The Age of Shallowness...

In a week's time I'll be heading to watch the latest Aamir flick- Gajini. The USP of movie, A protagonist who forgets everything in 15 minutes. So interesting-A different take on the same we saw in 50 First Dates, the oh-so-sweet movie with Drew Barrymore & Adam Sandler.
What it reflects though is much more sad and in fact sinister; A reflection of our own 15 minute attention span to things trivial & to things vital a moment before.
It is definitely easier to lean on others for everything, our sitcoms, our news, our analysis, our worldview. it is surely much more easy to come on streets after every attack and demand war- clean and simple. against whom? with what objectives? at what costs? one might ponder and fret till the next big event- The kitsch lasts, everything else is transient.
It's easy to have candlelight vigils, It's easy to bleed tears for peace. talk about track-2 diplomacy when the blasts and murder has had its 15 minutes.
some take an ostensibly different view-they want to barter their safety with land- a land that does not belong to them, a land which is connected to lives of 'aliens'. few of these got a jolt in Mumbai and kept quiet for few weeks- now they are back again with another twisted excuse, another attempt at self denial.
We don't care really. there is an interesting story about a frog- you put it in boiling water and it will jump straight out of it, you put it in water and boil it slowly, the frog will stay in and die.
It's all about attention spans really. every 15 minutes, the page refreshes, the history is deleted, wiped out clean.
A great reason for why we could evolve into civilization has been our ability to accumulate our knowledge generation by gen ration and pass it on, build on it, draw inferences, correct our course.
It's under threat i feel, thus we see the same old ghosts revisiting us again. we had other important things to do in the meantime, there will be other who will exorcise, or take advantage of our slumber to wipe us out we do not know, for it isn't likely to happen in next 15 minutes, and it won't last beyond that anyway...