Hey sandman's here after a long time.
I'm writing this while Metallica drums into my head and my mind is just about to hit Overload..
I'm writing this to address a question put to me a million times, usually with grimaces and looks that usually convey the unshakeable conviction that I belong in an asylum, in an iron straitjacket…the question is .. "How CAN u like ROCK?????" Its all noise, they're screaming not singing, They're violent disturbed people, This music Is ANTICHRIST!!!!
Ok, by now everybody must be wondering what an article on rock is doing in an Engg section. What's got me thinking is the fact that all Engineering Colleges have a Rock Show.. How many Commerce and Science colleges have u seen holding Rock Shows? I believe there's a connection between Engineering and Rock, a very powerful connection.
What's rock about? Who are we people who enjoy this music? What do we see in it? What do we want from it? Is it just perverseness that drives us to this music?
You hear noise.. we hear the melody of power, not power over others. Power within ourselves. We hear the music that speaks of a real world, not the little idiotic chocolate romances that your beloved Britney spears and Christina Aguilera sing about. I wont accept that crap because I know it for what it is. I don't want that music because it shows me a world of mindless fools who want to believe that that's all the world's about. And the people who just listen to the music because its soothing, because it kills time.. That's not why I listen to music. I listen to music because it's an expression of who I am, who I can be.. and I don't want to be what your crappy Britspear thinks I should be. I don't want her to be born to make me happy, I don't want to drive her crazy, I don't give a shit if she's lonely or lucky or whatever else she wants to moan about... Frankly, My Spear, I don't give a damn..
Do you see the connection? What we are aspiring towards is the same. We are Engineers. What do we care about these things? We are here to Create, to Invent. Not because the world wants it, not because some people would be saved if we create it. We aspire to create because its what we are, what we want to be. Not for anyone, only for ourselves. These rockers, Metallica, Megadeth, Sepultura, Rage against the Machine.. They started singing not because people would like their music.. They rocked because that is how they wanted to express themselves. They didn't give a shit if people ridiculed them.
Isn't this what we want to say about ourselves as Engineers? No one owns us. Not our college, Not our company, Not the country we work for. No one owns the insides of our heads. We will be what we will be. We will decide our duties. We will make our own rules.. Let them come and say it cant be done.. We'll do it and laugh in their faces.
This is what I wanted to say.. I respect Rock.. and I respect Engineering.. not Engineering the education system.. Engineering The System of Thought and Action.
I think u too should respect dis crawl,snarl,dis rush of blood n adrenaline and fuck dat soothing,choclate music.
We are engineers, we got to respect rock.
