Issue 6 | 23 Dec. 2006

. When You Control the Info Age .
By KSM

Not exactly earthshaking stuff. Unless, you are Mike Tyson attempting to sit on a one-legged topless stool made of Christmas pastry which by the way (not the pastry, but the stool) is also non-existent.

After every boom cometh the bust, said Shakespeare, if memory serves right. While full many a boom have cometh and promptly gone busteth, this bubble is not going to burst. The boom in information, the insatiable, crazed, craving for thousands of tons of ABSOLUTELY USELESS data is at its booming best.

Take the current obsession about what India-bound NRI geeks and cocktail circuit celebs love to do most. For instance, a tycoon's sibling said the other day that what she loves most is - believe it or not - to SIT IN HER DRAWING ROOM.

Yes. Sit. In the drawing room. Not exactly earthshaking stuff. Unless, you are Mike Tyson attempting to sit on a one-legged topless stool made of Christmas pastry which by the way (not the pastry, but the stool) is also non-existent.

Well, it's a free country, so you can't outlaw people who wish to sit in their drawing room, unless they try to do so in OUR drawing room. Still, it sounds a bit odd that all a distinguished well-heeled Ivy League celebrity of an aristocratic lineage, loves to do is  - to rest her bottom. Unless - there we go again - these celeb types prefer to sit, standing. Or for that matter, stand, sitting.

Truly these P3Ps are a breed apart. Unpredictable to the core. Bold. Gusty. Defiant. Focused.

Try getting thrilled, ecstatic about a totally insipid, uninspiring, mindless act like simply staying put in your drawing room and you will know why. And WHAT it takes to be a celeb.

Sooner or later it had to happen. After power breakfast, power lunch, etc can power sitting be far behind?
And after this, a power debate by a power panel of wannabe celebs on this matter of power sitting, is of course just a TV channel away…

Panelist I: (wearing a bewildered look) Are you sure you HEARD it right? Perhaps she was misquoted?
Panelist II: You don't mean to say she said 'shit' instead of 'sit' in her drawing room?

Panel Psychiatrist: I think she was merely rebelling against the status quo, she was making a subtle statement against the system. As a rule, the masses expect the sky from their idols. For instance, you can't pick your nose in public, you can't lick your hands while eating, you can't do this, you can't do that, and so on and so forth. All these Don'ts must have gotten to her and one fine day, she threw up and said: I'm going to sit in my drawing room, and I am gonna to simply LOVE it!

Panel Sociologist: Perhaps there's a deeper significance we are not able to grasp. To love "sitting in the drawing room" means to empathize with the downtrodden millions of her fellow men, who anyway, have nothing else to do or love. In any case, do not forget that one has to sit somewhere, so what better place can there be than the drawing room, and when you have to do it anyway, why not love doing it?