Certain ideas need to be allowed to persist, even if there is no evidence of their having any value. The reasons for doing this might not be immediately apparent but they need not be known for this allowance to be given. Ideas need to be allowed to continue on the basis of what they need. If they do not ask for attention, do not ask for money, do not ask for practitioners and do not ask for validation, what is the harm in letting them do what they need to do? Sanctuaries are structures that give such inert desires that do not require much a nestling space. A nestling space only means that a space to develop from a spark to a fire is available. Resources for adding fuel to the fire exist.

But what are the criteria of such an offer of nestling space? The criteria is purely instinctive. When we feel that a desire has yet not become enveloped in a puddle of cynicism, we include it in the sanctuary. Cynicism does not allow a desire to achieve its ends. The desire gets stuck in limbo, not being able to reset and not being able to go ahead and pursue its ends either. This sanctuary does not have only a personal implication for us. It has a wider implication even if you do not care about us or the Museum. We are not saying that culture is infectious so we indirectly and invariably have some influence on the way things will shape up. But we are stating that till the total annihilation of all the sanctuaries that offer nestling spaces is completed, there is no victory for either side. Sanctuaries are detested and their role in fermenting opposition is not easily tolerated.

But this depends on what the nestling space offered is able to trigger. Provided the nestling space is actually able to seed a drastic set of alternatives, it will really end up meaning something. The truth is that there are far fewer resources available for causes that are taking a bet on the future that might never be realised. There is a simple one-to-one correlation between investable futures and liveable realities. If an idea does not have the desperate desire to become investable, then it is an empty symbolic gesture and cannot be taken seriously. Not being take seriously means that there we retain no power and remain a benign entity on the landscape.

If you can't connect, don't bother. If you feel out of place, you are. If you feel alienated, enjoy it.

The alien is the coolest creature on the block. Try to understand why. Aliens can do anything, no social conventions need to be followed. Alienation is part of the infrastructure. Look around you, can you think of any reason to not feel alienated? The design of the system demands you to feel alienated.

So if you can't ever feel at home, feel like you belong, why even try? Embrace alienation. Do bizarre, be bizarre. The alien and the schizoid are similar. If you believe the hardware/software duality about humans (many of us don't), you could say one is a software, and one is a hardware solution. Feeling effervescent, I will go ahead and say that we should petition the United Nations to demand universal alienation. And in kindergarten, we should teach children how to treasure, acknowledge their alienation. There will be no concept of an outsider, no angst in teenage when children suddenly realize that the world is not made of candy. For the well-adjusted minority, maybe the medicos can make a vaccine? A virus? But maybe we should let them feel alienated from the alienated?

It will be refreshing to see writers come up with some new material. They can just trash their first three chapters safely, "We know all about that. Yes, the guy was a mis-fit, we all are." Clinginess will be safely avoided, people who would like to cling-on to their socially cohesive ways will safely be sent away. There will be no more place for them.

You think I am joking? We never joke. We take the long-view, weigh-in the commentary. And objectively suggest the most potential.