Friday, October 21, 2005

Currency

It happens everywhere...sooner or later.

The concept of currency is very interesting. Currency is a language within an information system and also a measure.

Each of these "systems" have a common blueprint once you have figured out correctly the language used in them.

The currency used in your adult life system will be wealth... Money, primarily, social systems and its interactions shall evolve out of it.

The currency in a b-school would be your CQPI / CGPA or whatever you call the units in which you measure your mutation from a human to a rat ( in most cases, at least).

The same social structures evolve, restricted clubs, hierarchies...Preferences according to your currency holdings.

All these systems are symmetric, in simple words: if you know one, you'll know the other..Provided you get the language correct.

Moral of the story : Take your history lessons seriously.

3 Comments:

Blogger kal said...

firstly, turn on word verification to avoid ads like the traffic builder one.

now,
on to more important things:
You've got it, brother. that's the point; no, not the history lessons, but that currency is what rules our lives, whether it is in school, college, the outside world - one simple quantitative factor, one 'standardised' figure, one parameter that hopes to differentiate every person in a system from another.

It's disgusting. It makes live depressing.

Why aren't you an existentialist?

7:35 PM  
Blogger Rajesh said...

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3:32 PM  
Blogger Abhilasha Krishnan said...

Much of our need to categorize and measure comes, I believe, from the fear of the unknown... to be able to find a pattern in something implies that there is a meaning to it, that a causal relationship can be established, which in turn implies that one can derive a simple mathematical formula for working the system... and I guess that's what you're trying to say here, that it all reduces to a formula--provided, of course, that no one comes along who questions strongly enough the assumption of the necessity of a historical trend to behavior... why must something be predictable in order to be non-threatening? Why, indeed...

9:25 AM  

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