"said the strange new mongoose.

"Reason is six-sevenths of treason," said one of his neighbours.

"Intelligence is what the enemy uses,"said another.

Finally the rumour spread that the mongoose had venom in his sting, like a cobra, and he was tried, convicted by a show of paws, and condemned to banishment.

Moral:

Ashes to ashes, and clay to clay,

if the enemy doesn't get you your own folks may.

EOP (End Of Parable)

suspicion
Today seems to be a day of extremes for my restless mind! Crazy parable and these are exactly the kind of conclusive morals that seem to help people justify their own acts. The world out there is bad, if you have to survive you have to learn to deal with it and manipulate it and find your way through it. How many times do we communicate this to our children? How we slowly make them wary and conscious and suspicious of everything around.

age and experience
Buchamma once strongly reprimanded me for repeating once too often that she was older than me so it was OK if she was rude to me. "Beware of age and experience!" she said. With age come fears and apprehensions and incorrect generalizations based on specific experiences. And old people insist on transferring fears, their judgements to the young and in this process propagate them.

distrust
Naseeruddin Shah's character in Sai Paranjpe's Katha says. "main taala-sanskruti ke bilkul virruddh hoon!". And of course gets taken for a ride all through the movie even until the end.

Have been trying to rebel against the "taala-sanskruti" with little success within myself. But I would like to believe there is more distrust in the world than untrustworthy people..Hope I am still able to transfer this learning when I acquire the requisite age and experience so someone is willing to listen!!