THE BLACK STALLION RULES

I always was a dumb boy in schools, in my studies and play. I remember well when I use to see the scholars and toppers in my class, they alwyas had their back-patted, and a tight collar walking tall. I never was impressed nor got inspired with any of their triumphs. They say, everyone is blessed with some extra-ordinary quality which they have to find it some day. There is no success without faliure, and no successful person if he dos'nt have any aims
or dreams to achieve. I was in my fourth standard in St. Lawrence school - Aurangabad, I can remember the day when my teacher had announced scholarship examination to be held. The announcement was made and the fees was about 40 rupees, I was very eager to make an attempt for it. I went ahead to the teacher and said "I would like to appear for the scholarship exams.." My teacher looked at me and started laughing at me, and she said "Are you going to appear for the exam... Do you know who is appearing for it, its only two of them from our class and they both are rank holders, and were not even in the top 10 ranks..." and it was like a slap on my face, I walked back down to my desk which was second last corner of the classroom, and I saw each one of the class just laughing at me... It was a embarrasing moment. As always couldnt handle my emotions, I cried when I was alone. But whatever it was, it taught me a lesson. And the same talks with god, why me, why it was me that every one was laughing at and why am I weak in my studies that I couldnt appear for the scholarships. Then is the time when I see out from the window, I see the sea and the marine drive, I see the birds in the sky. I the tought reminds me of the words of some of my close friends "do you have any idea what have you achieved and where do you stand today.." and some words from my bosses "you are the only candidate who was selected from the thirty eight odd designers we interviwed" and a great applause for me when the application design which was pending from a year - was launched as I made th design possible in two months and a week. And for the increments and the trip to bangalore for my future ventures. And I ask god, why am I looking at the sea and the sky above... and asking you the question? WHY ME? and I get an answer - its not the end... its the beginning. The Black Stallions Rules.

Objectivism and Art

Objectivism is a philosophical term which defines epistemology, asthetics, ethics and politics of human nature. Objectivism holds that there is a mind-independent reality, that individuals are in contact with this reality through sensory perception,
that humans gain objective knowledge from perception by measurement and form valid concepts by measurement omission, that the proper moral purpose of one's life is the pursuit of one's own happiness or "rational self-interest" that the only social system consistent with this
morality is full respect for individual human rights, embodied in pure, consensual laissez-faire capitalism; and that the role of art in human life is to transform abstract knowledge, by selective reproduction of reality, into a physical form - a work of art - that one can comprehend and respond to with the whole of one's consciousness. Epistomology is the term for the study of human cognition as it involves interactions between the conscious and the subconscious mind. And art according to objectivism serves a human cognitive need - it allows human basp concepts. Objectivism defines "art" as a "selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value-judgments" — that is, according to what the artist believes to be ultimately true and important about the nature of reality and humanity. In this respect Objectivism regards art as a way of presenting abstractions concretely, in perceptual form.
The human need for art, on this view, stems from the need for cognitive economy. A concept is already a sort of mental shorthand standing for a large number of concretes, allowing a human being to think indirectly or implicitly of many more such concretes than can be held explicitly
in mind. But a human being cannot hold indefinitely many concepts explicitly in mind either — and yet, on the Objectivist view, needs a comprehensive conceptual framework in order to provide guidance in life. Art offers a way out of this dilemma by providing a perceptual, easily grasped means of communicating and thinking about a wide range of abstractions. Its function is thus similar to that of language, which uses concrete words to represent concepts. Objectivism regards art as the only really effective way to communicate a moral or ethical ideal. Objectivism does not, however, regard art as propagandistic: even though art involves moral values and ideals, its purpose is not to educate, only to show or project. Moreover, art need not be, and often is not, the outcome of a full-blown, explicit philosophy. Usually it stems from an artist's sense of life (which is preconceptual and largely emotional), and its appeal is similar to the viewer's or listener's sense of life.