Wednesday, May 11, 2005

ROMM - The birth of "Unlearning"

( The pre-requisite to this blog is "Death of Learning". Pls read it before you start reading this blog )

The birth of "unlearning" was not a natural outcome of "death of learning". Human beings could have prolonged at a metronomic pace set in the aftermath of learning's death. Deprived of any changes in its wake, life was getting stagnated, nevertheless it was not detrimental to its own existence. But life , and humanity at large, was being led to a state of atrophy due to the ever decadent behavior of a nonfunctioning cranium.

Not only was the art of learning in a state of abeyance, it was also difficult to retain the existing knowledge. The gradual erosion of the much cherised ideas and beliefs gave birth to the process of unlearning. The birth of unlearning was deplored by all and sundry, cause it could easily plunge mankind into an abyss of no-progress. Naturally, people started resisting the onslaught of unlearning. But a few saw it as a light at the end of the tunnel, as an excuse to ring in a new order and overthrow the reign of stalemate which controlled their day to day activities. They started pandering to this new concept of unlearning and were successful in coaxing their colleagues in joining in their endeavours.

Now that unlearning was firmly supplanted at the helm of daily affairs, humanity was dying a slow but excrutiating death. When learning died people found life monotonous, but with unlearning it was unbearable. Not only did people become incapable of improvising and innovating new stuff, they were grappling to carry on chores they had performed for aeons. It needed herculean efforts to carry on some simple day to day activites, which threatened the mere existence of mankind. Life was being washed away from the shore of prosperity to the trenches of sorrow and grief and nobody could do anything about it. Unlearning attacked people with a fury never seen before and reduced life to a cripple - as people got dumber and dumber, their life turned from worse to abject misery.

The end of the world has finally come, and it has come in a way in which no doomsday sage or arm chair theorist could have foreseen - so long people, till we are reincarnated !

2 comments:

Rohan Kumar said...

This phase of unlearning has been a constant feature of human race as its developed over the years. Some fools even go as far as to term it as evolution.
On a seperate note the article on Sachin I wrote abt exists as a hyperlink in the blog itself. Read for urself and see whether its decidedly unfair on the gr888 soul.

totti said...

My 2 cents on unlearning.Unlearning is like a cleansing. From childhood, you are taught to do things in a certain fashion.Certain rules are ingrained into you. Unlearning is all about starting from a clean slate (state?). Yeah.So, if you can reach this state, you can see for yourself what is right for you. You will start feeling differently about things.Most of the times, what you think about something/someone is kind of an interpreted distorted projection of someone else's ideas. Sometimes this can lead you to form beliefs that might be quite difficult to get rid off and they can be hazardous too!Think about it.