Friday, April 9, 2010

The esteemed faculty of thought has been the longest serving and the most admired teacher in the academy of life. The day monkeys started using the tool, professor thought took us under his charge and explained the chaos inside our mind, molded it in form like a loving potter. Since centuries, it's been a heavenly bond.

But every rose has it's thorn and life soon pricked on one.

There is a minus for every plus, there is a night for every day, a Darth Vader to every Luke Skywalker, a Joker to every Batman. The evil balances out the good. What the dark lacks in morals, it makes up with power.

This is the curse that has plagued man for ages: Why is the most basic fundamental thought in the human mind always about destruction?

I first had these visions of internal chaos amidst the shrouds of order when I saw a child playing with toys.

Have you ever seen a child playing with them? Did you get a chance to observe the human brain in its most unadulterated form? Pure from its mother's womb, the thought lived a life in a cocoon of security, tucked away from the unforgiving world. It emerged, triumphant, into the light. And the first thing it did was to cry...

And then it broke the toy...
Why?

The complex laws of our existence dictate that it is far easier to destroy then to create. It takes muscle to break in two but it takes brains to join in one. However civilized we may become, deep down inside, we are still a child throwing stones at a dog. It takes intellect to conceive and intellect is what is lacking in the masses.

Fundamentally, our ability to think is defaulted to simplify the things around us. The child broke the toy because it wanted to understand what it was. You never truly know someone or something unless you can see through to their core. What would happen if I dismantled the farce of order to really see the chaos inside? This will only help me to understand what is already done. But the real question that matters is that what would happen if I herded the chaos and put it in a jar? Then I would invent something out of nothing? I would create instead of destroy.

Only a handful of people bother with the second question. They are the ones who truly know what they are doing, everyone else is just surviving with no sense of purpose or direction. They are doomed to follow the few. They need to unlearn everything. They need to supplement their fundamentals with additional streams of thought.

The only way out I can think of is that if destruction cannot be stopped, then at least we can create more than we destroy...