A nation of rhinos...

Rhinos are the future, even if the Indian species of them, as the sources would say, are listed as a vulnerable species. A statistical joke, I presume. That reminds me of another joke which I have known since when I cannot even remember. It's about a rhino laughing a week after it was tickled. Well, we all know how thick can the skin of a rhino be. This post is not about jokes like the one I mentioned, but the answer to the question as why India must not worry about that "vulnerable" attribute of this species. 

In the last 20 years we witnessed so many campaigns which made all the Indians aware of  what all can be done to the human skin to make it fairer, smoother and  younger. But the one which we really have managed to get was not on their list. All that while, when they kept shouting and telling us to be more beautiful and younger we were taking after the rhinos! Our skins kept getting thicker. And soon we will evolve collectively into a nation of rhinos. Now, do we need a Darwin to see this? I presume not. We have learnt from our own jokes already, and hence these days we laugh at almost everything. What the word crash is to rhinos is the word pride to lions. But why must we worry about crashing in the future ? We know what Neo said, don't we ? - "Everything that has a beginning has an end." Our skins are thick. Death, massacre, immorality, corruption, they can't get under our skin,  can they? And we still laugh even when there is no joke. 

For once let me contradict myself in some sense as Nietzsche would say in his Twilight of the Idols, (How to Philosophize with a Hammer) - “One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions.” The rhino-skins are thick, and they are soft. In fact they are pretty sensitive to insect bites and sunburns. Even in this contradiction, you see, my evolutionary prophecy is still consistent. The most insignificant of things can insult the great Indian religious, and cultural heritage (how confusing and diverse they may be). And we do the same as the rhinos do to caress their wounds, we play in the mud. And do you know what the rhinos do to leave messages for others? They leave huge piles of dung. And the experts say you can tell a lot about a rhino from that pile. Following generations would be grateful for the pile of shit we are leaving for them. You see I am right when I say rhinos are the future.