IN RESPONSE TO BHASKAR SEN SHARMA'S COMMENT TO A HUMOROUS POST OF MINE

IN RESPONSE TO BHASKAR SEN SHARMA'S COMMENT TO A HUMOROUS POST OF MINE

You have missed it completely as usual. You never read. Without reading, your interpretations come in. You are teaching the author the meaning of his post. You have neither read nor understood. In an examination this would have fetched fail mark in this question. Wonder of wonders!

It is a sad state today in the polity, this terrible lack of intellectual acumen, this lack of sincerity of approach, this easy flipping through data, this cursory coursing through material without bothering to find intent or significance as it stands rather than as people choose to imagine through superficial surfing. This is a trend that Bertrand Russell had noted as becoming increasingly evident in the English people as early as 1932-35 and was alarmed at its possible consequences in the long run.

How a person chooses to react to an event is his prerogative altogether but if that is far-fetched and lacking in context, then it becomes the subject of counter response such as I have given. You are welcome to your fanciful views about my creative content, the product of my labour in linguistic expression and it hardly matters to me as such how anybody reacts, for, as Shakespeare has said, 'Men may construe things after their fashion.' 

Anyhow, this is the human predicament today where surface-scratching goes by way of depth-interpretation and significance loses way in either the trackless tracts of forests or in the 'desert-sand of dead habit.' What remains to civilisation is hackneyed articulation that needs must be archival material to denote the distinction of this degenerate age, or casual conversation that has no more content than commonplace conceptions about anything and everything.  The consequence of this will be the precipitous decline of civilisation unto potential extinction of its pristine culture and only an organic animal survival of the species whence it will have to rise using available tools unto a higher order of things approximating its erstwhile superior culture.

Written by Sugata Bose