Tuesday, October 30, 2012

National Conversation - what we truly need?

What is National Conversation? Have'nt we had enough talks about rule of law, democracy, justice and fairness, freedom and rights of individuals? What was the result? In “The Rise of Rogue Executive” by Leonard R. Sayles and Cynthia J. Smith, explained it thus: “Management has been changing, not always for the better. The change started with modest deviations from accepted good accounting practice, pushing the limits such as not expensing stock options. When no resistance has been forthcoming, sophisticated number games and executive self-serving became a groundswell of malfeasance. Modest dithering with accounting tipped over into fragrant fraud. For example, technically Enron had been bankrupt for years before its bankruptcy filing in December 2001." Karl Marx had rightly predicted a grave danger with capitalism long ago that undermine the basic order and stability of the world. After the collapse of communism, capitalism is seen to make a major comeback with potential to wreck yet more human problems. There are heavy prices to be paid for all such fraudulent talks. Do we need more of them in such National Conversation? Is it going to stop all our hypocrisy and self-praise that is the main vehicle of our governance? Owing to such relentless exploitations of people with fraudulent hypocrisy, of this kind, the world is plunged into all kinds of crises every now and then due to frauds, abuses and malpractices perpetrated by different devices that resulted in millions losing their livelihood. Peoples are taking to the street by millions in "occupy wall street" protests to oppose the excesses of unchecked exploitations taking place under the croak of free-market capitalism with demand for equitability and justice. Extreme capitalism leads to inequities and injustices in society. Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen have warned of the danger of using economic yardsticks such as gross domestic product (GDP) focusing on material consumption which do not include quality-of-life factors. It does not reflect, for example, the degradation of the environment, the depreciation of natural resources or declines in individuals’ quality of life. No matter what we do or who we are, we ought to win by the rules - basic honesty and integrity, ability to think simply and act effectively to motivate and interact with others for the good of all before we are being trusted to do our many things we are doing in works and lives. This is the time to change. Such a change is not a rocket science. The constant rhetoric about leadership, and talent is not going to help us. What we truly need is to change the current hypocrisy and start is to govern with honesty and integrity - cause-effect workflow processes as an integral part of personal competencies and psyche of the average "Joe" in the workforce. ................... When leaders behave selfishly, treating people as objects for exploitations with taxing, privatizing of public services for hoarding of monies and profiteering to enrich the elites as seen happening in our system, what do we expect people to do? Suck up to the leaders as if they are the god or demi-god and take part in more hypocrisies and scheming like the national conversation. Surely the Hundred Flowers blossoming of Mao Zedong is made of sterner stuff than the national conversation. Don't be deceived any more? What we need is pro-people and pro-right leader like Obama for GE2016. Let's us all unite and ask people to vote for change - We want a Obama for our leader in GE2016.

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