The Splendour behind Writing on Controversial Subjects

Controversy is beautiful, at least in deciphering the elegant truth that is revolving so clearly yet stagnantly, coerced by the ignorance of knowledge in this society. There are a range of topics, and the further ones scope to scrutinize and evaluate things from a different perspective—the greater the joy in knowing.

We live in times where openness to new information is key, a driver to connectedness to the reality that surrounds us every time we breathe or even think of breathing. In the quest to understand better, there are some elemental parts of this art that one needs to master.

A major part of this includes the ‘uncompromising’ jargon that should be taken into consideration at all times. For religion, sex, politics and profanity—during each winter when the ideas turn into a mortal need to blend in. It’s the one thing that addresses our need to adapt to the surrounding, and if not followed, it may result in a serious detachment from the society.

From the single idea of Galileo that questioned thousands of years of myth that the sun revolved around the earth—to the daring thought of Richard Dawkins on atheism, there is a certain connotation being continually attached to thinking in a way that is different.

The elite of the society always want us to think only in a certain way, and any outside interference may result in severe repercussions. There is a societal law, and nothing of the freethinking could tackle it—at least that’s what everyone wants us to believe in.

But the creators of any law, or an act to suppress us—know that anything can be changed with the accommodation of new knowledge. Unlike religion—science and skepticism go hand in hand, and every time a vase drops or a ‘magic’ happens—one tries to question the very thing that lead to it.

It is always appealing, for thousands of possibilities open up in a single stance, and one is driven towards mastering the one explanation that fits us best. To say that every politician, or a doctor or a pilot is there for ‘paper’, and everything else to them is just a disregard—well one needs to examine the neuro-chemistry of the subject, one that will give us concrete answers.

A selective charm exists, and for humans to transcend into a different reality—one continually needs to examine the evidence’s before taking an assertion as the ‘only truth’ that there may be. And for the so called ‘magic’ to be debunked, one needs to be critical of everything, and every one making that call. Many at times, things may just be for a political, or a commercial gain.

Now that Prozac would suddenly make oneself happy, it’s the idea compounded to the naivety in the 1000 year old view that being sad was a ‘punishment by the gods’. There is nothing but a fairy tale of lies, and in each craft that looks so beautiful—only at the onset of controversial ideas would make it more balanced.

-Yogesh Chandra