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Inconsequential ramifications of existential angst has the tendency to depress the initial exuberance of the sole warrior battling the odds stacked against him, because every time he senses victory he gets trapped in a cascade of troubles that take his goal farther than it could have ever been. The insolence of the lone warrior is the ugly protrusion in the smoothness of altruism of the rest of the inhumanity, who could be described as bricks in a wall but it would be more apt to say that they are grains of sand, who could be blown by the slight winds or whims of rulers, dictators and the so called elite. The sole warrior is a misfit, a piece that never fits a jigsaw puzzle because he is a puzzle himself. Achilles had a heel, but the sole warrior has his egotism. ‘Egotism’ despite the opprobriousness of the term is a virtue. It leads to the protection of skills and its outcome from the society’s ever-growing desire to enforce uniformity in every form of activity. The mind of the society is known as media.

Yes, some people call media as the mind of the society but think again. Media is not what helps people to think. Media is what media wants people to think. How can a mind be what the mind wants the possessor of the mind to think? The only rationalization to explain this seemingly paradoxical situation is that the media (true to its fame) has a mind of its own. Rationalization, alas, is never rationed. It is available in plenty. Available in zillions of pots of clay to anyone and everyone who wishes to smash those brittle clay pots and revel in the soothing, amnesia-inducing stench of rationalization. Why clay pot? Because brass ones are so difficult to smash. Difficult, not impossible. You never rationalize after expending too much of energy in smashing a brass pot. So ergo a brass pot never contains the elixir of existence which is rationalization.

Coming back to existential angst. The possible ramification of the existence of inconsequential ramifications of existential angst is that there could possibly be consequential ramifications too. What do they mean? Nothing and they can’t be anything but inconsequential too. It would serve well to the sole warrior to give up the angst - the one of the existential kind. But would he? He would give up his existence but not his angst. But what if he did? A sole warrior with existential peace is cannot be a sole warrior. He will be a grain of sand which form a part of the inhumanity that is all pervasive on the wonderful little blue marble that we all live on.

Wonderful blue marble. Awe inspiring beauty, satiating bounty and often underestimated fury. There is a lot to write about it. Maybe sometime else.