Parables and parabolics of love

P1: Life is turning out to be an interesting jigsaw.
I am traversing a magical last supper to be in destiny of a daily bread.
Need to tweet a lot about how religion has activated myself
which was once the twig of my life.

P2: Need to be a catholic in the purest of the senses.
Yet, I need to show my love for the masses of all the religions.
Liberating spirits of semitic religions and my narcissist
tendencies are the most important challenges in my pathways.

P3: My life needs to be an artwork;
wherever in the world I need to be a simple man out of these worldly affairs.
Be a good leather for the leaves of my grass.
It may seem to be odd to the human eyes;
but I need to cleanse this magic island out of its original sins.

P4: This is the only way I can find out the emperor love in my, myself.
Let my songs of innocense breed and bread thousand of fractals.

P5: As Godard said once;" every thought shall recall the debris of a love".
My love for life shall be an endless story like the bridge between
nano-life and relativistic motion of planetary system.
Natures lures me to decrypt many more pearl leaves out of its factbook.

P6: Only time be the tide in this titanic voyage.
When voices of god are unheard, only life can be the light of Asia.
Henceforth this universe. Buddhist dialectic is nothing but
laughing Buddha and melancholic Jesus and melodramatic Krishna.

P7: Love knows no dialectic; only a semiotic balance of signs.
It is our duty to be righteous and upright about it.
Passion of Christ is to traverse and converse with all the people of all the lost worlds.

P8: In the sixth, seventh and the eighth senses, no racism can exist;
there are no extremes or poles, only righteous middle path.

Parables and Crosstalks ...?

P1: Life is a melting pot that waits for songs
of innocence.Even seven continents of wealth
and five dreams of mercy could not quench my thirst and hunger.

P2: Though I love angels of white are naked in love;
we need black elephants of life which are dark
and awaiting the deities of moon.All absorbing rain has just begun;
a with a rhapsody of wellness.

P3: Dawn of a day; the residues of a nightmare
tried to encapsulate my morning spirits.The self-realization
is always quasi-spiritual. It has a smell of earth.
The passion of a south-eastern wind. Unity of light and life.

P4: The subdued flow of energy can inspire the breadth
of light upon the fort of madness.The mainstay of inspiration
is a conversation with the masses. Mass is always
the source and destination of energy.

P5: Time and money are two constraints in every one's life.
The same antonyms are entities posited in
the third volume of capital by Karl Marx.
Money is a double edged sword;
whereas time is a triple edged one.

P6: Fear of fear is the best medicine for arrogance.
Why am I arrogant? why do I converse impatience
despite nearing the zen designs.Spirit of freedom
should understand the terrains of peace.

P7: Unlimited skies of freedom is not what I cherish.
I am convinced that all the good entropic of universe
where the weapons of nature some
time in the past and later in the future.

P8: To look far and future you should be a banyan tree
grasping the intricacies of life like a leaf out of a green land.

Parables through a semi-colon

P1: Why is my mind turbulent
Like a tide out of its times
Braving the tsunamis of tyrrants

P2: The holy trinity of life is engaging me
Like Moses, I will bring spirited fire
From which mountain; what shall it wither ?

P3: What shall Hanuman do to invent a new religion?
Why to struggle for artificial intelligence
When cup of tea is in a hurry

Parables and Ellipsis ...

P1: Essense of cryptography :

Symmetry of life

Assymetry of code

Cipher lives

In Out of engines

Secret engines

P2: I met crisis in mystery

Life has become a long tail / tale

Told for an idiot

A new testament

Of don Quixote

Email me the songs

As I am the messenger cat

P3: To decrypt a woman

is the most important way

And the hurdle

How to become a real flesh

And Blood out of sadness

Sublimation is the tryst wit destiny

P4: Corrpted minds cannot decrypt

Me: As I am a friend of ny enemies:

No man can make me a lie;

Being a coward is thousand times dangerous

to being a liar

P5: Man cannot succumb to the power

Of imaginary; Butterflies of thought

Are bound in an end in itsef.

They conceive dreams and I incept

Interference of pure serenity

P6: I have become the merchent of madness

The real zen is always the lover of zeal

Buddha realized that he need to empty himself. 

It means 'zero yourself';

Hallucination is the opium of the masses

That is the religion itself

P7: Why am I an ascetic?

Peace is not something eternal

It is transitory, transient and tranquil

To acheive this goal; to circumscribe this vision

We need to be extra ordinary zen

P8: Being a samurai does not

take you away from being z zen

Being a zen and achieving zen is

not null and void

P9: A zen; emperor love; tang tang;
ascetic; peter the sailor; all are the same
Who told you ? there won't be flowers on a rock
Let thousand flowers bloom upon this rock

P10: I love '?' more than a 'zero'

What is invented in India; zen or zero !!

A zen will love digital questions

more than null and void answers

P11: A zen is not an enemy of anyone

neither he is the friend of anyone

He/she preaches peace upon earth

hells; heavens and many other universes

P12: Being ascetic at a time of nothingness

It is not a child's play

I need to ground my dreams on reality

None rejects my dreams

So I need to hold my heart on my hands

P13: Hands know the power of money

The taste of sweat; the depth of tears and

so forth and so on; being bi-polar in this

multi-polar world is enormously grave difficult

The only way to achieve ascetism is through

mediating in/ on time

Like throwing away a 'Slik Hat'

P14: The grace of a nation is countless

My first stint at Singapore

Made me a professional by all the means

Whatever I could dream about whereall spread on my wings

P15: Italian dreams of aesthetics

Charming, enchanting spirit of guardian angels

They bestow all the colours on my face

To become a Harry Potter

Count dracula, Wizard of Oz, Prince of Persia

I need to traverse and converse a lot

P16: To be precise; this journey is going

To be long and lenient and salient one

Madding crowd and its fetish; its so vibrant

P17: I am learning the rules of the game

From the father; I never could realise that my father

He is a better zen master than me

P18: My ambitons; they are the biggest burden

They are on my wings; My talents are yet another

I could see the naked eyes of Japan and the burned fingers

Of red wedding octopus; white fishes are hissing alone

P19: I am neither a dead bull or a purple cat

Jut the zeal of zero, symbian of a sorrow;

Chaos in my army symbolises god's might

Destiny of a Decade

Stolen Spaces and Marching Ants !

Time is a tyrant! And a decade is a mere dust in the sands of history but it means much more in the life of a human being. In the mainstream media recap, we see a decade as a sequence of events and tale of newsmakers. Seldom does it lead to interpretation and introspections. In such an attempt, we can see that a decade means different for each strata of society. In the lives of upper class, technology and social media invaded personal experiences to the deepest.  Simulations stimulated their desires and plenitude of choices pampered their lives. The working class had to confront tightening labour laws and insecure way of life. Labour increasingly became a mobile commodity integrated to the supply chains and global delivery models. The poor were encircled by spiralling prices and weakening welfare state schemes. Rather than growth, poverty trickled down to the downtrodden. 

Under the pretext of globalization, world economy became an integrated financial market. World became flat in that sense. The poor were erased from the flash memories of the elite and the aspiring ones. On the other hand, because of digital divide and growing economic disparity, world became more and more opaque. Adding to the woes of the wretched, Mother Nature created havoc to the millions in the forms of thunderstorms, earth quakes, floods, Tsunami and cyclones. More than anything these calamities exposed the callousness of the governments and the micro-politic agenda of the donor agencies. India saw the massive earthquake in Gujarat (2001) which took more than 30,000 lives. 

Indian polity saw the resurgence of coalition governments in Centre adding a new dimension to federalism. The Tehelka expose took the political bureaucracy by storm. The Gujarat riot will always remain as a blot of this decade. The failure of Agra summit put Indian diplomacy in no man’s land. Indo – US nuclear deal generated much acrimony and put an end to the love –hate relationship between UPA and left. Maoists aided by the inflow of weapons from Bangladesh and Myanmar became the serious threat to Indian internal security. The political economy of Kashmir improved marginally and gave way to democratic process.  

The same decade saw the upsurge and retreat of globalization. The hype of Y2K puzzle disappeared in thin air. None bothered to count the millions lost in preparing precautionary steps. The alliance of Time Warner and America Online (2000) became the big hit of the millennium. The honeymoon of techies did not last longer. The Tech crunch (2001) and the dotcom bubble were the preludes for the recessions to come. In this sound and fury, all ignored that it was the collapse of minnows which led to the formation of monopolies in technology. 

Silicon Valley emerged as the hub of information technology. IT revolution was nothing but the use of existing computer communication platforms for financial and international trade networks. The wave of globalization of labour and capital was accelerated by internet technologies. In Doha round of negotiations of World Trade Organization (2001), it was USA, European Union and Japan which stood for agricultural subsidies retreating from their previous support for neo-liberalism. Though it exposes the hypocrisy of imperialism, more evident is their losing faith in the free market principles. The changing tides of world economy favoured the labour capitals like China, India, Indonesia, Brazil and ASEAN nations. The fundamental importance of productive forces in a political economy was amplified by this. 

Corporate capitalism exposed its wilderness and chaos with the collapse of the American Energy sector giant ‘Enron’ in 2001. Sarbanes-Oxley laws tried to take grip on US corporate governance. The roller coaster ride of free market capitalism met an unexpected twist from the high heavens itself. American Hedge fund investment groups started collapsing. Mortgage giants like Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae bailed out their prestige. None could save the fate of sinking Lehman Brothers, 150 years old Investment Bank. Entire financial market in the developed economies felt the tremors. The recent market updates reveal that US economy hasn’t yet circumvented the recession despite the massive government bailout. 

This decade witnessed the madness of American imperialism as they invaded fragile nation states using their military might. The aerial attacks on the twin towers of World Trade Centre in September 11, 2001 became the launch pad of American neo-colonial interests. Greed for Oil and urge to retain the dollar hegemony led them to cook up stories against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq. When American Missiles bombarded the planning ministry in Iraq (2003), world conscience was a mute spectator. On the other hand, geopolitical interests in Central Asia and the hunt for Osama Bin Laden were the reasons for the Afghan invasions (2001). 

Almost ten years on, the war on terror is on going. Taliban and Opium trade in Afghanistan is on rise again. Incapable to curb this, US-NATO army is busy murdering civilians in the Af-Pak border. Abu Gharib jail tortures exposed the savage side of American civilization. The controversial Guantanamo prison opened by USA to detain the war prisoners (2002) is on the verge of closing down. 

Organized crime and terrorism were the perennial disturbances for the entire decade. Few realised these as the fruits of social anarchy spread by the proliferation of market economy world wide. The Somali young terrorist holding the American weapon exemplifies the dialectical relation between imperialism and terrorism. US shipped more than 40 tons of weapons into the ports of Somalia. The new decade will tell us who the recipients were.  We saw terrorism getting the religious tint everywhere from Indonesia to Colombia. The state of affairs rekindles the memories of crusades in history.  

The entire Islamic nations who were against the American oil greed were tainted as terrorists. Thus political Islam was equated with terrorism. By sabotaging the democratic governments in Islamic nation states Imperialism sowed the seeds of theocracy. Yet we failed to realize that terrorism was best exploited by Imperialism to fragment the opposing nation states. Baltic nations and South East Asia stands as the victim to these experiments. But world polity relishes in the convenience of forgetting. 

The world continues to be hot and simmering for the Palestinians with Israel breaching all the limits of atrocity. Palestine lost their iconic leader Yasser Arafat in the middle of this decade. All throughout this decade this West Asian strip of land was stripped of all the human rights. Goldstone commission appointed by UN (2009) was a mild solace to their concerns. 

The decade saw the transformation of culture industry from a mass media to hegemony over human capital. The decade began with the arrival of Survivor – the Reality show, first of its kind. It was an instant hit in USA. With ‘Idea Star Singer’ making waves all over Kerala just all in this decade we can sense the spread of a global mass culture. Social media became the second nature of netizens. Twitter, MySpace, Facebook and Orkut satisfied the tribal instinct of millions of people. Yet there are concerns of privacy and information security in these social networks. Identity of individual was lost somewhere in the networks. Wikipedia became the ultimate source of anything and everything on universe. The potentials of these sources take us also to the concerns on the authenticity and ideological intentions. The potentials of music were best explored by Apple Inc with their ‘iPod’.  

One cannot ignore the winning strides of science in this decade. And we salute in the memory of seven space scientists who shed their life with the burning Colombia Space shuttle (2003). The Genome project (completed first stage in 2003) and the Chandrayan moon mission (began in 2008) were crowing achievements of the decade. SARS and bird flu consumed many lives world wide. It revealed the vulnerability of the healthcare systems world wide. Climate change concerns became a political issue in no time. Development politics and environmental politics locked horns in various international forums.  Much hyped Copenhagen summit (2009) failed to deliver any progressive results though it created a coalition of developing nations. 

In this decade, imperial states, non-state actors, NGOs and the donor agencies were the key players in the world polity. Identity politics and micropolitics were their weapons for fragmentation of democracies world wide. They scan even the smallest space of every individual. On one side, they weakened the democracies by instigating ideologies of decentralization of power through micropolitics. On the other end, they created political anarchy by funding identity politics and exporting political terrorism. At the end of this drama, as a saviour of democracy, US imperialism marches to foreign soils to liberate the people and deliver them to the world market. Confrontation between democratic nation states and market forces happened to be the major current of this eventful decade. A society wandering in stolen spaces; it is the gift of this decade.

Gokul B.Alex

Random Thoughts

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Capitalism and the Paradise lost

Economic Crisis! for whom?

An economic crisis is not made in a day; not in a month or not even in a year. It heaps up gradually; gaining momentum when everything else slows down. Once it is accepted as arrived, it will be a rather late confession. The recent economic crisis is also not different.  The 2008 economic crisis hunted down the once almighty financial institutions of United States of America. Lehman Brothers, founded in 1850 became its first famed victim. It was a primary dealer in the U.S. treasury market. Mortgage companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were the next in the queue. This list includes the insurance giant AIG in the US, Northern Rock in the UK, and Fortis and Dexia in Belgium. 

After a lot of pandemonium, they were royally bailed out. But none gave any importance to the many voiceless who were out of their payrolls all of a sudden. The millions of jobless just became mere percentage numbers of little interest. The unemployment index in the US kept ticking up again and again. 

There is a line of thought that names the economic crisis as a result of credit crisis. They attribute the crisis to the sub-prime mortgage business. The subprime mortgages typically came with a low interest for the first few years, and then a drastic increase. The risks were usually not fully explained, and many borrowers were told they could easily refinance the mortgage in a few years to keep their interest rate low. But in 2005-2006, it came time to pay the piper. 

Interest rates on the subprime mortgages shot up. Many new home owners were unable to pay or refinance. The crisis should have been confined to the US home owners. Unfortunately the banks and lenders making these loans had sold the debt to investors. The debt assets had been diced up and sold to other investors and banks around the world, in complicated financial packages that few people seemed to fully understand.

During 2007, nearly 1.3 million US housing properties were subject to foreclosure activity, up 79% from 2006. Nobody seemed to have any ideas who owned these ‘worthless’ debts, spread out throughout the whole worldwide financial system. Suddenly banks weren’t willing to lend to each other any longer, resulting in a ‘credit crunch,’ a period where there is little liquidity (or money) in the system because nobody is lending. The losses started to roll in. By July 2008, major banks and financial institutions around the world reported losses of approximately $435 billion.

This simply means that U.S. banks were blindly giving away the loans to people with poor credit histories. But they don’t have any complaints at the gargantuan sum of money that fills up the bourses of the Wall Street hedge fund managers. Even after being bailed out, banking monoliths like Citigroup were paying their top echelons with hefty sums of money. 

Only a few analyse the pitfalls in the US risk management system based on the use of financial derivatives, which exacerbated the crisis. It demands a deeper enquiry in to this angle. 

The capitalist economists are trying hard to find out an intellectual remedy to the trouble that has engulfed the world economy at large. But they fail to acknowledge the inherent nature of objective contradictions in the capitalist system that breeds crisis and economic slumps time and again. 

The subprime mortgage crisis and the credit crunch aren’t the only factors in the 2008 economic crisis. Oil prices shot up to a record high, driven by the increasing energy needs of China and India and other emerging economies. This has dramatically affected consumers in North America and Europe in two ways. Consumers have been forced to pay much higher prices for fuel to fill their cars and heat their homes, and at the same time the increased food cost has driven up food prices dramatically, because it takes fuel to produce and transport food. Food has become so much more expensive in the developing world that it has resulted in food riots in some instances.

The current decade has seen a significant commodities boom, after a commodities depression in the 1980s and 1990s saw prices at extreme lows. By 2008, oil had reached a level that people could no longer afford, going above $100 a barrel for the first time in history in January 2008. But even this high seemed like nothing by the time July rolled around, when oil reached $147 a barrel. There has been a rapid slowdown in North American and European economies. On 30 September the UK revealed that it had zero growth for the past quarter. This analysis into the commodity boom explains the housing bubble-bust theory partly. 

The role of the international finance capital (its peculiar and speculative nature) and the vicious cycles of dollar hegemony in this mayhem cannot be minimised. The finance capital in US economy got upper edge over the industrial capital even as early as 1960s. We can trace the seeds of the present economic crisis there itself. US industrial giants transferred their capital into the risky streams of investment banking. The giants like General Electric and Citibank entered the finance capital arena with their full throttle. Apparently, the US money economy expanded by leaps and bounds though the real economy was lagging way behind. The consumption in the economy also risen sharply reaching 70% of the US GDP. Out of this amount, a large sum was credit money in nature. Thus the credit economy dwarfed the real economy by many orders of magnitude. 

The contradiction between the international finance capital and the national sovereignty is worth mention here. The dollar hegemony over other currencies was a need for the international market forces too. The US imperialism and its proxies like International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank tweaked and twisted the national governments to facilitate this spread of dollar umbrella. Thanks to this, the US finance capital with all its infectious diseases penetrated into the world economy. 

The rest is history, full of sound and fury and panic in the golden corridors of wealth. The further grim side of this event was that the very same crisis was used by the wealthy to exploit the downtrodden masses. Trillions of money was pumped into the bourses of the rich, all out of the shrinking pockets of the millions of poor.