April 10, 2019 Wednesday
Bedtime Story
Jeckeln Killing Efficiency
The men from semi-militarized police force
Orpo were thus assigned to lead the inmates to the killing grounds.
In the killing grounds three or more deep
pits would have already have been dug out and the idea was to use all the three
pits simultaneously to maximize efficiency.
This is somewhat akin to any typical fast
food American outlets exemplified by McDonald’s wherein multiple counters are
setup that are to serve the roaring hungry patrons as fast and as consistently
as humanly possible.
The procedure that is set in place is unshakable, the crew trained in one specific task that on repeated performance
enhances their speed at it and eventually the whole ecosphere around food
service ends up becoming a mechanized production line system which as a
customer you in all probability would not be able to grasp.
At least I was not able to when I ate my
first hamburger at a McDonald’s in Moscow in the year of 1993 on the Pushkin
Square after Mon Ami described to be in great detail how its French fries were
cut exactly the same way, fried perfectly to its golden yellow color and salted
just enough to make you long for more.
He had his before me in the summer of 1992
and since then has always stayed one step ahead of me (or maybe several steps) in
everything else in life.
In fact to me it felt like a pleasure
jaunt.
Just as an aside this one was the first
McDonald’s outlet that had opened in Russia barely few years ago on January 31,
1990 after 13 years of negotiation with the Communist Party and 50 million
dollars of “investment”.
Why did the company spend so much?
This is because they knew that this project
would be doomed or rather destined for success in a market craving for American
good and Capitalism.
This is perhaps the only place in the world
where the McDonald’s philosophy of quick assembly line servicing collapsed
simply because on its opening day 30,000 hungry Russians turned up to feast on
a legendary American delight.
Denial creates the greatest cravings and
the best customers.
Aravind Eye Care System wherein I was
trained to perform cataract surgeries had similarly developed a remarkably
efficient and effective semi-assembly line methodology for performing
high-volume and at the same time safe surgeries with complication and infection
rates compatible to those of the western world eye hospitals and infirmaries.
A team of young ophthalmologists with a
senior nurse (her name was Veni who kept us terrified and disciplined, kept us
on tight leash and reported directly to the top founding fathers - in this case
it was the founding mother- of the institute) was designated to anesthetize the
eye to be operated in the waiting room.
Then inside the OR operating nurses
specially trained to do cleaning, draping and preparing would set the stage
ready for the surgeon.
These nurses were so good that they would
even carry out the first step of the surgery which was to hook up the superior
muscle of the eyeball that makes you look up.
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Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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Another great educator and a teacher that I am aware of is
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.
Do visit him here:
All his books can be downloaded for free through this link:
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