Culture isn't degrading

I'm tired of these people who say that the new generation's culture and moral values are degrading. They say that we are corrupt and who know's what! Yea, right!

The culture is not degrading. It's evolving. Actually, I think the present generation's 'culture' is much more superior than the old generation's.

It's like a language. Take the changing english language and how acronyms like lol, afaik, imho, etc are becoming a part of the language. There are 'purists' trying to stop this. But a language is something that people use to express themselves. They can use it however they want, as long as the other person can understand it correctly. It might actually be a good thing if the language evolved. Afaik(you can pronounce it Aff-ike), could be used instead of 'as far as I know'. Communication becomes faster, the language becomes succinct by nature.

A culture too is an evolving, 'organic' thing. The youth are building a new culture-one based on global peace and compassion.

We may be 'unreligious', whatever that is, but we now do more important things. Things that religious people were supposed to do but didn't. we give charity, we have NGO's working for oppressed communities, uplifting the blind, hungry, etc. The old generations did no such thing. You would tell the blind man to pray to God, only to starve him to death. We don't let that happen. We don't follow a caste system. We don't believe in supestitions. We don't do dowry.

Some people say that the youth have taken to drinking, smoking, violence and doing lustful(and sinful) acts. If somebody plays a first-person shooter game, these people stand back and say,"Arey! This fellow is violent. He is cold-blooded.".Blah. Just because a person drinks alchohol doesn't mean they go and beat people up. Infact, these 'cold-blooded' types are those who were brought up in families with an orthodox background. I don't see techie teenagers murdering people. These 'purists' are so blind that they can't see we are much better off. Hmph.

PS: For some reason, I am highly unsatisfied with the above write-up.

/nick Bengaluru

Oh great! They changed Bangalore's name to Bengaluru-"to preserve the culture of Bangalore", or something similar. I absolutely despise the new name. How cool was it that Bangalore was the only metropolitan city with a modern-ish name? Now it sounds like some village in the middle of nowhere.

I don't want to graduate from an IIM, Bengaluru or IISc,Bengaluru. "Hey, chill dude, names don't matter". Oh yea? Is that why 'Mumbai' makes me think of slums, but 'Bombay' made me think of beaches"? Would you like to have a hot, smart girl named 'Gouramma' or a hot, smart girl named Nisha as your girlfriend? Unless you are super-noble, or a female, the latter.

"Alright, Bengaluru is almost the same Bangalore", you say. Well, 'shit' is almost the same as 'schmidt', so all schmidts become shit!

They say they are preserving the culture. Actually I don't like anything done in the name of 'culture'. They try to stop globalization, saying it is ruining our culture. What they don't realize is we are creating a new culture, potentially capable of uniting the world into one strong force. What's wrong with having a non-Kannada name for a capital city?

The name was changed by taking opinions from 'great' literary figures (militant-activists). Nobody asked the people. Some wise guy called Anantha Murthy was apparantly the main force. His idea is that most words become kannada-like when we put a 'u' sound at the end. Big dealu. Go to hellu.

In school we had silly jokes ending everything with a 'u' sound for a whole day. "Namaskaravu siru. Siru, Bengaluru hesaru Bengaluru madu bittaru, gotthaithavu siru?". "Namaste, Sir. Bangalore's name is changed to Bengaluru, did you find out, sir?". As you can see, Bangalore is pronounced bengaluru in Kannada. Bendakaluru was the original name of Bangalore long ago, it means "boiled beans town". It's a reference to 'Arave' beans(dunno the english name) which tastes as bad as broccoli.

The government is changing the name because they don't have anything else to do, or rather they don't know what to do. So they have the community waste their time changing names. There are people dying of hunger, disease and things and these silly government officials waste their time changing names.

I hope they don't change India's name to 'Bharath' or something. That would be ludicrous.

PS: IIM, Bangalore will remain IIM, Bangalore just like IIT, Bombay.

Why does this happen...?

I think it's just me, whenever I decide to do something, somebody always manages to tell me to do that exact same thing or make a criticism that I don't do that particular thing or just a comment maybe. The result is I absolutely don't want to do that thing. Because then if I do it, those people will think I did it because of whatever they said. This puts me into procrastination. And once I start doing something easy it's friggin hard to give up into doing something worthy.And the main problem is I'm not being proactive.

If I continue with my plan anyway, people will think that their yap worked and redouble their chattering. I can't stand it when people make me do things, it's worse when they think they did.

Oh well, I guess I need to learn to ignore people when I can't tolerate them.