THE THIN RED LINE

this is probably a result of facing roommates who are too stuck up on the goodness and selflessness of gandhi,superman and probably mother teresa as well.. i just wanted to counter the bullets by talkin about the will power and the grit of people who died or failed serving a cause,which was otherwise deemed pretty unnecessary..it was to counter a sleepy audience that rather than commending a government to have found water on mars..it should be admonished for the lack of water in a municipal tap.










No, i'm not talkin about the terribly slow flick by terrence mallick..i'm talkin abt the sliver of a veneer that places a man in the path of glory or in the annals of evil..what is the defining moment that brings the verdict to justifiable labelling? it is said that every time a great evil takes root,a hero is beseeched for and plop comes a reply from the heavens, either a spandex clad,unsure webslinger a.k.a. spiderman or some other such goon..it has always been way too easy to categorise villainy. all it requires is not even a complete black but just a twinge of grey in the varied pallette of shades which constitute the given human character in question... and there we have it, our very own custom made villain.what is very cleanly, and may i say conveniently forgotten is how the transition happens. Because i like to believe that even the most heinous of criminals may go to their grave in the shame of evil but when the cradle rocked forth the first time, it was just a vulnerable baby cryin for milk, not a monster seeking mass annihilation..it is what is fed to the poor beings that makes them what they're destined to become.if we'd just pay a little more attention to the given fact,we would find reason in the words of the cinematic anarchist V when he explains his actions and his basic existence as of being that in view of which he is just a humble vaudevillian veteran cast vicariously by the vicissitudes of fate as both victim and villain.talking of cinematic examples lets take the annihilistic turpetude of the legendary villain, Agent Smith...which can be summed up when he asks the fallen hero Neo as to why does he get up when he knows he is vanquished.he asks neo the cause of his not giving in to Smith.does he believe he's fighting for something, for something more than his survival? could he tell him what it was ? did he know it himself ? what was the cause? was it truth...justice... love? he also added that these were delusions, temporary constructs of a feeble human intellect tryin desperately to justify an existence that stood without meaning or purpose.now how is it that a person who deals in reason be belittled as a villain and a broken semblance of goodness be allowed to suckle at the nipple of glory in his stead.let's take it from the very inception. Hobbes, in his august treatise on the social contract theory, the "Leviathan" has said that man, as a species is dark by nature..our species resembles the pattern of one other pathogen on this earth, a virus..we complement each other in every manner possible. we tend to rip off the natural resources of our surroundings.we suck on every available asset to the bone,exhaust it completely, and move on.we kill our kinsmen for territorial supremacy and then, we have the balls to talk about the Bohemian principles of truth..love..beauty...freedom..we happen to collectively be the very maraudering rabid wolves who rape these principles everyday..and leave them naked and helpless on the street for the lesser mortals to seek more uncanny and pitiless enjoyment..so much for villainy, eh?yes, Achilles is the villain who destroyed Troy,sacked the temple of poseidon,laid to waste an entire country for his personal glory..a celebrated desecrator of the gods..murderer of hector, the idealistic trojan prince.. that's all there is to it , isn't it?that is at least ,all we the human race would like to believe..we forget somewhere in the pages of the Iliad itself that all he was , was a warrior torn between Death and Immortality, believing in what he was taught to believe and what he deemed fit..a devoted son, a devoted teacher of the arts of war, a failed lover, a person who despised undue authority.peace was all he sought.yes, Anakin Skywalker was a failed jedi, to turn into the most powerful pawn of the evil galactic empire, as Darth Vader despised in star systems across the universe.... but hey, did anybody give a second thought as to why he turned to the dark side? i don't think so..because then we'd have seen that he was mistrusted and betrayed by his own, and thus gave in to something that he himself had sworn to destroy, to save the last flicker of redemption, to save the one he loved..and the one person in the galaxy who trusted and loved him as he deserved..was he wrong? i don't think so..coming back from once upon a time in a galaxy far far away, back to harsh real life..Adolf Hitler, a man symbolizing the hatred of millions. accused of mass genocide,and unnecessary war.we fail, yet again to see the reason behind the most loathed campaign in world history..the jews were wiped out by the millions not because of a personal vendetta but because they were an economic scourge..who'd taken the economy to redundant levels of stagnation and decadence..and the man himself,well, just a man who was willing to do what was imperative for national progress and economic equilibrium.. a man who was as devoted to his motherland as he was to the love of his life who he married hours before death knocked on the door of his bunker.And all of them are villains nonetheless.. kill them..crucify them..curse them..loathe them..hate them..but remember that in doing so , you kill the spirit of a life which was a hundred times more worthwile and satisfactory than the billion other cabbage brained retards who are born for the sake of retention of planetary gravity and die for causes even less worthy..The choice of sides is simple, as simple as being given the choice of being born as a mosquito to be squatted on somebody's arm or being born as a shark who can choose to rip that same fucken arm off...what would you choose?