A personal manifesto

I tend to be critical of issues that means to me and in general relates with soceital forces even if they fail to ring bells to most people for varied reasons. Myopia of academia and constructivist intuition compels me to reflect on my notions and philosphies that drives the mental processes of contemporary society. It sometime creates a wide gap between mainstream thought and my views, primarily because of the lack of ground covered by new readers without deep insight and familiarity with my works and background on issues that interests me.,I am going to jot down a few incontrovertible notions which guide my writings, talks and views on web 2.0, education, connectivity and egalitarianism. This might not explain the nexus of my previous work and western thought in absence of deep cultural understanding and a grasp on digital divide concept but it would help my followers understand the origin of my thought stream.

• Education is a personal obligation than a collective right. In an idea world, second part of my belief should be true but in the face of realities, knowledge economy fosters individuals with personal desire to learn and excel creating a form of social and educational inequality which gives some of us headstart and rest of us have to catch up, although a capitalistic soceity, how devastating it may be  to the  notions of social welfare, gives everyone the right to access resources, although not by fair means most of the time.
• Statistics are worst form of academic prevarication and should be left to profiteers. It might be good for social mobilisation for profiteering and amplifying/downplaying impacts, it is far from truth and should be dropped for qualitative, egalitarian and long-term analysis.
• Institutionalizing without accountability, copyrighting/restricting, and corporatocracy is damaging not only for individual conscience but also for humanity. Digitizing, democrasizing, proliferating and criticsm is the essence of human fight for freedom in the history. People should be speaking up against any explicit/implicit endeavors to harm these values.
• Philosophizing should be left to individuals to find meanings from the words they read. Avoid philosophers and concentrate on tools and praxis.
• Sharing knowledge is important. Web 2.0 tools have different pill for different people with subtle tendencies e.g some people prefer podcasting to blogging. Videocasting, podcasting, blogging, tweeting, RSS sharing and social networking all imparts knowledge even if its abstract, non-verbal and implicit.
• Revolution is good but revolution around people involves violence, hate and bloodshed. What we need today is spiritual revolution from the inside. I believe in this and fight on most fronts against myself more than others, which i believe everyone should do. Better than proselytizing.
  
• Exploiting information resources should be a right, not a privilege. Databases like Sciencedirect, Amazon Books and Goolge Books should be openly accessible, universal and free. I wouldn't go into economic debate because it would be no-brainer for the kind of people i am writing THIS specific blogpost to figure out the viability of alternative economic models e.g advertising and for the rest of the readers, it would be a good research question.
• Respect, Freedom and Collaboration are human legacies which shouldn't be abused. Racism, digital divide, procedural discrimination, character assassination and individualism are vices which are destined to perish. People who practice those have been wasting their time and will do in future. Foster constructive debate and profound understanding of issues that make difference in the world.
• Self-paced learning will be the global model of the future. Quoting someone on that 'Nobody has ever been able to teach anyone, anything'. We teach ourselves what we're exposed to. Flexible and distance learning should be adopted whenever possible. Business schools can't give you entrepreneurs. Althought it will gives you employees who will be hired by entrepreneurs, who come from streets.
• Simplicity, modesty and gratitude never fails to keep you happy. Verbosity might make you a philosopher but philosophers don't make world a better place. Speak when you are asked to speak and think even when you aren't. 

 As a proud culprit, i confess to veering off these principles as part of human species but these principles have made me value my insights even more when i reflect on them. This post serves me more than anyone else because i finally have put them together to create a personal manifesto from them. A tacit practice with reticent attitude has been my path lately and i am pretty happy that i've stuck to it for the most part, which leaves me with a clear conscience and a exuberant life.  For those, who see criticsm as necessary evil need to realize the beauty of disagreement in human context. Taking and creating constructive criticism has always been the basis of scientific inquiry and personal retrospection. I'll end with a beautiful quote that says

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      'Preachers don't preach for a crowd. They preach for that one person, who would leave the place with a resolve to change himself and rest of the world'.