My First Blog

I am one of those poor souls lost in the world of weblogics, oracles, jvms and SANs. Of late I've been having too much free time and though I would share some interesting things I read or heard about. Some of the topics would be dry and may not be worth your time...This blog is just a receptacle to my wandering thoughts and opinions.

Few years back I read, "Understanding Power", a collection of speeches and essays of Noam Chomsky. It gave me a new perspective of the world we live in and opened my eyes to the principles of socialism, more importantly, the perils of capitalism. If you see socialist overtones in some of the posts, Mr. Chomsky is to be blamed and no one else.

I've always wondered, what could be the very essence of communism or capitalism or any other socio-economic structures proposed over time. What do they strive for ? Some of the greatest intellectuals of all times have written about it and talked about it. I realised one thing. All these ideologies, however conflicting it may seem, covet for one trivial thing; peaceful existence. They proposed ways by which human beings could generate enough wherewithal to live a peaceful life. Just like a religion that guides people to achieve salvation. if capitalism is one way, communism is another and so is anarchism. A one word definition of socialism would be "compassion". It preaches people to have compassion towards one another and grow as community and not individually.

Why am I prattling about all this ? Oh yes. As I said earlier, I've always liked socialist ideologies and the kind of magical vibrations, pronouncing "compassion" brings me. Hence I named my blog as "the compassionist". I am not even sure if it is an actual word. But, who cares!!

So long friends.

Senthil Nathan M