Everything around looks quite chaotic. There is widespread inequality. So many people are living just hand to mouth. Though the entire world talks of humanity, most human beings are just concerned about their self-interest. Different systems, be it capitalism, socialism, or communism, have failed to ensure justice for the poor. Though, there has been some improvement here and there. I am myself one of the beneficiaries of the few fairest systems, ICAI and UPSC. The CA exam is based on pure competition and merit and people like me with no family background can also clear the exam with hard work. Similarly, UPSC does not distinguish between candidates from a powerful and powerless background, and candidates get selected or rejected purely based on merit. While I was in 12th standard, I could have never imagined where I stand today in society. It gives a lot of confidence to the aspiring candidates that hard work pays off. It also makes us think as to why humanity as a whole has been able to instill that confidence in the minds of all human beings about the fairness of all the systems? In fact why we have not been able to put in place systems in so many areas.
I feel that there is a perpetual fight between the systems and greed. Human beings have been greedy since perpetuity. They have been busy taking away the resources of other species, cutting forests, and killing other animals since the beginning of human civilization. The same greed is reflected in their interaction among themselves. Some human beings have accumulated wealth by following the social and legal law or otherwise. They gain the power to influence the systems and want to influence the systems for the perpetuation of their interest. Worldwide they form pressure groups and interest groups and keep influencing the policies. In democracies, their influence somehow gets balanced due to the voting powers in the hands of the poor because the poor outnumber the rich. However, the rich promote their interests by allying with the representatives of the poor and including them in their teams.
The same thing happens in different organizations at a micro level. Organizations are captured by the people at the top of the organizations and they use different people working in the organizations for the promotion of their own empire. Every person working in the organization is tagged with my person, thy person, and useless. There is a race among the people working in the organization to prove to be my person. Interest in the organization becomes secondary. The same thing happens in families. The greedy become stubborn and take over a major pie from the resources of the family. The greedy brother takes away a major pie in the resources of the family either by manipulation or fighting.
Human greed has always damaged and will continue to damage the systems. The greedy exploit the systems and damage them permanently so as to ensure their wealth and powers are protected. There are a few reasons why the power matrix continues. Firstly, there is a lot of struggle for the poor to rise up in the social hierarchy, and by the time they cross a certain distance, they become too tired to be able to even think of setting up the systems. They just give up and start enjoying whatever position they have carved out for themselves and slowly their sensitivity disappears and they become a part of the greedy club exploiting others.
Secondly, even if some of them remain sensitive, such sensitivity has a huge cost and there is a struggle every day. It is because of the simple reason that the club rich has designed the systems in such a fashion that such rebellious people can be taken care of by selective targeting. It is very easy to finish them off. There is nobody standing with these "stupid" because they are in nobody's team. The Club Greedy ensures that these people do not reach positions where they can make efforts to bring some difference and to set the systems right. Thirdly, even if some of these people reach the positions where they are in a position to make some difference, they have to fight so many interest groups and pressure groups, and in organizations where almost everybody is aligned with one or the other forces, they do not have a very strong connection to their Krishna and somehow either give up the battle disillusioned or get trapped in the Chakravhew like Abhimanyu got caught.
Despite all these factors, people do try to set up the systems. Somehow we all have certain gratitude towards the systems that have benefitted us in our lives. That gratitude somewhere gives us the courage and hope to set up fair systems. I feel that the greatest strength of the Pandavas in the battle of Kurukshetra was the guidance of Krishna. The strength for fighting the battle comes from the clarity provided by Krishna. There will always be so many conflicts, defeats, insults, allegations, criticisms, and setbacks along the process. What matters is the clarity that we are fighting the battle of Kurukshetra not for getting the kingdom of Hastinapur but for the Dharma. For the welfare of everybody. Good systems allow every human being to live to the best of his potential.
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