Interestingly disinterested!

Yeah!
That is how I felt and was amused, and even interested intensely to look at the ‘lack of interest’ growing amidst the youth, in most things that are quite fundamental to life!

This ‘pattern’ of disinterest is quite interesting! Young people simply drop out. They drop out of careers, jobs, projects, relationships, and what not! The clarity about basic concepts like ‘truth’, ‘love’, trust, emotions, life(also death), ‘to feel interested’, etc, is found varying to abnormal proportions from person to person. That is why those ‘proverbs’, sayings, quotes etc do not seem to make any further dent when it is quoted or repeated.

Alertness has become a rarity. The menacing sizes of the ads are ‘imposing’ testimonies of that! Getting the attention of somebody seems to be the main job of marketers. Once a person is got inside the groove, the rest is easy (we have those ‘conditions apply’ in a fine print).

Ask any young lady, who is an inexperienced first-time-mother of a pre-school toddler, as to how she is going to get the kid ‘interested’ in education! She would now immediately look at the most imposing ‘ad’ and ‘costlier’ the better, a location, pay up all the fees, and sit back to relax. Only when the school suggests a consultation for the kid with a ‘good’ psychiatrist, counselor, the mother starts experiencing the pangs of distrust all afresh! Somehow, the kid is fed into a ‘conveyor-belt’ of education which seems a smooth sail-through, only till that teenage creeps in. Now, school does not seem to be of any help. The gullible parents have the first feel of distrust of their children. The peaking of this distrust manifests when it comes to career-decisions, job-decisions, marriage-decisions, and finally a decision about parking the parents at home for aged!

Please see, all along, the basic element is about ‘evading’ the truth. We have clothed that ‘truth’ in all latest designs, to make it less ugly, less bitter, less hard on our emotions. Above that, if there is a lack of interest in truth, how to deal with it?

Well, that was the question. Why bother asking, in the first place, with that interestingly disinterestedness to know the truth?

Psn(7th October, 2010)
http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20101006201336AAmGVAH&r=w#NbUvWzq9WThW9GWqYeRc
Why bother asking questions if one is not interested in the truth?

My reply:
'Interest in truth' is a dubious phrase. The intensity is quite elusive when we use 'interested' in a fuzzy manner. Reckless over use, abuse of that word 'interest' has made it too dull or faded now, to be 'easily' identified and recognised. We do not find 'truth' so 'interesting'. Trust is the other side of the coin which has faded out. One side is love, which cannot exist without the strong and visible engraving of 'trust' on the other side. Strong trust begets love (or 'interest') in truth! That is why the HRD departments have tried replacing it with "excited". They say, 'we like to offer you a project which is basically meant to be 'exciting' apart from the abundant loads of rewards, incentives, motivation, support, team-effort (and all other 'gimmicks')! What is the 'truth' behind thrusting this 'project' is kept evasive.

Please try looking at the same thing like this, 'Why bother asking questions if one is not intense enough to know the truth?' (The yardstick at once turns inwards, with no one around available to take the blame!). Now, when answers pour in (like on Yahoo Answers forum), the inclination to 'leave' it to vote would not occur at once. Even if the choice seems difficult, one would turn to people around, discuss, and try to arrive at a fair conclusion. Intensity drives a person like mad, 'seeking' what ever we feel thirsty to know about! No wonder, a true spiritual guide, quite often spends a lot of time and effort in just putting more salt into a thirsty seeker's mouth, so that now the intensity becomes unbearable, and the 'seeking' is the only priority in this person's life!!!

(At normal levels, a good school teacher would invoke, provoke, stimulate, stir, the intensity of the student to 'know'. Average teachers would just try to get along by 'somehow' rushing through the 'prescribed' syllabus, dictate standard 'notes', mark 'portions' for exam, and get 'done' with it as quickly and effortlessly as possible, since, for that teacher the only intensity is job security (with standardised-results), and the pay-packet. Government jobbers are no different. That is why those huge governments are so grossly blind about the 'truth' of common man's woes!)