Being Myself…

Software and sex!

// January 12th, 2010 // Contributed, Experiences

When we look around we see so many people. Was the world was this crowded even when you were a child? No right? Unless of course you have done what they call a negative shift. i.e. shifted from a densely populated city like Calcutta or Bombay to a comparatively less populated city.

You are thinking as to why I am raising this point. No reason.

Isn’t it true that almost every person you meet has some or the other relative working in a IT company or is in IT field. It prompts you to ask a question, “Are Indians so good at Information Technology?”

There can be and there is a simple answer. However I must as Holmes said to Watson, arrive at it by circumlocution.

Circumlocution begins:

Is it in fact true that Indians are radically gifted at solving software puzzles using logic, that the Russians are the best at Chess (you are thinking of  V. Anand right?) or that several of the great musicians and scientists of the world happen/happened to be Jewish? Is it genes or what?

Take the case of Sigmund Freud. There would be very few people who would know that he began his scientific career as a zoologist looking for the testicles of eels. He dissected 800 eels in this painstaking and probably painful (for the eels) process. It not clear whether he located the reptilian genetilia or not.

This frustration must have affected Freud adversely because he then turned his attention to dreams and to the theory of sublimation of sexual energy. In his subsequent works, Civilization and its Discontents, for one, he builds on the assumption that the animal energy of reproduction has been ’sublimated’ into the pursuits we call civilization, even those of thought and endeavor that distinguishes humans from animals. Freud himself obviously sublimated his frustration into this theory.

Circumlocution about to end: 5…4…3…

A little reflection makes it self evident that, just as the British and other Europeans have sublimated their basic sexual energy into football, and Americans have diverted theirs into sex itself and remote controlled violence, Indians ahve sublimated theirs into doing other people’s sums.

There are other communities in the world who have turned their basic sexual energy into bullying other people or into blowing innocent people up. One of the seven allleged terrorists on trial at the Old Bailey, accused of planning more bombs in Britain, was alleged to have targeted night clubs because they were the haunts of “Sluts and Slags”. Not much liberation for Palestine there, but a good lession for the wicked and the sexually permissive Satan!

BTW, circumlocution ended way back!

That’s not to belittle instict and natural genius. The early twentieth century mathematician Srinivas Ramanujan manifestly operated through a combination of sweat and instinctive insight. He could see the logic in the chain, the theorem in the sequence. Did that come from being celibate and lonely for several years? We do not know for certain.

Lightbulb: Is this also the reason why most playmates are blondes?

Disclaimer: Parts of this write-up are plagiarized from someone very, very intelligent. He remains in the shadows and requests you not to experiment anything discussed here at home. If you are a student, go back to studies, because I cannot guarantee rank just because you stopped doing your nightly thing!

Any statements made are only theories and I do not have any verifiable statistic data apart from a very old and yellowed newspaper clipping to show as proof.

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