Rational thoughts

I keep thinking… isn’t it easier to picture life as a c program. What we want to do should be cleared marked out as the goals of the program. All the fun should be placed in the main function with a few intermittent calls to work. Comments are your conversations and thoughts which help you understand life. Isn’t that so easy to work out? Call me nerdy, but you should agree that most decisions look simple once you cast them as a set of nested control statements.

I come to this conclusion after a semester which helped me learn a lot, not just about coding, but also the similarities in problems stated in project specs and situations in life. What normally happens in life I guess is that there is a “sense” vacuum in situations where we don’t use the brain when we should. There are a variety of names for what occupies this vacuum, some of which are heart, emotions and feelings. I guess all of them refer to the excuse given for irrational thinking which cannot be justified later. Yes, the smile on our faces and the pain we feel comes from emotions, but that is emotions for short periods. Periods where emotions are necessary, but in most cases, they aren’t. And certainly, life as a whole cannot be run by them. Instead, a proper algorithm with comments and syntactically correct coding can do wonders.

There’s a reason why the brain consumes 1/5th of all the energy we expend. And that’s because we should be using it most of the time. I find the argument that emotions are essential, and some people have their emotional sentiments which should be respected, no matter how illogical, to be quite unacceptable. I believe that there are absolute boundaries within all our brains work. One of them is rationality, and that is the ability to think with your head and judge what is right and what is not. There are areas where we are allowed to disagree. However, the basis of rationality is the same. We will believe in something we think makes sense. It makes sense to imagine that we would fall off if we don’t balance ourselves on our feet. If we drop a stone, it will fall to the ground, not go up into the sky. If it were to go up into the sky, and there is a rationale behind it, we would understand it. All this looks pretty obvious, but I think this same principle to the realm of social interactions. Why is it not possible to apply the same rational thinking and define a set of rules which allow people to co-exist? It should be possible to get people to agree that it is in their own interest to follow a basic set of rules. This isn’t a curtailing of one’s freedom, but a requirement for the continuation of the society. I think everything in the world must be defined after accepting the terms of these conditions.

I firmly believe that it is because that there isn’t such a framework which is enforced on everyone in this world that we find ourselves with supposedly complicated problems. The framework can contain extremely simple rules which can get into the dunderest of dunderheads, provided it is turned on. Turning on the head and using it should, obviously, be the responsibility of the individual. Any individual refusing to accept the terms should not be allowed into the society. I think this is particularly relevant topic now because in the name of freedom, there are ridiculous activities being carried out around the world. Religious freedom is the first freedom that is abused to striking proportions. I wonder how blowing up one’s own neighbourhood can possibly be a right thing. I wonder how respecting an uncertain entity (God) to such an extent to hurt real and living entities around oneself can be passed under the garb of freedom. It is clearly stupid to think that it makes sense to respect anything more than the society that has allowed you to live for so long. If there has been injustice done to you, then there are a finite set of people who are responsible, if at all. However, the rest of the society cannot be held responsible. And this definitely cannot be passed off as insecurities, emotional outbursts or any such crap bag of terms.

We pride ourselves on being the most advanced of the species based on our genetics. Going by the proportion of dunderheads that we are churning out, at alarming rates, around the world, I am happy that the job of evolution is left to nature and not, until now at least, left to any of the dumbest characters.

I believe there is a finite cost/share that everything in the world has in one’s life. I think most people lost that sense of finite cost, and assume that there is something that is more important than their life. I am sorry but evolution will take too long to eliminate those genes, and we cannot afford to have such genes causing harm to the rest of mankind.