Sem starts

Here it comes again, ... the beginning of a new semester.

New courses, new goals, new learnings ... and all that crap. Thats whats goin'on these days. Ever prof promises that his/her course is gonna transform things. Actually, not really, its my over-excitement which takes the prof's explanations that way.

Anyways the sem started, and I am still watching movies at evenings. You know what, I've been watching one movie a day since a few weeks back. It was a sorry movie that I watched today- Osama, not because it was poorly made or something (although the direction and cinemato could improve) but because it don't mean shit.

These "artists" sitting over their asses in Middle-East or India, are alien to the local people themselves. I say sitting on 'their asses' to emphasize that they have little connection with the beliefs of their own people themselves. As artists, they are running some colonial institution that British established some time back. The "local" people they are supposed to represent don't give a shit to what these people do. Art is seen a free and self-less act of human being, something that reflects and represents what humanity feels. But all that makes sense to the Western world. From the western world, its an excellent endaviour of mankind; Like I said, its introspective "to" the Western world, and the point I am trying to make is that these "artists" in the oriental world, stand for Western introspection. They are there to tell Westerners what they wish to understand. "Art" in the middle-East or India, the one which gets "international recognition", is merely a filter for the West. There is no reason why it shouldn't be that, and I am not gonna start a revolution against what Westerners do. My struggle is against what local people do. These so-called artists never condescend to understand their own people, don't try to understand what they believe in or what they wish to do?

Like in this movie Osama or any other such media, the "free" artist goes on criticizing Islam and its evils. Well, how many muslims give a damn to these people? Meet Mr. Rushdie, who got 'fatwa'(practically, it means shoot-on-sight) from Islamic clerics. Its agreed that Rushdie is an excellent writer (he, sure is) and a great observer but what does he do to transform what "his" people think? rien de tout! He got "popular" by swearing Muhammad and looking down upon the state of "poor" muslims, and after getting fatwa, is now sitting over his ass in UK, under "safe" umbrella of the champions of freedom, which colonialized the rest of the world till the middle of last century. What does freedom mean to Muslims? Did anyone try to know?

Well, some did - We know that Rushdie did and this is what he found - following Islam itself is against freedom!... To think freely, you gotta forget doing Islam (or follow tradition the fanstastic way Hindus do...keep religion to a corner in their homes, and eat-drink-sleep English everywhere else) To such people, its probably only a misery of some muslim if he/she can't appreciate that premarital sex is merely an expression of freedom. The fact is that most muslims miss to get the "freedom" because they think that taking freedom the Western way would lead to perdition of all moral values. The fear of 'women-hunting-for-sex' alone is a "reason" strong enough for most muslims to make them stick to the medieval rules. .... The suppressed sexuality, the arabic verses of Quran, and not ratiocination is their way to truth. They fear not of freedom but its expression as Westernization. Nobody thinks about the need of freedom in their world; not even these so-called artists. Its the same ideas they want to get; but the lack of channels (social psychological communication) in the colonial world makes them want to hire the benefits of Western institutions, without the acceptance of West, in philosophy. If the 'art' was responsible, this problem won't have arised. People would have realised that individualism, equality, individual-freedom are bases of the Western-culture. Getting benefits of industrialization and denial of individual freedom can't go hand in hand. There is no way the colonial world is gonna understand that, and you know what! nobody cares! The Westernization continues...with wierd oppositions! and the West thinks these people don't at all want to be free !!!


Fuck that! I gotta study...there are these two courses I have taken. Probably I would watch couple'a more movies this week.