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Tag: politics

  • Power and Determination

    Power and determination are not compatible together in the real world.

    As long as an individual has power then he or she could do whatever he or she wants. I disagree with this statement. Having power does not mean an individual can do whatever he or she wants. In the real world, we are living in the human society. Some people are naturally born to become a leader having lots of influences in the society because of networks. These networks are not built in an instant. It requires certain amount of the time to build up; in which it requires several decade and generational efforts to accumulate these foundations. Being able to connect with someone who is influential, is getting the influence on that person’s power. And this would require an individual to invest specific amount of the time to connect with the powerful people. The individual could not be truly autonomous. This is because he or she needs to become the version of the self being able to fit into the powerful people’s perfection as a means of being fit in.

    Being able to connect with the powerful people, or becoming the powerful person. There is a possibility, not requires competences. Being able to fit in the powerful community or the person’s vision, is the concept of being assimilate into the community. The powerful people has the right to define the standard culture.

    Therefore, desire being a powerful power, or getting to become powerful person to connect with the powerful individual. It is not equal to self-determination.

    Determination, is an individual could truly manifest oneself, without regarding what the others’ preconceived notion of the perfection. This is more likely to be the role of artist. Albeit this will enrich an individual intellectual freedom, this also is part of suffering cause the general public culture won’t appreciate. This act of deliberation could potentially challenge the standard culture, that would facilitate a new wave of innovation such as counter culture, awakening innate human soul, stretching the boundary of humanity.

  • The concern of Power dynamic

    I had a delightful dinner with some entrepreneurs in China, discussing lots of subjects, while drinking fragrant Chinese rice wine. According to the discussions, It is challenging to become an entrepreneur in China. China is not a free market regime; and there is a heavy color of political economic which means the gov’s power has been overwhelmingly intervened on private corporations. Albeit there are state owned corporations, there are useless on account of bureaucracy. The workers are not concern on the quality of the works instead they would invest their labors on relationships.

    We are all emotional animal; and yes it is important to forge good relationships with others creating a good community. However, if this culture is painted in the community too heavily, this will hinder the corporation goal that would serve the market. State owned enterprises, can become useless.

    There are other issues, are very concerning in the status quo in turn of Chinese economic. The judiciary system is not as mature as comparing to the US and the UK. Even though Trump has promoted protectionism, cursing the neoliberal agenda. The US is still recognized as the leader of free market leader, the constitution is maintained the structure of the system for the fairness. However, the system is favor the affluent community because they have money to purchase the best service from the best lawyers to protect their interests.

    Unlike China, power is greater than money. As long as the private corporations have more capital being able to influence the public sector, the gov would become alert with the corporate development ; Gov will gradually increase policing on the sector. Then, the private corporations need to ally with the influential individual who has power in order to continue the development. This is existing uncertainty for private corporations; they need to concern more than just economic climate; also need to concern political climate.

    I will need to investigate more.

  • Business and Degree?

    “What is business?”

    I asked this to my friend who is CFO for one of the successful media companies.

    “I don’t know how to reply this,” he replied. Basically, he was saying the practice of business is bullshit around the nonsense; and then the business project will create the trust between two parties. Strip club is the perfect ideal place to get the thing done.

    Is it worthy to get MBA now in this day? Yes or no, this has to do with the question of degree whether is worthy. Degree is a letter of credit in business world. At first, the people you do not have any affiliation with. their degrees are the reference to understand that they have mastered the foundation in higher education. This would show, the areas of their qualification and the basic mannerism such as not late for the appointment because they have attended classes on time. Degree also could help us to see the quality of networks; and this has to do with where the degree comes from.

    It is not cheap to get higher education degree in the US and UK. Being able to pay expensive ass of tuition fees, is shown how much money the student’s family has. Albeit the students won’t be able to get A, they still have resources that the family has accumulated for them after graduating from colleges.

    Higher education degree also gives the unique insight for an individual. This is because the discourse is not accessible for vast majority; not everyone has an exposure to self-actualize the power of wisdom that would change an individual’s reality, the emancipation comes from the phenomenon of imagination. Because of this, I agree with higher education would train an individual to become an avid reader. This will encourage an individual’s brain independently to create his or her imagination, to which is independent thinking. Watching TV is not the equivalent of the reading books. The media contents also cultivate the image for the viewers; and they do not need to have self- imagination. Basically, TV can tell people what to do. In contrast, Books tell the readers what the meaning of sentences; and that the readers need to think independently.

    However, staying in higher education too long might have negative consequence.

    The higher education is an echo chamber. Even though there are lots of smart people, these are the minority. A successful scholar is a pragmatic scholar, studying the thing that is useful, not sitting on the toilet while thinking about philosophy. Currently, there are lots of PhD students actually come from affluence background. The real world is not decided the will of affluence minority. I feel skeptical about the thesis cultivated from the minority discourse. A successful scholar might investigate on the mass public culture, understanding how people would put their will on their government, in other words we need to understand how people vote.

    Being a pragmatic scholar, also needs to see the reality of system, adapting the survival methods. It is amazing to see there are scholars could write amazing papers. However, we are not sure whether these ideas could become reality in the real world. Capitalism is not dead yet. It is important to see how the consumers would consume. The act of consume means the people would agree the product or service that would meet their needs in order to survive. That is, the higher thinking could improve the products or the services, gradually integrating into the market force. This would become the pragmatic innovation. Only concerning the solidarity philosophical thinking, serving for an individual interest; and this is the act of social suicide.

    It is ambivalent to decide whether degree is the first good reference. It is yes or no.