They call us pinkus

The deeper I get into the Himalayas the more difficult is going to be to get access to the Internet - good excuse for eventual lack of updates.

Now I'm in Shimla, a very popular hill station, lots of indian tourists but also some whites, (we're are just everywhere). I was hanging around lost and I found some locals getting drunk in a kind of picnic place, it was a good-bye party. They invited me to join and in the heat of the conversation they told me they call us pinkus, "the pink foreigners".

One of them in particular was amazing. Doing nothing for a living (he has some land), a drunkard, in favor of the Palestine cause in such an extreme way that you could say that he's a neo-nazi, but also very very spiritual.

At sunset there was a beautiful view and the birds were singing. He told me if I could feel god in that beauty. I answered that I saw it was beautiful but there is beauty in a way in my hometown as well and I never felt god there, so why here. He agreed, that's exactly the problem with all the western people, he said, looking for something which actually they will not find in India but only on "their perception".

For me this guy could be the archetype of indian spirituality, (maybe not the one of the enlightened, but of the common folk).

Ropes tied everywhere

My apologies for this 1-month kind of break in which I havent updated the blog.

It's not that I'm looking for an excuse, but I was in a mess with some ropes (see below). Anyhow, I am in India now, back here once again, and I really think this is the place for doing nothing, thus I will also have more time to talk about anything.


There's this old personal image that I have about myself. Since I started working I became a nomad in a way, wondering around. It was nice, I made good friends here and there, but it was also tough, since I left my family and my old friends in the first place, and I had to start again from scratch every now and then. And I kept making it worse since when I managed to make good new friends I turned them into old when I left and I moved somewhere new.

For the image, I picture myself really big size walking on the earth globe, and there is a rope tied to my ankles, the other end strapped to the places I've been to, linked to the people there. Eventually it gets impossible to move, since the ropes get into a net and then into a mess, and I get stuck and I cannot move. However, when it happens, I'm not in the place that I would like to be at, but I'm just in the middle of nowhere, in the place in which by chance all the ropes got messed and stopped me.

I must say I like the image because it describes the way I feel about it. These nadaist months, after the wondering around in Europe, I went to my parents' and I visited old friends and the feeling of the ropes suddenly came back and it made everything very hard.


One could wonder what are the ropes. Or what make them tied. Being in India maybe it would be easy to put an "elightened" kind of answer to that question. But there's a point that comes first. It's a bit obvious, (these obvious points that don't help at all unless you realise them yourself, in whatever the way). I can look at the image at any moment e.g. right now and see that it makes it for the explanation and, even if it is exagerated, it is accurate - but I can regard it coldly and not feel any sadness or anything. And there are these other times, (e.g. the weekend before the flight to Delhi), in which the image overtakes me and dominates me and makes me feel anguish, but it is not because it becomes more correct, or less acurate, it is just because it has just triggered the fear, in a way.

So the image is a thought which is always right, and which generates a torment but only sometimes. When it does hurt and when it does not is a mistery to me, but I'm thinking maybe that's the whole (obvious) point.

Doing nothing to save the world

Yes nadaism is not only amusing, besides doing nothing helps to save the world. Of course it is not making a big difference, it is quite a subtle contribution; that's probably the reason why nobody had not noticed till today.

As a start, doing nothing is by far better than doing something wrong. If you do nothing you don't break the law. Ok you don't stop the wrong doing that is already happening, (I'm thinking about the real day-to-day bad stuff like wars, people smuggling, killings), but at least you don't participate nor contribute to it. If everybody did nothing the world would be no doubt a better place to live; not every single person, which would not be sustainable, but if we had a significant percentage of the world population functionally disfunctional, let's say 10%, there would be a lot less evil acts, by around 10% on average for the example.

Additionally, by doing nothing you don't meddle or interfere with local affairs. It is common to criticize some organizations that try in their best goodwill to help 3rd world countries, but they don't understand the situation and by their actions they might end up harming more than helping, bringing unbalance instead of wellbeing. However there is not a more tolerant or agnostic approach to problems than doing nothing.

As for environmental problems, ok the nadaist still consumes, (not so much anyway, due to lack of funds), but it is guaranteed that he/she does not produce at all, and production is a strain for the nature as big as consumption, (in particular in sectors like mining or fossil fuels, but also in others that might sound more common, like electronics). I would dare to say that the "ecological footprint" of a person who does nothing is halved due to the lack of production.

Besides, (the more one thinks about it the more advantages are found), from a more right wing pose there could be a fair criticisim for the doing nothing, since development is exactly what some countries need in order to improve the living conditions of their citizens. But the nothing-doers are just spending their money, all of it until and it is finished, which is a perfect catalyzer for growth, (as any high school student should know). If in fact the nadaists go and travel around developing countries, their pouring of money can only be move beneficial.

This is a great finding I believe. The little remorse that I had left for my attitude is gone now; everybody wants to some extent to do something to help deal with global problems, although they don't always find the energy or the good way to do it.

I'm going to propose to the authorities that they create a new NGO, (and to fund it!!).

The point of travelling & the croupier

All the stuff about the point of travelling of the previous post sounds ok of course, it is a rational explanation, you may or may not agree. But actually it is not so simple, because of the croupier.


The croupier keeps on checking at every moment that I'm not so amused, (I don't remember the last time I got bored), or worried, or not feeling so well, to wonder once again about the purpose of the trip, (if at least I was spending less money or I had some contributions to the nadaist project).

Of course the cheapest is to stay in the same city for a while, to avoid transportation expenses. For the rest, the hotels I go to are usually the cheapest and the food in Italy if you are a bit careful is quite inexpensive. As for the doing nothing, the least possible, that's cheap. The croupier should be happy in that situation. But no, if you are really doing nothing, are you not wasting your money in a country like Italy, since there are much cheaper places to be?. If for whatever the reason you engage more activities and for example you enter the Colliseum you always wanted to and the ticket you know the ticket, (and maybe you don't enjoy it so much for whatever the reason, maybe you are a little bit saturated of art), then the croupier complains again, and so loudly!.

So the croupier will look for every hole, anything that is not exactly perfect, and will wonder about it, and depending on the mood will manage sometimes to torture me a bit. (Well torture is probably a word too harsh, but that's its mechanism, that's its field).


Then the only solution is to rely on the thing (also from previous posts) to take decisions on the spot, to decide whether to visit that temple or to go that city. But the decisions have to be on the spot, and it is annoying, for example I have to get to the entrance of the place to let the thing decide if I get in, sometimes I start phone calls looking for accommodation in places that I barely think they are interesting just to let the thing decide that of course I won't be going!.


This one is not rational and the consequence is that it does not make sense. What can I say.