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There were days in my life when I was innocent, young and "happy". Unfortunately, those days did not last too long. The innocence was lost with age, youth now has become a item of sexual pride and nothing more than that, and "happiness", a word that is very hard to define with more words, a word that cannot be described in this world which is material, a word that can be experienced and never explained, lost with intelligence.

I read somewhere that intelligence is directly proportional to evil. I came across the same, again in the new version movie called "The planet of the apes", where an ape describes how evil humans are capable of being, how their sadistic capabilities increase with their intelligence. No wonder. A person who read a few of my other blogs said that I have a negative outlook towards life. That I cannot comment on, because if I were to judge myself, then I am the best. Applies on anyone, who can be true to himself; that one cannot deny to himself that what he thinks is always good to the best of his ability to judge and introspect. Whatever.

When I logged in, I thought I would write something about systems and organizing systems and organizational structures etc. Eventually, as always, I got diverted from what I thought I would do, and what I am doing right now. Okay. Let me write about what I think if a system as.

A system is similar to an individual with a difference that an individual is a single component system performing every task by himself/herself, whereas, a system is a macro-scopic individual performing a more labourious task using the help of individuals who perform prescribed parts of the process. Therefore, any system needs to have a proper organizational mapping to sustain the system from disintegrating.

My idea of a system would be one where I can clone myself to perform every role that is possible. Though that would be impossible for me to do everything by myself, I can see to that, that a system that I design should not have any flaw that can cause any sort of an error or malfunction. A system as I see is a heirarchial structure where decision making is distributed uniformly, with lower end having lesser span/power of deciding. BUT, that does not make a person in the lower end incapable of making a difference to the system. The idea of a system can be represented in the form of a tree (a computer science concept 'tree'), where there is a node leading to other nodes, and so on to leaves. The source node is called the 'root'. The root is the one node where the entire structure rests on. In an organization, the root node would be termed as the big Boss, the proprieter or the director etc. The leaf nodes would be the workers, the once at the producing end (and also the receiving end of all kind of accusations and frustrations from the bosses!!) The concept of ethical capitalism comes from this sarcastic remark within brackets. Considering the system of an organisation as a factual tree that yields fruits, the leaves are as essential a part of the tree as is the root. Without the root, there is no nutrients absorption, and without the leaves, there is no respiration/photosynthesis and other necessary metabolic processes.

When a boss, out of his "ego" treats his less (in relative terms) paid employee, he can go out of business. A diseased leaf can spread the infection through to the other leaves. When the energy generated by the tree is not delivered across to the leaves, they become weak. And so on.

A system, as I mentioned is a multiple link chain. That is, instead of one node leading to another, here, one node can lead to more than one. Hence, when one node is weak (relative to the others), an applied force on the chain will definitely break the chain at the weakest node. In a system, a unhappy employee can lead to the breakdown of the entire system.

I am aware of the fact that my examples are very un-analogous, but I just hope I can make the point to the un-ethical capitalists who might ever get to read this blog.

My work place has been a nice ground for me to develop my capitalistic ethics. The slight inclination towards certain communist principles and home-bred values, and a sense of detachment from material possessions is certainly transforming me into a more sensible and humane person.

I think, at 24, I am thinking of things that my boss(s) doesn't even seem to be capable of thinking about thinking. It really makes me wonder. Is it me or is it my 'ego'?


"When I am walking a dark road, I am the man who walks alone."