Sitting in the what Milton Friedman describes as the greatest experiment of capitalism , Its amusing to see that the political system which appeals to me most as an individual has been something the present day Norwegians live in
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/business/global/14frugal.html
this article made me sit up and ponder. two questions
1. Did socialism really fail?
and
2. Did capitalism really succeed ?
4 forms of society has made up think and wonder what is going on ?
China, India, USA and norway these 4 countries , their political system, their economic shift and their basic belief in life and its agonies and happiness is making me think what is really going to work in 21st century ?
2008 great recession has showed the fallacies of american dream just like 2010 has showed the ruptures of australian cricket (bad example but as cricket fan it works apt)
the human rights record, censorship, inequality highlight some of the issues which china needs to work upon to treat itself as global power and moral police worker for the planet .(although current day affairs show that china is not interested in taking up the role although would happily take up the seat albeit with new keyword soft power)
India unfortunately has slighly larger share of problems, corruption , inequality between cities and towns , a really bad functioning of democracy ( my opinion is india's political system is pseudo democracy , since to be a democractic society , people needs to elect freely on their own free ideas the best form of government and since more than 60% of people living do not even know how to read. write or understand . the whole concept gets distorted and the people vote out on the ply on best promised deals... so when people do not themselves know what is correct for them due to illiteracy, democracy becomes a distorted and biased idea)
but anyway my opinion aside, india still suffers from being at crossroads of the development with rising urban development , poor infrastructure and distant rural soceity coupled with western influx of societal ideas blurring the concept of "indian" way of life.. Still the fact that it has remained stable despite all ills and that fact the biggest curse popln also will act as biggest propellant for human development ( youngest population and highest workforce popln in the world in next 3-4 decades) makes the place an exciting countrry to watch .
Norway : low popln with high socialist measures make its super attractive place to retire i think.. yes weather gets cold. yes you pay 50% tax and end up living in a boring , street of ugly oslo or beautiful little tromso but nevertheless, the gains you get in welfare of society and indvidual cannot be discarded..
Well now i think i will compare with laissez faire of Asia.. and i will say life here is not too bad if you know what you want
On sepearte and final note ,Capitalisam and Socialism have never truly represented in its truest form in the society. What America and Russia displayed in 20th century can at best be called their version of the societies and it will be interesting to see how the likes of Russia, China, India, Brasil, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey, Indonesia, South Korea, Mexico and South Africa will run it in this century..
It might be Samuel Huntington , the American political scientist was probably partially right about 21st century .. but nevertheless... if 2 countries in 20th century could dazzle and glitz us with so many events, theories, and history, imagine what these 11 could produce along with USA and other key actors ( Iran, Iraq, Af-Pak, Venezuela, EU, North Korea, Rest of Middle East) come up.. Ending on a very cinematic note. 21st century looks as cinema made with Bollywood script of mixing up ( political soceities) coupled with A list stars of Hollywood..
Lucas and Spielberg , Are you wondering as what could be next epic movie in making ?
Cheers from Hong Kong
Arvind
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/business/global/14frugal.html
this article made me sit up and ponder. two questions
1. Did socialism really fail?
and
2. Did capitalism really succeed ?
4 forms of society has made up think and wonder what is going on ?
China, India, USA and norway these 4 countries , their political system, their economic shift and their basic belief in life and its agonies and happiness is making me think what is really going to work in 21st century ?
2008 great recession has showed the fallacies of american dream just like 2010 has showed the ruptures of australian cricket (bad example but as cricket fan it works apt)
the human rights record, censorship, inequality highlight some of the issues which china needs to work upon to treat itself as global power and moral police worker for the planet .(although current day affairs show that china is not interested in taking up the role although would happily take up the seat albeit with new keyword soft power)
India unfortunately has slighly larger share of problems, corruption , inequality between cities and towns , a really bad functioning of democracy ( my opinion is india's political system is pseudo democracy , since to be a democractic society , people needs to elect freely on their own free ideas the best form of government and since more than 60% of people living do not even know how to read. write or understand . the whole concept gets distorted and the people vote out on the ply on best promised deals... so when people do not themselves know what is correct for them due to illiteracy, democracy becomes a distorted and biased idea)
but anyway my opinion aside, india still suffers from being at crossroads of the development with rising urban development , poor infrastructure and distant rural soceity coupled with western influx of societal ideas blurring the concept of "indian" way of life.. Still the fact that it has remained stable despite all ills and that fact the biggest curse popln also will act as biggest propellant for human development ( youngest population and highest workforce popln in the world in next 3-4 decades) makes the place an exciting countrry to watch .
Norway : low popln with high socialist measures make its super attractive place to retire i think.. yes weather gets cold. yes you pay 50% tax and end up living in a boring , street of ugly oslo or beautiful little tromso but nevertheless, the gains you get in welfare of society and indvidual cannot be discarded..
Well now i think i will compare with laissez faire of Asia.. and i will say life here is not too bad if you know what you want
On sepearte and final note ,Capitalisam and Socialism have never truly represented in its truest form in the society. What America and Russia displayed in 20th century can at best be called their version of the societies and it will be interesting to see how the likes of Russia, China, India, Brasil, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey, Indonesia, South Korea, Mexico and South Africa will run it in this century..
It might be Samuel Huntington , the American political scientist was probably partially right about 21st century .. but nevertheless... if 2 countries in 20th century could dazzle and glitz us with so many events, theories, and history, imagine what these 11 could produce along with USA and other key actors ( Iran, Iraq, Af-Pak, Venezuela, EU, North Korea, Rest of Middle East) come up.. Ending on a very cinematic note. 21st century looks as cinema made with Bollywood script of mixing up ( political soceities) coupled with A list stars of Hollywood..
Lucas and Spielberg , Are you wondering as what could be next epic movie in making ?
Cheers from Hong Kong
Arvind
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