It is easy to be wise in hindsight. When the bubble was blowing up, the amount of positivity that reeked out of people’s pores was nauseating. And their gloom now is equally so. Are we not tired of being led? There may be no conspiracy here, but suppose there was? Suppose it was not such a coincidence that all this happened just when the very administration that was in bed with the creators of this ‘crisis’ was on its way out? Suppose the mad rush for government support just before W is back on his ranch is not so much distress as opportunism? Suppose the ball-squeezing with doomsday scenarios and loss of confidence and fears of bankruptcy were to secure, among others the $700 billion that disappeared ever-so-quickly?
This blog was meant to point a finger at India – at ourselves. It is increasingly pointing fingers elsewhere. Of course we live in a world that is connected, but the impact of the connections are being overstated. Maybe one should stop reading daily news. Like I mentioned earlier. Let our reality not be built by the frenzied drumbeats of Spin, but the soft, mixed, everyday sounds of Truth.
