Sunday, April 15, 2012

A couple of muses of the day

Muse 1:
Propaganda very often replaces information in the news media.
Politicians very often use propaganda for their personal benefit.
Question: Does the media serve the masses or the politicians????
Muse 2: 
When an education system fails to fulfill its role, self-appointed preachers and teachers will sprout like mushrooms!

Subjectivity and Objectivity

My definition of subjectivity and objectivity:

When subjectivity replaces objectivity in analyzing matters one should expect a subjective result to which an objection will invariably be refuted!!

When objectivity replaces subjectivity in analyzing matters one should expect an objective result to which an objection will be subject to further objective analysis!!

In politics, unlike science, it is apparent that that subjectivity rules supreme!!

Future Attire!

Based on lore that was passed on to us over the past several millenniums, the earliest human attire consisted of plant leaves (and I leave [excuse the pun] the details to your imagination!).
As the human race continued to evolve, the element of style and comfort in the clothing evolved too. Evolution of clothing from primitive fibers and plant leaves to today's synthetic fibers (which I don't endorse) reflects a multitude of innovations and inventions.
Heaven only knows what will happen in the next 100 years, let alone in one millennium or more from now, especially with the resources that are being rapidly depleted.
Perhaps plant leaves will become en vogue again!

Ghazal/Gazelle and Bias

In the Arabic language the use of the word "ghazal", meaning gazelle, is used as a simile for beauty (amongst other things).
Quoting a common Arabic proverb: Elqerd fi 3ein ommoh ghazal, meaning: In his mother's eye, a monkey appears to be a gazelle.
The equivalent English language proverb is: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
There are more common things in different cultures than people care to believe!
There are also differences between cultures that, if mutually accommodated and respected, the world understanding would be so much better!