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10 concepts that explain the modern world
1. Parkinson’s Law: Companies become bigger and worse over time. Clerks manufacture work for each other as overall capacity dips. When British Navy ships went down from 68 to 20, officials increased by 78%.
2. Chesterton Fence: If you don’t know what an old custom does, don’t touch it. It may be holding back problems you’re completely unaware of. You’ve not seen the wolves yet because of the very fence you’re about to demolish.
3. The Medici Effect: Sculptors, painters, and architects converged in Florence as the Medicis were funding the artists. Their proximity led to a fertile dialogue which, in turn, led to the Renaissance. The internet will amplify this cross-pollination of ideas.
4. The Centipede's Dilemma: Ask a centipede which one of its hundred legs moves the fastest and it forgets how to move. Reflecting on what we normally do without thought ironically worsens performance. A culture of endless self-reflection, therapy, and navel gazing is eroding important life skills.
5. Tyranny of small decisions: Individuals make small decisions to maximize convenience but this leads to massive social failure. We nod along to contagious ideas like “gender is fluid” because resisting them is too much work - till kids start getting transgender surgery. The slippery slope is not a fallacy but a fundamental reality.
6. The Zebra Effect explains why people don’t want to stand out. Zebras are hard to individually study as it's nearly impossible to track one of them for long (lost in the striped chaos). So scientists once put a big red dot on one zebra so he could be tracked & studied. Lions zeroed in on him and hunted him with ease. Getting lost among others is a survival mechanism. Hence the human desire to conform.
7. Why the ruler can’t rule: The executive head can’t implement his ideas on ground because the bureaucrats are closer to it, and have an agenda of their own. The Tzar of Russia had to deal with the Deep State too. Nicholas II: “I never ruled Russia. 10,000 clerks ruled Russia.”
8. Gall's law: A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. Only fools and modern technocrats try to create complex systems from scratch.
9. Minimal Self Hypothesis: Narcissism is a “strategic retreat” into the safety of one’s own self. When the future looks random, inexplicable, and informationally overwhelming, people enter survival mode. The self becomes “minimal” to reduce its surface area to pain. People today are giving up on commitment of all sorts to conserve energy for vague and upcoming disasters.
10. Tetris Syndrome: The world will eventually start looking like Tetris blocks if you play the game too much. What we do most often becomes the metaphor through which we look at the world. Takeaway: Most people today are addicted to their 2D phones - and this will hurt the general aptitude for dealing with the 3D world.
"In whatever ways we are made—by God, the forces of nature, or the conventions of society—there remain frayed strands in the fabric of human existence where self-making adds to the process".
'Observation of human nature' without any bias, search for meanings and seek honestly to know, to understand and to learn about the details of things, events, persons observed may be defined as one of the important processes of philosophy. Then, based on the perception that emanates out of these philosophical approaches one may try to look for synergies or new dimensions and new dynamics of or notice nuances of life hitherto unnoticed and try to define or delineate or deal with life and its manifestations.
Quoting either the scriptures or literary pieces are useful tools but they too like slogans can block real curiosity, unbiased observation ( observation is influenced by frames of references and biases), lesser scope to accept or to understand issues, leave alone offering remedies.
We live in a world where it's easy to forget that our very first duty is not to a political or religious concept, or to a flag, but to each other…
On World
Tourism Day in India 2023, we Indians must be proud , rightly so, of
our heritage sites, architectural and cultural splendours, geographical natural
wonders and our tourism departments blunders.
We have not
tapped even 10% of our potential. While we wax eloquent on bran
drain, we hardly ever bother to notice, much less quantify, the
tourism revenue drain in India.
Modern day
tourism requires proper infrastructure with a complete ecosystem involving
a whole gamut of tourists’ attraction and promotion factors. Comfort in
new environs to enjoy both the journey, visit and stay that can trigger
nostalgic feelings at a later day and there must be somethings to revisit those
nostalgic moments, at least some basic memorabilia like T-shirts, photo
cards, fridge magnets, key chains, booklets etc. None of these things are
there in most places.
Even our much-venerated
pilgrimage centres the journey are not adventurous or anything to
do with ascetic arduous peregrinations but pure danger and potential
risk, they escalate when a VIP visits. There is neither discipline nor
crowd management anywhere. Cleanliness is totally neglected in most
places.
If people,
try to escape all these dangers and try to go abroad our system kills the
very instinct for travel and tourism through a 17th
century stupid NOC rules in almost all organisations.
When you
visit a place, you grasp life in its complete form as it is in that place. While
doing so, you feel a new joy, experience life differently and learn to
appreciate the whole environment i.e., all aspects of that place its language,
culture, food, dress, traditions etc with total intensity and intense totality.
Of course, certain preferences, embedded as prejudices, may not allow one to
accept every type of food, appreciate every culture of the place or accept all
types of dress codes, understand every language, yet one is struck by something
new, something different and most importantly, in most places people are nice
to tourists.
"What you've done becomes the judge of what
you're going to do — especially in other people's minds. When you're
traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have
your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road."-William L H Moon
Symbolically too, when our mind travels without
carrying the burden of the past it is a very enjoyable journey .
Travelogues takes
us not only to new places but introduce us to hitherto unknown and unseen newer
perspectives to perceive life.
Many
great works are chronicles of observed activities or absurdities , the
psychological impacts it had on the thinker or writer, their own
perceived and concerned socio- cultural implications of those
activities.
In
some cases, they also used ideological extrapolation to interpret
events.
The
author. who unfortunately, missed Nobel prize James Joyce's 1000 plus pages
book Ulysses is chronicle of a day. Some
weave a wonderful study of psychology.
Even
when some great authors, thinkers and seekers write travelogues they convey a lot
of great in-depth insight , architectural study and philosophical
insights. In Paul Brunton's work his spiritual seeking, Socio-psychological
aspects in Aldous Huxley's works and socio- cultural aspects and romance in
Lawrence Durrell's works etc.
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Chiara Vigo: The last woman who makes sea silk - BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33691781
There are certain things so unique in terms of their texture, taste, availability that if they are affordable I would go all the way to buy and popularize.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBu7aHLqwMs
“Most of us live like monks…rooting ourselves to a home or a career and using the future as a kind of phony ritual that justifies the present. In this way, we end spending (as Thoreau put it) “the best part of one’s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.”
Successful Businesses Houses in India be it Reliance or Tata
are into multiple businesses with actual geographical spread pan India.
Whatever be the
online options Indian psyche as well as in most parts of the world initially
people want to be it product or service, visibly see it, feel it, taste it,
experience it
1.
Why?
Various reasons.
Ø They would like to adjust or balance their overall financial portfolio irrespective of assaults from landscape of
competition and market volatilities and other factors.
Ø They also know that consumer base both for
services and products of various categories targeted towards various strata of
population are.
2.
How they do it and how
come they are successful?
They also ensure
that in every vertical there is an in-built win-win model for multiple stakeholders.
3.
Who we are?
[With link …] just
5 bullet points about our experience, bandwidth in sourcing/servicing.
4. What we want to do, where
and how?
Ø Connecting consumers from
Kashmir to Kanyakumari
through brand presence.
Ø India centric Made in India products with
effective compatible operations with ONDC through IOT and AI.
Ø It goes without saying that all statutory
compliances will be followed.
Ø Products will be organic health mixes, drinks and ready to eat items, Ayurvedic health and wellness
products/medicines, cosmetics, emergency medicines and other essentials
grocery items, toys manufactured in India
as well as promote state/district
specific handicrafts and artefacts, sourced from respective states/districts.
5. Why we want to do it?
India Inspired/Initiated Solutions are aplenty all
around with its immense resources,
inspiring entrepreneurs, manufacturing
potential, intelligent, skilled and tech savvy work force.
However,
it urgently needs bigger consumer awareness and acceptance of its own potential,
and the best part is, INDIA has within its geographical area and its excellent
infrastructure which needs to be optimally utilised.
6. When we want to do?
As early as we get an opportunity to have our
project proposals with details. As these project in its entire gamut of
operations will generate massive employment, exponential growth of consumers
for Made in India products/items and create overall empowerment and economic
growth spanning all over India.
Peace, realistically, is feasible only when national, international business operators' self interest are taken care of which then will have the moral obligation and economic necessity for all stakeholders' benefits which will prevail over narrow political jingoism and catastrophic wars.
In
brief the MAP of life reveals a new Atlas where AGE allows us to decipher
the nuances of nature of life and to live naturally.
We learn to notice,
at the cost of years indifference or ignorance or comfort zones which gave the
luxury to our thoughts, ideas, observations, perspectives to be ensconced in
various types of and at different levels of confirmation biases which were convenient
to live through the multiple modes of socially acceptable norms and
mores.
Experience, though,
late but slowly emboldens us to shed the borders of unwanted hypocrisies but
retain the necessities of inevitable multiple adjustments ( what I meant by
deciphering the nuances of nature.).
MAP is enhanced and
slightly enlightened.
Mindset
Attitude and
Perspectives.
AGE is better polished.
Attitude,
Gratitude and
Exactitude.
Life understands
and accepts the necessity to live more in a mode that is adjustment based and
action oriented rather than reaction driven.
Tossing and swinging human beings between phobias and philias
based on their inherent ideology of homogenisation.
The
latest one being to study the gender of farts and its contribution to carbon
footprints..
The latest one
being Wokeism and its obsession with global warming.
The West resorts
to tossing and swinging human beings between phobias and philias based on their
inherent ideology of homogenisation.
The
craze for homogenization and the claim of panacea are the ills that have marred
evolution of human excellence to a very great extent.
These two are the result of presumptive
psychological fixations.
The
former is pushed ahead with various justifications while the latter is pushed
forth out of some presumptions, mostly ethnocentric pride due to indoctrinated
identity based on some ideology predominantly either religious or political.
Nature
is variety and variety is natural. Denying and defying reality cannot always
work.
Throughout
history it has failed miserably.
Be it the Roman
Empire’s greed to spread its tentacles [ be a Roman in Rome] ; be
it the attempt to homogenize religion which failed with Spanish
Inquisition; be it Nazism or Colonialism;
all have failed.
Once these
attempts at homogenizing cultures, beliefs, political ideologies have failed,
the West resorted to Trade and Economics and
tried to classify everything under either Capitalism or Communism,
politically the Right and the Left
.
Those scripting
any political narrative realize to do away with the outdated dichotomy of Left
and Right because life, especially socio-cultural and economic life, has many
dimensions each having its own dynamics and in addition there are also those
emanating from intersectionality and interactions and collectively these show
up themselves with varying degrees of intensity.
Fortunately,
life and all its concomitant evolutions happen despite and beyond the blinkered
narratives peddled by status quo addicts of trite dichotomies and have made
visible various options between, besides, beneath and above those dichotomies,
and these may strengthen the wings and enable the discourse to soar into
unbiased zones and offer some solutions to many present-day problems faced by
humanity.
It is
unhealthy if we do not realize that the human race is far more than the
opportunities it is consciously aware of as Jean Paul Sartre provides the example of the young
man who puts his hand on his first date's hand. She, who does not really know
him yet, must either leave her hand there or remove it. Either choice reveals
something not part of her consciousness. We are far more than the limited
opportunities present in the world.
Sharing a lot of thought provoking, inward
realisation stimulating, idea inspiring, philosophical enquiry-based study
materials are always useful.
They are inspiring and impelling one to revisit ,
rethink, reevaluate, relate anew with greater clarity and better
perspectives.
In brief, they trigger one’s impulse to respond as
well.
Unfortunately, the imperatives of life's demanding
routines may not offer the luxury of time to indite the gushing thoughts and
ideas.
However, as we read interesting materials, we must
try to internalise the essence of ideas and some useful expressions to
imitate later.
So, whenever all other distractions go on a
sojourn, then, in silence of the mind and solitude in time and space we may
recollect and engage in expressing the understanding of and learning from,
rather the whole take away from those enlightened materials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_tpHG9hKBI
https://youtu.be/B_tpHG9hKBI?
It is unfortunate that the world is rewinding
towards more discussions on religions and faith, especially many of their naïve
aspects, which have outlived their relevance for various factors of present
generations’ needs.
However, when such topics are thrown at press
conferences to political leaders/aspirants, it requires real courage of
conviction to talk about the core values of religions/faiths
which do help to hold the social fabric with certain time tested and
universally acceptable sane propositions and to take the perspective of
discussions beyond ideological dichotomies/ binaries and identity based
classifications.
On most topics he is frank , has enough clarity and
talks sense.
Most importantly is not averse to taking head on
certain outdated or vestigial institutions, kicking away white elephants in the
system and willing to at least talk boldly on unpopular, controversial
issues with a clear stand.
He may be right or wrong. May become a useful,
purposeful great leader or dumped on the roadside by the voting public.
But it does matter a lot that we need such people
who are willing to make bold statements on certain issues with courage of
conviction unmindful of the outcomes of success at the elections.
I consider him as one of the most powerful young
leaders, better and bolder than our PM.
Obvious, of course, the dynamics of factual
economic power and a society imbued with luddites and status quo
addicts, combined with total lack of ecosystem in many domains [ though we may
cherish in singing the refrain that we are a civilization that did this or that
or knew so many things - if that is the case why everyone suffers from
xenophilia].
Unfortunately, even for any sincere leader with
vision and absolute majority, the preferred journey of option would
be diplomatically deal, compromise, get along, reconcile etc and wait for a probable
and opportune time when the path can be safely changed, and destination could
become a promised land of more opportunities, freedom, and greater economic
prosperity.
Our PM too took some very bold decisions,
not necessarily before parliament elections, but before major state assembly
elections- which were all like referendums on his government- like Article 370,
TT, Demo, GST etc , first doing away with that stupid PLANNING COMMISSION while
everything is planned based on commission in real politics. He was unashamed to
talk about toilets in his first speech.
Though unfortunately, he does not have the luxury
of a 30 trillion USD economy not to bother about or to speak or to plunge into
action on certain uncomfortable geopolitical issues or can he afford to even
talk about the manipulations of the deep state.
Whereas Vivek is already boldly calling them (the
deep state) and their scheming by name and is declaring about downsizing (the
white elephants in US) administration.
Great Individuals need to develop and promote
visibly second line of leadership may be the need of the hour, especially
when we do not have a better choice.
So, what a good leader stands for, what are
all the work that we all appreciate that has been done by him need to
continue as all of them may be good schemes but which are a work in
progress that need an institutional or well laid decentralised
organisational set up with the second line of performers ( ideologues not
in hiding or constantly kept behind the screens ) must also be made visible and
encouraged so that the public recognises the team.
Otherwise, these types of one-man shows,
however great or good or mighty, may disappear or will have the least presence
, like our Gurukula systems or Siddha medical systems.
We are living in an age of not one great
enlightened Saint imparting wisdom through one chosen disciple ( which at any
time will have only limited geographical spread and appeal to confined group)
but in an age of Amazon logic where we need to deliver whatever the
individual expects anywhere anytime and push whatever the Amazon owners want to
deliver in subtle ways.
From nonsensical narratives to nice things ,
everything requires an institutionalised delivery system, aggregation of talent
pool, ideas, aspirations and easy access to multiple sources or points.
