Thursday, August 03, 2006

Be a rebel...

I just heard from someone what I already knew about myself. "You are a rebel, you don't want to be in the system". Yeah, so? Nah and I am not trying to show any attitude here. Just, what is the big deal with the "system" and how do you define one. Its something like GAAP, you have it because people who believe in accounting principle want it, because the accounting has become so darn complex that people can take it for a ride, so we have GAAP.

Thats how system works. A very small set of people decide what should be true and what should be false. A majority plainly has faith in such people, because of their credibility or dominance or both. And this is how a system is born. Exams, traffic rules, nothing can defy system. People love it, why? Because as with GAAP, it does good to a majority. We will call such people "Believers"

Those who cannot be a part of that system are thrown out, seen as outlaws etc. Such people can be a part of system and be out of it when they want to. They can be a part of it, and people are happy to be with them. At the same time they are out of it and seeing the obvious fallacy of the system. Let us call these people "Hackers"

Believers are generally happy, sad, angry, satisfied based on events that happen in the system. Ditto with hackers, but hackers are often on negative plane when their interpretation of the system is challenged by some weird events. But more than sad, a hacker sees this as a challenge and tries to defy it time and again till it breaks. Believers think "Wow this guy really knows how to beat the system". Hacker smiles, thinking he has achieved what he set out to achieve.

Believers build the system robust, and Hacker tries to break it. We all have a hacker inside us, but some of us are happy being a believer as they have faith in it. "There is a difference between knowing the path and walking the path"...

2 Comments:

At 10:09 PM , Blogger ankur said...

read the 'outsider' by camus. u might make it ur bible...!

 
At 12:25 AM , Blogger Nissim said...

Haha.. Thanks! That blog was just an outburst. I have heard about Camus and the theory of existentialism, I don't think I am that shallow in judging humans. I believe that we are lead by something more than just senses.

 

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