Some persons have a disorder whereby they view the world in false realities that would enable them to pass a polygraph test although they are the culprits.

Is it really Armageddon?

Why do we link the term “corruption” only to politics? Isn’t corruption state of Mind? A state in which the ability of your Mind to think rationally and logically gets corrupted. A state in which the ability of an individual to think about his “long-term” happiness gets destroyed. And he enters a state in which all he runs after is short-term bliss. Here’s a poem to understand what it means to get your Mind corrupted by people who do it with the intention to rule over you.

In a romantic relationship, there are times when we forgo our individuality, our real self. We start making compromises believing that this would help blossom the relationship further. However, what we forget is that “love” is best felt only when it enriches our “self” esteem, and enhances our true “self”. Love, for its survival, demands trading of (higher) values with your loved one. And it perishes under the burden of obligations and expectations.

There are times when we pulled between our family values, expectations and our own beliefs and dreams. More often than not, living our own lives is very different from living the life that our close ones want us to lead. We don’t want to hurt them, nor do we want to break our own hearts. How does one fill this lacuna? How does one lead a life that’s unburdened and free of any unwanted baggage? Are we guilty of following our own principles and banishing those of our family?

A poem based on my interpretation of this Ayn Rand quote:

"The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."

I wrote this poem yesterday in response to my suffering.

If every man acted like a "man" should, we’ll have our own small Solar System on Earth. Every thing in a perfect harmony! Everyone perfectly happy!

The first observation of a man who sees himself as he is; a God.

The philosophy put forth by Jeremy Bentham that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the individual has been used to justify such things as murder and cannibalism. Some people view Bentham’s Utilitarian philosophy as more noble than other philosophies like, for instance, the Objectivist beliefs of Ayn Rand. People have called Ayn Rand a fascist for placing value on the rights of the individual. I believe that Bentham’s Utilitarian, needs of the many, spiel is much more fascist. Objectivism has never been used as an excuse for cannibalism, however Utilitarianism has. Here is a poetic rant about my frustrations over the fact that this part of Bentham’s philosophy is so blindly accepted and promoted, even by those who have no idea who Jeremy Bentham was.