Educated Vs Wise

I have kind of created a war with the educated lot of the world. Its a self created self destructive excercise, but it is something out of what i see, feel, and bear each passing day. I would with all the limited intellect that i posses, try to put forward my points. The issues that have made me believe that the educated lot is making this world a horrifying place to be at.

I neither understand the complexities of finance, politics nor of business,so i would not indulge in those. I would keep myself to very low lying yet quiet important facts of life. Things that we come across each day and our approach towards all these.

1) Traffic woes: - Each morning when i get up and get ready to drive to office the thing that keeps knocking my head is "what kind of traffic will i get today". My observation of about 20k kms of driving has made me realise a few things.

• All, yes all traffic jam is caused by educated people. Now u can create a seperate category for these. These are educated without patience. But didnt we all have read that education makes a man humble and hence full of patience.

• All those who break traffic signal are educated people. Yes, all, coz probably they think its cool to break traffic signals. I think they do so coz they think they can get away from traffic police personal. Which means that there is an inherent feeling that so long as you are caught, its ok to break the law. Again, a deviation from what we are "educated". We all told to respect the law.

2) Bribe: - Here its an absolutely educated world. Both parties involved, i mean, the giver and the taker are educated. And in most case often well read too. But how does that matter at all, right, so what if we are told about the goods and the bads in school. So what, i mean we would have read Moral science as one of the "subjects". And am sure all of us wouldve "cleared" the examination. I have often laughed at the concept itself, moral science being a subject and then an examination for the same.

3) Nepotism: - I agree this had been a subject of study for a long time. It started with people who were not educated trying to get their sons or nephews in their place so that the family continues to earn. However, in recent times this whole concept has become applicable to very well educated industry. I cant believe people at middle management struggle for words while presenting their thoughts to team. I mean, its just not possible.

There are 100s of such examples around you, and all these make me feel sad each passing day that i belong to such group. What we dont understand is its easy to be educated, but what is tough is, to get wisdom.

I seek wisdom, good lord, else i know this earth would soon be one hell of a place to be at. All educated yet all breaking rules, all creating havoc on streets, in towns, in shops. I dont think in such a situation i can live peacefully, forget living happlily.

Piracy and Education

On one of those lazy weekends,i pushed myself out of bed in search of some real worthy time pass movies. My thought, as I was trying to search through a pile of cds at a library, was broken when i heard a boy asking the counter boy "Is this CD original". I could muster some thoughts and decided to rather take a lazy stroll while the statement kept banging my head for some reason.

I was wondering, how big is this pirated CD market? is it organized or unorganized? where do these people create CDs? 100 others. While walking i happen to cross one of the landmarks of Bangalore, an engineering marvel and quiet sensational "teen" hot hang out spot, called forum. My eyes for some reason was searching something in particular, and bang i saw it. A small "teenager" trying to sell pirated DVDs.

There were three "facts" that caught my mind: -
1) The small shop was set up right outside prime place of people wanting to enjoy their weekend, The Forum. It was located at such a place that anyone walking, driving, or merely standing couldn't have missed.
2) It was right next to a crossing which was manned by traffic police personal. To the astonishment, the guy who was selling the CDs/DVDs was calling for people to come and buy as if he is selling some vegetables.
3) Most of his buyers were educated lot.

Now while the first two points in here show how easy it is to handle the law in here and all those anti-piracy drives are a mere "namesake", it was the third one that made me feel sorry. The educated lot buying pirated CDs, and poor me thought education impart wisdom. So far as my understanding goes, its this educated lot that has access to TV and the programs that show the ill effects of piracy. I also hope that these people have wisdom to understand what all those mean to some. And i know a few of the pirated CD buyers who feel sorry every time a theater in their locality is brought down for a shopping complex.

What do they do... they buy pirated CDs..So next time u read STOP PIRACY buy only original, i atleast expect u to buy/rent only original CDs. For if u can read i hope you have a grown up matured mind that understands what PIRACY means...if not then read further i shall explain it as per dictionary.

"the unauthorized reproduction or use of a copyrighted book, recording, television program, patented invention, trademarked product, etc."

And under law of any country, this is illegal. So if u think that only the guys who sell pirated cds are doing illegal activity, rest be assured that if you buy it, u too are a part of this illegal drive.

Cheers!!