A Job Well Done.

When the whole world is embracing business school graduates and M.B.A’s/ one man was grateful for the small mercy of dropping out of college. The widespread problem in most college education is the focus on “knowing” or analytical knowledge or skills but stifled creativity and out of the box thanking. Education is at a crossroads and the value proportion has now whittled down to a “passport” for a job in a MNC selling soap or cosmetics and a cubicle.
A sense of purpose is missing from those who graduate these days. Karl Marx tried to usher in a classless society but the failure of Soviet Union showed that ideas may change destinies, but cannot go on forever. However Steve Jobs with his I-Pod, I-Phone, I-Pad has managed to partly fulfill this quest for an egalitarian society with the help of technology. Though technology has galloped in recent times it has not been able to resolve the endemic problems of terrorism, violence, discrimination nor bring peace or happiness. Why are we not able to churn out more people with divine manifestations or great thinker/, scientists like Edison, Marx, and Tagore …
India is rich with spiritual and philosophical precepts which sound profound, but are of no use; even Steve Jobs came to India like the Beatles, Julia Roberts etc to seek enlightenment but returned in disappointment.
Science has definitely scored over religion and spirituality as the invention of light-bulb, telephone, printing press, internet, other technical break through have improved human life than the proselytizing sermons of religions which are naive and only cause more bloodshed hatred destitution in a world that is rocked by violence. The dissatisfaction in the cleric controlled Arab States and the inequality and poverty, of a spiritually rich India, do not reinforce the rhetoric of political, religious and spiritual transformation, but technological supremacy of Silicon Valley is undisputed.
Science encourages examination of its fundamental presumption and is continuously upgraded unlike religion which does not allow questioning nor welcomes change from its fossilized premises. A society that values creative thoughts will always get thinkers and space travel beyond the solar system will also become a reality. No society can function successfully if it is mired in religious fundamentalism, and political decay; and you will keep on searching for spiritually ennobling ideas till you collapse.…..
Steve Jobs may have been eccentric, acerbic and manipulative but his contribution has improved and moved millions of people across the world; without preaching or sermonizing, wisdom peace and love. Religion must break out of its institutionalized straitjacket and embrace science and nature if it wants to survive in the next millennium. Till then we can only worship heroes like Steve Jobs and silently mutter our thanks for a Job well done.