MISCELLANEOUS: February 2010

"Good and evil, Yin Yang, the balance of forces blah blah"

I happened to overhear two of my classmates talking about that, hence this entry.

From what I know, there are no such thing as balance of forces. What is good and what is bad? Is it decided by majority? What if the majority is wrong? And that often happens to be the case. all along the history the so called "GOOD" has been winning only coz it's majority. We only saw the history from one side and decided that some people are good and others are bad. I don't think we had a "balanced" perspective on what happened just by that.
The movies and literature have been some of the mankind's greatest sources of thought provocation and they inculcate the same. "Good" always wins and "bad" always loses. Did anyone ever feel "Hmm.. there's something fishy going on here..??!"

Let me put this into perspective.. Imagine a football game. For the example let's consider there are only two teams competing against each other, say Red and the Green. Both the teams quite good. But no matter how many games they played, Red always won and Green never won. The score sheet was like this

Matches Red Green
100 100 0
200 200 0
500 500 0

So immediately your response is "WTF? Is there even a green team? are they alive? Then WTF are they doing?"

So, without the captain's consent nor knowledge, some of the players changed sides. And even now the results are the same. No change.
What's your response now? Logically we deduce that the game is rigged. That's us outside the game.

Now let's get into the player's heads and think. You are a player of the Red team. You are always winning. There's no reason to look back and retrospect on the game and you are 100% sure that you are going to win the next match no matter what. So what do you do? PARTY!! Who cares of other team so long as we remain the victors?? Hope to win the coming match and respect your captain for leading the team to victory.

Now time for the Green team. You are always losing no matter what you do. Even trying to recruit some members from the red team failed. Imagine the frustration of the players and the pressure on the captain. This forces him to eliminate any weak links in the team even though it's painful. Each time, at the end of the match, the captain saying "Damn you red team!!You frikkin cheater! There's no way anyone can win without losing and there is going to be a day I will defeat you!" The players are forced into being silent.

Looking familiar?? Being outside the game, we think that someone's cheating but being in the "Red" team makes you think you are right. So if there is a balance, there should be equal wins and losses for the teams. But there isn't. Being outside the teams, we think red is using some "EVIL" trick to achieve the feat. So by definition red falls under suspicious "GREY" area between the good and the evil. There are two options now.
Option 1: Red is evil and Green is good.
Option 2: Green is evil and red is good.

Option 1: Red is evil and Green is good.
Let's say it's true. Then the good never wins. But that beats what we learnt till now. Doesn't it??

Option 2: Green is evil and red is good.
This is the only option left. So now we say Red team is good. We are at the point of saying "Good" is suspicious. Good by it's own definition is not "Good"
Therfore a contradiction. Now we are left with nowhere to go!!

But fortunately for those who can SEE, there is a third option. To deny the very classification of being good and bad. That puts us outside the game and when every one is outside the field, there is no game. No battle. No war. Isn't this what we've fought for over the thousands of years?? All we need is just a little perspective. Instead of lending power to the narrow minded masochists, take the power to your own hand.