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    Youth Sanity In Crazy Culture
    Youth Sanity In Crazy Culture
    Youth Sanity In Crazy Culture
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    Youth Sanity In Crazy Culture

    By Santosh Jha

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    As a youngster looks around, loads of conflicts and hypocrisies pop up everywhere; be it society, culture, economy or politics. The youth are told to follow a number of ideals and goodness. The youngsters shall seldom accept them as, firstly; they have doubts over their utility. Secondly, it is always easy for them to decipher that all these ‘expectations’ from them have perceptible elements of ‘hypocrisy’ and ‘conflicts of interests’. It does not take a genius to see through it. They can see that they are asked to keep away from alcohol and drugs, whereas, everywhere in society and popular culture, people young and old are deep down into it. They are asked to keep away from sex but everywhere, everyone seems to be indulging in it and almost all things around them have sexual overtones to it! They are told to be calm and cool in a societal space, where gun culture and rage is calamitously growing. This hypocrisy is so open and clearly visible all around that it is impossible for them to accept the prescriptions.
    Very clearly, this is no solution. The solution is in knowledge of objective and neutral realities. The solution is in a worldview of ‘holism’ and not that of ‘parts’. The trouble of all mechanisms, which are offered to youth as ‘educational or prescriptive’ tools for eliciting ‘appropriate’ action-behavior benchmarks from them is; they are all only ‘part’ facts and knowledge. They are shown only ‘half picture’ of life-living realism as it is believed, they either cannot understand the ‘full picture’ or it shall be dangerous or inappropriate to give them the whole picture. Dare show them the ‘full picture’ and see, how it works and wins!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSantosh Jha
    Release dateOct 1, 2013
    ISBN9781301528301
    Youth Sanity In Crazy Culture
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    Santosh Jha

    People say, what conspire to make you what you finally become are always behind the veil of intangibility. Someone called it ‘Intangible-Affectors’. Inquisitiveness was the soil, I was born with and the seeds, these intangible-affectors planted in me made me somewhat analytical. My long stint in media, in different capacities as journalist, as brand professional and strategic planning, conspired too! However, I must say it with all innocence at my behest that the chief conspirators of my making have been the loads of beautiful and multi-dimensional people as well as ideas that traversed along me, in my life journey so far. The mutuality and innocence of love and compassion always prevailed and magically worked as the catalyst in my learning and most importantly, unlearning from these people, ideas as well as situations. Unconsciously, these amazing people and my own stupidly non-intuitive cognition also worked out to be the live theatres of my experiments with my life’s scripts. I, sharing with you what I have internalized as body-mind Media, is essentially my very modest way to express my gratitude for all of them. In my stupidities is my innocence of love for all my beautifully worthy conspirators!

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      Youth Sanity In Crazy Culture - Santosh Jha

      By Santosh Jha

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      Copyright 2013 Santosh Jha

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      Table of Contents

      Welcome Note

      The Backdrop

      First Thing First

      The Genesis Of Trouble

      Understand The Drives Of Humanity

      Mechanism Of Sexuality

      Aesthetics Of Life-Living Purpose

      Accept My Gratitude

      About The Author

      Other Titles By The Author

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      Welcome Note

      Hello my dear young friend! It has now been established; every normal healthy kid born is the veritable genius of the universe, as it has been designed this way. However, it is also said, ‘together, we all and this crazy contemporary culture ensure that this genius becomes an absolute stupid in next 25 years’!

      Somehow, the genius of innocence in young, which the culture labels as ‘sweet stupid’, is in incessant pressure by popular cultural benchmarks of success and self-worth, to become stupidly successful. And, when success comes, it comes with such huge costs of hypocrisy and conflicts that the society starts complaining. You can ask, ‘why cannot we remain, what we are, the born genius and a successful stupid!

      I am perfectly sure, I am talking to a genius young friend, who has it all to understand everything that is there to be understood for a ‘truly successful’ life and living, which is undoubtedly the most amazing realism for all of us.

      I am only too happy to say that this I intend to be a hearty and open talk between you, a young mind and me. The entire exercise is aimed at being in confabulation with young ones, with whom I wish to share something, which is such a powerful impact on our lives. Yes, we are talking about youth issues of sexual synergies, sensual symmetries & sanity and mystically beautiful aesthetics and purpose of life. Essentially, the talk is addressed to you, my amazingly talented young friend; however, if a parent happens to read it, I have a humble and compassionate appeal that you should place yourself in a consciousness of a young mind. This shall make better sense of this exercise.

      At the very outset, I wish to say a small thing to you. I am sure; you must have realized that the world we live is what it is, neither good nor bad. It is somehow neutral and objective. It is people, the individual as you and we, who are the ‘Theatre’ of all troubles as well as happiness.

      It is in our individualistic consciousness and perception that we accept something as ‘trouble’ and others as ‘happiness’. This leads us to a fact that whatever we are provided with, inside us or outside in the society; are essentially neutral. It is our subjective and personal positioning with these endowments, which make us accept them as either ‘treasure’ or ‘trouble’.

      The same energy, which runs a car for us, can cause major fire, devastating everything. The life we have, the senses and its complex interplay we witness in our lives, are such beautifully neutral and objective energies. Whether we wish to use this energy for running the ‘car of our lives’ or burning our lives, is purely in the hands of an individual – you and we.

      That is why; my dear young friend; I wish to tell you that in all the talks we are having, we shall focus on things and ideas, which are inside us and internal to our perceptions. The external factors shall always be there as they are for everyone. However, what impact and effect they have on us and our lives are what we shall allow them to have on us, as we shall have a perfect understanding of things and ideas within us. On this premise, we shall lead our talks. I sincerely hope, together we arrive, where we wish to!

      I affectionately request you to kindly accept me as your true friend. A friend is not one who tells you what is right and what is wrong. It is one, who is just an effective catalyst, facilitating you a series of learning and unlearning, by optimizing painful processes of ‘option-building’ of life-living possibilities.

      That is why, at the very start, I humbly request you to be my friend and accept this all as one long conversation between friends. Kindly, accept this not as a book but a ‘confabulation’ between friends. This, I am confident, shall engender smoothness of navigation and fruition of the entire exercise.

      I need to say, we all live in a complex and conflicted world where almost everything is in for skepticism. It would be even better if you use this energy of skepticism and doubt all that we shall talk here. However, you should use your own resources to re-check their authenticity, utility and fruition. One must not ‘reject’ anything out rightly or show them a close door. Doubt them, re-check them, correct them if you find them wrong but never ‘reject’ them. Being wise and intelligent is an artistry, which involves ‘acceptance and then assimilation’. The genius you are, shall always process everything deep within, before making a decision on its utility or futility.

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