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Archive for September, 2013
Hannibal Letter To Clarice
September 7th, 2013, posted in Hannibal, Ink On PAPER, Scarface'S DIARY
Dear Clarice,
I have followed with enthusiasm the course of your disgrace and public shaming. My own never bothered me except for the inconvenience of being incarcerated, but you may lack perspective. In our discussions down in the dungeon it was apparent to me that your father, the dead night watchman, figures largely in your value system.
I think your success in putting an end to Jame Gumb’s career as a couturier pleased you most because you could imagine your father being pleased.
But now, alas, you’re in bad odour with the FBI.
Do you imagine your daddy being shamed by your disgrace ?
Do you see him in his plain pine box crushed by your failure?
A sorry, petty end of a promising career?
What is worst about this humiliation Clarice?
Is it how your failure will reflect on your mommy and daddy?
Is your worst fear that people will now and forever believe they were indeed just good old trailer camp tornado bait white trash and that perhaps you are too?
By the way I couldn’t help noticing on the FBI’s rather dull public website that I have been hoisted from the Bureau’s archives of the common criminal and elevated to the more prestigious 10 Most Wanted list. Is this coincidence, or are you back on the case? If so, goody goody, cause I need to come out of retirement and return to public life.
I imagine you sitting in a dark basement room bent over papers and computer screens. Is that accurate?
Please tell me truly, Special Agent Starling.
Regards,
your old pal Hannibal Lecter, M.D.
P.S. Clearly this new assignment is not your choice rather I suppose it is a part of the bargain but you accepted it Clarice. Your job is to craft my doom. So I am not sure how well I should wish you but I’m sure we’ll have a lot of fun.
Tata,
H.
Generational Gaps in Viewpoints
September 5th, 2013, posted in Ink On PAPER, PAKiSTAN
There are times when two (or three) generations dont always agree on the same things; be it politics, world issues or family issues. There are many reasons for disagreement, such as one generation will think they know better than the other, and vice versa. The young generation or a middle generation may not have the wisdom or the experience of an older generation but it doesnt mean they are less clued up, are not intelligent enough to formulate an educated opinion or dont watch the news.
We live in a world that has changed from the world it was before. These days, people have more access to information, breaking news and everything that is happening around the world due to technology and social media. Young generation has grown up with information being available at the tip of their fingers and they are in a better position to know more about what is happening around the world. It would be terribly wrong of us to put them down as naive and ill-informed.
While it may not be deliberate on their part, but older generation (and often middle) tend to possess a condescending attitude that cannot see a person younger than them as being right and they, being wrong. However they are teaching the next generation to do the same with the generation after them and it is a very bad example to set. There is also a matter of pride that prevents us from accepting that we could be wrong and from accepting another person having a useful viewpoint. This matter of pride is prevalent in older and middle generations and is copied by younger generation.
The generational gap should not only exist to show noticeable difference in the way we think but should exist to forge bonds between older, middle and younger generations by learning from one another. An older generation can share insights from their own experience, while the younger and middle generations can offer a fresh insight and approach to a problem/viewpoint/issue. We should learn that no one particular generation is “right” but each one of them have opinions that need to be listened to and respected.
I have personally experienced this and each time I am told I don’t know anything, I am left disheartened. I listen to the news, I read wide and I am an educated woman and yet I am made to feel that my opinion holds no value. I have lost confidence in even discussing some issues with people anymore because psychologically I have been made to feel dumb. Attitudes from all generations can only change if we accept, tolerate and nurture different viewpoints and step down from this attitude that we know best.
Perhaps we could start with
” You know what, you could be right but let’s talk further on this, shall we ? “
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