Luxary Living and Low Thinking!

Simple living and high thinking has become a quote for common man today. People sitting at comfortable position, has a different version of this. I call it for them as high living and low thinking. That is what the people at high level especially the people who are enjoying the high level position for last few generations without putting much of efforts in present generation, are comfortably getting away with low level thinking. They are less educated and positioned at high level. They are having powerful appointments. Their low level thinking is giving directions to majority. Their spoken words and sentences become the headlines of daily news papers. Because of the tremendous lack of knowledge and understanding, they are doing low thinking rather they are forced to do low thinking even though sitting at high level. They do now have wisdom because this is thing which no body gets from ancestors. They hardly have broad knowledge to carry out high level thinking.

There may be time around sixty or seventy years back when simple living and high thinking must be relevant. Today it is not only irrelevant but it is a laughing stock. But our great thinker Prime Minister Man Mohan Singh does not feel shy in telling the same to the dying farmer, even when their action is justifying something else. The life of farmers depicts simple living and simple dying. The people living a simple life are forced to die a simple death through suicide, starvation, deadly disease, AIDS, Bird Flue and so on. They die in bulk during natural disasters like Earth Quake, Tsunami, flood, heat stroke and so on. They die during terrorist attack. They die during stampede ate railway station or pilgrim places. Their life is simple. Their death is a simple event. What a simple living and simple dying!

I am shocked and surprised when Manmohan talks against huge capacity investments, SEZ, corporate investments in farming etc. This is the bad luck for a developing country like India when Prime Minister talks against development in such a fashion. Can India ever dream to compete with growing China in this fashion? Because he is Prime Minister, it comes in the most knowledgeable paper of India – The Economics Times. What a crunch of knowledge domain? What a slavery of wisdom? I am forced to write this in my blog – high living and low thinking.

The Economics Times did worst to wisdom when again next day, it writing about what country chants about PM’s inclusive growth. Today India has more than sixty percent people relying on farming. It has to reduce to five to six percent if India has to become developed. The life out of farming through meager land can never satisfy the need of human being in 21st century. The bulk amount of people has to move out from farming to improve the living condition of poor. Poor can never become rich in a poor environment. Inclusive growth should never be rojected so unsystematically. Is this the direction of the biggest economist of this country? Why are they doing such low level thinking sitiing at such high level?

Tavleen Singh wrote an article in Indian Express on Sunday. It is titled as simple living or zero thinking. I term this as simple living and zero thinking. You can never do big thinking at low level. After my significant amount of research in carrying out with plenty of study, I observe that it is almost sure that simple living ensures zero or negative thinking in today age. Even if some amount of thinking, one is able to do, what is the use of this? Who is going to listen to the words spoken by people who are living simple? So people who live simple living generally goes for suicide like our farmers are doing in Maharastra. Tavleen writes that simple life of tribal people means living without clean water, electricity (even Delhi lives without it), schools and healthcare. Is this the simple life we need to preserve? But even though, Manmohan government is ready to go ahead with Tribal Land Rights Bill in the next session of Parliament. Why Manmohan wants simple life for a shortly going to be developed nation? Is it because he has already given Indian unemployed youth a scheme? We feel proud to give something to beggars in India. He has given National Rural Employment Guarantee Programme. Is it because of ever misguided Marxists (that is what Tavleen says)? O, people of this shortly going to be developed country, be aware of this misguided principles of simple living. Never opt for simple living when you deserve today a lavish life style. When your leaders are living in luxury to go ahead with low thinking, who stop you to have better living and better thinking?

I am 45 now. I also used to follow the proverb like simple living and high thinking. But lately since last few years, I am very conscious about my luxurious living. Fortunately, I passed my thirties during economic liberalization. I could get every thing for me and my family. I have house in a metropolitan city. I have car, inverter, air-conditions and so on. I am member of lot of high status clubs and societies. I attend almost every week some or other function in five star hotels. Life is a luxury. But when I sit in this luxury and think about thinking, it puzzles me. Why the people sitting at such high position are misguiding large number of followers.

Natwar Singh writes an article and put a quote from America at the Crossroads by Francis Fukuyama. ‘Know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed – Count Axel Gustavson Oxenstierna, Swedish statesman (1583-1654). Is Natwar talking about himself or his party? Is he talking about Indian government? If he is not talking about these then what are he fooling people around? Why is he telling how America is governed when he is not able to tell us how Congress party is governed? Why is he telling how world is governed? When he should tell us, How India is governed? How Arjun Singh takes decisions on reservations and divide whole country? How Manmohan talks about simple living? Has he ever asked her Chairperson Sonia to live a simple life? Why Sonia is not going to a village to live a simple life without clean water, electricity, schools (as such Rahul is old enough to get educated) and healthcare, so that she can do some high thinking? Why is she living a luxurious life at 10 Janpath and doing low thinking? Is preaching easier if you have got status, prestige and position from last few generations? Has high thinking been left to poor people only? Why do not we talk and walk same? Why do not these people do the same thing what they preach others?

Life is tough. In this era of Cruzwell’s law, when we are going to have inventions in the 10 years of 21st century equivalent to last 2000 years of human history, how are human going to cope up with the problems? Is wisdom going to misguide and confuse us endlessly? Today when on the average, we are generating approximately 2 Exabyte of information every year, how are we going to segregate intelligence from garbage? Why these old leaders are spreading garbage to this highly skilled and intellectual country? Today India is known in the world for IT (Indian Talent). We must spread wisdom. So let us follow – luxury living and high thinking!