floating ideas...

Few ideas have been floating inside my head... what is the base cause of corruption and inequality in today’s world? Is it marriage? I.e. the institution of marriage...  illegalize it and everything changes.  Individual property would be fine, but there wont be a point in acquiring wealth for 7 genetations of your family...  or your own kid, as there will be now Own kid.. but is it possible? Isn’t it impossible to take out the idea of pair bonding for life from human mind?

Let’s say – make it a legal requirement to get friendship registration... like marriage registration...  How would it pan out? In a society where it happens, maybe it wouldn’t be seen as ridiculous to you as now.

Similarly, there is a story idea lurking here – a sci-fi culture, where every citizen is supposed to get married to an organization / work team / company ...  it wont be just till retirement, it will be life long..  There will be 100’s of movies about people who are absolutely blissful and ecstatic about being with an organization for life...  Hell, you can even add rituals where people tie thread to a special tree to be with that organization for 7 life times...  

(You can extend it by modernizing the new movies by youngsters going thru hell before they can decide which company to be married with..  Till like love, it just strikes them, and they find the PERFECT company... then its all hunky dory for the rest of your life)...

And in between writing all this, i was reading... and wanted to put a quote down here, for no reason... at first.

running was mankind’s first fine art... (chris mcdougall, in ‘born to run’)

After i put the above quote, i started worndering why i did that... it had absolutely no place in whatever i am trying to express... but, as i maybe was trying to connect both these streams of thoughts (trying to figure out the root cause of evil – or insecurity and hoarding and human inequality, along with ultra-long-distance running, i found a connection... just as much fun as you find a way while trekking..  anyways let me not digress.

The point is, is our life a fine art too, or is it a project? Of course, rabindranath tagore’s short story, ‘wrong man in the workers paradise’ kind of sums it up, but i don’t remember it providing any answers/solutions..  how should we live? Free and without measurements or based on rules of the president of obsessessive-compulsive society?

Putting it in such extremes as black & white creates a skewed vision, and the obvious answer would be ‘it should be a golden mean’... but i guess everyone will have a dominating side... control freak v/s liberal artist – just as the old personality divide between introvert v/s extrovert...  with a third dimension of ‘ambivert’ adding up along with it. So there could be a “control artist” as a fuzzy intelligence... 

(i see myself swinging between the 2 extremes without really figuring out how to find the middle path... as i see the precise documentation as useful and at the same time hippie way of no measurements as liberating too... and at times running through the middle path, but every new day it disappears and i have to runn all over to find that path each new day)... maybe i will find an equation or maybe there are no equations..  the argument continues!