First of all let me apologise in the beginning...this is not one of those humorous anecdotes about the Meister's life...this is about the degradation and obsecene nature of ...well..ummm...human nature.
Also, this is not about any particular person, we are all equally guilty.....well not exactly, the cultural studies people are more guilty than others simply because they pretend to care...all in order to get better grades.
Someone please explain to the Meister why people make such a big deal about their clothes!!!!!!
Yesterday all of a sudden Meister's friend Talksalot pinged saying "I am wearing a sari today"......well and good...no issues...the Meister politely asked why and the answer was that it was a team meeting and the theme was ethnic/ traditional dress or some such crap.
The Meister was allegedly curt and brusque with Talksalot, for which he is sorry.
But, this whole obscene pleasure people derive from clothes pisses off the Meister for a number of reasons.....
Humans are obsessed with clothes. They are obsessed about a lot of things as well, but among them, clothes are by far the least important.
People nowadays are more interested in what "am I gonna war today" than about the murder of people, the starvation and exploitation of children from around the world, and the massacre of animals and trees.
It is really a sad state of affairs when the 1st thing to be decided about a meeting is the dress people are supposed to wear....
(on a separate vein, don't even get the Meister started about meetings - the most useless and time wasting piece of shit ever devised.......used by two groups of people...
(a) hypocrite bosses who have already made up their minds about certain courses of actions but want plauditss from ass-licking employees and
(b) gutless worms in human shapes who do not have the balls to take any individual decision and like to hide behind groups)....the constitution and agenda of the meeting takes a backseat over the dress!!!
What is more bugging is the concept of ethnic/traditional wear. What is the function behind it? Is it supposed to make us feel good or what? Does it really make us feel all good and bubbly???? Just by wearing a sari or kurta pyjama??? Are we really so shallow?????????????
Another thing, who the fuck decides what is our tradition? Is going to discos and pubs our traditions? When someone points out that it is against tradition, the person gets universally derided from all 'modern' people as being ancient and belonging to another century (not Muthalik, that guy is a moron and a jackass and deserves all the pink panties, there is absolutely no justification for touching a girl, no one has the right to touch a girl without her permission, not even her husband).
But these so called 'modern' people are the first ones to be delighted when our American Masters graciously and kindly allow us to wear our 'traditional' clothes once every few months....aren't the American Masters so nice, good masters......
Is our life really so pathetic that we derive our happiness from clothes??????????????clothes?????????????????Something which our ancestors developed just to get protection from cold!!!!!!!!
People spend thousands every year (well, at least rich and well to do people do......the poor cannot, but then absolutely nobody cares about the poor.....some hypocrites - like the Cultural Studies group - falsely claim that they do.....when the Meister points out to them that they actually do diddly-squat...they act all affronted and claim that they can't do anything because they don't have the power or means) on clothes and apparell. They won't have 2 mins' hesitation to but a sari or a pair of shoes worth thousands if they really like it, but just how many of these modern, allegeldy educated, well-to-do gentlemen and ladies will even dream or think about donating say 5000 rupees to poor people???????????
What is the Meister thinking? Is he crazy?? Giving 5000 rupees to poor people??? When I have to save so much for marriage/kids/party/vacation/new vehicle/ new house/that new dress???? What next?????
Forget 5000, most people have problems giving 2 rupees to the beggars on the street junctions, they will roll up their windows, pretend not to see or just plainly shout at the beggars not to disturb. Their justification - these beggars are all parts of a gang or syndicate, those kids are not theirs etc etc......it is beside the point and not worth talking about that these beggars are also people with dreams, with families, they also feel hunger, sadness,love, they also suffer from diseases etc...who cares....how dare they disturb us when we are talking with our friends/colleagues/spouses/kids/parents etc.
No post is complete without mentioning the Great Indian Chunkubaaz, the same guy who earns more than 4.5 lakhs every year and who recently vehemently opposed the Meister's suggestion of giving the watchman Ganesh 300 bucks for regularly coming and cleaning their shit for the last 2 weeks.....the justification being that Ganesh shouldn't be paid "so much" as he had not washed the clothes or the floors, he had only washed the utensils, taken out the trash, jharufied and dusted the floors and cleaned the bathrooms......the Meister is a loser in most walks of life but this is one arguement which he won.
Is the Meister the only one who sees something to be ashamed about here?
But is everyone like this? No they are not. There are great human beings around us. The Meister is eternally thankful and privileged and honoured to have met 2 such people - Sandesh Raju and Linda Francis.
The former has dedicated his life to the betterment and welfare of animals and has even decided to live as a bachelor for the rest of his life for his beliefs.
Linda Francis works for 14-15 hours everyday throughout the week in QuisLex and (apart from donating a significant part of her paycheque every month) still finds the time to go and spend time and teach orphan kids. She also had time to stay in office all night to help a lost, weird, goofy looking kid in understanding legal lingo.
Mrs. Raju and Mrs. Francis, the Meister takes off his metaphorical hat for giving birth to and raising such people.
Well, this has been a rant and a diatribe by a bitter and frutrated man who is a Loser in Life, Career, Love and Monopoly and whoever reads this will probably think what's wrong with the weirdo now.....but hey the Meister's blog, the Meister's rules.
11 comments:
I am happy you feel the way you do. But this post does show your aggression and angst against the whole capitalistic world today. I will be very honest I belong to the category and do nothing about it...am not even ashamed.
A few clarifications -
1. the theme was not for a meeting...it was for a team dinner arranged for team chit chat and fun.
2. The manager/boss does not decide it. It is decided by the whole team.
3. There was no argument about what is our tradition, and no body did us any favor by allowing/disallowing. As mentioned above we chose.
4. It wasn't about feeling Indian or anything of the sort...we try and do different themes that everyone in the team could participate in happily and merely for fun. It is all in a fun & carnival mood. Hope you understand that bit.
Also, about the beggars and donation and clothes and all the angry statements you just made. I will choose not to comment, though not because of any lack of arguments, but because of a work I am just starting on.
there you go again, as if this is the fault of capitalism...no it is not...Japan is capitalist, so is Britain, so is Germany...just coz America is a flop does not mean others are too.....what's the opposite of capitalism?... socialism or communism???....where everyone is poor except the party president?????
and i have clairifed already that it wasnt anything personal, nothing about your company or your team meeting...this stuff goes on in all the multi-national i.e. US companies
I think you did not get my point or me yours. When I said you are blaming the capitalist world...I meant the capitalistic habits of people which engages them more on stuff like clothes, shoes, luxury, etc., and prevents them from doing 'more meaningful' according to you stuff like donating money to the needy, poor, and beggars.
how is that capitalist????the socialists do what exactly, take money from their own pocket and give it to the poor?? none of them do, all they want is to become richer....so dont blame capitalist mentality...all humans are capitalists.....its the human mentality that is to be blamed
It was not like this earlier. The capitalist mindset is much newer a mindset as far as human mind set is concerned.
Again, a clarification - I am not blaming capitalism...that did not (thrust itself upon us) but the very fact that we are capitalists, which in a way makes us think of us first than the others.
Another classification - Socialism on paper is this - "a society characterized by equal opportunities for all individuals." Since, this did not really fit the "human nature" that you are talking about I refrained from using that and used capitalism.
But end of it all I am talking about the capitalist tendency of some of us selfish human beings unlike you and the other two you mentioned. However, talking humanitarian stuff...I think end of the day we could club all isms under the larger umbrella.
you are wrong my dear friend, the whole idea of socialism came about from the 18th century, from the time of the French revolution, later honed by Marx....while the whole mercantile and regal economic system which closely resemble capitalism has been with us for thousands of years....so no capitalism is not new
I never said capitalism is newer than socialism...I said as a human nature it is new
and the whole mercantile and regal mindset which prompted invasions by the greeks, muslims and Britishers over India and the Spaniards over SA wasn't a part of human mentality??????
just read the first parah...and none of the comments and i think they are fanatic about how they look and not what they wear.
why only the 1st para??????? got bored???????
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