let's all become Dinosaurs

The arc of history bends towards justice…but it won’t bend on its own.

The use of cancer in political discourse encourages fatalism and justifies "severe" measures - as well as strongly reinforcing the wiseapreas notion that the disease is necessarily fatal. The concept of disease is never innocent. But it could be argued that the cancer metaphors are in themselves implicitly genocidal.

Shall I be fatalistic, And find that everything, Has a definite purpose? And drawing on that, Argument, See that everything, That does not, Should not exist? Or can I argue, That things evolve, Evolve for reasons, Rooted, In History. And are archaic, Not due to to logic, For logic will fault anything, And prove anything; Depending on prevalent culture, But due to time. The conclusion, May be the same, But the argument, Is slightly different. And there, Lies my pessimism, Against the optimism, Of this wonderful book

Does this imply that U.S. CEOs are more than 300 times smarter than the average employee? An EPI report concluded that CEO compensation growth does not, in fact, reflect the market for talent, but rather the presence of economic rents. In other words, the pay doesn’t reflect the productivity of the CEO, nor the demand for skills in a particular sector, but rather “the power of CEOs to extract concessions.” The report’s authors suggest that, if CEOs earned less or were taxed more, there would be no adverse impact on either output or employment.

What one should mourn is the perversion of the souls of the "witnesses" of lynching. The cousins, family friends, and fellow Indians who treat these killings as retribution – payback time for communities who, according to them, had enjoyed free rein under earlier political regimes. People who capitalise on these killings to strengthen and bind the majoritarian community across class, generational and regional divisions. Those who righteously ask why a death of a Hindu did not create such a furore. Those who decry the selective outrage of litterateurs and public intellectuals. Above all, the Indians who abet and sanctify these lynching with their silence.

So they will continue to throw stones, and get fired upon, and die. There won’t be a singer in India who will ask, “How many deaths will it take to know that too many people have died?” – and for something to be done to alleviate their plight. There will not be such a song because all of us can hear the wind howl the answer – Kashmir’s future will be like its past. There cannot be a tragedy greater than that.