axiomofchoice , 29,
Male seeking Male,
Bangalore,
IN
Hobbies / Interests / ActivitiesMaths,Academic ideas in general,Marxism,Russell,Wittgenstein,Social choice theory,Popular culture,Counter culture,Art,Cinema,Books,Music,Filter Kaaphi et al
Political AffiliationOther
Favorite MusicCarnatic,Floyd,The Beatles,The Who,The Doors,Dylan,Queen,Jethro Tull,Miles Davis,Liquid Tension Experiment,Emerson Lake and Palmer
Favorite Quotes"Though distrustful of logical chains of ideas, I loved the polyphony of ideas. As long as you don't believe in them, the collision of two ideas - both false - can create a pleasing interval, a kind of diabolus in musica. I had no respect for some ideas that people were willing to stake their lives on but two or three ideas that I did not respect might still make a nice melody. Or have a good beat, and if it was jazz, all the better."
Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco.
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
On the Road, Jack Kerouac
"The subtle mystic philosophies, torturous religions, ornate literature, monuments teeming with intricate sculpture and delicate music of India all derive from the same historical process that produced the famished apathy of the villager, senseless opportunism and termite greed of the 'cultured' strata, sullen, uncoordinated discontent among the workers, general demoralization, misery, squalor and degrading superstition. The one is the result of the other, one is the expression of the other…it is necessary to understand that history is not a sequence of haphazard events but is made by human beings in the satisfaction of daily needs."
D D Kosambi