"The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred." - 1984
Far fetched it may sound, but are we going this way ?
I hope not!
But looking at incidents like Gujarat Riots (the politics of that time refreshed recently due to so-called sting operations), and numerous other examples, where polarization has actually been successful strategy for being voted to power by the members of the civilization, I am tempted to think so!
Tuesday 30 October, 2007
Saturday 13 October, 2007
Intellectual Imperialism
We have been reading about imperialism throughout our history textbooks, mostly in form of political dominance, and more recently hearing terms like ideological imperialism and economic imperialism in recent times.
It may appear too macroscopic a thing. But, isn't imperialism too deep rooted ... well in day to day lives?
Be in our daily lives, or our job or personal lives.
For example, our jobs and our institutions often teach us to do things in a particular way. Often that way, usually we tend to look at a problem as a set of numbers and form of some model or another, or desperately trying to fit in a model within a situation.
Maybe it is taking over of our thought process by some fixed defined set of once (or many times !) successful things, and expecting it to be a success every time. Probably this often prohibits from taking a larger view of the situation, and limiting ourselves to just that model and solving those 'symptoms'.
Or consider a situation in which just reprimanding might have worked, and using that (probably we cannot think in some other way ... OR ... we have some fear in thinking so!) we try to find a solution ... which often are too shot term, and in doing run it might aggravate a problem.
Another example of intellectual imperialism can be that of ragging in colleges. It is often assumed that this is the way of making the new comers accept their thought process, and making them respect others and 'develop' their ability to deal with the situations, though at a particular level it is a form of ideological imperialism
Intellectual imperialism might be quite similar to ideological imperialism, but I think while the latter deals with our beliefs, and our assumptions, while the former deals with how we solve a particular problem, or deal with a particular situation, which may be somewhat based upon ideological imperialism
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Comments and opinions ?
It may appear too macroscopic a thing. But, isn't imperialism too deep rooted ... well in day to day lives?
Be in our daily lives, or our job or personal lives.
For example, our jobs and our institutions often teach us to do things in a particular way. Often that way, usually we tend to look at a problem as a set of numbers and form of some model or another, or desperately trying to fit in a model within a situation.
Maybe it is taking over of our thought process by some fixed defined set of once (or many times !) successful things, and expecting it to be a success every time. Probably this often prohibits from taking a larger view of the situation, and limiting ourselves to just that model and solving those 'symptoms'.
Or consider a situation in which just reprimanding might have worked, and using that (probably we cannot think in some other way ... OR ... we have some fear in thinking so!) we try to find a solution ... which often are too shot term, and in doing run it might aggravate a problem.
Another example of intellectual imperialism can be that of ragging in colleges. It is often assumed that this is the way of making the new comers accept their thought process, and making them respect others and 'develop' their ability to deal with the situations, though at a particular level it is a form of ideological imperialism
Intellectual imperialism might be quite similar to ideological imperialism, but I think while the latter deals with our beliefs, and our assumptions, while the former deals with how we solve a particular problem, or deal with a particular situation, which may be somewhat based upon ideological imperialism
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Comments and opinions ?
Thursday 4 October, 2007
Answers to last week's kostins-1
1. The Pacman strategy.
2. Aquarium, Totorum, Laudanum and Compendium are the four Roman camps that surround the little village where Asterix and his friends live.
3. Nandan Nilekani who said this to Thomas Friedman.
4. The Sony Bravia. The word BRAVIA is an acronym of ‘Best Resolution AudioVisual Integrated Architecture.
5. Al-Qaeda. Infosys uses modern technology for empowerment, Al-Qaeda uses the same technology to fuel anger and return to the old times.
6. The Herge Foundation.
7. The Beverly Hills Hotel.
8. Urdu. These are the different languages on an INR currency note, in the order that they appear.
9. Pratibha Patil.
10.Deciding the price of Gold.
Sorry for the delay in posting the answers!!!
Cheers!!!
2. Aquarium, Totorum, Laudanum and Compendium are the four Roman camps that surround the little village where Asterix and his friends live.
3. Nandan Nilekani who said this to Thomas Friedman.
4. The Sony Bravia. The word BRAVIA is an acronym of ‘Best Resolution AudioVisual Integrated Architecture.
5. Al-Qaeda. Infosys uses modern technology for empowerment, Al-Qaeda uses the same technology to fuel anger and return to the old times.
6. The Herge Foundation.
7. The Beverly Hills Hotel.
8. Urdu. These are the different languages on an INR currency note, in the order that they appear.
9. Pratibha Patil.
10.Deciding the price of Gold.
Sorry for the delay in posting the answers!!!
Cheers!!!
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