Comments on: The Human Black Hole http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/08/04/the-human-black-hole/ Discussion is an exchange of knowledge Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Hari http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/08/04/the-human-black-hole/comment-page-1/#comment-4961 Hari Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:41:40 +0000 http://indiafirsthand.com/?p=2624#comment-4961 Thank you Yayaver. I really liked the information that you provided although I believe that most of the information is not just in ivory towers but freely available. It is up to us to go find it. Thank you Yayaver. I really liked the information that you provided although I believe that most of the information is not just in ivory towers but freely available. It is up to us to go find it.

]]> By: Hari http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/08/04/the-human-black-hole/comment-page-1/#comment-4960 Hari Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:09:32 +0000 http://indiafirsthand.com/?p=2624#comment-4960 Thanks Bhagwad. I will claim it today. Thanks Bhagwad. I will claim it today.

]]> By: yayaver http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/08/04/the-human-black-hole/comment-page-1/#comment-4958 yayaver Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:30:34 +0000 http://indiafirsthand.com/?p=2624#comment-4958 Good point Hari but Human lives in thinking about past and planning of future. Hence, we don't repeat the mistake but just rhyme in different way of previous generation. As for the information and knowledge gathered by humans, I found a good paragraph : The fact of the matter is that there is always a space in society in which ideas circulate. And there is never a vacuum in this space. When new ideas flowing from our research remain confined to the ivory towers, the space is filled with ideas from other sources, be they sermons, cassettes from seminaries, arm-chair pontification, old-wives tales, political platitudes, or whatever. And the other sources are much more proactive in using the space in people-friendly ways. The popular world-view about the causes and solutions of our problems is shaped by these ideas. http://thesouthasianidea.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/in-defense-of-%e2%80%98against-research%e2%80%99/ Humans have natural tendency to go into the issues delibrately blind stumbling in the very places the generations and socities before us did, and repeating their mistakes one by one ? We can already see from where we stand an alternative route to the development that is more sustainable than the other individuals chose. Good point Hari but Human lives in thinking about past and planning of future. Hence, we don’t repeat the mistake but just rhyme in different way of previous generation.

As for the information and knowledge gathered by humans, I found a good paragraph :

The fact of the matter is that there is always a space in society in which ideas circulate. And there is never a vacuum in this space. When new ideas flowing from our research remain confined to the ivory towers, the space is filled with ideas from other sources, be they sermons, cassettes from seminaries, arm-chair pontification, old-wives tales, political platitudes, or whatever. And the other sources are much more proactive in using the space in people-friendly ways. The popular world-view about the causes and solutions of our problems is shaped by these ideas.

http://thesouthasianidea.wordpress.com/2010/08/05/in-defense-of-%e2%80%98against-research%e2%80%99/

Humans have natural tendency to go into the issues delibrately blind stumbling in the very places the generations and socities before us did, and repeating their mistakes one by one ? We can already see from where we stand an alternative route to the development that is more sustainable than the other individuals chose.

]]> By: Bhagwad Jal Park http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/08/04/the-human-black-hole/comment-page-1/#comment-4957 Bhagwad Jal Park Thu, 05 Aug 2010 16:25:25 +0000 http://indiafirsthand.com/?p=2624#comment-4957 Hari, I added your blog to networked blogs on Facebook yesterday: http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/discussion_is_an_exchange_of_knowledge/ It's easier for me to follow it there rather than on Google reader. It'll be nice if you go and claim it by clicking the link "Are you the author?" Hari, I added your blog to networked blogs on Facebook yesterday:

http://apps.facebook.com/blognetworks/blog/discussion_is_an_exchange_of_knowledge/

It’s easier for me to follow it there rather than on Google reader. It’ll be nice if you go and claim it by clicking the link “Are you the author?”

]]> By: Hari http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/08/04/the-human-black-hole/comment-page-1/#comment-4956 Hari Thu, 05 Aug 2010 10:42:27 +0000 http://indiafirsthand.com/?p=2624#comment-4956 I like the quote from The Matrix. It is a very interesting take on reality. You are right about Indians. Billions of us are going through the same rituals again and again and again. Doing the same thing but expecting different results. That is not living. That is the definition of insanity. I like the quote from The Matrix. It is a very interesting take on reality. You are right about Indians. Billions of us are going through the same rituals again and again and again. Doing the same thing but expecting different results. That is not living. That is the definition of insanity.

]]> By: Bhagwad Jal Park http://indiafirsthand.com/2010/08/04/the-human-black-hole/comment-page-1/#comment-4955 Bhagwad Jal Park Thu, 05 Aug 2010 02:18:41 +0000 http://indiafirsthand.com/?p=2624#comment-4955 In “The Matrix”, Agent Smith says “I believe that as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from.” It's certainly easier to be unhappy than happy! But if you say that there's nothing new under the sun (and I agree with that statement), then there's nothing new about Indians either! People are pretty much the same all over the world. We're all equally stupid :D In “The Matrix”, Agent Smith says “I believe that as a species, human beings define their reality through misery and suffering. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from.”

It’s certainly easier to be unhappy than happy! But if you say that there’s nothing new under the sun (and I agree with that statement), then there’s nothing new about Indians either! People are pretty much the same all over the world. We’re all equally stupid :D

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