My guiding principle for the rest of the year
28 March 2011
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My guiding principle for the rest of the year (emphasis added):
“A decade into the 21st century, it has never been clearer that not letting yesterday’s institutions..roles, tasks, assumptions and beliefs fail..is a titanic roadblock standing in the way of a more authentic, enduring prosperity.
The future’s not predicted — it’s created. So create it.”
Umair Haque, Director, Havas Media Lab via HBR
Haque writes about the monolithic US state which is as afflicted with arterial sclerosis of political disease as an old man a few moments from death. It looks very much like it has lost the capacity to change to the new circumstances of a changed world. If I was an Indian I should draw no comfort from America’s predicament. Any hope that India could rise to the challenge of the emerging new world order has been shattered by the corruption scandals of the 3G licences. The root of India’s malaise goes so deep into the Hindu pscyhe that I am exasperated in the search for a cure which is not certain to kill the patient. The ordinary Indian suffers hardships as bad if not worse than any that has caused the Arab world to erupt into thorwing off chains that bind them to old and corrupt regimes. The tragedy for Hindus is that the chains are so deeply embedded in Hindu minds that they have lost any capacity to throw them off. No one would be happier than I if you can prove me wrong.
Good to see Khandu’s sudden love for the Hindooos.
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