shishir gupta: UTOPIA- A SATISFICED, KIND, HIGHLY ORGANIZED AND FULFILLED GLOBAL MERITOCRACY–A NEW FACE
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Humanity lives a stressful and randomly chaotic lifestyle in the present day globe. The stress is caused on account of a chaos inner to ourselves involving our micro scenarios and a chaos external to ourselves involving macro situations. While scientific advance has placed in our hands unprecedented prosperity and capacity to augment the same we are so caught up in the two chaoses that global lifestyles continue with increasing stress and we are unable to distribute properly what we have, not to talk of increasing it. Due to uneven distribution the stress increases further. Any concept of UTOPIA would, therefore, have as primary objective(s) reduction of stress and augmenting of globally distributable resources to the maximum. A process to do that is to solve the two set of micro and macro chaos and replace them by order. Micro chaos is caused by our unbridled wants-that invariably far exceeds our requirements and macro chaos is caused by a divisive structure of globe on lines of geographical boundaries, sociology and religion, on the one hand and on the other due to the pervasive hand of incapable polity and bureaucracies. Micro chaos is to be replaced by careful nurturing of an attitude to our life styles where in we as consumers define our wants in the most utilitarian and frugal manner without compromising on standards of living in any manner in form of standardized consumer menus and save the rest for future generations in structure of perpetual welfare accounts and for development of our globe. This would tend to be a micro order and lead to reduction of substantial stress. Macro chaos is resolved in the first place by calling upon the human resources that are most capable to run global affairs viz.the skilled of the globe- called merit-defined to include any productive labor. Thereafter a unification of the globe is sought by bringing down national, sociological, religious and political divides so that “merit” could concentrate on global development. Organization of a system of global order agent/local order agents and catalysers-all meritocrats, either elected, hired or volunteered-completes the solution to the macro chaos and put in place the new macro material order. Looking at broad patterns of our past behavior functions of the new meritocracy are also stated. The new order would place with satisficed consumer increasing stress free disposable incomes.
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Greed–call it academic/intelligent greed which had full concurrence of the society –made us discover/invent methods of self preservation and this very greed has made us climb on to the second stair of our betterment- that is a better self preservation with vastly improved material resources. Where does it all lead to? We have concluded so far that neither a total man made disaster is on the anvil nor do we need a total erasure of present society in order to write in the storyline of an entirely new world; in particular the scientific advance, as achieved of date, has ensured and warranted that such an earth scale disaster can easily be prevented by millions of wherewithal and that major concerns are now material growth/comfort and all around prosperity. In fact we might foresee a point in future when scientific advance would have enabled so much material-prosperity, on global scales, that nobody might be short of anything material and thus cease to have greed at all. An entirely dissipated human greed amidst bountiful material prosperity sounds like an UTOPIA to me; perhaps others would also agree with me-either partly or fully. As scientific advance, instances of which are quoted above elsewhere, is moving right on we seems to be moving in right direction and will achieve UTOPIA sooner than later. Perhaps this project is not needed at all and that I must conclude my write up right now at this point. However such is not the case as would be revealed by arguments presented below.
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