At times, I get inspired by Dilibertism. This latest post seems to be directed against me. As I return to my blog after a hiatus here is a copy paste from dilbert.com. As a Secular Religious Sardarji Economist Prime Minister I am worried about this post.
Over the past 20 years or so, most of China's leaders have been engineers. I'm embarrassed to say that I was not aware of this until recently. Suddenly, everything makes sense.
For years I have marveled at the fact that the Chinese government could be so practical. They didn't seem bogged down by the superstitions and sideshow passions that you so often see in other governments. China's leaders make decisions like engineers. For example, every time I hear someone yapping about how China harvests organs from executed criminals, all I'm thinking is That's a practical way to get spare parts.
China's leadership isn't big on religion. And apparently they don't see any upside in war. They handle their money wisely. They put a lot of energy into building infrastructure. And they care more about stability than human rights. In other words, they value efficiency over feelings. It's exactly the way you'd expect a bunch of engineers to run a country. Obviously this approach has served China well.
The bad news for China is that their up-and-coming leaders have backgrounds in law, economics, and history. In time, the lawyers will start passing lots of laws that individually make sense while collectively strangling the business sector in red tape. The economists will all disagree with each other, and the historians will be planning for the past. So China is pretty much doomed. But they had a good run.
For years I have marveled at the fact that the Chinese government could be so practical. They didn't seem bogged down by the superstitions and sideshow passions that you so often see in other governments. China's leaders make decisions like engineers. For example, every time I hear someone yapping about how China harvests organs from executed criminals, all I'm thinking is That's a practical way to get spare parts.
China's leadership isn't big on religion. And apparently they don't see any upside in war. They handle their money wisely. They put a lot of energy into building infrastructure. And they care more about stability than human rights. In other words, they value efficiency over feelings. It's exactly the way you'd expect a bunch of engineers to run a country. Obviously this approach has served China well.
The bad news for China is that their up-and-coming leaders have backgrounds in law, economics, and history. In time, the lawyers will start passing lots of laws that individually make sense while collectively strangling the business sector in red tape. The economists will all disagree with each other, and the historians will be planning for the past. So China is pretty much doomed. But they had a good run.
Ren Building, proposed to be built for the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai
We have our Engineers at work too!
4 comments:
hats off to china.... not because of its development with all situations which are no different than India... but for the leaders it has got over the years who could make communism sustained there for more than 60 years with a great success. If we could have such leaders, whom we can trust; we would have grown far ahead of them with our democracy, but we could not; and that is a tragedy with our democracy.
helloji, pradhanmantriji, please give me a gigantic statue of a state minister behenji as a gift. i want to decorate my mandir.
interestingly, you chose chanakya as your image. do you share his attributes too? what will you advise your cabinet? remember his story - he travelled incognito during the worst period in history, the kingdom was under attack etc. he took shelter in a village. he overheard an old woman scoldng a child ," you are as stupid as our king. eating the roti from the centre so that all the sides are crumbling. start from the edges so that the centre remains intact." this inspired the greatest war strategy of bringing the borders under control first and then securing the throne. shouldn't you be doing the same, pradhanmantriji? today they have killed 18 policemen, tomorrow? see how much violence is happening in every BORDER state, from maharashtra to assam. do something, PMji. we may be in dire need of all these superstructures with lights and designer freeways, but don't we have to be alive to enjoy the fruits of our labour? and also, what progress re the gigantic statue of mantribehenji? come on, sirji. waiting for so long already!
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