Gender and Genetics

WE live in a fractured world no doubt.

Progress of an organization or community or a country for that matter is measured not just in GDP and crime rates and carbon footprints and so on but performance indicators of KPI for social mobility.

While the concept is endearing the execution sucks. It is the desire of the wise women and men that we humans, all of us, be treated equal.

By that it is an extrapolation of what the famous American President said in the late 1800s ..a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Again part romantic language and part interpretation the reality or the devil is in the details. What exactly do we mean by that phrase? What are the real world problems and more importantly solutions?

Ensuring each of us has equal rights to do the pursuing of life and liberty is a good catch phrase but no one wants to admit that a whole bunch of us are just born lazy. We are dumbass couch surfers.

To that breed why would someone encourage a change of pace? They are content in their dumbness. And by that there are actually some who are genetically coded as dumb. Not differently abled but cuckoo. Pure and simple.

I say let them be. Then there is the question of gender. As in your biological makeup. Pure chance. 50 50. Much has been made about why the female portion of the gender pool has not had as much success and by that we mean visibility and representation in halls of power.

Well for starters for many years there was no concept of a hall of power. This is a recent mumbo jumbo. Fabrication laid on us by those that are good at marketing poop.

To say that being CEO of a Fortune 100 company is somehow more visible and noteworthy a role than a woman in Rajasthan carrying water on her head for 20 miles each day to nourish her brood of five is what the marketing machines have sold us.

That drives an unfortunate vicious cycle of women feeling deprived and wanting to get into matters that they would rather not. I mean as long as reproduction remains a one sided thing what the heck are we arguing? Not to sound misogynistic or anything but is it not the greatest achievement that only women folk can reproduce our next generations? Think about it. If not for them we would cease. To exist.

So if they got that corner office 100% of the time what is the discrepancy? It comes down to marketing. We need more women advancing in all fields et al. Well if they so want to they will stop reproducing and get on with it. Let them decide.

Same goes for the massive BS that is pervasive in pop culture - equal rights for all races. First of all the race is another marketing invention. What the hell is a race?

Slippery slope is what it is. Now we got black people who are queer or female being sought out for positions of power because of their physical characteristics with little to no attention being paid to their capability to do the job to which assigned.

I say this from personal observation where some glistening examples of doorknob equivalents were put in seriously visible and high paying positions in corporations because they had to meet their diversity quota. Their skillset was their skin color and genital arrangement.

I am wondering what the market for sex change and hyper tanning is going to look like in the near future.

But What If We're Wrong?

I attempted to read this book by author Chuck Klosterman backward to forward but it started hurting my brain so I decided to stop and do it like any other publication in the English language. Start from page 1 and move to the right. Witty, caustic and thought provoking this is a book you want to read if you believe that the status quo might, just might be wrong. At times bordering on being contrarian about most things around us it tries to zero in on the notion of what makes anything believable and certain in our minds. The fact that there is a fact itself is ironic. Something analogous to the idea that you can never predict the future because there is no future. Many books and movies have tried to play on this concept - best that I recollect (I think I am) was 'The Truman Show'. This book by Klosterman attempts to provoke the reader to at least contemplate that what they think they know may be wrong. He uses examples like concept of gravity, and how it ...

Peru, South America - Week well spent

Growing up in India the only Peru I knew of was a tropical fruit (Guava for those whose lingua is English). Not until high school did I discover that it was also a country in the South American continent. So it was this early April week that we decided to hit up Peru - the land of the once glorious Inca people that lived 500 years ago. Today Peru is the third largest country on that continent with a diverse geography that stretches from the drier Pacific coast plains to the high mountains of the Andes and the Amazon river valley to its east. Our trip was primarily a pilgrimage of sorts to visit the last remaining, lost (now found and documented), large scale, mostly undamaged, city of the Inca nobility, called Machu Picchu (MP). The Inca were great architects and builders. MP is a UNESCO world heritage site affording it high visibility to the tourism trade and therefore crowded year round. Our timing was not quite high season allowing us...

You are important to us

Followed by piano music. Followed by 'we are experiencing heavier than usual call volume'. Sounds macabre like bleeding during menstruation or after a ghastly attack with a weapon on a hemophiliac. Sorry Mrs. Johnson but it appears little Gertrude here has been bleeding heavier than usual what with her night time activities competing with the woodchucks in your neighborhood. Some services even go as far as to pick a random day to say - 'if you were to call us during the Chinese lunar month when the moon is axiomatically hugging the polar star with Jupiter intravenous when call volume is light'. Well I will be damned. I thought I had checked with my astrologer before I placed this well focused call but I guess this is what you get for listening to a quack. Umph! I am not sure which marketing genius came up with this personal touch concept of informing the caller that you are really a jackass for actually calling the customer serv...

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