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Max Weber & Modernity

Most people don’t see modern art as art because it’s not something that everyone understands. There are several different Modern and Post-Modernist movements that have been circling the Art world. But to have a starter you need to understand the essence of time in these forms of arts and the presence or the absence of electronics.  Most of us just take mobile, camera, tv, condoms and sanitary napkins for granted!

What does one have to do with the other? well, everything has to do with everything. When we ridicule or think of modern art for the most part of history we forget that there could be multiple factors that are present and that are absent.  Like for example when  Leanardo Di Vinci was actively painting he never has cameras or video recorders and in order to preserve someone’s memory the only way for them was to create a death person painting when he was alive it’s like going to get a passport photograph in a mechanized photo booth or a PhotoStudio. They wanted to make people extremely precise and lifelike so that even if they are no longer around they would be able to see the painting and remember the good life or there smile. 

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Coastline Capitalism : Southeast Asian corridor eyes business opportunities via Bay of Bengal

India’s decision to stay out of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) may increase Southeast Asia’s dependence on China, but a recently opened corridor between Thailand and Myanmar could ease those concerns by bringing new business opportunities for five ASEAN countries and India.

 

The Deltas of seafaring and commerce.

The new bridge – part of the East-West Economic Corridor between Thailand and Myanmar that opened a few weeks ago will give Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam access to the vast Indian market and reduce heavy reliance on China, ET has learnt.

The second Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge across the Moei River, which connects Myawaddy, a city in Myanmar’s eastern region, and Mae Sot district in western Thailand, was built at a cost of about $140 million, according to the Thai government. Distribution of goods will become smoother on this new highway link.

The East-West Corridor is a project to build a large economic bloc along a 1,700-km land route from Vietnam to Myanmar via Laos and Thailand. From there, Southeast Asian states can gain access to India over the Bay of Bengal.

India has built a port at Sittwe in Myanmar, which will be linked to Mizoram state in the north via a multi-modal transport network. Besides, a highway connecting India with Thailand via Myanmar could become operational by 2020 and may be expanded to Vietnam. India and Thailand recently signed pacts for port connectivity, adding meat to the Act East Policy and the Indo-Pacific vision.

Besides, India is expediting a maritime connectivity link between the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and Aceh in Indonesia, where it will build a port in Sabang. India has major plans to expand its presence in the Ganga-Mekong region, which covers the five ASEAN states.

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Freshwater reservoir found at one of Beijing’s artificial islands in the South China Sea

  • Chinese scientists discovered the body of water beneath Fiery Cross Reef and it’s thought to be expanding at a fast rate of 1 metre a year
  • They believe land reclamation has accelerated the process, and similar reservoirs may be forming at other man-made islands.

A fast-expanding body of freshwater has appeared under one of Beijing’s controversial man-made islands in the South China Sea, a Chinese study has found.

The freshwater was discovered beneath Fiery Cross Reef, known as Yongshu in China, and is believed to be growing at a rate of about 1 metre (3.3 feet) per year – more than twice the speed observed on naturally formed islands.
Similar reservoirs could also be building up under other artificial islands across the region, according to researchers from the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology in Guangzhou.

They could “serve as an important water resource for local inhabitants and ecosystems”, the team led by marine geologist Xu Hehua said in a peer-reviewed paper in the Journal of Hydrology last month.
Beijing claims sovereignty over most of the resource-rich South China Sea, but there are rival claims from its neighbours, and its island-building activities over the past six years have unnerved the region and drawn criticism from the US.

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Futurama – Evolution vs Creationism

There are several videos that discuss the debate between Evolution and Creationism in-depth and this is one that uses ridicule in a process to make a point. The video is talking about a scientist who takes a stand that the evolution of “human” or Homosapien was based on darwin’s theory that in the process of survival certain mutations are more preferred and passed on, then other’s which perish due to nature.

There are also several interesting characters opposite this view. Specifically, a creature that looks like a floating spaghetti. Now it is not common sense that something like a spaghetti which is actually a food can be sentient i.e. something that has emotions. But as we have seen several movies in recent times like “bicentennial man”, “I, Robot”, “Enthiran” or “Ex-Machina” that metal object can behave like objects that can have emotion based on an algorithm or some form of logic now if that is possible based on the fact that we are storing data on devices like transistors and diodes which control and regulate the flow of electrons now imagine a future i.e. the context of this show futurama, a future in which you have a simple sentient algorithm that when added or stored in a sub-sub-sub Quark level to your everyday food items made of atoms and electrons or any everyday object and it can become a talking, emotional or in short sentient? Then where would you put this creation i.e. this spaghetti on the “tree of life”.

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New Religious Movement (N.R.M.) : Wild Wild Country (Netflix)

The Wild Wild Country the documentary was an amazing experiment gone wrong. The fundamental essence of it was to see if religious tolerance was accepted in the said country and if secularism is something that is really what it claims to be in the said place .i.e Neo-Wester world.  Unfortunately, the process or the means by which both parties, in this case, the conservative locals and the paganistic / N.R.M believers approached this problem was via a paranoia rather than rational or realistic means. Albeit I would give them the benefit of doubt as well as the fact most or some of them might be in a state of “culture shock” plus the added factor that they were or might have been in extreme drug and intoxication for starters. From the beginning, it was projected to be an experiment. Secondly the appearance of what it is not in any way connected to Sanatana Dharma. It was one individual who tried to use some philosophy to advocate a specific political motive rather than to advocate peace or prosperity amongst them.

https://youtu.be/c0B-5U7kaME

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