Friday, March 13, 2009

Human Resource???

The naked dance of an ism, unfettered from all sorts of moral edifice. Though, it masquerades itself with the much idolized concept of “Human” yet blatantly inconsiderate and callous towards the simple little emotions that constitute human values in actuality. Quite a few from that school of thought may argue in affirmative about the worth of the human values, but I think they need to understand the underlying objective which has been very obvious in the recent economic crisis when thousands of employees have been retrenched and whose lives have been sacked, indifferent of their well being in particular. I wonder about the ism because it does demonstrate diversity in the form of inequality, manifesting itself in different shades of the society i.e. the rich and the poor, the high and the low so on and so forth. However, it does have one single parlance and i.e. of maximum profit with minimum investment.

Well, here lies the key to this discussion, “maximum profit”, an ambition which has no real boundary and therefore is an unquenchable thirst. My cognition fails to understand the symphony of the awesome and the gruesome i.e. “human values “and “maximum profit” going hand in hand. The commodification of human beings has invigorated itself in such a way that it has engulfed everything out of them only to make them a real machine whose worth is valued in terms of mere tangible outputs. Somebody amongst the realist thinkers said that human beings are basically selfish in nature. By and large it is true and therefore, we can imagine the result when such selfish creatures are left to grab the maximum out of any resource, which unfortunately in the ism, is also applicable for the human beings, and hence the name human resource.

I feel sad when I see the human relationships gradually getting transformed in to monetary relationships and resulting in the formation of a less human society. It is already happening in many developed countries across the globe wherein the monetary relationships have manifested itself in to an individualistic society and also gradually stretching its arms in the developing countries. I think that human beings, without the element of human values are just like machines and am afraid that this race for a limitless goal will perhaps, snatch away this invaluable virtue out of them………