There is a long distance that we as humans have to travel to form a complex and exhaustive solution to the problems that have risen because they are reactions to complicated situations.
There are many who believe that world as such is a simple place, ideal solutions are simpler, for example a simple pulley and a process as simple as conversion of electricity to mechanical work is driving big forces such as trains which inarguably are the carriers of development of any human society.
It is important to also understand that the human motive to its core, is always value based.
It always arises of a need, and never greed. But then implementing systems that are made of need gives rise to situations that allow that system to bypass its actual objective and become an element of greed. In this I could presume that the forces behind this greed are never the forces that theorised the system.
Soviet Union when conceptualized by the bolsheviks had an element of humanity in it which capitalism lacked. It was truly the need of the hour, but then Stalin and the rest of the Kremlin to follow allowed that system to plunder the very basis of itself, at large suffocating humans by killing their basic right to Independence.
What I want to converge to by relating this is that simple solutions and complex situations in the society do not always go hand in hand, but we assume things, make them simple, allow some elements to go out of our hand, which may be a wastage of certian money, in industries, or the wastage of a few people in civilizations as a whole.
Mathematics is a language of assumption, we classify things from the beginning of our lives, and start assuming that one apple is identical to another apple irrespective of the fact that two apples will never be the same in their size, or taste or color. It is good to classifly but wrong to make a religion out of this classification and keep on assuming that one apple is always identical to another apple, make it an axiom and extrapolate. Because those small differences which did not "matter" intially would start mattering when the quantities increase. Integration, which is now an inseperable part of maths was added to it somewhere in the 18th century of some complex problems that Newton faced. He built a law and today one who does not know Integration or the law of Newton fails in science.
The problem is not that humans can't see all this, they very well can, but then this classification and integration have so well absorbed in society that an independent human analysis and comprehension does not take shape. Therefore a man, who does not have the field experience can sit on the top, make a simple policy for any complex situation by using numerous tools that mathematics has to offer, and implement it down to the very bottom, where people who are the least immune suffer the outcomes. If on an average a human being is happy, it is denoted as success, if on an average a human being is sad, its a failure and the tool of calculation is remade, reshaped and allowed to re-experiment with human lives.
You call it capitalism or socialism or facism or any other form of institution that has affected human conscience in the recent history of the world, it has been a mathematical tool, using extrapolation which has been a result of classification and has affected the world adversly, even though its primary motive has been simple, secure and value based.
There is obviously a need to classify, but then like boundaries of any tool,if human lives, their independence, and peace are kept as constants, as things which should not be altered or touched in any possible way, then perhaps we would step onto the next bigger system that the world is about to see.
There are many who believe that world as such is a simple place, ideal solutions are simpler, for example a simple pulley and a process as simple as conversion of electricity to mechanical work is driving big forces such as trains which inarguably are the carriers of development of any human society.
It is important to also understand that the human motive to its core, is always value based.
It always arises of a need, and never greed. But then implementing systems that are made of need gives rise to situations that allow that system to bypass its actual objective and become an element of greed. In this I could presume that the forces behind this greed are never the forces that theorised the system.
Soviet Union when conceptualized by the bolsheviks had an element of humanity in it which capitalism lacked. It was truly the need of the hour, but then Stalin and the rest of the Kremlin to follow allowed that system to plunder the very basis of itself, at large suffocating humans by killing their basic right to Independence.
What I want to converge to by relating this is that simple solutions and complex situations in the society do not always go hand in hand, but we assume things, make them simple, allow some elements to go out of our hand, which may be a wastage of certian money, in industries, or the wastage of a few people in civilizations as a whole.
Mathematics is a language of assumption, we classify things from the beginning of our lives, and start assuming that one apple is identical to another apple irrespective of the fact that two apples will never be the same in their size, or taste or color. It is good to classifly but wrong to make a religion out of this classification and keep on assuming that one apple is always identical to another apple, make it an axiom and extrapolate. Because those small differences which did not "matter" intially would start mattering when the quantities increase. Integration, which is now an inseperable part of maths was added to it somewhere in the 18th century of some complex problems that Newton faced. He built a law and today one who does not know Integration or the law of Newton fails in science.
The problem is not that humans can't see all this, they very well can, but then this classification and integration have so well absorbed in society that an independent human analysis and comprehension does not take shape. Therefore a man, who does not have the field experience can sit on the top, make a simple policy for any complex situation by using numerous tools that mathematics has to offer, and implement it down to the very bottom, where people who are the least immune suffer the outcomes. If on an average a human being is happy, it is denoted as success, if on an average a human being is sad, its a failure and the tool of calculation is remade, reshaped and allowed to re-experiment with human lives.
You call it capitalism or socialism or facism or any other form of institution that has affected human conscience in the recent history of the world, it has been a mathematical tool, using extrapolation which has been a result of classification and has affected the world adversly, even though its primary motive has been simple, secure and value based.
There is obviously a need to classify, but then like boundaries of any tool,if human lives, their independence, and peace are kept as constants, as things which should not be altered or touched in any possible way, then perhaps we would step onto the next bigger system that the world is about to see.
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