I have been asked, what has changed. On surface nothing has changed. We are still pretty much who we are. Yet this is just a facade. Because deep down, we have changed fundamentally. We now chart a clear path forward. Yet we stick to it like a beeline - like its the only thing we know how. We no longer bend our backs - yet we no longer know how to make sensible exceptions too. We have gone from fluid and blurry to steel-hard rod - like the Titanic heading for the iceberg. Its a good thing no icebergs are in sight. But when we see it, its game over. Because we do not have the means nor the conviction to avoid it. Flexibility is the key to achieving greater ends. To see it as a negative - what have we become? If inflexibility wasnt bad enough, we have taken a different perspective too. Previously, human beings have value. Value in who they are - not what they do or how much they return. But simply in who they are. Now, human beings are simply commodities - to be bartered, traded, twisted and squeezed in the tightest way possible so that we get the greatest gains. They hold weight in value only in so much as they provide tangible returns - like commodities. We no longer have the capabilities to see value in the people. We see only the value of those commodities. And perhaps a qns that never cease to trouble me, is why have we decided to put emphasis on poster boys rather than the people who put their lives on the line to do the real work. Everybody knows abt poster boys. But if we do not value or recognise the people who do the work, when they leave - and they will, will our poster boys step up?
Posted on: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 17:39:30 +0000
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