Monday 20 February 2012

Synthetic hamburger.
Hamburger in the lab.....
It's disgusting and ridiculous too...

When the world is getting sick with hormone grown animals...now we have to have lab grown meat...
They will do anything and everything for a buck or two...

Turmoil in the Near and Middle East = hamburger in the lab = profit = Kafka without f ....

Torture in Turkey and in the World for profit.....
Hamburger for profit.....
Syria in turmoil...for profit.....
Football fixing for profit....
Greece fixing for profit....
China for profit...
U.S. in decline for profit....
Euro zone in turmoil for profit.....
Africa never recovered from invaders for profit....
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And then God created Adam and Eve for amusement.....
Indeed the joke is on us....

Saturday 4 February 2012

It is always fun to see the untangling of the web around the globe.
The Arab regimes are for whatever reason opposed to the Syrian regime.
The Turkish regime is opposed to the Syrian regime.

I will not mention the Western Democracies...They have throughout history their own agenda ( which is greed and profit -as the Occupiers mentioned ) and now that they are in decline they have to come up with a new, but very old, agenda...Greed and profit and power.

The funny thing is that the Arab regimes are governed by Kings and sheiks...
The Emirates have their emirs... Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Morocco have their kings....Egypt is in turmoil and the army is reluctant to leave power...The Libyan regime is fragmented and the militias of various locals are accused by Amnesty International of torture... The former Libyan consulate to France died in torture after being arrested. The arrest lasted only one day!.... Tunisia is still evolving to whatever is anybodies guess...Iraq is ruined for the forcible future by the Western Democracies...
Overall the Arab World is in a mess...as before...Now these messy conglomerate...the kings and emirs and armies and the torturers...are accusing the Syrian regime of undemocratic means...

I agree with them...The Syrian regime is undemocratic...But so are their regimes...
I agree with them... The Syrian president should leave power...But so must they...

A king accusing someone else of undemocratic practices is abusing even "The Divine Rights of Kings".
An emir demanding democracy for someone else is farcical...
A torturer demanding someone else to end terrorizing civilians is convoluted reasoning...
An army asking a regime to abandon power is just expediting the time that they will leave power...

Turkey has more that 100 writers and journalist in prison...They have the law...301...that imprisons anyone accused of insulting the Turkishness of the Trukish nation...And insulting the Turkishness of the nation is equal to insulting the authorities...The regime is denying the fundamental human rights of the Kurdish people...and then they accuse of their neighbour of undemocratic means...Turkey will support anything and everybody that promotes their agenda of Pan-Turkic expansionism...
Turkey is a fascinating country where many cultures have met...Cultures that now the Turkish rulers think are their own...Turkish rulers are absurd...So are all rulers....

After all, a Ruler is used to draw straight lines....and humans can never,and should never, conform to straight line/one dimensional existence...
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Politics is a farce in action... A Divine Comedy...A web that is woven and untangled,at all times...The Myth of Sisyphus...May be that was the punishment that God bestowed on us when Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden...
The rulers are powerful and Kafka is always right.....
And, of course, this is a cry in the wilderness...







Saturday 28 January 2012

They say, "the pen is mightier than the sword."
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Some new evidence...
Regip Zarakoglu, writer/journalist jailed in Turkey.
Orhan Pamuk, Nobel laureate-literature, not welcomed in Turkey/Azerbejan.
Both have been accused of insulting Turkishness....
Salman Rushdie recently cancelled his travels to India - there were threats and he heeded.... He has been regarded a threat to his own religion and some are not happy.
China has imprisoned several dissident writers.
In Mexico the threat is much more... they just assassinate journalist.
The rulers are scarred of the ruled...They always have been...
That's why they created Kafka's web.

Friday 6 January 2012

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A wise man once told me ..."You are allowed".

I thought about it....Indeed, "You are allowed" to be what you want to be...
When we judge others, then eventually we create conflicts...When we create conflicts, war is around the corner.
I hate wars!
The wise man is correct indeed...we are allowed....and hence others are allowed too...
Attempt new ways of doing what we have done so far.
To be judgemental is to become a "benevolent despot", but to allow others to differ and to attempt/err and to progress/flourish is divine...
Celebrating our differences and the diversity in society is what we are allowed...
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I guess it's about time to take the lantern and search for more wise men...

Tuesday 3 January 2012

Every day is a new day for trying...a trial and error
This is the best scientific method invented by humans.
But,
For ordinary people ...the terminology is trial and error.
On the other hand, the same method for the scientists who goes into his lab or her office and tries to find cure for cancer; tries for a new technological invention/inovation,  "trial and error" transforms into research...
What a "respectable" terminology...!
I try to encourage my students to dare and to try and not be afraid of erring.After all, that's how you fly...and that's the stuff scientists are made of...





Monday 2 January 2012

Day 1


Some questioned …Why Kafka…? I do not have an answer…, but
The name appealed to me.
We are in a web…woven by society…restriction is everywhere.
We talk the words to make sense…to others. We want to be understood.
We attend functions to be seen… by others. We want to socialize.
We follow the fashion to be appreciated …by others.
We do not swear…we do not eat garlic…we do not…..and then we do not again…
A powerful web.
Some suggested that Kafka will be boring… perhaps …after all who may please all… at all times?
But,
  • ·         Play with the letters in the name…take away letters and see what you get…It is fascinating…isn’t it?
  • ·         Read Kafka’s Trial and Metamorphosis…and be amazed with the magic…the web.

I mused with Parev, but then I did not want to confine myself/ourselves to ethnic chic or national boundaries.
Kafka is timeless…So is the web that society has invented… technology shattered some of the limits…I hope it shatters more …