musings 97

the connection between peripheral thoughts and the tongue is very strong and without any circuit breakers..

The peripheral mind is impulsive and does not care a damn about anything and if this idea is flashed to the tongue, the showy and loud organ adds its own picturesque nonsense to the dirty garbage it has received and spews it out with great elan..

Usually this happens with all of us..

But there is a parallel circuit.. the output of the mind is carried to the discerning intellect, which, albeit slowly, separates sense, half-sense and nonsense, and controls the output through built in circuit breakers, and the purified output alone is allowed to reach the tongue.

As our age and position in life goes up, and we are given opportunities of learn lessons from life, the circuitry in the intellect should get stronger, and the thoughts modulated therein and given expression by the tongue gains weight and respectability.

The persons who understand this parallel circuitry and succeed in putting it to best use are the great ones..

But then for some, the upstairs is vacant.. For them the circuit must be dead.

If a child or an imbecile blabbers, no one cares..

If an idiot wags his tongue, people just laugh at it.

But if people who are senior in age, who hold high officers or who wield moral of physical power, and whose voices are heard, fail to use the circuitry of discretion while churning out speeches or write-ups, the whole humanity suffers.

We can see people who would post only lewd words and pictures in social media as a matter of habit.. If we see some sensible post from them, we may feel that something is strange..

Is it a cut and paste? Or has the fellow got a few screws loosened..

Then there are people who make sensible posts..

If such a person suddenly published a photo showing the naked bust of a beau, we would be dumb-folded..

But such things too happen..

The glorious uncertainty of life..