Question Mark 2

Hi people!! Today I am going to ask you a question. I know philosophical stuff is easy to write and boring to read. But imagine a situation wherein you have an information you wished you didn’t have. What if you knew that someone is suffering from a kind of cancer that would surely kill him and you were the only person knowing about it. You need not be his doctor, but you just happened to stumble upon the fact. What would you do? Will you tell the guy everything? Kill all his hopes; shatter all his dreams, hoping that this knowledge about himself will brace him up for his inevitable end. What if the guy just breaks apart and gives it up. Who would be responsible for it? Well yeah there is a fair chance that he would decide enjoy his life thereon, and go out and do what he feels like. That is the kind of bravery you make movies on.

What I am asking for is not whether you would tell the guy about his problem or not. Instead I ask you whether you would like being in possession of any information or fact that may place you in such a problem. A no would be a mean but a very sensible answer. There is power in knowledge. Therefore, people are always curious to know. ‘Oh! What would I get when I mix nitric acid with toluene?’......BOOM!!----TNT. Now you have it, go blow some humans up!

Laws were discovered and discarded, things were invented and outdated. Of late, there has been a huge surge of interest in this though, what is referred to as the ‘scientific revolution’ the point is, do we really need it? The ever changing and fast improving world demands you to keep apace or you will be termed as underdeveloped. This race for power and resources has made governments pump enormous amount of money and human resource into research field. I have no grudges against these research people, in fact I am one of them, but what they need to think about is the future they are going to create. The discovery of nuclear power was hailed as the solution to the scary energy crisis and look, what man made of it. Too much of knowledge is dangerous!! What are the odd that in the quest of the solution to this problem we may not end up with a much deadlier tool of destruction!

Is it just me who gets a feeling that the future is going to be much more complex, much more demanding! All the kinds of stuff that we create or “invent” have a good chance of being catastrophic. Plastics, Green house gases, Space junk; all these started as a ‘eureka’ moment for some chemist or automobile designer or a space scientist. Ever seen one of those movies where the villains(human or nature) threatens to destroy everything and our much applauded hero just comes in and miraculously saves the world. Oh! There are 100s of them. Giving us 100s of different ways by which everything could be destroyed. Be it the biotech experiments going horribly wrong in ’28 weeks later’ or the satellite laser in that bond flick. You may pass it off as fantasy, but old fantasies of man have been seen to come to life, just like ‘flying’!!

To end this shockingly philosophical blabber, and I would like to take the liberty to quote Julie Delpy from 'Before Sunrise'.

“Ever wished you could go back in time. Just to remember how it’s like when things make sense.”