I enjoyed learning economics in my MBA, thanks to Prof Mankad for teaching Macroeconomics as a well narrated story of History of the world. He taught it so brilliantly that we all used to sit, go through the roller coasters up and down the history lane by-lanes and learn the development in economics and policy making.
Being an average engineer, I too was unaware (still am) about economics before taking the course with Prof Mankad. This was the class where I came to know about John Manyard Keynes and keynesianism. I buy into his theory of Govt intervention (which wont go down well with many capitalists); however the way I have seen recent past is – challenges and largely corruption in implementation. In India, Govt has launched Food Security, Employment schemes – seems good as Keynes suggested, but the money is not reaching the right place.
Well, I thought to write on Keynes because something moved me deeply in Prof Mankad’s class. That statement itched profoundly, whenever I thought about future that sentence resounded. Prof Mankad talked about Great Depression in his lectures. He introduced us to the Keynes and his idea, opposition to his idea and so on. In the lecture Prof Mankad said – what Keynes was – “in the long run we are all dead”.
This statement is right however we can think on this two ways –
1. (bad one) Anyway I will die one day – why worry, indulge and enjoy. [may be Tarun Tejpal (recent Tehelka sexual harassment case) and many others think this way]
2. (Good intentions) Yes, if I am going to die, everyone dies, so what is the purpose of my being here? Am I like any other animal or plant, or I have some brain, who gave it to me? And so on…
So, if …in the long run we are all dead… why all this drama (delusion)? in Hindi – यह प्रपंच क्यों?
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rummuser · November 25, 2013 at 9:50 am
यह प्रपंच isliyeh – All of us want immortality. We get that with our progeny. Those with a little more thinking power, ie, the brain in the upper reaches of the human body, wish to leave thoughts behind as well.
admin · March 18, 2014 at 10:08 am
Are you sure, we want to live in eternally and the solution we think is progeny?
As you say uncleji… though I am not wise and I too have an average brain (as written in the blog post above) When I think of this प्रपंच … I feel better at times, to leave this question on a side, because there seems to be no answer or may be no right answer…
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