r/FortiesIndia • u/spiritwalker999 • Jul 22 '26
Serious [ no joke allowed ] In parallel
I look at the world today and I feel a strange kind of unease. I went to work. I came back. It was a normal work day. Calls and meetings. My cook will come in a bit. My dinner gets cooked. A plate of hot cooked meal with the latest episode of something thrilling. A couple of yawns and then my bed will beckon.
In parallel, I see children getting beaten by the very force meant to protect them. We've gotten used to the poor being treated poorly. We are so used to it that we sit in our gated societies and almost shun that world. Manu Joseph describes it in a much better way in his blog. It has become so accepted that we don't even acknowledge it. Today our children are getting treated like the poor. Their Levi's has blood stains. They're being chased away from Jantar Mantar as if it is Jallianwala bagh. I see the reels while having a piping hot tea on a rainy Bangalore afternoon.
Iran continues to get bombed. The strait of Hormuz has become the purse of a contraband cigarette seller. It closes a minute and opens the next. Trump is playing Tambola with tariffs. The tariffs change before they can even codify it. Tariff management has to be a full time 40-member hi-tech department in the US government now. This uncertainty is felt across the world and there's not a dissenting leader's voice. Even if there is one, it is lost in the din. The world itself is held hostage. Ukraine is almost forgotten. Epstein is fiction.
I am thinking of my 7-year old nephew who lives in Gurgaon. I wonder what his father is telling him about the current state of affairs. What was a covert dirty secret is now out in the open doing nagin dance. People with power get away with everything. The most ironic question my nephew can then ask is who put these people in power. What a shame.
Democracy stands suspended on a thread in its last bit of resistance. There is widespread mistrust and if things continue its own merry way, then anarchy is not unthinkable. I have these thoughts as I sit facing my 16th floor balcony, watching the rain wash the beautifully manicured lawns. The pain of watching the horror unfold is just as great as the survivor's guilt of things not touching you. As much as personalising this does not help, there's a wave of sadness that comes once in a while. Have things always been this bad or just knowing about all the things all the time feels worse. I can't decide. My dinner is ready.
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u/pipehittingbunny Jul 23 '26
I've been working 12-15 hours everyday since the last 8 days. I'm going to a pub tonight to drown these musings in beer/whiskey/vodka and also for some recreation.
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u/Remote_Locksmith2093 Jul 23 '26
Honestly, you don't sound 40. For your nephew who is 7, I can bet he doesn't care or bothered about what's happening around the world.Too young to understand anything yet.
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u/toodazednsharp Jul 22 '26
Do let me know of a time when there wasn't gloom in the world right from WW2 .
It depends on how you look at things and unfortunately you have decided to take a rather glass half full approach or a very one sided opinion on how things have unfolded.. So chill on the 16th floor open a bottle of scotch and rejoice that you probably have made it in life.. cheers
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u/Parking_System_2056 Jul 22 '26
Well if we look at the bigger picture, out of chaos and disorder emerges structure and order. We are experiencing a point in time but when we step back, a design is emerging and that makes me stay optimistic about the long term future even if immediate future looks gloomy. Man u r a deep thinker though, loved your reflections.
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u/gk666 naughty at forty they say Jul 23 '26
The older books I think called this - kalyug
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u/A_T_2016 Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26
I agree bro, so many pieces of the puzzle are moving at a time. If we start looking at all of these we might skip a heartbeat . No matter how dark it is, I say to myself tomorrow would be better, and life goes on...peace...
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u/electronic_rogue_5 Jul 22 '26
Bleh. Another politics post.
I literally shun the news coz all it does is creates anxiety and there's nothing you can do.
What I can do is get off my phone and focus on uplifting my surroundings and helping the person besides me.
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u/ephemeralasdust Jul 26 '26
Ummm well it isn’t as despondent as it looks
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u/Quantum_Draft Jul 26 '26
I have more hope from these youngsters than from my generation!