Sulabh

It’s funny that it’s mostly the ones who are proponents of open source who support right to privacy, kind of ironical. Privacy was a debate a decade ago, it isn‘t now. Survival beats privacy hands down. It’s only after you mature that you realise that it is illusion that runs by logic, the reality runs by power. Power has the ability of changing ontology of things especially when it comes to metaphysics. You sit in a Mumbai local, reading Nietzsche. Once you have seen the Mumbai local you come to know that people are animals, that’s their ontology. Higher concepts die in the stampede of catching the last local. I sometimes put myself in the place of a handicapped man or woman trying to catch the last local, and it is here I feel footwears on my face but also a boot, a huge boot. You see autorickshaw drivers, some of them are stylish, like Mithun Chakraborty. They have chosen a style for themselves. Their autos are extravagant with Bollywood actresses as brides. Even an autowala has the decency to imagine Bollywood actresses as brides and not whores. There is a time in life where you have to choose between a Windows command prompt and a Linux terminal. Sometimes you choose both, the command prompt to save time and the terminal because your heart lies there no matter how cumbersome Linux syntaxes are. Reality is the place where dreams come to die. Shekhar Kapoor wrote comics in the early late 2000s and one could feel the myth of the Indic civilization and then enlightenment arrives, the myth replaced by street-shitting. There is no mythic demon except within. Modi jackets decide the policy, but no one knows who decides the SOPs of biopolitics and necropolitics. Shekhar Kapoor gave hope, that people could write fantasies but fantasies need breathing room; they don't survive mathematics placed atop street-shitting. How long does it take for a civilization to collpase? Depends. But what if it has already collapsed? Illusions run by logic, reality runs by power. Though power has its own mathematics it’s just that it’s a little advanced.