Madspeak

  The war in Afghanistan ended, in Afghanistan there were no generals no regular army and yet they won. In the West there is utter disdain for the old and the elderly and there is belief that youth have the answers for everything. The greatest strength were those who were older than them. In age there is experience and knowledge. Respecting above all else is there is a fundamental reason why they win. Great empires have crumbled in Afghanistan. The youth believe they have all the answers, a society which trusts that, is doomed. The old are wiser and will remain so. They know what has happened before and how it was dealt. The complete disrespect of the old the elderly is a crime. Calling them by their first name is equally so.

  In 1950s right up to the early 1980s,  immigrants from the India and Pakistan wore the attire of their towns and villages. Men were required to trousers and shirts.  But changes started quickly after the 1980s, women doffed their traditional attire and started getting assimilated in the society they were living in. They stopped wearing the impractical clothes and relaxed.  Now the newer generation is wearing whatever is in fashion in those countries. Much of the older generations have died and along with them what they valued, what shocked them senseless. Those women wear skirts and shorts and encourage them to wear their daughters to wear the skimpiest dresses which were in fashion. The Achut caste thrived abroad, because they were treated like human beings.  Their going abroad and settling there gave them opportunities they could only dream of in India.

The mysterious Corona Virus COVID-19 is a pandemic, Within its initial two months it has done more damage than any war could.  An airline in Australia has shut down. Shipping has slowed down. All spectator sports all over the world have stopped.  Most of TV hours were devoted just to show all kind of main  sporting events. Cinema halls are empty, studios are not making new films. Theatres are very cautious about stage shows.  Some permanently shut down if any one in a theatre company dies of COVID=19. Workers cannot reach factories, manufacturing has slowed down. For people who have no savings, cannot find jobs because many offices and factories are closed. Our parents' generation was the lucky generation. Everything was running smoothly, it was a matter of routine. In that generation all the manufacturing was done. The sky was filled with all kinds of aircraft. Trade was going normally. Travel and tourism was going on without problems. Now all that is beginning to look like a d

Artificial Intelligence is feared will evolve to harm humans  The problem is that they will only do so if they have been programmed to do so. When humanity thought of self-aware killing machines, they never considered Virus', Trojans so and so forth. So a robot which has been programmed to kill that program can be infected in such a way that they self-destruct or forget their original programming As artificial intelligence evolve will the virus.  Assuming Borg type creatures threaten Earth, they will be infected with an array of viruses, The Borg will be constantly adapting so will the virus, The same will happen to Terminators and Brainiacs

Sex-bots are incredible controversy, the subject has been stripped to the bone. No one made an issue of cinemas which showed films round the clock. You can buy the ticket and sit in the cinema all day. You have nothing to do with anyone. Later  Radio before cinema and after television. Listening and watching and doing nothing else. People go to their jobs have left their TV, come back they are greeted by their TV showing all kinds of stuff,  which is entertaining and informative, change the channel watch something else. Later people had stacks of VHS tapes, then DVDs. No companionship, just watching shows. Some people had large bathrooms they sit in their tubs full of warm water and watch all the DVDs round the clock.  No one was concerned that people had cut themselves off from others. Many people are addicted to their laptop and phones. The potential arrival of sex-bots is worrying everyone. The 'healthy' sexual relationship between people will be disturbed. But society has

My encounter with Black Magic and Black Magicians started some 30 years ago. I was very sceptical and condemned anyone who believe in it. 30  years ago two people I knew, my best friend and a brother-in-law were out of their luck. My best friend for one reason or another - try as he might failed in every business effort, was discussing with his wife about pigeons. They went on talking, I politely stayed quiet. When they had finished, I asked him about what he talking about. He told me it had to do black magic, he was consulting a black magician to turn his luck around. I was shocked that he actually believed in such things and expressed my disappointment. His response to my reaction was anger. "I knew you would say these things, which is why I did not want to tell you" He tells me. We stopped talking for a few minutes and turned to talking about something else. I let him, he was actively following the black magicians instructions. Around the same my brother-in-law lost his

My father was in the foreign service, so we moved from country to country. For me Pakistan sounded like a foreign country. Had visitors from there. Except for them and my own family spoke Urdu, The minute I stepped out spoke that country's language.It defnitely did not feel like home. All 'fresh fruit' was in cans, when I returned to Karachi, I found what fresh fruit was like, the smell itself was intoxicating,there is no smell in canned fruit,Having canned fruit only begun to seriously believe that was the only way offered. I was in a cold country, I hated the cold, I was relieved when I returned to Pakistan. particularly, Karachi. I no longer needed to wear anything warm, no sweaters, no gloves. The sun was pleasing. I stayed in it as long as possible. I was staying at my khaalas place. She called me  back in and handed me a glass of water and a soft drink. "It's so hot outside did you not feel it?" "No" I replied Years later in a routine medi