I think I need some more eyes. . Apart from regular eyes , I need one to give electric shocks when I opened it, I should have one on back of my head to check who is behind me (My bike does not have rear-view mirrors) , one on top of my head to check if any pigeons flying over my head at punjagutta and nalgonda X roads and shitting, one infrared eye for driving. One spiritual eye, at least 3 eyes to read three different books simultaneously, one dedicated eye for news channels and one for entertainment channels. And each eye should have a hook above it so that books and tv's could be attached to it.
Anyway whats the point of having just a pair of eyes? So that ears, legs and kidneys wont feel inferior numerically?
The problem with having just one pair of eyes and a very creative mind is, we tend to believe what ever we saw i.e. what ever our eyes could see. And this limitation created lot of illusions, like, we see sun rising in the east and setting in the west and mankind believed that sun is roaming around the Earth. The same limitation made us believe that earth is flat.
This phenomenon is not just confined to physical world, its affects are visible in understanding society too. A foreigner sees India through National Geographic and Discovery channels and believes that india is filled with monkeys, elephants and snake charmers. A guy from metropolitan city who watches eyes full of NDTV Good Times forgets the existence of villages and thinks everybody in india is filthy rich. A middle class person living in a village thinks he is lot better than the rest and when he comes to city will start thinking that everyone is trying to loot him. We see few American or Japanese documentaries and pass derogatory remarks on Indian work culture. We admire growth rate of China because we cant see the lack of fundamental rights there. We judge a person based on looks. The moment we see that the persons skin color/ body build/ nose is different than our own, we develop dislike towards them. We mostly go by looks while choosing a life partner because we equate beauty with lot of qualities . We read one book in philosophy and prefers to stick to it for rest of the life. We go to a village for one day and believe that villages are filled with dirt and innocence. We read Eenadu and believe that YS Jagan is stupid, we read Sakshi and believe that, except YS Jagan, rest of the world is bad.
In a way, we always feed our brain with incomplete version of reality, so , cant blame brain for drawing inappropriate conclusions. Either the world should not be this complex or we should be more dumb to match limitations of our eyes. If there is a God who created us all, he is cruel.
4 comments:
>we should be more dumb to match limitations of our eyes.
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Sanju,whats your problem here....time or incomplete reality. You need more number of eyes to do different things at the same time....So it would still be a pair of eyes that are watching out for bird---- at panjagutta
And poor brain.....it would just get bombarded...you already push yours too much!!
Having more number of eyes would exacerbate the situation. More eyes would probably call for a more complex brain (if not more number of it) which could generate more complicated illusions yet in a deadly subtle way. Perhaps one wish for becoming blind. After all that leads to the blissful state of ignorance wouldn't it? :D
I felt the same watching the TV's and the no of info-streams they dump on us (one visual and at least two textual -in the form of scrolling).
I think God can either be merciful or omnipotent and he is forced to be cruel in ordered to maintain his omni-potency (if there is such a thing).
@mauli :)
@shanti ... i sense sarcasm ...hehe
@indian minerva .. if the information we receive is enough to engage the brain completely to process it, then may be we would not have illusions.
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