SIN IS IN!
In my last post, where I wrote about the possible reasons for creating the concepts of heaven & hell, I had briefly mentioned that heaven and hell give us broad buckets to classify human conduct. They represent age-old human tendancies to pass judgements about life around us. However, things are changing a bit. The ’sinner’ is no more sinful. His acts are no longer looked down upon. The ’sinner’ is no longer the bad guy, which the earlier moral society had branded him as. SIN IS IN!
Welcome to the new world, where sin thrives and in more ways than one, is admired and craved for. Look around you, and you find all kinds of sin which our society advised us to abstain from.
Take a closer look at the dessert above…and you have already started making love to it in your mind. You imagine how you would savour the taste, caress the cream, lick the oozing hot chocolate and gratify your soul in the aroma. But, we were asked to abstain from such pleasure and thoughts.
Or look at these images…
The colour ‘black’ is traditionally associated with gloom. In certain cultures, it is associated with nothing less than death. Black is supposed to be the antithesis of nature. It was evil. It was harsh. But these images (and others around us) clearly show the paradigm shift in the way we interpret black. Black is beautiful now. And it is sleek and sexy too. Look into any closet and you find a black apparel. I don’t think we can live without black. Black is life!
There is no paucity of examples. Self-indulgence. Large bar of chocolate. Double helping of the dessert. Two burgers. Loads of fries. Extra masala. Spa. Aromatherapy. ’Spice’ body wrap massage. Sex-appeal enhancing perfumes. Unnatural weight-loss. Unnatural figure enhancement. Inebriation. Throwing up. Clothes with an oomph factor. Low neck-lines. High hem-lines. The little bikini. Cosmetics. The purple lip gloss. Colours. Make ‘em brighter. Tattoos. Wet-look effect. Late night parties. The ‘f*** you’ attiude. Flaunting what you have. Flaunting what you don’t have. The “No Arranged Marriage” syndrome. 10 affairs before marriage. 20 after the marriage. Live-in’s. Super-spicy gossip. Dropping your jaws when you saw him/her. Adult content on TV. Adult content in life. Sex. More Sex. I can do with a little more. Gimme more…Enough is not enough. Keep on pouring.
Welcome to the brave new world of Sin. It’s a free world. It’s a liberal world. A world that has utter disregard for conformance and repects individual dispositions.
Long live ‘SIN’ and may our souls soak forever in it!
Nice post.
The entire thought its no more a sin is what has changed. Things which were sinful in India are now no more considered that way bcoz the Society has changed, it has changed for good or bad that time will tell. But sins of man shall remain with himself. If the view of the society changes that won’t alter his sins.
rishi saraf
August 27, 2006 at 7:00 pm
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rishi saraf
August 27, 2006 at 7:03 pm
Thanks, Rishi. Will check out your blog.
abhishekmittal
August 28, 2006 at 4:08 am
Another really nice, cool and original comment.
kulioprewtq
September 21, 2006 at 4:15 pm
Well, that was a rather interesting and certainly amusing post. =D
I enjoyed it thoroughly! And I too agree, let sin drown the very purity that our ancestors once craved for! Let us blacken and indulge in the sexy aroma of sin that we all yern for and long for in the very bottom of our beings.
I would however, love for you to take note to sadism.
Now, I too, spend many hours pondering upon the very cradles of society, how life functions, human behaviour and various other interesting topics, and I have found that sadism is a personal favourate.
Have you ever noticed that everyone is a sadist? Now, sadism is a mental illness, one illness that I am actually proud to be the victim of. Or rather, the carrier. Lol.
Eevery person in this world, no matter how optimistic or how deep into denial they are about their ‘evil side’ love to see a bit of blood and gore! And why not? Its amusing, intregueing and it sure as hell occupies the mind for lengthly amounts of time. (Just look at me, I am never bored.) Let us face it, the human psyche craves for evil and violence! (Adding to you’re sin theory.)
When one is stuck in a traffic jam (whether the driver or passenger) they immediately fall into the routine of “Oh, I hope nobody got hurt.” or “Do you suppose everyone is altright?” ect. . . . Now, let us face the fact that, nobody really gives a damn whether the person died or not, they are stuck in their car, and its either freezing cold and raining heavily or its blistering hot and no amount of lowered windows is going to make you feel any more comfortable. The last thing that one is bothered about in this kind of a situation is (Is there any blood? Or I wonder if anyone is dead or Wow, I wonder how mangled the corpse is.) There is no use in denying it. We are all sadists, others. . . .More willingly. . . . Others, sign up for counselling. . . . Or claim to be under the influence of the devil.
As you drive by the accident that has held you for so long, don’t you feel that little twinge of dissapointment? That disatisfaction that changes you’re cheerful and hopeful mood to a “Sh!t, no corpse.” Everyone gets it, that little piece of hope that hardly anyone talks about, the one that says Aww! I hope that there is loads of blood. Why else was the Saw movies such a hit?
Sadists.
And lots of them.
We crave it, and when we get it, we just cannot get enough of it.
The_Jokeress
May 21, 2007 at 8:25 pm
Lovely..this had occured to me when I watched SAW. The movie epitomized sadism. Or for that matter, look at news channels where journalists rush to capture the most gory scenes of human devastation – maybe a bomb blast or an air accident with corpses or bodies which are going to turn into corpses are shot and the images delivered right onto the idiot box for us to satisfy our appetite.
P.S. – do you write anywhere?
Abhishek
May 23, 2007 at 5:35 am