Brown Motion

The devil's workshop is at it again dusting the cobwebs of what are considered everlasting ideas and human beliefs for millenia. One of them is 'Matrimony'. It is not a misspelling in the title but perhaps a sliver of doubt upstairs (in the noggin) about the whole notion of that term. In the world we live in today the overall construct has come far from having the adjective 'holy' or 'blissful' or lastly 'everlasting' to be attached (almost synonymous at one time as one could argue - depends on which one is arguing of course) with it. Be it at whatever social station couples are having a hard time at it. Scores of science and research has gone into trying to analyze and understand the drivers and the shot guns (if you will) of making this extremely demanding structure survive or not. Various geographies on the planet show varying levels of maturity in what constitutes a 'Energizer' pairing vs. letting it as they say 'fall apart'. C...

There is definitely more to it than meets the paper. What finally appears has to be legible or coherent or both and if really lucky appealing to a certain audience that it draws some criticism - good or bad. Starts with reams of drivel followed by condensed drivel eventually ending up in a bound or not so bound (as in case of this blog) content, consuming the ether with more lumps of thoughts (that may or may not be thought through after all). A lot has been written and continues to be - with today's technology is also available quickly to the masses for their consumption. We have indeed come a ways from the Moses and Guttenberg days - this glass screen I am using to tap out this cacophony of words is testament - not able to rid of those pesky biblical terms in this monologue is a situation I need to address with self. We humans feel the urge to communicate, whether relevant or irrelevant to our survival as a species. I know I am guilty as charged. Today's technology allow...

What is a brand? One of the definitions is - a kind of variety of something distinguished by some distinctive characteristic(s). 'Distinguish or Distinct' are the operative words here. The distinction is said to be in the eyes of the beholder. Many beholden candidates make for a well known brand. Today more than ever due either to the world pancaking (read flat) phenomenon or collapse of variety of so called unassilable and storied names in industry or partly due to information dissemination at high velocity the concept of and appeal to said beholders is becoming less relevant. This is true of automobiles, garments, packaged foods, financial institutions and scores of electronic gadgets to name a few examples. Citigroup, Lehman, Ford, Toyota, Jaguar, Tiger etc, come to mind. Notice the subtle move from civilization to the jungle kind in a manner of speaking...brand relevance is becoming short lived for sure akin to half life of a highly radioactive isotope. To digress a little...

So to keep it so - flowing - that is - there has to be more on the earn side of the equation and less on the spend side. Else it would be negative you see? That is when you would go bankrupt etc. It is assumed that a good sense for cash flow implies ability to stay liquid - financially that is. Many get caught in the trap of being stressed since they seem to not pay much attention to the spend side of the equation while coming with innovative ways to improve their earn methods. This can be said to happen at the individual level to small corporations to large Fortune companies to the largest governments on this planet. What I am still trying to figure out in light of the financial chaos is who is truly holding the bag? All the wise men that came up with the convoluted math to make the spin clearly forgot Heisenberg's uncertaintly principle - you cannot predict two things at once with certainty. We know there are collossal losses but we do not know who is on the losing end. ...

I began dwelling again on the whole idea of 'being'. Not to go full on Ontological here but I cannot help it. As a race we consider ourselves the Darwinian winners - associating quotes like 'those that survive are not the strongest or the smartest but those that are most adaptable' with our species, yet in a very primitive way I wonder if we truly have mastered the art of survival. Then again is it important to just 'survive' or ' to live'? The latter carries a sense of worth associated with the whole activity of 'being'. So then what is this 'state of being'? A rock, a mollusc, a fern or a human are all around for thousands of years on this planet but we believe we are superior. We claim to understand the hierarchy of organisms (and non organisms) in which we view our position (Home Sapiens) as being at the top of the food chain. Hmmm...could we be incapable of comprehending another 'form of being' with a better developed adaptiv...