I was watching the movie "Social Network" yesterday and I was hit upon by this construct, "The Next Big Thing". It had me thinking. I was trying to understand the basic instinct behind the whole concept and I realized it is amazingly diversified rather than driven by a single factor i.e. money. But somehow money becomes the main reason for why it is or anything is called the "The Next Big Thing". It's value is quantified by the revenue it generates and somewhere down the line the concept or the drive which enabled the whole enterprise to come into existence get's lost. Made me sad. It was so very clear in my head that the value of an individual or his/her idea are measured by the amount of money it generates. How stupid!!
We as a species have to come up with something entirely different to quantify our worth. I like the John Lennon song "Imagine". I really do. It talks about what should be the next step in our existence as the dominant species on this planet. I also like the description of Agent Smith in Matrix about how he views what humans are - "Like a disease, like cancer".
Every day we see the world around us and we say to ourselves I wish it could be different. But the funny thing is that we are the ones who can make it different. Instead for some god forsaken reason we look for an individual who will do it for us. Why? I don't know why. Do we lack courage? Do we lack motivation? Or is it just simple we don't care as long as we have what we want.
I think we are by nature extremely self-centered and selfish beings. That is I think is the first layer in our makeup. We don't think about "we" we think about what "I" can get out of this situation and somewhere down the line in time we became a group and thus became "We", but that "I" still is the center of our existence. That "I" needs to go now. For our future generations and for our species as a whole to get to that next level that "We" must become our first layer.
Our value systems, our principles, basically the whole construct needs to change to an entirely "We" driven civilization with a common goal, a common objective. I just hope someone finds that idea first and quickly as our time is running short. I think that should really be "The Next Big Thing"!!
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
Saturday, November 06, 2010
Chief Inspector Morse
Now for those of you, who know what I am talking about, good news, I have all the 33 episodes and along with other of his notable performances, like Kavanagh QC and one more Good Night Mr. Tom. I will be uploading them shortly, so check it out. Now for those who don't know and have no clue what I am talking about let me explain:
Chief Inspector Morse is a critically acclaimed British TV series from the genre of murder-mystery-crime based on the books from the author Colin Dexter.
The main character of Chief Inspector Morse is awesome and by far the best character that the writer brought to life. The whole series has all the E's in them entertaining, emotionally charged, excellence, engrossing.. you can keep on adding up to the list. All in all it was one of the best Mystery series that I ever had the privilege to watch and be a part of in someway.
The main character was played by the Late John Thaw, a British television icon. He also played quite a few roles in movies but he was born to play Morse. In later date interviews he admitted that the Morse character was closest to how he can describe himself. But this article is not to describe or talk about John Thaw, but more of the character Morse that he portrayed so very efficiently for 13 years.
The first time I watched Morse was when I was in school and it came in the evening as a program on Star World a newly launched channel in India. I think it was somewhere around 1996 or 1995. Long time back. My first impression, I must admit was not a very good one. It was lengthy and boring and too much of talking, but somehow I managed to sit through the whole episode, which by the way was an achievement in itself. Each one was more than an hour long and was like a mini movie. Anyways, what really caught me was the locale, Oxford. The way Oxford was portrayed in the series is exceptional. I have never seen Oxford before that and only heard about it because of course of Oxford University and all that, but what beauty. It felt wonderful. As you can very well understand, the series has left a lot of impact on me as I can so very vividly remember minute details of it even now. Well moving along the next episode or maybe it was the second part of the first episode was aired same time 8pm IST, next monday. I watched it again and never missed a single episode after that, till the time it was taken off the air, which was a very sad day in my life.
One of the things that drew me to the character was that he was from a different era altogether and not the macho, I will save the world all by myself kind of a copper. Morse was an intellectual. His thrill in being a detective was the lure of mystery and the opportunity for him to test his significant brain power. And of course there was the music. Oh! what wonderful music the series had. And the music perfectly complimented the tone of the episodes. I had listened to Opera before that and some symphony. I knew who Bach or Mozart was, but this was the first time in my life that I readily tried to get my hands into this genre of music and try to build up a collection. I never succeeded, you can lay the blame for it to me being in school and asking dad to buy me cassettes or collection worth in thousands. But I was way into the series before I even realized how much the character had influenced me as a person. I started doing the morning crosswords. I was actually good at it for some reason and enjoyed the challenge of it.
The height of all of it came was that my secondary school leaving exam was to start on one Tuesday, but I watched the episode of Morse on that Monday. You can imagine the fury of my folks. Wasting two perfectly good hours of study time and that too before the big day of my school life.
Internet or the web was not the big thing back then. It was just starting to pick up. We heard about how some seemingly good-for-nothing's in the neighborhood landed themselves some plump jobs and went abroad learning computers and all that. That was the state then. Not unlike today, where a day without FB is like weird. Or have not checked your mail once is unheard of.
Well I can keep on writing about these series or the character or John Thaw or Sergent Lewis or Chief Superintendent Strange.. or others but I will leave it for you to enjoy the wonderfully entertaining and engrossing series i.e. Chief Inspector Morse. Hope you have as much fun watching them as I did and I still do. Here are some of the episodes. Cheers!!
Chief Inspector Morse is a critically acclaimed British TV series from the genre of murder-mystery-crime based on the books from the author Colin Dexter.
The main character of Chief Inspector Morse is awesome and by far the best character that the writer brought to life. The whole series has all the E's in them entertaining, emotionally charged, excellence, engrossing.. you can keep on adding up to the list. All in all it was one of the best Mystery series that I ever had the privilege to watch and be a part of in someway.
The main character was played by the Late John Thaw, a British television icon. He also played quite a few roles in movies but he was born to play Morse. In later date interviews he admitted that the Morse character was closest to how he can describe himself. But this article is not to describe or talk about John Thaw, but more of the character Morse that he portrayed so very efficiently for 13 years.
The first time I watched Morse was when I was in school and it came in the evening as a program on Star World a newly launched channel in India. I think it was somewhere around 1996 or 1995. Long time back. My first impression, I must admit was not a very good one. It was lengthy and boring and too much of talking, but somehow I managed to sit through the whole episode, which by the way was an achievement in itself. Each one was more than an hour long and was like a mini movie. Anyways, what really caught me was the locale, Oxford. The way Oxford was portrayed in the series is exceptional. I have never seen Oxford before that and only heard about it because of course of Oxford University and all that, but what beauty. It felt wonderful. As you can very well understand, the series has left a lot of impact on me as I can so very vividly remember minute details of it even now. Well moving along the next episode or maybe it was the second part of the first episode was aired same time 8pm IST, next monday. I watched it again and never missed a single episode after that, till the time it was taken off the air, which was a very sad day in my life.
One of the things that drew me to the character was that he was from a different era altogether and not the macho, I will save the world all by myself kind of a copper. Morse was an intellectual. His thrill in being a detective was the lure of mystery and the opportunity for him to test his significant brain power. And of course there was the music. Oh! what wonderful music the series had. And the music perfectly complimented the tone of the episodes. I had listened to Opera before that and some symphony. I knew who Bach or Mozart was, but this was the first time in my life that I readily tried to get my hands into this genre of music and try to build up a collection. I never succeeded, you can lay the blame for it to me being in school and asking dad to buy me cassettes or collection worth in thousands. But I was way into the series before I even realized how much the character had influenced me as a person. I started doing the morning crosswords. I was actually good at it for some reason and enjoyed the challenge of it.
The height of all of it came was that my secondary school leaving exam was to start on one Tuesday, but I watched the episode of Morse on that Monday. You can imagine the fury of my folks. Wasting two perfectly good hours of study time and that too before the big day of my school life.
Internet or the web was not the big thing back then. It was just starting to pick up. We heard about how some seemingly good-for-nothing's in the neighborhood landed themselves some plump jobs and went abroad learning computers and all that. That was the state then. Not unlike today, where a day without FB is like weird. Or have not checked your mail once is unheard of.
Well I can keep on writing about these series or the character or John Thaw or Sergent Lewis or Chief Superintendent Strange.. or others but I will leave it for you to enjoy the wonderfully entertaining and engrossing series i.e. Chief Inspector Morse. Hope you have as much fun watching them as I did and I still do. Here are some of the episodes. Cheers!!
- The Dead Of Jericho
- The Silent World Of Nicholas Quin
- Service Of All The Dead
- The Wolvercote Tongue
- Last Seen Wearing
- The Settling Of The Sun
- The Last Bus To Woodstock
- Ghost In The Machine
- The Last Enemy
- Deceived By Flight
- The Secret Of Bay 5B
- The Infernal Serpent
- The Sins Of The Fathers
- Driven To Distraction
- Masonic Mysteries
- Second Time Around
- Fat Chance
- Who Killed Harry Field
- Greeks Bearing Gifts
- Promised Land
- Dead On Time
- Happy Families
- The Death Of The Self
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