Normalcy
Not writing anything, no blog post, no comment. This has become normal for me these days. In the old days, the words flew naturally from the tip of my fingers typing furiously on a desktop or laptop's keyboard to the monitor. So many ideas! So many things to write about! The relentless bad news from media, newspaper, magazines, forums, etc., and there gone I stooping in the corner of my quiet room, typing away the thoughts, opinions, pondering about the humanity, the terrible indifference towards the agonies of the distressed, the blood cuddling wars and the senseless violence, the silence of the vast majority in the face of injustice and shameful bias.
The world has not changed much while the flow of my words has ebbed away. The ferocity of the tormentors over the tortured and the oppressed souls, mostly those who have little or no voice to protest, being uprooted or bombed away, incarcerated in the cleverly exploited political maneuvering.This everlasting story from the antiquity to the present, in various shapes and forms, looks to remain the same.
Lately I have read a few good books. One of them is called The California written by Edan Lepucki. A post apocalypse novel. Story plot wasn't bad, the writing was good, I was gripped from the beginning to the end. The central theme that has stuck to me even a few months after I've read the very last page, is that how easy it is to fool the mass population in the name of doing good, or combating the bad guys but all the while creating and assisting the bad guys from the beginning, for the sole purpose of remaining in the power and perhaps assisting other despots to retain the power as well. Fiction is a good medium to speculate, as there is no concrete evidence a writer may have to prove any of the seemingly "hyperbolic" premise/claim, but a writer's credit lies in crafting unforgettable scenarios, chapter by chapter, deepening the story's characters while revealing the bigger truth that non fiction does not dare to ask most often. In these days of digital age when binging on Netflix movies and TV series is coined as perfectly normal, reading good books has taken the back seat for many. That's a great loss! Movie cannot compete with a finely written book, with a possible few exceptions.
Enough of my ranting on this Sunday evening. I wanted to write a few words, after many weeks of total inactivity in the world of blogging.
Happy summer everyone!
The world has not changed much while the flow of my words has ebbed away. The ferocity of the tormentors over the tortured and the oppressed souls, mostly those who have little or no voice to protest, being uprooted or bombed away, incarcerated in the cleverly exploited political maneuvering.This everlasting story from the antiquity to the present, in various shapes and forms, looks to remain the same.
Lately I have read a few good books. One of them is called The California written by Edan Lepucki. A post apocalypse novel. Story plot wasn't bad, the writing was good, I was gripped from the beginning to the end. The central theme that has stuck to me even a few months after I've read the very last page, is that how easy it is to fool the mass population in the name of doing good, or combating the bad guys but all the while creating and assisting the bad guys from the beginning, for the sole purpose of remaining in the power and perhaps assisting other despots to retain the power as well. Fiction is a good medium to speculate, as there is no concrete evidence a writer may have to prove any of the seemingly "hyperbolic" premise/claim, but a writer's credit lies in crafting unforgettable scenarios, chapter by chapter, deepening the story's characters while revealing the bigger truth that non fiction does not dare to ask most often. In these days of digital age when binging on Netflix movies and TV series is coined as perfectly normal, reading good books has taken the back seat for many. That's a great loss! Movie cannot compete with a finely written book, with a possible few exceptions.
Enough of my ranting on this Sunday evening. I wanted to write a few words, after many weeks of total inactivity in the world of blogging.
Happy summer everyone!
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