Jerome K Jerome said ‘I like work- like to look at it for hours…’ Everybody thought he was being funny. The truth is he was just being like everything else in this universe- bone idle. And that’s not funny. It is a basic scientific fact.
Remember your school science? Something traveling in a straight line will continue to do so for ever if nothing stops it. Similarly, if something is stationary or doing nothing, it will continue to do nothing for ever until pushed into action. It is called the law of inertia and the chap who discovered it was Rene Descartes (1596-1650). What it means in plainspeak is this: we are born to be idle. Unless…yes, unless we are forced to move our butt and get into the action mode. The natural state for everything everywhere in the universe is to hang around doing exactly what you’ve always done for eternity.
Now just apply this law to people around you. Nothing moves until you give it a shove and nothing stops until you force it to.
Hence politicians will continue to be morally corrupt until forced to change by the public.
Honest and visionary people will continue to stay away from the mainstream unless compelled to come out of their inertia.
The great Indian billion populace will continue to multiply.
Wars will continue to be fought and innocents blown up.
Women will starve themselves to death until someone puts all the Barbie dolls on fire.
You would not get out of bed to go to work if someone was not paying you a fat salary and you were scared of being kicked out.
I will continue to laugh as long as Raju Srivastav is on a roll.
Get my drift?
By the way, Descartes worked mostly from his bed! There was no antidote to his inertia.
4 comments:
there's one thing that law of inertia doesn't include.....we would keep on watching soppy romantic movies even if we were forced to stop:P:P:P
hehe
didnt know that one abt descartes...not that i shud, but i'm a science student, no?
and that bit abt barbie dolls...esp when i ws just abt to go on a diet
hmph
nidhi- u'll be surprised if you knew the amount of stuff they DONT tell you about science in school! Some of the inventors were total laugh riots. Did you know that Darwin was an armchair philosopher? He only made one trip around the world and spent the rest 60 years surrounded by the things he collected on that trip- hundreds of dead animals, insects, plants and whatever caught his interest. I wonder if his neighbours didnt run away from the stink...
ew....
i'd run away if i were darwin's neighbour.
tho in du, u just gotta appreciate his survival of the fittest theory...
oh, have i mentioned? me ria's old school friend..ref-varsha. and i hve a blog too.
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