I do write write loads and loads of messages in a lot of discussion fora. There's an inherent, unifying theme in nearly all my writings, nevertheless. I never highlight a fault with the system when the individuals that should run the system are faulty themselves. Unless the operators know how to run a machine, one should not try to repair the machine - it's bound to break down again, even if one repairs it successfully! We, the people, are the operators in a democracy, of course!
We, as individuals:
lack a lot of knowledge, information, and attributes,
do a lot of mistakes, individually and as a part of various groups,
follow a lot of unethical practices,
find fault with everyone and everything except what we feel our own,
find a reason to blame or rant and move on with a pseudo-satisfaction of achievement,
are filled with skepticism and hatred towards the System that we don’t understand,
ignore that we need to understand the System before we can even deem it dysfunctional,
think we can troubleshoot the System we do not know,
extrapolate and blow up our limited understanding of a part of our surroundings – only that we want to see – and think the whole Society is the same,
do not realize that We, the people, are the only ones to be ever blamed in a democracy; after all, we are the rulers!
forget that other individuals in the System can be wrong and then blow up that “individuals” to a “group” and that group to “Society” and that “Society” to the “System”.
Thus said, I have a trouble convincing people that individual-level reforms should come first. I really wish people do find a sound argument to explain why the System should be reformed first. And/or I wish that they would agree that finding individual-level solutions is more important, necessary, and effective compared to system-level solutions that no one wants to design, test-drive, implement, manage, troubleshoot, or even believe in!
3 comments:
operators will tend to use the machine but rarely repair the machine unless they know the risk. and most cases the risk is taken ony on self-owned machine and not on a public machine. so your comparison doesnt suit to the system here.
why should operator know how the machine functions? all one should know is how to operate it. here 'we' people are not operators but just mere users..operators are the politicians. so again your theory doesn't apply to the 'system'.
Completely agree that the reform should start from self. but that shouldn't stop there. in this generation need 'influencing' also happening at same pace. else by the time self-reform happens and influencing starts it will take another 10,000 yrs or more :)
operators will tend to use the machine but rarely repair the machine unless they know the risk. and most cases the risk is taken ony on self-owned machine and not on a public machine. so your comparison doesnt suit to the system here.
why should operator know how the machine functions? all one should know is how to operate it. here 'we' people are not operators but just mere users..operators are the politicians. so again your theory doesn't apply to the 'system'.
Completely agree that the reform should start from self. but that shouldn't stop there. in this generation need 'influencing' also happening at same pace. else by the time self-reform happens and influencing starts it will take another 10,000 yrs or more :)
While 'individual change' is a lengthy practice and is something that comes majorly as one's personality which is made as one grew, change of the system is a much quicker process. Both are needed, in a balance.
What will happen if there are no conductors in the buses and if we need to drop ticket price in a drop box ? How many will do it ? It is actually the 'System' of having conductors in the buses that makes us ethical, forcibly.
But say, if we are grown up in a society where cheating is treated as an ethical crime and if people pay money in buses or shops or anywhere by themselves and when everything is going well, if APSRTC suddenly wants to introduce the concept of conductors, that will just be and insult to the society and people.
So, I feel the system has to do it when people arent and vice versa.
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