Can we kill Howard Roark ?
More often our state of living is a mere manifestation of our mind's decision to take various courses at different points in time. Here’s my disclaimer, I certainly don't believe in fate as such played by God. I would want to retrieve my color on the same as put forth in one of my previous post.
"We have to certainly face the effects of the causes created by us and that does not deny us the freedom to liberate ourselves from the clutches of our past actions by our own will. This is what I mean when I vouch that we create our fate by our own thoughts, will and action".
The bus did not stop there; it has a new junction to cross. I had an interesting argument with one of my friend about the abilities of the mind to overcome challenges, which accost us. The contention was as to how there are physical obstructions, which might limit the abilities of the mind to pervade into new territories. I had quoted "Stephen Hawking" as to how in spite of being severely disabled by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS (a type of motor neurone disease), he is still one of the most accomplished theoretical physicist of the century. I had a blatant straightforward answer "It is a very exceptional case”. Very fair, you can't argue with extreme analogies.
I was battling with this thought for entire the day, if we are freaked enough and initiate a race between two professional athletes, one of whom has his ankle minorly fractured and the other professionally fit, normally, the fit athlete is sure to win and there are no two thoughts about it.
The Formula-1 racing has some interesting insights for us, the car parse has a telling influence but not without the skill of the driver. When Schumi drove his first championship, he drove Benetton, which was not a great car, but it was his exceptional skills, which earned him four points in six races. Later, he went on to drive with Ferrari, which was an inferior car by the peer racing standards.The Ferrari team and Schumi with their unrelentless passion for glory (like the 300 Spartans) drove with a notion to win every circuit.
I am not trying to quote another exception here, the answer lies there, only people who have the courage to extend their boundaries and weather the storm can see the smile of the sky with the sun still scorching at them. I can't find a million examples who overcame all the Herculean struggles which haunted them, because some lost in their mind before they could confront it, some fought and didn't care a damn to tell their story to the world, some lived to caricature the challenges and some lived to take note of what they did.
Some existed hallucinating that they are living!!!
PS:(I read somewhere that the average uses only 3% of his brain's ability, Einstein tried to touch the 5% barrier. Come on, where is the case of limits?)
"We have to certainly face the effects of the causes created by us and that does not deny us the freedom to liberate ourselves from the clutches of our past actions by our own will. This is what I mean when I vouch that we create our fate by our own thoughts, will and action".
The bus did not stop there; it has a new junction to cross. I had an interesting argument with one of my friend about the abilities of the mind to overcome challenges, which accost us. The contention was as to how there are physical obstructions, which might limit the abilities of the mind to pervade into new territories. I had quoted "Stephen Hawking" as to how in spite of being severely disabled by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS (a type of motor neurone disease), he is still one of the most accomplished theoretical physicist of the century. I had a blatant straightforward answer "It is a very exceptional case”. Very fair, you can't argue with extreme analogies.
I was battling with this thought for entire the day, if we are freaked enough and initiate a race between two professional athletes, one of whom has his ankle minorly fractured and the other professionally fit, normally, the fit athlete is sure to win and there are no two thoughts about it.
The Formula-1 racing has some interesting insights for us, the car parse has a telling influence but not without the skill of the driver. When Schumi drove his first championship, he drove Benetton, which was not a great car, but it was his exceptional skills, which earned him four points in six races. Later, he went on to drive with Ferrari, which was an inferior car by the peer racing standards.The Ferrari team and Schumi with their unrelentless passion for glory (like the 300 Spartans) drove with a notion to win every circuit.
I am not trying to quote another exception here, the answer lies there, only people who have the courage to extend their boundaries and weather the storm can see the smile of the sky with the sun still scorching at them. I can't find a million examples who overcame all the Herculean struggles which haunted them, because some lost in their mind before they could confront it, some fought and didn't care a damn to tell their story to the world, some lived to caricature the challenges and some lived to take note of what they did.
Some existed hallucinating that they are living!!!
PS:(I read somewhere that the average uses only 3% of his brain's ability, Einstein tried to touch the 5% barrier. Come on, where is the case of limits?)
Labels: Mind
Ivlo mokkaiyaana oru post-ku ivlo interestingaana title ethukku? Yendaa dei!! Another great title wasted with another punnaakuthanamana post. :(
//"We have to certainly face the effects of the causes created by us and that does not deny us the freedom to liberate ourselves from the clutches of our past actions by our own will. This is what I mean when I vouch that we create our fate by our own thoughts, will and action"//
itha thaan naan ennoda matrix unloaded post la sonnen. appo againstaa sonna?? Itha thaan Krishnar gitaila azhagaa sollirukkar.
Posted by
Unknown |
1:21 am
enna pannurathu sk.. atleast tittleaagathu interesting a irukkatumaenu thaan....
SK, I still stand different from your view which defies free-will.I dont !!!
Posted by
Sara |
1:24 am
//SK, I still stand different from your view which defies free-will.I dont !!!//
Saami sathiyamaa onnum velangala. When did i ever say i was for determinism, iws for free-will. so if you stand different from my view, that means you are for determinism. At the end you say "I don't". Enna elavu da ithu? Konjam puriyara maathiri solriyaa?
Posted by
Unknown |
3:38 am
as such the system is deterministic but not the individual components !!
Posted by
Sara |
4:10 am
interesting post...however i think there are some borrowed thoughts i feel from richard bach...but the last comment seems interesting abt system being deterministic but individual components not...does it mean that the system which consists of individual components has by some quirk of fate ( for lack of better words) would still be deterministic inspite of the indivudual components not being so....interesting thought line...
Posted by
Sudarshan |
4:43 am
Sudharshan you right there.. Yep, I guess most of my thoughts have been borrowed from whom i have read and been influenced,there is very little that i have synthesised so far.
My feeling after reading chaos theory or quantum physics is that that system has a fate as such..like the star which has different phases !!!
Posted by
Sara |
12:16 am
Is individualism is about disregarding everything else around the individual? Wasn't Roark survived to his glory by the 'mercy' of his mentors? And the book actually preaches the superiority of subjectivity over objectivity? Isn't objectivity nothing but subjectivity with a majority approval?
Posted by
Jubin George |
1:35 pm
I would not disagree that Roark was himself without the patronising effort of the others including Toohey and Dominique who were some of the worthwhile people who could see the extra-ordinary abilities of Roark. They were infact his alter-ego at different levels of perfection in their own ways.
I felt Roark to be a person driven by an incorrigible attitude to uphold his integrity inspite of whatever hurdles the society had to throw at him.He follows what he feels to be truth and in the process questions the assumptions on which the existing society has been constructed.
I think the book preaches objectivity, Do what you feel is right and never loose your intergrity while doing so !!
I certainly feel that we need Roarks to evolve at every point in history, to let us know that we are drowned by the assumptions which could be a rather futile excercise, only to keep the majority of the society happy who are mostly ignorant of what is being done and why.
Posted by
Sara |
11:10 pm