Modus Operandi
Today is a new day, beseeching me to foray into a new territory with the partial foundation laid down yesterday. I feel torn in various directions, uncertain of which avenue to take, anxious of the end result that each path will impel me to. I will begin with something light that has been in the spotlight in the last day or two and try to weave it into todays musings and then follow up with more news and information that holds value to me and my quest at hand.
AVATAR, the release of the 16 minute footage and the trailer recently has brought James Cameron’s latest outing a lot of buzz and attention. The plot of the movie revolves around the struggle for survival of the Na’vi, an extra-terrestrial humanoid race with their own language and culture, which are an evolved species with heightened understanding of harmony, emotions and other such humane weaknesses. The overture is certainly symbolic of the relative need for the human race to find its footing in the next step of human and global accession. So, because of its intentions to acknowledge the strife within, it has earned its place on here. It also has top notch special effects and is visually edgy. Check it out.
As I said, lets start lightly and delve into something more heavy in weight and substance. It seems as though apart from aiming for a higher plain of intellectual and cerebral harmony, the need to find means to sustain our resources and the practicality of the nature around us is also an issue that holds extreme value to us. The development of “a rice plant that grows snorkels when exposed to floods” is most certainly something that divulges a ray of hope. Basically the way it works is that in these rice plants, “Snorkels” grow as hollow tubes from parts of the plant called internodes, preventing it from drowning. This is good news for regions that suffer heavy losses during flood seasons, areas such as Bangladesh, other parts of South East Asia, Africa and many more. It is something that can most definitely help save millions of lives; yes, Millions.
Further tying into this news is the flip side of the coin that entails that India has to import food in order to help the 700 million people affected by the drought. Such “duality of the reality” that seems to exist around us is further proof of disharmony amidst all the chaos that surrounds us. From the escalating violence in Iraq to the increasing activities of terrorists in the Africa, the news around the world is plagued by the same notion of hostility, disarray and uncertainty. It will be impossible to cover any aspect of all things that are happening around us, but what I would like to strive for is to go around the deepest corners of the world wide web and find the outliers that have been unable to, as they say, “make the cut” in the main stream of things.
The second phase of the format will be to coherently knit the stories and news into a digestable stew of ideas and philosophy with chunks of reality. So, with that as the Modus Operandi, todays news about the upcoming AVATAR and its efforts to initiate a dialogue within ourselves; the dimming hope by the draught in India and the discovery of the rice plant that grows snorkels, I believe the common thread is the disharmony that surrounds us all and the urgent requisite for us to find means and ways in all directions. Keep in mind the end result is the assertion of a scenario that is fit for the survival of man, our ideas, cultures, civilizations and all things that make us any of that.
Having set up a general layout of the methods with with I hope to try and run this blog, I proceed to my conclusive thoughts about whatever random and vague ideas I have tossed out there today. As initially stated, borrowing from yesterdays thought, the first step for any change to happen is to question and inquire, the second and more prevalent is to become aware. So let us hope, desire, yearn and attain any awareness that these tidbits of informations and insights can provide, setting ourselves up for, hopefully, the next step in our evolution; our Modus Operandi.
