Editorial !

Happy December! Winter,vacations,Christmas,New year planning and many things that make people happy in December. this year’s show stopper is definitely Dooms day on 21-12-12. Many people don’t
believe it, but you believe it or not global society is now can’t wait for it. Keeping aside, I want to talk about some thoughts, life philosophy later evolved as a society. Hippy society, punk society are the fine example of it.

“I see in the fight club the strongest and smartest men who’ve ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables, slaves with white collars, advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need. We’re the middle children of the history man, no purpose or place, we have no Great war, no Great depression, our great war is a spiritual war, our great depression is our lives, we’ve been all raised by television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won’t and we’re slowly learning that fact. and we’re very very pissed off.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club 

“But today’s society is characterized by achievement orientation, and consequently it adores people who are successful and happy and, in particular, it adores the young. It virtually ignores the value of all those who are otherwise, and in so doing blurs the decisive difference between being valuable in the sense of dignity and being valuable in the sense of usefulness. If one is not cognizant of this difference and holds that an individual’s value stems only from his present usefulness, then, believe me, one owes it only to personal inconsistency not to plead for euthanasia along the lines of Hitler’s program, that is to say, ‘mercy’ killing of all those who have lost their social usefulness, be it because of old age, incurable illness, mental deterioration, or whatever handicap they may suffer. Confounding the dignity of man with mere usefulness arises from conceptual confusion that in turn may be traced back to the contemporary nihilism transmitted on many an academic campus and many an analytical couch.”
– Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

“Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it. Where is there a place for you to be? No place.

Nothing outside you can give you any place,” he said. “You needn’t look at the sky because it’s not going to open up and show no place behind it. You needn’t to search for any hole in the ground to look through into somewhere else. You can’t go neither forwards nor backwards into your daddy’s time nor your children’s if you have them. In yourself right now is all the place you’ve got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there was any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and where in your time and your body can they be?”
– Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood

Society, where we grow up, talk, celebrate, live. society, everyone hates it but can’t live without it ! If we talk about global society as a whole, it changes time to time as many people see the world in different angles.. A part of Young generation now a days talks about “Nihilism” they love to call themselves nihilists. Doing the things you don’t like doing and spending a long life in a miserable way is STUPID!.I don’t want to make a point or something here, it is always you to decide yourselves what is right and what is wrong. Read more about nihilism think and understand!

This issue is without a theme,we keep it as “Random” .Promising a much more interesting issue on 15th Dec. Be excited !

– Hashan Hazarika.

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