To My Venerated Green on ‘Intellectual Entertainment’
HB Kham
Dear venerated S.Green, since you are one of the avid readers of my blog stories, let me share some of my weird, problematic methodologies that may not be virulent or futile to the current world mired in sham and ostensible definitions of democracy and universalism all around, only leading the road to nihilism and uncivilized world of civilized and mirthful educated youths’ degeneration into the world by which the entire indigenous cultures and values will have waned as new cultures will occupy the place of older cultures.
I don’t know if you know that Buddhist God who was fulfilling its duties as a main custodian of your western world is preparing to take leave of your world in the future shortly. The western world has been taking pride in all its success stories, discoveries and greater feats it accomplished so far. It was all done under the protection of the Buddhist God that was destined to take charge of protection of the western world in accordance of the oldest Buddhist scriptures.
And the same scriptures have limited the time for the particular God (whose name can not be divulged here) to remain there and take leave of that world accordingly.
It is said that after the Western custodian (god) returns to the Asian nation unknown, then perhaps it would be the turn for the western countries to go through the ordeals of hardship and travail period despite much advancement in the field of science, philosophy and technology.
The world which is yet to be engulfed by the final touch of revolutionary feminist movement is still scrambling with age old definitions of democracy which according to former US president Abrahm Lincoln means “It is for the people, by the people and of the people” whereas someone defined differently as to say, “It is a government by the fools, for the fools and of the fools”
And if I have to assert its definition, I would not mind to define it as “for the rich, of the power mongers and not for lower class”
And even the so called intellectuals and erudite populace perhaps do not enjoy full intellectual enlightment and liberty for they are enslaved by their limitations of democracy.
Mr you did elucidated some of the points I pointed out in my last story entitled “deconstruction of intellectual inertia” however, I could get gratified on certain areas as you omitted some of the major issues pertinent to clash of civilization between east and west and impending disaster of wars due to our egocentric and eccentric whimsical feats rife with insidious and invisible menace ahead.
Yes, I have not gone through other philosophical doctrines as pointed by you, nonetheless, I can comprehend what you may mean to refer to …
Perhaps, I don’t need to refer to the theory of nihilism…given by …
Yes, I don not feel little perturbed by what magnitude you point to my follies or suggest for improvement in my presentation, as you have also conceded to having admired my stray shallow thoughts under the most befitting title of “intellectual entertainment”. It’s my pleasure of course to argue and exchange my thoughts with the people of your stature who have paid little heed to my unheeded thoughts.
Keep writing with the same filial gestures and overtures.
Professor, since I am also profoundly interested in English literature like “waste land” I would appreciate any further comments from you. Anticipating further response with more critical analysis of all the points that I happen to jot down here without any cohesive order, with some maladies but sparing more rooms for timely remedies.
February 5th, 2006 at 11:44 am
I am not sure I can claim my pen to be a Westerner or an Easterner in exclusivity. Physically and bionutritionally, I have spent a greater chunk of my life in Nepal. Politically and legally, I carry a Nepalese passport. I do feel I owe something to Nepal, and it has been long due.
My spur-of the-moment, provisional political views could be traced in my two comments on Hit Bahadur Thapa’s “Nepal infested with political conundrum” in the “Perspectives” section of this blog (Bloggers Nepal.com), though they lack the necessary “intellectual entertainment” or play.
I would like to point out very briefly a couple of things that have caught my attention, once again for the sake of “intellectual” (your word) “entertainment” (my term): Like I could not see any ethical and justifiable connection between universalism and democracy, I cannot see how Buddhism (Nirvana=dissolution of desire for a desire for a center) and the idea of God (the idea that one center can hold together all living and non-living ceatures into a harmonious whole=a kind of Leibniz’s monadology, which insists on pre-established harmony on the basis of teleology) can go together. In the same manner, I did not understand the coupling of “egocentrism” and “eccentrism” in your phrase “impending disaster of wars due to our egocentric and eccentric whimsical feats.” I would preface some information how psychological phenomenon of egocentrism, i.e. movement toward “I,” and physical phenomenon of eccentricism, a centrifugal force, metaphorically away from the agency of “I” or subjectivity. Then, maybe, talk about how “feminism” fits into this, and eventually make a ground for inserting Marxist notion of base and superstructure, which echoes behind your critical formulation of democracy, “for the rich, of the power mongers and not for lower class.” Then your uncritical brushing aside of the existential “nihilism,” which should have been read along Nietzsche’s line as the necessary ground for the re-evaluation of all values as they have become less efficient in the present day context. The re-evaluation or reconfiguration of deficient or less efficient values, be they go under the larger title of democracy or something else, would provide some possibility of propelling the wheel of civilization further and prevent it from total collapse like, in the language of physics, death heat or cold heat or big crunch of the universe (again it depends whether you want to insist on first law of thermodynamics or the second). If you want to get into science and theology at the same time, here is away to go about: In the politics of science, Christianity/Judaism/Islam favor second law (dispersal of mass and energy as explained through the concept of entropy) because they believe in apocalypse, the ultimate end; Buddhism and Hinduism favor the first law (conservation of mass and energy) because they believe in regeneration, autopoesis, and cyclical life. If we walk slowly and cautiously, we can bring rhythm in the structuration and pattern of life. If the general aim in life is to create or arrive at rhythum (=literally, an ordered recurrent alternation of strong and weak elements in the flow of sound and silence in speech, but this can be extended to other spheres of life), it should fulfill what you have desired in your reconfiguration of democracy.
February 5th, 2006 at 8:28 pm
Maila dai, if you want to know about terrorism, visit nepal alone. If you are too busy with election, go to Thankot