Why don't “happily ever after” s make a great tell tale?

Yes, take your pick right from Radha Krishna to Love in the times of cholera

Romeo and Juliet to Before Sunrise, Before Sunset (the twin movies) all had the strongest of loves but no ever after story..

I had this thought today and I realized this is because it makes business sense. Let me try to explain.

Most of the people interested in watching / reading these stories are countless multitudes of hopeless romantics as against the few (if at all) have a happily ever after life. So simply enough, target the market segment that will pay better.

As an afterthought probably the strongest of the bonds are those that could not be for a long time (the ever in the above phrase) but those that lived lifetimes while it lasted.. It probably is the "in spite of" that makes the story great but then again it’s a hopeless romantic who is speaking so I cannot make very objective judgement.

Let me know what you guys think Is it just because its best for  business or are these stories as great as they are made out to be?

Justice divine and otherwise

Of late I have turned from a believer agnostic. I have strong reservations about God’s existence and sense of justice in the ways of the world. There is no sense of justice in the way the world works and it never was. Had there been any, there would not have been needed any institutions administering justice. Well people realized it early and these institutions of justice were created and some men in power decide for you that what is right and wrong. A right in a country is wrong at another play. A woman in extremist countries could be killed for consuming alcohol or even as petty a fault as working in an office with several men.

The sense of Justice in the way the world works is instilled in people through innumerable short dada/dadi fables to several stories told to us as a part of education. These in the end create affect the mind of people like us in ways that our good and bad/ right and wrong starts to get develop the way described here. But then if it was not for a sense of justice instilled in us, the same species of human beings could have been line any other animals hurting each other stealing from each other. Hence courts were established for the people amongst us who were not convinced by such fables.

But there was still a problem what if somebody is dies in an accident/illness and there is nobody to blame. Well this was somewhat covered in this(The invention of Lying (2009)) movie I watched recently. The basic concept was about a world where nobody lied and a man accidently discovered that he could speak something that wasn’t there (there was no word lie). In this world one could just say I have so much money in the account and they will consider it as a software error rather than an lie and give that sum of money.  Well here the one and only man who was capable of lying, lied to his mother to give a sense of false hope and security about a happy life after death. Later the entire city came to his doorstep trying to learn more about that afterlife and other things about it. With the world watching him on television he concocted the lie of the world about a Man up there who kept track of the good and bad of the people in the world below and the people who committed a certain number of deviations from good behavior were punished by sending to a very bad place and the idealists went to a nice place where they had their loved ones with them and all material riches they dreamed of.

What I am essentially implying is that the invention of God was just another way to curb dog eat dog behavior in human beings, that there is something to live righteously for even if you are not happy and satisfied in the current living. There would be no need of such a concept if every man believed the old dictum of “Virtue is its own reward”.

Note: I understand that quite a few of you might not agree. Please enlighten me sans inflammatory remarks.