Something indeed wrong with humans.

I do think that people are having 'sick'ness. Krugman seems to think that in US it is a strange madness. My 'home-spun philosophy' is getting crystallized faster and faster. People are becoming more and more 'single-minded' and maybe, Darwin would have further studied or theorized it further that it is the nature of humans to seek 'compatibility', rather than to make themselves 'compatible'. Is it possible to have the best of all possible worlds? It is this search that people tend to even dismiss/ignore/forget when their current state could be the best state. Preconceived notions, exaggerated fears, misplaced complacency could lead to nothing but harakiri.

In our work, we do face the terms of 'trade-off' - you give some, lose some - in anything. Few/some/many humans do not seem to see the +ve in anything, once they are conditioned/convinced that the 'current condition is detrimental to them'. What is 'best' is not a personal explanation or experience but subject to the people around us? Thus 'richest are the happiest' becomes a truism for those who are seeking the riches. I am reminded of the classic 'Il Postino' - isnt a poor man entitled to his little bit of happiness? If I look at films, it has been 'drilled' into Indian films that 'poverty' is associated with 'misery', 'sadness', 'cries', 'pain' etc. It is only in Tamil films, spearheaded by Bharatiraja which highlighted the life in a village (poor man's world?), humor, romance, tragedgy and all shades of life that is seen all over the world. When Bala highlighted the life of 'marginalia' with aplomb, say in Pithamahan' middle-class and educated 'revolted' saying that 'poverty is being sensationalized'. In their world, poor people should be shown in soiled clothes, starving for months, unable to cover themselves and all such stereotypes. I think this 'image' itself is developed by humans (like any mythology) to justify their 'hypocrisy' ('why I am seeking greener pastures?', 'I am very patriotic even if I get out of the country', 'When I am abroad, I marry outside my religion/caste because I am secular'). I think things could be much simpler if people dont explain and give reasons, but then as I said, something is indeed wrong with humans.