Another set of exams finished a couple of days back. Then we had the gruelling Summer Placements where I made it to TBSL. I have got into this habit of posting once after every mid-term and end-term exam, which I desperately want to change. I wish I could post once every day. Won't make a resolution this time, but ya, am going to be more frequent now on in updating my blog. Promise!
The current financial crisis has left many thinking about how good we are at managing the resources of this world. Economics, which such an endeavor is called, has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. But is still imperfect and confusing. God, which may be another name for chance (depending on what you choose to assume), created this world within a framework governed by a set of rules. Man created two things to make his life easy - (i) money, and (ii) machine. Machine is our way of emulating God - the Creator. We have been o.k. at it, making inventions fitting into our ever increasing range of discoveries, to make our lives easier and convenient, to give a majority of us more time for higher intellectual pursuits and to some, who have the extra brains, to go for more research on complex phenomena and make more discoveries and inventions, so that the show never stops. We've probably only scratched the surface of what is there and can be done.
Money, for one, is the most interesting invention of man till date. It is the key driver of Economics. It is perhaps the only invention of man which he himself doesn't understand properly in spite of having worked with it for centuries in one form or another, upgrading it to forms thought to be simpler to comprehend and manage, but never too sure whether it works the way it has to. Of course not everyone needs to understand how it works to be able to use it. For example, we use the television without the slightest idea about how it works. But at the same time, there is someone in this world (in fact there is a good number), who understands everything about how the television does whatever it does to give me what I need. Ditto with other machines, and in fact, every other creation of man, besides money.
I wanted to write more on this topic, but am ending it here... am tired of seeing this incomplete article lying on my desktop for more than a week now... and of my inability to put more head into it at this stage... am also tired of seeing my blog craving for a post... so, there you go...
