All the best, Obama!

Obama is the new President of United States. This makes me emotional! Tears almost ready to drop off my eyes! This is something really big. Someone who probably would be a slave 100 years ago...

This has changed the way I look at the US of A.

In the past 8 years I have seen the US go down in my eyes and the eyes of the world. From a country that lead the world, in military might, technology ,wealth, a world  of equal opportunities to a intolerant,ignorant, uncouth, tasteless,bigoted, religious, bully country,full of country bumpkins, Whose have world cups whose only participants are Americans! Who will bomb anyone for oil. who dono a sikh from an Arab.

Now the people of this country have forced me to sit up and ....Well..  They have voted for a "Barrack Hussein Obama", A Black man!!! With a Muslim middle name!! African Father!! 

Yeah he is not a typical black man, he was brought up by white grandparents, not poor bla bla and all that.Yeah Yeah! But In my eyes, the country has shown what it has stood for. It has shown that it can rise above prejudice and choose for a change. Choose for a big leap! 

Yeah, what all I said before may still be true about Americans but the world and me have been forced to change our views for a bit.

Hope the difficult times have helped the mighty learn a humble lesson, Wish the man and his country all the very best.

As they say, 

God bless America!!

Kurigalu, Saar Kurigalu

Today, I think I am ashamed of our species, humans.! i just watched a movie about Nazis, Boy!! do i hate them or what! They are the sickest SOBs on this earth!! Grrrr.... but it got me thinking, what they did was not unique, happens in africa... all the countries, then what happned in india during partition and the way the lower castes were treated by upper casts here. [ I checkout the genocide page on Wiki- not a corner of the world spared!!! ] People are just evil inside and all that comes out when free reign is given???

High and mighty me, Will I toe the hatered line if I am put in a situation like that???

Then.... I think I was being too hasty judging ppl. a few evil ones but majority of the Nazi germany..? evil?

Or are we humans empty vessels who can very easily filled with evil shit? we are good if some powerful orator encourages us to be Or all go the other way in the hands of a Hitler. are we just puppets?
are we all psychos in disguise? or Buddhas even? Millions of people followed gandhi and non violence. were they good people and millions of Hitler followers bad?

I think these two were just the very same people – they were just followers. no good or bad in them. They[or should I say We] are just followers. We follow anyone who urges us to follow.

This has disturbed me a lil less now. thinking of our species as follower species rather than an evil species. There have been evil men,( VERY FEW WOMEN, no women! :-P) who have led hordes to evil and There have been good people Jesus, Buddha, Gandhi who commanded just as much, if not much bigger following…
hmmmm … so...followers han? ... just followers.

movie link.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_(2001_film)