Zeus, harking back to Lit classes and Homer’s Iliad, sent Agamemnon a Lying Dream to deceive him into attacking Troy with the false promise of victory. Thinking about it today for some reason my mind frames, harking back to the debating societies of school, a debate: Is Lying Dream an Oxymoron?. Life as a adult is less about debates than accepting and giving shut-up calls but then what are blogs for?
Take dreams. The kind that Lalit Modi at the IPL 3 Award Ceremony thanked the world for making come true. Lying Modi or Lying Dreams? Is there an escape from truth an in-built and essential feature of all dreams? Perhaps we should banish the use of the word dream as a signifier of a desired objective or state and confine them to be chimera of the mind, in a class with all the subterfuge the Gods use against us humans.
Can you discern a souring of the times around us? Or is it just me and the after-effect of many weeks of pain. Perhaps not. Take Rajat Gupta. An avid follower of the teaching of Vivekananda and the first Indian to be the global head of McKinsey. What reason could he have to consort with the likes of Rajratnam? Another one bites the dust or is it all of us collectively stumbling?
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