KISS October 14, 2008
Posted by 6mile in Uncategorized.Tags: esoteric, kiss, main stream, simple living, upbringing
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Keep It Simple Stupid
Growing up my parents instilled a very esoteric value set in me and my brother. I have always tried to keep my life as uncluttered as possible. A part of me really likes being that way, Enjoying simple things in life, makes life so much enjoyable. My first love is rain, I just love getting wet in the rain more than anything else.
My mom and dad always taught me about inner beauty, not to grab more than you need, mostly to live a good life. As, I’ve mentioned in my earlier posts, my parents have been very protective of me. But, It only takes a television to bombard your mind with a host of alien ideas. You’re taught about admiring inner beauty and Walla ! You see girls trying to look pretty. You’re told that food shelter and clothes are all you need buy anywhere you look you have people trying to market stuff to you perhaps you can easily live without.
Every passing year I feel my life a little more cluttered. I wonder if I want to dabble in main stream materialism ( I sometimes feel an urge to do something that might shock me out of my skin, like breaking the rules ) or maybe stick with living a very simple life. I’m sure a lot of us ask ourselves the same Question. I sometimes wonder what makes other people tick. You meet people who just like to drink Coke, they only go out with blondes, they would only ever drive a Honda. I’m perhaps just the opposite, maybe I just too afraid to make that choice. Does making those specific choices make life simpler to live?
I recently learnt about the 100 Things challenge and it’s almost impossible for me to reduce the stuff I already have, lol. But it has stopped me from taking on new unneeded stuff.
I think extending the idea to my daily life might be kind of nice, sometimes I feel my life is cluttered with so many unneeded things. Perhaps streamlining it will make it more livable.
I Know I’ve not been posting for a while, I just don’t have any creative inspiration these days, any Ideas from you guys would be greatly welcome.
Race and Race February 22, 2008
Posted by 6mile in Uncategorized.Tags: culture, gene, race, upbringing
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How many people out there believe intelligence is purely genetic ?
I met my Irish mom today ( i feel like calling her that, i dont know if i should though 
) , she told me how Native Indian guys would hang out , outside her all girls school, in the 60’s. She dated one,who asked her out.Anyways,we kept talking, and she had a hint of regret, of the fact that only one of her three kids went to college. She thought that I had good genes. I was like No Way ! My grandfather was a postman and my grandma an elementary school teacher. Hardly the best gene pool, I tried my best to convince her, but she dint seem convinced.
I remembered a George Bernard Shaw incident, where the American dancer Isadora Duncan, said to him “Will you marry me? The child born to us would have your intelligence and my beauty’.
~Bernard Shaw politely declined the proposal saying “I am afraid I cant marry you because if it is the other way around it would be a disaster”.
I’ve kind of noticed a trend among people out here, they are either brought up to think they are smart or they’re dumb. My work mostly involves fixing problems for undergrads who come in,and they happen to think that me and all the Indian masters students are so very, intelligent. When I try to convince them otherwise, it somehow does not gel to them. I work with a University employee called john and he said to me, you think all of us are smart because you see all smart kids at school,if you go out, you will run into dumb people, there are plenty of dumb people.
When I was growing up as a kid, my parents always told me I could do anything in the world, I just needed to want it bad enough. When I grew older, I realized that life is not as rosy at it seems. But, in a dog eat dog world I needed to work hard enough to get, what I wanted.Else, I would be left behind. My dad has a new mantra for me,he tells me to divide my work into little chunks I can eat, and build on it one at a time
I’m not the smartest tool in the bag,I spend many an hour in the library, struggling into the wee hours of the morning. Sometimes, I feel dejected, like today, when I have a submission deadline I could not meet, even after struggling for the last few days. But when you push your self that one wee bit, to go farther than you thought possible. Nothing really beats that feeling of deja vu.
Yeah, I do believe some of us are more gifted than others. Most, of us though fall around the median. Some maybe a little lower, but good enough to get through.
The funny thing about gene’s is nature gets to mix and match, the smartest people don’t have the smartest kids, just as the most beautiful people don’t have best looking ones. Its just that tease kids get exposed to they’re parents profession and ideas. Its a nature thing, having nothing to do with race at all.
I don’t think the perfect man is the best gene pool. I rather think the person who is more willing to adapt is, who knows his genes might adapt better to changes in nature or even mutate to form better resistance against diseases.
One of my favorite sci-fi flicks is Gattaca , where a genetically inferior man assumes the identity of a superior one in order to pursue his lifelong dream of space travel. There Is No Gene For The Human Spirit. 
PS: Flicked the last two lines off IMDB . [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/ ]
