Comments on: Moralists and That Monkey Business

By: Lol

Lol — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:14:49 +0000

“It would seem that moralists are as much a threat as criminals.”
Really? When was the last time your car was stolen by a moralist?
And when the criminal rapes or murders someone you love, you’ll say “That’s OK” will you?

By: Anitha

Anitha — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 09:24:08 +0000

Hmmm…the idea fairy visited me again. From time immemorial, men created the rules or morals. Women just followed the morals set by men.

The very same men were aggressive in breaking the rules. They encouraged women to participate in their immoral acts. But the irony is that the women were given tags, titles by the same men who encouraged them.

Such is the double-standards of these moralist men monkeys. But do the women care? They just start sending Pink Chaddis.

By: Anitha

Anitha — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:30:17 +0000

Some moralist employers have a rigid rule about good and bad employees. A employee who joins their firm and stays with them for a minimum of three years is a good employee. An employee who hops-skips-jumps for his/her own convenience, needs, or growth is termed as a bad or rather wrong employee!!! And the employer starts thinking that he is the “new owner” of a new resource!!!

Talking about the search for epistemology, You need to just have a look at a large family (not necessarily a joint family)with a wide difference in income levels, inter-caste marriages, affairs,poverty, and more. Then you have a wide knowledge base to write stories for a lifetime.

By: Ravishankar

Ravishankar — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:20:06 +0000

I feel your classification and conclusions are rather simplistic.we need a better epistemology to describe these peculiarities of our time.
Ravishankar

By: Ravishankar

Ravishankar — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:17:50 +0000

i do not subscibe to your view that society contains both criminals and moralist and each have a place.History is replete with instances of so called criminals who have hearts of gold and moralists who were little better than criminals.Each one of us has both tendencies which express themselves from time to time in our interaction with the world.
I think we need to develop a new epistemology to describe the peculiarities of our times.

By: PS Wasu

PS Wasu — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:10:23 +0000

Your words are very profound Prasad. It’s the labelling of things as good and bad that creates all conflicts.

By: P S Prasad

P S Prasad — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:00:39 +0000

Dear Wasu,

In my opinion it would be unfair to categorise all of them like this because of some self-proclaimed people whom you might have come across.

The world is neither Good nor Bad but both. It lies on one’s wisdom to differentiate between them before accepting the good and discarding the bad.

I’m not touching upon the spiritual explanation of good and evil to keep it simple.

By: PS Wasu

PS Wasu — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:09:51 +0000

I appreciate your overall perspective Amitabh.

By: Amitabh Thakur

Amitabh Thakur — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 07:39:59 +0000

Dear Sri Basu,

I agree with you that moralists are no less a pain in the neck than the absolutely open ruffians who have got themselves declared and proclaimed so. In fact, it would seem at times that these moralists (with their monkey business, as you have appropriately put it) become more dangerous because of being incessant and highly pestilent.
It is a great problem that India, more than many other countries faces, as has been beautifully described by Khushwant Singh when he says that Indians are a lot of double-standards and hypocrites.

Amitabh Thakur,
SP(Intll),
Faizabad
# 94155-34526

By: Amanchap

Amanchap — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:42:39 +0000

Every person got 24 hrs to spend each day
a do-gooder. is busy doing good 24/7
an evil doer is busy doing bad 24/7
and people who do neither will just take a stand and do the monkey business 24/7

So I believe, we can inter change the words and call a do gooder or evil doer doing monkey business or a monkey business doing person doing good or doing bad, as long as it satisfies our feelings. But words really dont show the true reality,

an Excerpt from teh book “Daily Advice from the heart” by Dalai Lama

“As soon as we name an aspect of reality, we mentally eliminate all other aspects and we designate the chosen object by a word that applies only to that object and this enables us to recognize it. Then, according to how that object is used we establish distinctions :this is good , that is bad and so forth, when in fact it is impossible to attribute intrinsic properties to anything. The result is a vision of reality which is at best partial and at worst plainly wrong. However rich language may be, its power is therefore limited. Only non conceptual experience enables us to apprehend the true nature of things.”