Past few months have been quite illuminating for me since witnessing Maoist insurgency at India, footilla incident, Bhopal gas disaster's judgement etc. I have been part but mostly a mere witness to a lot of debates, both online and offline. My natural instinct to study the debaters which funds my study of patterns of their mental process (which generated their ideas) led me to conclude about a phenomenon which I termed "half-baked-siddhartha-effect"
Siddhartha,who later became Gautama Buddha,went through a process which starts from starling "new" revelation and ends up devotion of ones life to an idea generated by the new revelation. The process encompasses following steps:
1) observing a new revealing incident/ phenomenon
2) getting curious about this new observation
3) cross checking for existing solutions from personal knowledge database
4) observing that this new observation do not have a known solution to either person or immediate family and friends
5) deciding to find answer
6) experiencing great urge to devote full time to find the answer
7) leaving behind personal comfort zone to be objective and dedicated to find the answer
8) issuing all efforts at all costs to find answer
9) finding the answer
10) personal interpretation of great truth
So now that we have categorized the "siddhartha effect", we can proceed what's an half-baked or incomplete siddhartha effect and it's personal and social consequences.
Incomplete process simply means leaving the process in-between. The motivation to do so is usually inconvenience package which attached to the process. For example, many people who debate about Maoist movement in India would like to do so in a cozy environment. The main flaw in these debates is that they are far from ground realities and should be acknowledged as mere conversations between arm chair philosophers.
Apart from generating a tendency to adopt arm chair philosophy as a way of life at a personal end, this act also have a grave social consequence. When majority of decision makers fall into above mentioned category, thier solutions follow thier philosophy and hence generate more misery in the population concerned. Kashmir is a recent live example.
But then the question arise: "everybody can't become siddhartha" :)
Why not?
Don't give me a convenient answer and don't expect to have cozy life with harsh answers. Siddhartha wasn't super human. He was merely the person who did
what he was after and engages into the dogfight until the last. :)
Siddhartha,who later became Gautama Buddha,went through a process which starts from starling "new" revelation and ends up devotion of ones life to an idea generated by the new revelation. The process encompasses following steps:
1) observing a new revealing incident/ phenomenon
2) getting curious about this new observation
3) cross checking for existing solutions from personal knowledge database
4) observing that this new observation do not have a known solution to either person or immediate family and friends
5) deciding to find answer
6) experiencing great urge to devote full time to find the answer
7) leaving behind personal comfort zone to be objective and dedicated to find the answer
8) issuing all efforts at all costs to find answer
9) finding the answer
10) personal interpretation of great truth
So now that we have categorized the "siddhartha effect", we can proceed what's an half-baked or incomplete siddhartha effect and it's personal and social consequences.
Incomplete process simply means leaving the process in-between. The motivation to do so is usually inconvenience package which attached to the process. For example, many people who debate about Maoist movement in India would like to do so in a cozy environment. The main flaw in these debates is that they are far from ground realities and should be acknowledged as mere conversations between arm chair philosophers.
Apart from generating a tendency to adopt arm chair philosophy as a way of life at a personal end, this act also have a grave social consequence. When majority of decision makers fall into above mentioned category, thier solutions follow thier philosophy and hence generate more misery in the population concerned. Kashmir is a recent live example.
But then the question arise: "everybody can't become siddhartha" :)
Why not?
Don't give me a convenient answer and don't expect to have cozy life with harsh answers. Siddhartha wasn't super human. He was merely the person who did
what he was after and engages into the dogfight until the last. :)
