.
By bringing you Towercam without any strings attached or without any vested interest I have surely puzzled a lot of my readers. I talk to a lot of you as family and friends and I get feedback (I haven’t gotten a written one formally so far, I’ll admit). I am unaware of how many people are reading forwarded copies of the Towercam. Do I care? No. I don’t.
The reasons I decided to start Towercam were several. I felt I could write well enough to hold peoples’ interest. One impediment was out of the way. Now many can write well, but of all why me? Well, because my experience of life has taught me that there is a human need – at the very top of Maslow’s pyramid of human needs – and that is the need for ‘Self actualization’. Per Maslow, when one’s basic, emotional and security needs are satisfied, one feels the need to make one feel, “happy for his deeds”. I am not, for a moment, alluding that all my needs lower down in the pyramid of needs have been fully met. They have somewhat been met, and I filled the voids that remained with contentment. As you age, contentment comes easier and easier – mainly because of your inability to change the status quo you accept the ‘cruising altitude’. I could go hankering my remaining years increasing my cruising altitude, but heck, I have a lot of ground to cover and a lot of lovely vistas to enjoy. Flapping wings hard messes all that up. So, one has to spread the wings like and eagle and soar…
I find writing to every one of my family and friends on a frequent enough basis is quite an impossible chore. For that reason, months used to go by without any contact. Now with Towercam, you all know regularly enough what is going on at my end, what movies I liked and what has been giving me joy – or been tormenting me!
I feel it is important to pass on the cultural torch to the next generation so that they grow up aware of their cultural wealth and traditions. If a young person grows up firmly planted in his culture, he carries on the values. And while I root for heritage, I like to weed out the evil / stupid beliefs / rituals in our socio-cultural system, because I feel that the ‘free format’ structure of our philosophy has allowed a lot of con-men to infect it with mindless rites, superstitions and rituals, that like viruses in a computer system, just take over and proliferate. While scientists like Carl Sagan and Jack Oppenheimer could peel the layer of filth and see the truth of our philosophical system, most of the world still labels us as the way many of us have projected our image – as savage slum-dogs. Are we that? I don’t think so. Towercam always aims at peeling the filth off our philosophical core – most of which has accumulated during the age of ignorance when wars were waged against Hindus – just to kill them for a place in heaven, and in turn the Hindus raised the pitch of their fervent prayers so that a divine force would destroy the attackers. Well, history tells us otherwise. I want the generations to succeed us to be more united in order to defend themselves and demand their rightful plate of gruel at the table, more proud, in order to hand over the torch to the generation that will follow them and more rational and humble to understand the larger picture of life and find their place in it.
So, really, that’s what the Towercam is all about. I will still write, even if no one reads it. Coming to work, riding by myself, I often like to sing. No one hears it but me. It makes me happy. So I sing. For similar reasons Towercam comes to you.
By bringing you Towercam without any strings attached or without any vested interest I have surely puzzled a lot of my readers. I talk to a lot of you as family and friends and I get feedback (I haven’t gotten a written one formally so far, I’ll admit). I am unaware of how many people are reading forwarded copies of the Towercam. Do I care? No. I don’t.
The reasons I decided to start Towercam were several. I felt I could write well enough to hold peoples’ interest. One impediment was out of the way. Now many can write well, but of all why me? Well, because my experience of life has taught me that there is a human need – at the very top of Maslow’s pyramid of human needs – and that is the need for ‘Self actualization’. Per Maslow, when one’s basic, emotional and security needs are satisfied, one feels the need to make one feel, “happy for his deeds”. I am not, for a moment, alluding that all my needs lower down in the pyramid of needs have been fully met. They have somewhat been met, and I filled the voids that remained with contentment. As you age, contentment comes easier and easier – mainly because of your inability to change the status quo you accept the ‘cruising altitude’. I could go hankering my remaining years increasing my cruising altitude, but heck, I have a lot of ground to cover and a lot of lovely vistas to enjoy. Flapping wings hard messes all that up. So, one has to spread the wings like and eagle and soar… I find writing to every one of my family and friends on a frequent enough basis is quite an impossible chore. For that reason, months used to go by without any contact. Now with Towercam, you all know regularly enough what is going on at my end, what movies I liked and what has been giving me joy – or been tormenting me!
I feel it is important to pass on the cultural torch to the next generation so that they grow up aware of their cultural wealth and traditions. If a young person grows up firmly planted in his culture, he carries on the values. And while I root for heritage, I like to weed out the evil / stupid beliefs / rituals in our socio-cultural system, because I feel that the ‘free format’ structure of our philosophy has allowed a lot of con-men to infect it with mindless rites, superstitions and rituals, that like viruses in a computer system, just take over and proliferate. While scientists like Carl Sagan and Jack Oppenheimer could peel the layer of filth and see the truth of our philosophical system, most of the world still labels us as the way many of us have projected our image – as savage slum-dogs. Are we that? I don’t think so. Towercam always aims at peeling the filth off our philosophical core – most of which has accumulated during the age of ignorance when wars were waged against Hindus – just to kill them for a place in heaven, and in turn the Hindus raised the pitch of their fervent prayers so that a divine force would destroy the attackers. Well, history tells us otherwise. I want the generations to succeed us to be more united in order to defend themselves and demand their rightful plate of gruel at the table, more proud, in order to hand over the torch to the generation that will follow them and more rational and humble to understand the larger picture of life and find their place in it.
So, really, that’s what the Towercam is all about. I will still write, even if no one reads it. Coming to work, riding by myself, I often like to sing. No one hears it but me. It makes me happy. So I sing. For similar reasons Towercam comes to you.
No comments:
Post a Comment