VICE VS. VIRTUE

this was probably another stoned reaction to the callous and shapeshifting nature of honour,honesty and other virtues in the greying hues today..it was not supposed to be judgmental at all ... but hell,whatever happens the fucken way its supposed to these days..i would like it to be viewed more as a comparative analysis of different times,however warped it may seem..








" Me..i'm dishonest,and the dishonest ...u can always trust to be dishonest.its the honest ones u have to watch out for,honestly...because u never know when they might do something...extremely stupid"
--Captain Jack Sparrow






Honesty...Valour... Chivalry are concepts which are by far dead and gone,buried..drowning to the crushing depths of davy jones' locker...screaming,swallowing gallons of murky saltwater.the air bubbles are all that remain...till the time they're also seasick and wary of surfacing...well,hope floats,literally and metaphorically speaking.the bohemian principles of truth, love ,beauty and freedom are all but a fashionable and painfully red itchy tattoo on the arm of an ardent baz luhrmann fan.that is all that remains of the fundamentals that have given humanity its so called principles of social justice and harmony.while the necrophiliac species of humanity is busy at raping and ravaging these very essentially dead principles,let's just play the desecrator as well as the evangelist and take on all of them,one by one and look back in pride over our spoils of war..honesty - considered a major virtue since time immemorial.what was it,what did it mean sometime back and what does it mean now? i'm guessing that the concept emerged as a basic level of transparency between beings for harmonious co existence.who is an honest man today?a man who probably does not get bribed too easily or more probably too often.the same man may beat up his wife to pulp after downing a coupla bourbons every night...but hell he's fucken honest,right? what about the sacrament of his marriage..what about his vows in holy matrimony to shield his wife from all evil? is he being honest to those? what about a good student who excels in all papers,is a dutiful son to the core,the kind who'd never forget to send his mom or his girlfriend roses on her birthday even if it was the last forty bucks in his pocket and he would'nt have enough dough to see him through the next three days.he slips just once,where he cheats in a paper to pass,or still better,gives the college peon a quarter of scotch to get a marksheet that says pass in big italicised bold print? would he still be an honest person?Valour.. Honour are basically integrated concepts which are tread on by millions if not more every second of the day.the oxford dictionary defines honour as a sense and a clear comprehension of what is right and then following that thought through with action.is it alive today?or does it also face the shimmering guillotine of corruption at the core of every living tissue?honour,in today's feeble comprehension,probably just means covering your ass enough for others not to see the stains of crap..but not a clean buttcrack.a woman in college today is called honourable if she doesn't fuck around .. or in more liberal terms is loyal to just one prick.she may cause a rift between the best of buddies, because as is known far and wide..and in the words of Odysseus,the fictional king of Ethaka.. women have a way of complicating things.she may do it for spite or as a resultant attention deficit problem[men do it just the same,mind u...keeping my personal chauvenistic beliefs and designs aside,if i may be allowed to add] or in a state of utter joblessness.will this bitch an a half be deemed honourable?maybe,but i fuckin beg to differ...on the other hand we have what are called institutional whores, the only known exploits for whom would be how big a cock she can swallow or a title of being the chick with the widest and most liberated clit to go around.in plainspeak,she gets fucked for fun or for material gains which could be monetary or gadget based as the case may be.lets assume the whore of a woman knows two guys on a fuck friend basis.both the guys are buddies and treat her okay. one's a teetotaller,the other's a junkie,but he's wild fun to be with in bed..one drunk and stoned night he fucks her and her happiness.she meets the other guy two nights later who seriously cares for her as a friend.she does not tattle to him ,though i fuckin firmly believe that she has reason to do so,and just for the non involvement of the good guy in the incumbent mess that's inevitably approaching..she is nonetheless,a branded slut for hire. to me, she'd be one of the most honourable women i'd have ever met,had she existed...Chivalry- yet another in the line of the dead and decadent concepts, a bygone virtue of the knights and their order,basically dealing with an ideal,moral code of behaviour.in a post modern connotation, it has come to define a moral code of conduct towards the ideal treatment of women.does anyone practise it today?is it restricted to opening doors and letting the lady enter the snazzy restaurant first or footing the bill for the uber chic candlelit dinner by the murmuring brook ? probably,a few centuries past, it might have meant laying down a silk cloak by a knight on the road so that the lady save herself from stepping into a puddle of mud...but is that all there is to these wondrous concepts of yore?why are we doing this ... why the degeneration,the decadence... the transcendence from glory to shame..from roses to ashes..why?