Management greatness

We have so much to thank modern management for. Penicillin, the A bomb, computers, internet, automobiles and air travel, high yield crops and electricity. Everything about human progress depends upon management contributions. That is the reason it is the greatest thing ever and most talked about and well paid profession, since it is so essential for progress. How could we ever do without it?

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Destruction of Self-respect by the Indian Education system

It all looks not so insidious or evil. You send your kid to school, like raising a disciplined little regiment of children. Other than taking 12 years to produce a vast array of idiots and dimwits (such as those who elect D Trump, in a 100% literate land also called the 'hope of the world'). The evil IMHO starts with the school leaving age. There appears a big big disconnect between the schooling and the real world. I am a very literate person, I realise now, about midway through my life (fingers crossed), that I tend to take things a bit (too) literally, perhaps, for the country I was born in. This chasm (of the disconnect) manifests itself gigantically in a dysfunctional (or functional chaos?) country like India. All is well till about the first 10 years of school, other than making you repeat some stuff to make sure you do get it. It is a wide array of topics, with reasonable coverage, which leaves a bit of time for goofing off. An average, non-psychotic kid should be...

Absurdity of Communism and the Validity of its Successes

For Better or for Worse, we are limited in our approach by our ideas, as a society. Communism is an absurd idea. It is only revolutionary in the sense that it includes the economy as being under absolute state control. The state is of course the state with powers above all. Absolute power corrupts absolutely and hence coopting the state to provide more and not less is designed to be sub optimal, maybe even grandly and now generally branded a failure. The sub optimal results suffice though if they can, or at least promise, to feed the starving masses. Nobody usually likes a revolution, except when the alternative is to eat the (in)famous french recipe cake. But communism was an idealistic, bold experimentation to the bourgeoise general apathy. It went beyond just economic equality by adding to the new French recipe of libertie, egalite, fraternite. Womens's equality and voting rights. Yes, what was so progressive seems regressive, just because the ideas of co...

Of what purpose, happiness?

Happiness is an end unto itself. After it is what it is. Purpose of life is after all 64 (and happiness). A self fulfilling goal. No need to inquire about the purpose of our actions, what is right or wrong with a deeper understanding. Be happy, purposefully. Easy? Right? Perhaps a bit too easy or Simple but not easy?

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