I realized while reading my past entries, that though many of the ideas and analogies that I have written there had been carefully reasoned out (and ‘realized’(Wink)) by me a long time ago, I also saw that many of my analogies…ones that were quite apt (and startlingly eye opening (even to me))….came into my head as I wrote the post…and I put them down as I thought of them and surprisingly when I later reviewed them as ideas, to remove any gross deviations(my arguments still aren’t perfect…just close …(I think )) from logic I realized that they were quite perfect.... Then I realized that this happens to me all the time…when I’m arguing with someone…or as in the example, writing…It was then that I realized that my writing this blog is more than what I had previously imagined (my megalomaniac desire for an audience….(which…being the internet I could imagine to be as large or as small as my mood swings(insanely happy to ‘Imjustakidandlifeisanightmare’ depressed) would require)),it was also a way of putting things in perspective for myself….looking at my ideas on paper(dl:(I reiterate)die laughing a (lame) substitute for the clichéd lol) made me realize what I sounded like and if my stance on the topic really was what I previously had advocated….
Actually the fact is….I am a regular fence straddler( therefore my view changes about zilch either way from ‘getting in perspective’) and that first paragraph was just to confuse the communists and make them stop reading…cause today what I’d like to get in perspective is Capitalism versus communism….the dispute which can be summarized as…
A) I have money and you have none so bugger off…
B) You have money and they have none so give it all to us and we’ll give both of you equal money
Wow that’s a tough one…. I mean who’s right??
Let’s start from the very beginning..A long long time ago there was a colony of apes ( or several) that had evolved enough to be called ‘The First Men’…Among these there were some who were stronger, some who were more logical, some who could sort out disputes well, some who could carve a hell of a war axe, and some who could make food taste better by adding crushed plants to them and ‘burn’ (shhh….cavespeak fer tandoori !!) them just right….So there was division of labour…OR one could argue that such was the case with the various colonies (that is different colonies had different skills)…Anyway, point is, there was division of labour…Then it so happened that for every (dead….) 1000 cooked boar (ferpect !!) one war axe had to be replaced…and that the time taken to make a war axe was equal to the time taken to catch 10 boar…So there was demand and supply…each smith received a 1000 boars (or the equivalent) as payment for a war axe( minus the sage and thyme (dl…)) At some point of time one of these cavemen( who had a hoard of salted boar cause he was on a diet but his wife still bought the meat !) realized that if he could buy 100 axes from a tribe and then sell to 10 different tribes charging a small commission for his trouble and thus sparing the other tribes the trouble of walking all that distance ( or talking to the smith ( f***ing grouch that he was !!)), he could make quite a bit of money for doing practically nothing…Some other sly fox figured that if he went and spoke to the tribe chief (politics…that goes back much further than this !!) about the fact that Broomph’s wife sleeping with Thwark ( as the representative for Broomph)
since Broomph was too busy beating his wife ( or was that hammering ?? dunno !!) then, he’d probably get a cut out of Broomph’s wife’s dowry…( shiny yellow balls…)…so on and so forth….. …Also as the green eyed monster first preyed on this delicate settlement…Brawmth realized that if his cousins Roagle and Toomther were out of the way…( not to mention old man thoovle from across town) he could have a monopoly (or whatever they called it…probably ‘meonlyone’!) in the sage crushing business (not to mention that he would probably marry all the widows !!)..Monopolies… ( or rather the realization that they were amazingly profitable) came into being..So some guys (the ones who thought of stuff like this) got rich while some of them continued hunting wild boar( we-ell maybe they progressed to giraffe !!)…As other smarter people came across better way to do stuff…they got rich…It was then that the descendants of the old smart cavemen realized that such people must be watched carefully or dissuaded from believing in their ideas by getting them stuck in a rut ( or even better….a gutter)..So the rich guys hiked prices…not only to gain security in their oodles of cash and shiny yellow nuggets (lol…aaaaaaaaah) but also to make the poor poorer….Sooner or later some smart hardass came up and he took his place among the rich folk….and unless highly idealistic and a God incarnate…..continued with the old protocol….step on the backs of others and get higher…..
INTERMISSION
Now this whole scenario may sound depressing….but really let’s see what is really conveyed through these….The chances of getting rich reduced as time passed …and the lower you were on the socioeconomic ladder, the tougher it was to climb up….This was till…..the advent of communism…
Finally the people revolted….and eventually by sheer numbers….crushed the ‘imoneoffew’ (capitalists)…The smarter and greedier guys from these revolutionaries… truly believed that they should get something for their trouble ( they led the revolution remember…) and they decided on a plan…they would collect all wealth and then dole it out ….making some book keeping errors somewhere in transit….In short Comrades… we’ll all be friggin rich….Again…as is eventual….the smart guys started the capitalist trends and we got an in-between society as a result…An important part of this development is that somewhere after the socialist/communist revolt…the capitalists and communists studied the other’s principles and psychology…This led to each being less extreme in their views and realized that the other had to exist for society to run smoothly with minimal complaints…simply put…if the capitalists shout at you go crying to the commies…if the socialists hit you…the capitalists will sell you some band aid ( is that copyrighted…(band aid I mean…))…
That’s how it is today…..a very natural evolution of a very normal society which is based on the co operation of completely opposite sides….
Fact is, it couldn’t have been any other way….
PS: Yup…still on the fence…as a matter of fact I just bought some anti inflammatory cream…..
PPS: Food for thought…Funny how all the dystopian societies envisioned by writers are ultra communist and not at the other end of the spectrum…
PPPS: That’s because ‘no choice’ is scarier than ‘only the pretence that there is a choice’….
You know what Sumedh, as I was reading this, I was just thinking.....what fun for the students in DB if you were teaching them history or economics!!! There'd hardly be a dull moment in class considering the way in which you would present the seemingly boring and outdated topics in their text books.Love the way in which you've written about the evolution of early man.
ReplyDelete...........and as someone who also loves to write, writing a blog is definitely a way in which we try and put our thoughts into perspective. I also often find myself going back to read something I have written, just to find out if the way in which I think about a subject or an issue has altered with time or age.
ReplyDeleteI remember studying this in college. Don't know if I've mentioned it to you before. "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of emotion, recollected in tranquility" I think it was a quote by Wordsworth, if I remember correctly.I guess most writing is like that. We spontaneously put down on paper what we feel, but often as we're writing, we're also putting some of our own thoughts and these get mixed with the emotions to make a complete piece of writing.
dude i really liked the evolution funda of yours
ReplyDeletekeep writing