Tropical Brainstorm

In principio c’era il logos, ma poi divenne skizofrenico e bipolare e, con il suo emisfero destro creò l’universo e con il sinistro la stampa, in modo da potersi anke diffondere e durare nel tempo nello spazio ke aveva appena creato. Se pensate che sto studiando troppo a) avete una pazienza incredibile ad essere arrivati a leggere fin …qui b) AVETE XFETTAMENTE RAGIONE!!!!

I’ll definitely by-pass any redundant preamblum to go directly to the point of the matter i am about to discuss: Yesterday evening i was involved in a cosy post-dinner chat, in which emerged the widely shared opinion that indian computer programmers are among the best worldwide. I think there’s a precise cultural motivation which helps those people’s abilty; i think it is partly due to the nature of indian cultural heritage.
Most “western”( sorry, i hate this stupid term and i fear a righteous persecution by the ghost of Edward Said, but its wide usage forces me to use it to be understood) people abuse of the mocks and shadows of deep concepts of indian philosophy, religious philosophy and spirituality, thus almost ignoring it in its detail; indian culture has given a strong impulse for at least 5-4 thousands of years to think about matters of cosmology, psychology, religion, and, most people does not even suspect, logic. The subtle logic of the religious Nyaya and Vaisheshika darshanas. In brief i think, apart for the blind and absolutely negative in a practical way, religiouslike belief in pragmatism, indians have been able to develop their own way to the art of computing thanks to a peculiar capability for abstact thought, the same, so to say through which Brahmani priests have elaborated their doctrines on the existence of Brahman, on advaita vedanta, Mahayana and tantric ways to buddhism and so on. In their own way i think, they have developed a more subtle and rational way to deal with life and what is, possibly, behind, up, on the back of and beyond life, fully different from the “western” one; and this difference reflects in the better attitude on the bigger number of indian computer programmers in spite of other countries, trained by thousands of years of religious- philosophical speculation. Maybe we should pay more attention to the words once written by the father of analitical psychology, Carl Gustav Jung, which said in a wide number of occasions, apart from belief or disbelief in faith or in science, religious thought is a necessity for human beings, for deep psychological reasons, otherwise some aspect of one’s full personality can not develop in a sufficient way, leading moreover to psychical disproportions and disfunctions of the psyche. Perhaps the data on indians cleverness in computer programming assign him a certain part of right and a bigger sense and significance.