November 30, 2018 Friday
Bedtime Story
Why some Societies Succeed and Others Fail
Just like neurons make the brain and their
interactions results in the creation of thoughtful mind the very same way it is
the people who make nations and not objects in it.
For the very reason that in one instance of
these 100-billion-nueornal brains can give arise to a mind of Bernhard Riemann
and on the other hand an average mind like that of Pan narrans it is for the
very same reason that one bunch of apes can create a nation like that of Japan
and another bunch a chaos that is Bharat where any law created by parliament or
Supreme Court is doomed to failure in its execution.
Jared Diamond in his 1997 book and the
Pulitzer Prize winner of 1998 “Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human
Societies” attempted to explain why Eurasian and North African civilizations
became the conquerors of the world.
His argument is that in cases of societies
and civilization it is not the intelligence of its members or some genetic superiority
that is responsible for the swings in the fortunes of civilizations but the
opportunities and necessities.
Series of chance events tilt the scales in
their favor which then snow balls gaining momentum on its own.
Diamond perhaps oversold the idea of
importance of geography in historical success of certain societies ignoring the
role of certain factors such as strong government with strong and independent
institutions.
The importance of a system on monetary
exchange that far more accurately allows a society to rate the value of goods
and services, and to acknowledge without defining which goods are in shortage
and which services unwanted was largely ignored.
Free market with independent judiciary to
defend the rights of traders is one of the essential factors necessary for the economical
bloom of a society.
It is for this reason that I say that one
can easily list out several reasons why Japanese society is the way it is and
yet it would not satisfactory explain as to why specifically this bunch of
Mongoloid race is so unique socially whereas others who try to ape dismally
fail to come anywhere close to it.
Let us revert to the puzzle of Japanese
criminal justice system and its exceptionally high conviction rate.
Is it that the Japanese judges are obsessed
in convicting the accused “having seen it all before” and the advocates of both
the sides “have seen them seeing it”?
Or maybe there is some other more sensible
reason one can figure out on closer analysis.
The researchers who did the study came to
the conclusion that the Japanese prosecutors are critically understaffed (though
the same thing is also applicable to any overpopulated third world country of
today).
They compared the Japanese criminal justice
system with that of the United States.
The found that while the United States
federal government employs 27,985 advocates and the states another 38,242,
Japan with one-third of American population employs just 2000 advocates.
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Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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Professor Subhashish Chattopadhyay in Bangalore, India.
While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
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