The Gangs of WhatsAppur (A foreword for forwards)

This year’s Oscars left a permanent scar on a beautiful night that climaxed with Will Smith smacking Chris Rock on a joke that turned awry. But isn’t the genesis of all violence a joke. Most of civilization starts with good intentions and turns into a joke and a bloody violent mess in the end. Most violence in modern times is the culmination of a joke. If you are a part of any of the WhatsApp groups in your local communities and societies , you will witness this in all its glory.?Among the most hilarious WhatsApp groups that you can be part of are the residential society groups that were conceived as “intelligent management of human emotions”.

Have you ever woken up at odd hours to notice a galaxy of owls in the WhatsApp night sky, typing away their agonies? ?Waking up one night at 3 am out of biological compulsions , I noticed one in my building society WhatsApp group typing…. hold your breath…he is still typing….He found a cigarette butt in his duct area, thrown by a moron on a floor up, who smokes and shoves it up other’s ducts. I wonder why they don’t shove it up their own ducts. ?All this at 3.00 am for God sakes. While you draw one from the smoke in your duct, there are others who are typing… maid has left …. does anyone know nice ones who don’t… leaks in my bedroom, laughs in the neighbors bedroom… pigeon in my balcony…pyjamas across my balcony…construction noises in the neighborhood…?two lovebirds spotted in the society garden…. spitting in the hallway….kissing ?in the stairway …. Pissing in the drive way… and just today…. Snakeskin in the parking lot. ?The kind of people you would avoid any social interaction with, in the physical world. I personally hide behind the bushes when I see them in the daylight and come out only when the danger passes. The carbon footprint generated by these morons will soon bring the mother earth to its knees. I urge the United Nations to call for an emergency meeting to pass a resolution to pack them off to Antarctica and be fed to the polar bears. On a day with clear skies, enough sunlight and ambient temperature, you will notice they have started growing tails turning the Darwinian theory on its head. There are plenty of morons ?typing something, somewhere all the time. what if the metaverse is full of them? Very likely! They don’t like to be seen talking, they only want to be seen typing. Introducing, THE GANGS OF WHATSAPPUR…

These WhatsApp groups go through the classic Gartner hype curve . It starts with the trigger to communicate, collaborate and thrive on the collective wisdom of bozos. The peak of inflated expectation in 12 hours and then?downhill all the way to the 3rd day with jokes at the rate of 1000000 bauds. Tears roll out , asking for mercy. Evolutionary wisdom kicks in on the 4th morning and enlightenment engulfs the evil. Jokes no more… please do not send derogatory comments…. hide your tails and let the buddha smile again. All in five days mankind sees reason and rationale. There is a lone ranger somewhere in the dark moonless night typing his guts to glory, invoking the wrath of humanity. Bring the curtains down and start a new show.

Insolvency and exhaustion of ideas on one issue will lead to another, kicking up the dust for a few days and die again. But there is nothing strange in this behavior, these social media tools just make it quicker, murkier and then quiet in a matter of days. In recent times, “The war in Ukraine” was the new agenda. Taking position and sides at a time when the priority is to stop the war. But humanity is wearing their best fonts to win the debate. There is a huge truth in the statement “You don’t have to win all the time”. But that goes against the entire philosophy peddled in our times on how to be a consistent winner. The biggest casualty of war is truth. In this quest for taking pole position, truth gets side-lined in propaganda, and polarization hits the high road. Does it matter where in history the seeds of mistrust were sown and when ?. Not a word on what happens to the environment, animals, birds, flora and fauna from our actions. There is no future for them in our histories and no history will ever be written about them in our future. We take pole position in all destructions because we think we are central to the universe and in its future. Guys our planet is here to stay beyond us. It will happily adjust without us. It will go with a new identity “Universe minus humans plus plastic”, as simple as that.

There are four quadrants to this WhatsApp messaging world. Pornography, Politics & religion, Health &Hypochondriacs and Moral Gyan. I allow non participants to be in the "Centre of Consciousness" and just keep shut. Let the curtain rise and begin ?“The night at the Opera”. ?Porn, politics, religion and a lot of bull shit.

When first asked to join a whatapp group of my society ,?I thought it was a moment in history that will change the nature of community living. And of course it started with great expectations and than entered the four essential pillars that make most of WhatsApp conversations. Naughty jokes, Political pokes, religious rants, worldly wisdom. These groups are a ?microcosm of the universe we live in. ?It’s a sad world with a lot of jokes, it’s a mad world with a lot of wisdom, it’s a sick world of Hypochondriacs and an erotica sans desire.?.................See you again.