Conceptualising Pseudo-solution

Pseudo-solutions provide a temporary relief or illusion of relief. Troubled people often land up in the next level of problem or get only illusionary relief.

NIraj Kumar Jha

The New Order Set In

The Trump administration compels the world towards a settlement within a few weeks in office, which the GATT and its outcome, the WTO, could not do despite decades of negotiations. The unleashed would entail many successive phases that will require a complete overhaul of not only the international trade regime in totality but also domestic adjustments accordingly by all nations. A new international order set in.

 
Niraj Kumar Jha

Artificial Intellectualism and General Dumbness

Online-sourced intellectualism and creativity worsen general dumbness. This is a pandemic-proportion crisis. Its direct fallout is a decline in morality. Intellect gained through the practice of the mind induces moral behaviour. This is under severe threat.

There is a way out: humanise the social structure and relations. And invent social purposes for positive, mind-driven human actions.

Niraj Kumar Jha

Birth Pangs of a New Order

 Humanity fails to manage its successes. It created a virtual world with artificial intelligence and automated mechanisms for doing things. It eliminated distance in live communication and drudgery and fog in data processing. All are meant to serve human beings, but they are making most human beings irrelevant. The new demands the unity of humankind to reclaim its humanity. 

The current international upheavals manifest the redundancy of old methods and mechanisms which continue to hold. 

Humanity is failing itself by not engaging and negotiating to ease the birth of the new order. It will happen, but with a lot of pain. 

Niraj Kumar Jha 

The Ecology of Economics

 The Trump administration reckons that high tariffs on imports would bring back manufacturing to the USA and help its economy rebound. It accuses its friends and foes alike of using tariffs, currency manipulation, and non-tariff barriers to bar American merchandise from entering their countries. Now, it has reciprocated but, mercifully, with reciprocat tariffs with half-discount.

Critics say this will not work for America. It will only create great difficulty for existing industries and consumers. They see a recession imminent following these measures.

The fact is that global supply chains have a rigidity of their own and cannot be undone in a whiff. More importantly, people fail to see that typical industries and businesses require a conducive ecology to flourish, and its crucial component is the availability of people attuned to particular jobs. This ecology is very difficult to create in a different place.

Things would reboot soon to the normal but with some painful disruptions and helpful corrections.

Meanwhile, India must brace for tech and trade wars engulfing the world by focusing on its internal economic order. It is about things already being done, i.e, furthering the ease of doing business, creating a more favourable ecology for innovativeness, and ensuring the safety and ease of living and doing things. Externally, India must make its economy so efficient and cost-effective that it has an edge over its competitors.

Niraj Kumar Jha

Ghiblism

Ghiblism, I define as people's longing for beauty, simplicity, innocence, and softness in their own selves and surroundings. Besides ghibling, they should put some effort into making the world like that.

Niraj Kumar Jha

LPG to Imperialism

The trajectory was logical, but the world hardly cared. LPG was uniting the world and enriching people everywhere, but vested interests sabotaged the evolution. We are now back to the age of empires or the times of imperialism 2.0. The actors have already abandoned multilateralism for unilateralism. The smaller countries and poor people are now in more trouble, and so is the world.

Niraj Kumar Jha