Of Kharab or Neel Rupees Economies

It is heartening to see more media and public attention towards the national economy growing to a certain trillion-dollar economy by a certain year. It is one of the positive discourses competing with too many gloomy discourses pulling the country and us backwards. If we pay more attention to the discourse and do things to ease the passage, at some time in future, other national economies will count their economic worth in Kharab or Neel of rupees.

Niraj Kumar Jha

FOMO!

It is not fear of missing out, it is a general tendency not to miss. One is always driven to do something if other people are doing that thing. And, this happens often for absurd reasons or no reason. Advertising and marketing agencies capitalise on such tendencies. The challenge for education is to make people see things in the light of objective utility. Does a thing or happening suit the person and their community in some balance or not? Or, are you helping with something? One must be trained to see things in this light.

 
Niraj Kumar Jha

Justice

Justice is the most human construction. Here, human beings disagree with both their internal beings and externalities. 

Niraj Kumar Jha

Mobile Egalitarianism

Mobiles (handheld unfixed telephony and computing devices) are the most revolutionary things to happen, more revolutionary than any revolutionary phenomenon except rationalism which gets us into science and technology. My reference to revolution here is about egalitarianism.

First, mobile is ubiquitous, thanks to the market economy. More people possess mobile than anything else except some items of clothing. Secondly, mobiles hold eyeballs for more time than anything else if they are not under compulsion to watch something else. Thirdly, mobiles provide people many platforms and mechanisms for doing things from anywhere. The point is that things come to people, people do not go to things. It is a well which appears before the thirsty. A person becomes the centre. Lastly, mobiles cut every phenomenon to the size of their screens. They deprive any spectacle of its mojo and thus make a major tool of inegalitarian ordering far less effective.

Niraj Kumar Jha

सभ्यता

सभ्यता सभ्य जीवन का स्थूल रूप है। सामान्य संपन्नता, स्वच्छता, स्वास्थ्य, सुरक्षा, सुगमता, कलामयता, सौंदर्यबोध, तथा व्यवहार में विनम्रता सभ्य जीवन के महत्वपूर्ण अवयव हैं। यह नागरिकता की उन्नत स्थिति है, जो किसी देश के लिए अभीष्ट स्थिति है। इस स्थिति को प्राप्त या लगभग इस स्थिति के देश विकसित देश होते हैं।

विकसित स्थिति मूलतः सामाजिक मानस की स्थिति है। यह मानसिक स्थिति ज्ञान-विज्ञान की गवेषणा की सामान्य प्रवृत्ति है। भौतिक विकास इस मानस का प्रगटन है। वैसे, कोई भी समुदाय ज्ञान से रहित नहीं होता है, लेकिन अविकसित स्थिति में ज्ञान का उद्देश्य आत्म-संरक्षण अथवा स्व अथवा समूह वर्चस्व को प्राप्त करना होता है, वहीं विकसित स्थिति में ज्ञान का उद्देश्य उत्कृष्टता और तादात्म्य होता है।

उक्त कथन अत्यंत साधारण प्रकृति का प्रतीत होता है। 

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पूँजीवाद का मूल

पूँजीवाद का मूल निष्काम कर्म है। तथ्य से अवगत होने के लिए मैक्स वेबर का प्रतिरोधी नैतिकता पर प्रबंध पढ़ा जाना चाहिए। समाज विज्ञान और इतिहास की समझ रखने वाले इस तथ्य से परिचित हैं।

 
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Ideology and Knowledge

Ideology and knowledge overlap, and they mostly go undifferentiated. Academia tasked to preserve and disseminate knowledge falls into the ideological trap (of one in fashion) of a time and often lags behind social progress and may also hinder social progress.

Niraj Kumar Jha