Surreptitious Radical Maniac

https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons-to-enter-into-force-un/article32939207.ece? “Today is a victory for humanity, and a promise of a safer future,” Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), said in a statement. An international treaty banning nuclear weapons has been ratified by a 50th country -- Honduras -- allowing it to enter into force after 90 days, a UN official said Saturday.  What difference does it make? Which country used a nuke after WW2 or other than US? None. It's a taboo. There are more number of deaths recorded due to conventional warfare than nuclear warfare. And, there would be more number of civilians dead or misplaced than the number of soldiers died. So, what use is this if it's ratified? Does it change anything? The clutch of nuclear-armed states, including the United States, Britain, France, China and Russia, have not signed the treaty. UNSC countries didn't sign it. S...

Are we living or dying? Is there a fundamental difference between the two? As every second passes by, we are getting old and losing every second of our "timed" life. So, in that sense, we are actually dying and not living.  Living is being alive. In that sense, we are living and not dying. Additionally, there's a catch over here. Both living and dying are seen as actions with having the suffix "ing" in the words signifying action. So, I think there's fundamentally no difference in figurative terms when I say "I'm living" or "I'm dying." This reminds me of the words which I heard in a song compilation by Arctic Empire. The words were taken from Alan Watts - The Dream of Life If you awaken from this illusion and you understand that black implies white, self implies other, life implies death, (or shall I say death implies life?), you can feel yourself - not as a stranger in the world - not as something here on probation, not as s...

One of my friend shared the above image referring to the US. Although most people, across the world talk of US and Americans, I really think they fail to understand Americans. Similar to any other culture or group, Americans are unique too. But, often they are stereotyped in certain manner and showed as 'a quintessential American.' So, I wanted to write about one thing. Freedom.  Outsiders fail to understand the level of ‘freedom’ US has or Americans have it. US is often referred to as a place where one prospers, and it is referred as ' American dream', to come to US and have freedom to do anything. The freedom is absolute without restrictions, but limited by certain things for sure. You don't have the freedom to negatively affect any other person. That's almost a given in any society.  The level of freedom which is available in West is somewhat unfathomable to other societies. When people protest against lockdown in the US, it is seen as stupid. B...

Maybe, I'm getting too lazy to write, and just posting memes/info/quotes. Too lazy to write anymore right now.

An interesting thing. Would love to hear more about this. Any one up for discussion? And, this also shows that USA is actually dealing with the basic issues, making it also a 3rd world country. It's not like it's developed enough to deal effectively. Found another meme too. Not a generalization, but it's kind of funny, and could be true on a surface level.