We should have lived like we were dying
by neo
It was always going to be a matter of time before we ran out of time.
It was so flawlessly cruel that it would give you the goosebumps. They chose September so that the retreating monsoon winds would carry the radioactive particles southward; they used Plutonium-239 warheads because they are much lighter than Uranium-235 and so missiles could take them further; they spiked the warheads headed towards our major cities with Tritium because adding just a few grams of Tritium increases the yield of the explosion by 300%.
No one saw it coming but everyone knew that it would be this way. They hadn’t built one hundred and ten nuclear bombs for deterrence; they had always been built for deliverance.
It didn’t matter that our ballistic missile defense shield stopped nearly half of their missiles, that in retaliation we used nineteen nuclear warheads launched from Sukhoi Su 30MKIs, thirty-one submarine-launched Agni 3SL missiles and sixty-five Prithvi surface-to-surface missiles to destroy their moth-eaten cities, when a AA battery-operated hair dryer would probably have sufficed.
Their ideology survived.
It didn’t matter that U.S. President John Boehner wept on live national TV, but it was huge on Twitter.
It didn’t matter that most of us had wasted our lives watching instead of living, defending instead of creating, trying to get a fuck instead of giving a fuck.
It didn’t matter that he died with his closet still unkempt, with three extra pounds of fat on his belly, and with the dining table still wobbly because his son had placed the screw-driver behind the bookshelf such that it could be seen but not reached.
He should have clicked on “Publish” instead of “Save.”
We should have lived like we were dying.
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After the bombing of Hiroshima, many people fled to Nagasaki, only to be killed by the second bomb. Ten people survived both explosions.
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All nuclear weapons are shipped with a recommendation, “best before holocaust”
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Refrigerate yourself after opening.
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About time you published a post. I’d begun to think that you are absconding!
Coming to the post itself, i’ll admit I haven’t kept myself sufficiently abreast of on-goings to completely grasp what you’re saying . . . Who’m I kidding? I have no clue :D.
Having said that I absolutely loved this para:
“It didn’t matter that most of us had wasted our lives watching instead of living, defending instead of creating, trying to get a fuck instead of giving a fuck.”
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All you need to know is that at any given time there are a hundred nukes, a few minutes, and the mercy of some army general in a bunker keeping India from nothing.
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Sad is the word.
Maybe our govt will read this and stop spending those tens of billions of dollars on armaments that will eventually fail to protect us against ‘the ideology’.
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It is certainly a MAD world.
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@gompiepie: Glad to hear that you’re going to be okay.
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@gompiepie
You are just a doctrinaire troll. Go get a life.
Great post Neo, after a long time.
Hot debate. What do you think?
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Thanks. :)
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The only way to survive would be if we all morph(Kafka style) into cockroaches overnight.
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vishesh, may be we already have..
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we (humanity) certainly now how to do plague proportions like cockroaches.
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I want to like this but I wont. I want to share this on twitter and facebook but that would be counter intuitive.
We should have lived like we were dying.. how and do what?! The other Neo was better off, some one at least offer him 2 pills to choose from!
PS: Video link does not work (India)
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Dhaval,
We still have a choice. Like @amreekandesi said above, do we really want to spend billions on something that will not kill an ideology, and is not making us any safer, or can we instead feed our people?
-Neo
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A pair of snot-nosed yanks pontificating whether “we” should have nuclear weapons, I bet the Japanese wish otherwise! If you had any patriotism you’d clean up the mess your liberalism left behind in West Bengal.
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This post was the first thought that came to me when I read about the Fukushima explosion. Seems mother nature read your post and decided to show how she may not even wait for one of us to push a button before annihilation.
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A pair of snot-nosed yanks pontificating whether “we” should have a nuclear deterrent, I bet the Japanese wish otherwise! If you had any patriotism you’d clean up the mess your liberalism left behind in West Bengal.
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Yeah, this one is worth crying over. Hopped over to read this after reading your comment.
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Shail,
I’m feeling bad now. You were having a good laugh at that other post and I practically dragged you here to weep. :)
-Neo
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Neo,
Don’t know how I missed this- it doesn’t seem to have attracted the spate of comments your ‘other’ posts usually do- which is a pity because it well-written and we could do more with more people reading (and thinking!) like this.
S
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S,
I expected a lukewarm response, but this was almost cold (relative to my other posts). But over the last year I’ve learned to not feel bad when this happens; I even secretly enjoy these sort of posts, which only a few people (like you, @amreekandesi, Akshay, and me) like. :)
-Neo
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so how u propose to defeat tje ideology? by talking to them? can u really change them? shud a govt take a chance like this with its ppl and their saftey?
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This has got to be your best post till date. Even better than the letter to Obama and the Republic Day post.
Congratulations. I actually like your ‘darker’ side better than your humorous posts.
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Hi Akshay,
:)
Mine too. This one and my post about domestic abuse. Both posts came so spontaneously and with such emotion that I barely remember writing them. This post sat in my drafts for three months.
The dark side and the humor side are actually the same side. It’s just that some topics fit naturally into one writing style vs the other.
Thanks for your kind words; your comment really, truly, encourages me to write what is true for me regardless of this voice in my head that says “oh please, no one’s going to like it,” a voice that is usually right.
-Neo
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Agree with Akshay here.
And for every time the voice says, no one’s going to like it, remember that there are people out there voting for Palin and ARaja!
Do your thing, you never know who might like what – Thats a bit of Hinduism i think, hope the Athe forgives me!
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Dhaval,
So true. As a friend remarked lately, a blogger writes for an audience of millions, a writer writes for an audience of one.
-n
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I know, but sometimes the message behind the funnier posts is lost because of the humour. I like these posts better because I can grasp the points with ease. The humour is a distraction sometimes. :P
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Akshay,
Sort of like how I want to buy that car, you know, the one with that model dressed in all blue standing next to it, what’s that brand’s name? Damn, can’t remember!
-n
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Dear Neo,
Thanks for making my mind numb while reading.
Also my fingers while writing this.
Love.
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Ravi,
Thanks, and sorry. :|
-n
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“It didn’t matter that most of us had wasted our lives watching instead of living, defending instead of creating, trying to get a fuck instead of giving a fuck.”
–You could not have written it better and I could not have read it better. Keep ‘em coming..
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Watching instead of living ? Most people back here do not have a choice here Neo . When survival is the primary concern, defending and giving a fuck about just yourself seems fair enough.
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Neo can totally relate to the article…world really seems to be already on the course for total annihilation…all this screaming and singing peace songs etc just seems to be making it all the more painful…
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yes, we should have. the thing about such posts is the 20/20 hindsight. because even when we’re given another chance to live, we just let it go, and never really live like we’re dying. ever.
the truth of the bigger picture is, nothing has changed; we still can. but few people ever get that, most only like to look back and regret.
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We will perhaps die because of ‘climate change’ before we die because of a nuclear war. Since we are still alive, we should live the way that ensures that our future generations don’t die young because of something that ‘could have been prevented if only adults would have done something about it’ . We must live like activists – not pacifists.
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