india is a free country. we are free to conform.
1. Khar Road Railway station - 10-15 women are squatting on the platform. curiously all are carrying exactly similar bags. grey squarish bags with black straps. quite fashionable actually in that abstract expensive way. i thought bulk deals only happened in MICA.
2. Santacruz Railway Station - strangely many men are wearing the dirty bronze colored full sleeves shirt. the shirt uniformly not tucked in. the cuffs linked. Surreal.
3. popeye - i don't get this at all... all of a sudden the market is flooded with shirts with popeye pictures.. t-shirts, collared shirts.. they are un-escapable. go to colaba's narrow galli fashion streets, all stalls will have a popeye T. which company is dumping all these popeyes on mumbai's youth? why popeye?
4. grown men in half pajamas and full sleeved untucked plain shirts. so many people adhering to this code. the color of shirt is usually light.. cream or version thereabout. these are mostly labourers. what confounds me, if they wear half pants for comfort, why are they wearing full sleeved shirts without even rolling them up?
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yup! by nature we all love similarity, it gives us a sense of security and safety....most pple prefer to stick some group norms, one or two who dont are termed as outlawish or in a positive sense leaders
there's a incidence in the series 'lost' . a character while consoles a baby by wrapping it up (constricting its movement)by cloth and rocks it to sleep. he says something along the lines of 'human finds comfort in constraint."
the need for freedom is as if an invention of youth. non-conformity is an expression of freedom. not many people see freedom to be essential.
did you just refer to dear John as a "character"?
:P
do you really think you can pitch freedom and uniformity opposite to each other? cant we be uniformly free? confusing non-conformity with freedom and thus "rebel" against all the good things that can be "inherited" from the group is something youth does wrong.. (i thinks..)
what we need is equilibrium...
not equality...
equality is a myth. equilibrium is a myth. we can race towards equilibrium, but achieving it is like achieving speed of light. impossible.
and to rebel is to be. not everyone. just the ones who are alive.
conformity is good. for greater good. fuck greater good. greater good is bullshit. greater good is a myth.
ask villagers whose village are going to be submerged for greater good of nation.
ah.. well, i grant you though.. its good at times. makes life easier for quite a few folks.
p.s. - what the fuck is 'good' supposed to mean?
easy boy.... dont try to bend the spoon!
when i hit such questions, answers of which are of the scale of "42"...
i usually answer only to and for myself...
equality "to and for" me
good "to and for" me
me "to and for" me
me me me!
what did u delete BTW?
true.
i had posted the same post twice.. so deleted it.
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