Ruminations from a Waking Life: #neurotic
“On really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion.” - Waking Life (2001) Dazed Guy : I think my rationalism has reached such an extent that nothing interests me. Anything and everything around seems to be meaningless. Confused Guy : How could that happen? Can you explain? Dazed Guy : Just consider the very idea of patriotism. It is way too hypocritical, I feel. When something unique to Thrissur happens, say Thrissur Pooram , we make this statement that we’re proud to have born in Thrissur, the cultural capital of Kerala and so on. On 1 st of November, we say that we’re proud to have born in Kerala, the God’s own country. And on January 26ths and August 15ths we yell out that we’re proud Indians, while rest of the year we don’t miss out on a chance to mock the people from the neighbouring States even. Confused Guy : Rationalism is the doctrine that reason is the right basis for regulating conduct. So it is basically more of