THE MAN!

We are a civilized society. Or so, we are told. Good, Excellent! Isn't it brilliant that we are a civilized society? Seriously! When was the last time.....Err... No! No! Wait! Wait! Wait! I guess I need to change my stand on this whole topic running inside my head. It happens like this sometimes. The(my) mind takes U-turns on things.

So where were we? Yeah, Civil society.

As very vividly mentioned in this movie called 'School of rock', there's always 'THE MAN' in everything going right or wrong. Chucking the movie aside, let's concentrate on THE MAN. It's always been THE MAN. It's always for THE MAN. It's always been of THE MAN. And as long as the above is true, everyone is very happy, as nobody really has to do anything. THE MAN will take care of it all! Man/Woman, this is boring.

By th way, something that has always troubled me is that, why do we say “Hey, Man!”, and not “Hey, Woman”, (okay, only while talking to the ladies). Or is 'man' a general term? Meaning, do we generalize woman as a subset of man? Wo-Man? You get it? You get it? Besides that being true, whoever uses the expression 'Hey, Woman!' is sure to be some trend-setter of sorts. Good for who ever it is.

So, , THE MAN. Our indecisiveness stems from whom? If your answer is 'THE MAN', please go and give yourself a pat on the back!Who stops you from fixing a problem in your immediate surroundings?Your options? You want options? Okay.... We all know the options anyways. Here they are, anyways..

A. THE MAN

B. THE MAN

C. THE MAN

D. THE MAN

Your answer? Correct! E is the right answer!!

Now, what if there was no MAN? How about 'There IS no MAN!'

How easily, we thwart anything that comes our way, waiting for instructions from THE MAN?

Imagine this. You are in a place, where you have been told to leave your footwear outside the premises of this place in order to help maintain the place clean. Now, this guy walks into this place 'LIKE A BOSS' with his footwear on. Most people in this place notice this 'boss'. Now, we all know that the chance of anyone telling the guy to go out, remove his footwear and then step back in, is frankly, remote. Why? Why bother? Someone will! ENTER................................................................THE MAN. THE MAN will always be present in every scene where no one else dares to, unless someone dares to.

He is like the person who maintains the status quo. Specially when things aren't going our way, or the way it should, as per preference.

Quite frankly, and more so thankfully, many among us are capable of filtering out the noises of THE MAN and cutting straight to the chase. We have, in most cases witnessed these fellow beings, specially when things hit us in a big way., be it floods, storms or any calamity. They don't pledge their obedience to THE MAN. Nor do they indulge in discussions over issues over which they can't do much about, fighting to prove their intellectual superiority.

And then comes the saying, 'We are special because we can empathize with a fellow mind.' Now, there is no point in wanting to slap the fellows who say this , nor in wanting to ask them if they have read the mind of all animals/learned the languages that animals speak, to so blatantly make such claims.

Fair enough, We all can fell empathy. So then what? Huh? So WHAT? What's the point of all the empathy that we can feel on the planet, where, when it comes to doing, we wait for THE MAN? 

Juggle balls?

So now, when you home alone, and you feel scared that someone's around, when no one is, look to your left, look to your right. Look behind. Look under the bed, in the shower, behind the curtains and all the nooks and crannies. Just do me a favor. Just don't look up. He doesn't like being seen.

At this point, the teacher asks her most favorite question. “So kids, moral of the story?” All the kids shout in unison, all in their squeaky little voices.. “Keep calm, look up, and show THE MAN the finger!" Look at the times we live in! Even our imagination, kindergarten kids know which finger to show THE MAN!