Seriousness and other Maladies

Of late, I have gotten into the habit of beginning my article with "Of late". And on a slightly serious note (as if that is possible with me), I have received threatening mails from many of my zany readers out there in readerland which claim that I am paying more attention to Ganguly's return to the Indian team than my own blog. I agree with them on this count, because that particular piece of news has had a traumatic effect on me. I am no longer the carefree person I used to be, a person who believed in the fairness of life (Alright, who am I kidding? I never believed in the "fairness" part, but I had thought that people will be intelligent enough to refrain from making similar mistakes!) I guess I was wrong about the people selecting the cricket team. And given all the serious stuff being pushed into our faces by all sorts of media these days, I am finding it extremely difficult to keep a smiling face. Imagine, me of all people having to sit with a smug face, because people find my other blog (I say "my" because it is maintained, after all, by my split personality) more interesting than this one!

I fail to understand why people like to read serious stuff anyway. And if you think people don't like to read serious stuff, I will suggest to you that you have the brains of a trout. Because nobody who has an IQ of greater than 50 (i.e. significantly greater than mine) will like to read articles about Somalian radio-active mosquitoes or about the life of Babas in India. They will probably like to read articles about sex. Now don't get me wrong here. I know the same people will also read articles about World Hunger, AIDS and SARS, but that does not necessarily mean that they refrain from the occasional pornography visual. And it is good in a way, because (and this is a fact) they are driving the internet economy. Really! The people paying the maximum bucks to ensure that deals done over the internet are safe are the people who host obscene and objectionable material! I have long maintained that sex is indeed the answer to the world's problems. If only we could stop being so seriously hypocritical about it. I mean, everybody does it, right from the birds and the bees up to the hippopotamus! The mujahideens and fiyadeens who carry out terrorist activities do so because they have the brains of a cockroach (IQ around 40) and also because they have been promised personal harems in jannat for carrying out the bidding of their "leaders". If their sexual desires are satiated right here on Earth, I don't think we will have another repeat of the 9/11.

But then, that is what a person of an IQ of 8 thinks (roughly 1 IQ unit per brain cell, down from 2 IQ units per brain cell pre-Iraq bombing). Sometimes I wonder if people do listen to what I have to say. They would if only they could take their eyes off the porn.