Indian cricketers, according to its fans, are either the best in the world or the worst, depending on the result of the last match they played. And while some may want to believe that such extreme opinions exist only in sports, they cannot deny that this opinionatedness exists among Indians in most other areas of life.
It is better then that we accept this state of being, especially if we find ourselves become victims or beneficiaries of these opinions.
Friedrich Hayek said that followers are always a bad idea.
Followers were always much worse than the people they followed. Marxists were much worse than Marx; Keynesians were much worse than Keynes; and so he really hoped that there wouldn’t be any Hayekians.
One of the characteristics of a great writer and thinker is the ability to bring a beautiful analogy to explain a complex idea. Here is Ludwig Wittgenstein on how language is an organic entity:
He talks about being in a city and starting in a square and moving into different districts and coming to know some of them and reencountering them from different directions. And realising that the city doesn’t have buildings of all the same period of time but that it’s been laid upon again and again with new architectural styles and finding one’s way into these different periods of time and space is one way which we see the organic growth and outgrowth of language.
Akshat Rathi 