What I would normally do is to try and explain to anyone reading this, as to how I may be right. But then I would be just throwing it away. Now what is "everything"? Does it refer to the world? The nation? The media sure makes the world a lot smaller these days, for I see many people on this side of the world aping people from the other side of the world, which again is something that ensures progress of our "civilization". About this last statement I will explain later, or if u could just ask me. Coming back to the meaning of everything - it just refers to what is in the immediate surroundings. What really matters to us - friends, family, teachers, students, our vehicles, our neighbours and the sort.
I will take this instance to try to drive my point through - the British conquering "our" land. Yes, surely the british have occupied this land for more than 200 years, and have "exploited" this land till there was nothing. They pillaged our land, killed our people, imposed taxes that was pretty obviously (to us) unfair. Nobody's objecting? Of course not, because this is what we "know". A nice little thing to think about - Isn't the present Indian "government" doing the same? I read of thousands of farmers killing themselves for reasons more than one. I read of thousands of sardarjis killed by the order of the "government". But blaming it all on one aspect of history to make "our" country the "better" country seemed herculean - but it happened.
You see, Britain did nothing more than what a government would do for its people. At least a Briton would not accept bribes as openly as the ones who run the peoples offices today.
Now, try to see what would've happened if the whites didn't come here. For all I know, I wouldn't have been sitting here writing this blog in the language that i use as my first. I would probably be traveling to here and far away by horse. My grand parents would've probably stayed back in China making mandarin my first language. There are many more but I will leave it at your liberty to "understand" the "more". Here, i have to commend the education ministry for making this possible, for performing and making successful such a huge task.
I will prove to you that the education we get is saffronized. I am sure, in the geography and history that we learned in our 4th or 5th standards, India and Pakistan and China have fought wars, separately, before. We also learned that Pakistan occupies a part of Kashmir - the north western part, and so does China - the north eastern part which includes Aksai Chin; all of which the Indian government considers as India. The maps printed in India show that the area occupied by the foreigners are still Indian. Go to any other country and look at their international maps. Kashmir that we know of doesnt look like Kashmir anymore.
And we also learned that India won those wars. How the hell do you win a war and still lose land?? The thing is, we - the aam junta, do not know that we have lost land. We refer to that area as "Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir". My God. Grow up!
All this for just trying to push my point through. Such a long explanation is not worth explaining my original point, because I will not be believed. I know very few of you who read this will actually believe me, and there will be others who will go through wikipedia and then believe my story, but not my original point.
Now coming to "why trying to understand everything is a bad thing." You see, by trying to understand the actual history of this "glorious" nation, you may have realized by now that I would've gotten a lot of flak if i tried to explain this point to anyone. My ex girlfriend who's father used to work for the India air force used to nearly kill me for this. One is not normally liked for believing in the truth. But the point here I try to push for is- getting flak for believing in what really happened/happens (a.k.a everything), not for opposing India.
It maybe a matter of point of view, a matter of perspective, but if the perspective on the other side are SO skewed that they could kill me for this, then I think its time someone UNskewed it. If I lived in the US, I probably would be taken away to an FBI prison for propaganda. Luckily, here - like I said earlier - Nobody cares.
Yes, to try and understand everything is not exactly a good thing, and its not that the quest for understanding everything is a pitfall, but the result of knowing how everything works is. I know not many people who live life this way, and i know even fewer who actually agree with me. "Nobody cares" is what this may be termed as, but this is really what is "good". Ignorance is bliss? Yeah it sure is.
Have I made sense? Get into touch with me if you really interested in what I believe.
