The Man in The Tight Castle

One's got to explore the things they love, as it is the only way to retain beauty in life. There might not be free lunches in life, but the best things in life are free. The reality of existence might be dreary and resistance futile, but there are worlds to explore and create even in the slavery. I'm acquainted with the reality, and the levels of it, but I believe in the power of imagination. The world might be an despotic empire with ability to cap imagination but imagination finds its way. You remember the first time you fell in love? Art is like that. Exposing yourself to it is like first love, again and again. There was a magazine called Vigyan Pragati back in the 90s, and it had a science fiction story in every issue. Can you imagine a hindi science fiction with robots and space travel in the mid 90s? It was there, you just had to be there. It was good science fiction, unlike the Black Mirror science fiction of today. I personally don't even mind a social credit system, if it is followed, but it won't be. Law is just a tool, like morality, like religion. Black Mirror, the TV series, shows methods of storing consciousness and inflicting perpetual torture to it in an infinite loop. I used to think who could be that cruel, and it is now I realise that it's not that uncommon, in fact it is quite common. People are ready to send innocents to an eternal hell just because they induce, jealousy and hatred in them, because of not what is in the person they are sending to hell, but because of what is in them. You see this and you change your stance towards humanity. Philip K. Dick writes science fiction, and he is one of those science fiction writers who was never deluded about the reality of humanity. When suffering becomes a norm, it loses its meaning. Culture turns from something to be loved and cherished to mere programming. The ancient programming of this country has been solid, so solid that it lasts till this day, though in a Black Mirror setup it doesn't matter and everything just boils down to a setup of production and consumption. I'm sure that there is more to know about the world and cultures, but what I know is more than enough, it tells all that I need to know and there is nothing more that is required to know. What I am actually interested in is consciousness, aesthetics, the universe and nature. It is here all the magic lies. I'm sure about the inexistence of a God religions tell it, but I know that God is inside the organism and one can identify Him or Her in themsleves. I have known hell and constant pain and yet I live in perpetual bliss. There is not much that can be done to save cultural aesthetics as production and consumption will ultimately consume it, in fact it already has, much of it. A few however will do the best they can to save the remnants of it.