The paradox of a hypothetical country - Mr. Nobody's perspective

Hello All!  I am back again with my idiosyncrasies again - after a long gap of more than 1 month.  Sorry for the same but to tell the truth, I just slept and rested for all these days.  So, before I begin my next round of Nobodisms, here is my disclaimer:-  The views expressed herein are of Nobody and they do not resemble or intend to resemble any quark, boson, electron, proton, neutron, atom, molecule, compound, human, non-human, living, non-living, taluka, district, state, country, continent, or anything within the confines of this universe and beyond it (this includes what lies beyond the black holes too)...whew....I hope I covered more or less anything to indemnify myself with any future attacks or litigations!  So here goes:-

Today I wanted to discuss about the paradox of a hypothetical society living in an hypothetical country.  A society that is plagued with corruption - not only at the government level but much much deeper; at the basic society level.  Better to explain with examples:-

You would have already heard this; but just for the sake of repetition.  The society follows a system wherein the doer of any economic activity stands to gain more had his activity produce the exact opposite results as it is expected to deliver.  For example, a doctor treats you to make you well but if you get well soon, how will he make his living.  A lawyer wants you to take out of any legal issue but if the legal issue is solved fast, then how will the lawyer get his fees perpetually with every new hearing the case is postponed for.  A banker lends you money with the expectation that you will repay the same within the prescribed time limit only - neither before (because it will lead to loss of interest for him) nor after (because then he will be left with no further money to lend).  A politician when in power wants to do maximum development or at least give an impression that he is working for the development so that he is retained in power in the coming elections but then if everything is developed and hunky dory, where are the avenues to eat money through illegal means!  A policeman's duty is to make sure the society remains crime-free, but then if the same is achieved, then where are the green avenues to make money by manipulation of cases for the highest bidder!  A teacher is bound to teach each and every student is in his/her class regardless of any discrimination but still what s/he does is to open his/her private tuition classes and concentrate only on his/her "personal customers."

In short, the root cause of these problems is the underlying fact that in all the cases, the incentive of "not doing the work/duty" is more than that of "doing" and the worst part is that there is more incentive in just "showing or acting" that you are doing your work/duty but actually and in fact doing the exact opposite.  For example, a cop showing that he is busy investigating a complaint that you have filed but in fact, he may be eating money from the accused himself so as to find new ways and means to get him out of the legal muck.  If he is an honest cop, he will only eat money from one side but there are very few good men left nowadays and generally the cops will eat from both ways, i.e. from the accused and the victims.

But the paradox is not just present in the public (government) systems alone.  This paradox is just the tip of the iceberg and it is actually the manifestation of the deep-rooted hypocrisy that runs in the blood of our Bharatiya society.  Everybody want their children to grow up as responsible, truth-speaking, law-abiding citizens but more or less everyone behaves exactly the opposite.  They don't mind over-speeding on the roads with their family in their vehicles, spitting and littering on the roads in front of their children, telling their children to lie on their behalf whenever anybody calls from the office, blatantly lying to others and fooling them and afterwards boasting the same in front of their wives and of course, children also.  Doing the theft of their legally payable taxes by various means and measures (which we have already discussed in our previous topics) and telling others that the government officials are corrupt!

And the baap of all paradoxes - our icon of justice - a blindfolded lady with a weighing scale in one hand and a sword in the other hand - actually it should symbolize that justice is blind and is done without any partiality.  But in practicality for all means, what actually happens is that justice is actually deaf and dumb and only sees what is there in front of it in the form of documentary proofs and witnesses and nothing and absolutely nothing else.  That is to say, if you are cheated by someone and the cheater did not give you a written proof of this cheating exploits, you have practically no way of getting justice in our great Bharat!

The problems are pathetic and the solutions are more so, but still we will try our best to find something for our junta.

Till then, Happy Ethmos to all!