Economics, in the form and shape we know it today, is of some 250 yrs of origin. At the time of its infantry, it was as simple as only a subject of wealth analysis of a nation and thus, that of individuals forming the nation. Through the long journey of its growing up, it has mingled with several other subjects and developed itself in a huge size with various parts. These parts resemble to other subjects like Physics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Biology, Psychology and so on but these precludes the real materialistic experiences of the dominant creature of this world - the human beings. History tells us that, in the process of human civilization, the commanding weapon over environment to search for the assurance of security of the existence has been transformed from physiological strength, stone –wood –metallic strength and strength of accumulated production. In today’s world, a total summing up of the strength can be seen in the strength of command in a world, named monetary world, which is based on units called “Money”—human created, human valued human nurtured and dependent upon by human beings only.
Figure 1 : The Faces of Strength
The forms of Strength has been different for different individuals at different point of time in history. We don’t know what other form of strength will we become familiar of in future, but I guess it’s partly in our hands as well.
The raw material of the production of strength is Insecurity in living beings. Animals have always been trying to secure themselves over time and environment. But have they really ever been Secured? Is there really any instance of Security in real world? Mortal beings eventually die and lose everything they starve for. But there is a big business out there that uses this intrinsic fear of Insecurity and the inherent conceptions of Strength in different dimensions. The business is not Geography bounded, it is overflowing all around the world. And that is injecting the idea of Monetary evaluation in every aspect of human lives, slowly taking away the very basic human qualities away of perception from all of us. In the name of cultivating our basic Animal Instincts, we are losing our very own Human Instincts as well.
The forms of Insecurity, as studied by me, is something as follows :
Figure 2 : The Faces of Insecurity
Animal instinct is that, they want to ensure that they have better security over the threats that the life can pose. So there is the eternal chain of comparisons with every other mortal being and they “Feel Bad” if found less secured. This is the key ingredient of the so called Development of Human World; in Business, in Politics, in the field of Knowledge and Researches; everywhere. And there comes the strange Exit :”If You Feel Bad, Do…” … a thousand lucrative / nonlucrative options that incorporates money. Money has become the sole parameter of the well-being and the “True” worth of human beings. Even if you don’t have any of the strengths but have money, you can “Buy” every strength.
The Strength and Insecurity had different degrees in different era. Based on the degrees, there was the simplest form of human realization : The idea of Exchange to become Better-Off, mainly in psychological parameters, even if not in Reality, in Vertuality.
And thus the core of Economics was born inside Human Brain. Though it was perceived much later when the exchange process became more substantial so as to be attended upon. In earlier days human natural quest for the cause and effect of their existence gave birth to Mathematics, Philosophy, Astronomy, Linguistics and Geography. The wide attractive area in those human created and explored world captured all the attention of human brain to leave any room for psychological and sociological aspects of human existence. However, there were isolated strands of ideas concerning those areas but until the eighteenth century, there was no concrete foundation in the western world and Economics was perceived as a science of sociological behaviour of human beings over the concept of wealth as the father of Economics, Adam Smith, in England puts it.
In Indian scenario, isolated by geographical position from the rest of the world, the idea of economics was developed as we can see in the writings of “Kautilya” the finance minister of the Gupta Age(3rd Century AD).
It has been the core of interest for every regional civilization, to find the cause and effect of every natural happenings with diverse logics acceptable by different people. Every civilization had its own ideas and detailed findings of the same and none can be inferior to any other. Only those who has exhibited the more or the most command over the world by invasion – the imperialism, helped the expansion of their ideas and expressions that we are following today.
Human mind is susceptible to every little details of the environment. Even a small newspaper’s news can affect the mind in a way that cannot be obvious but can have deep-rooted behavioural changes. That should be borne in mind while dealing with human psychology. In different countries there are different socio-economical issues and to reach them one must need to speak their languages. What is being done today, is, an idolism is placed with which about 70% of a country’s population is unaware of but since it happened to use the delegates of the first world, which looks lucrative to the population, something like “People with Huge Potentials” or “People who live in heaven like environment” or “God sent people” and they are being followed. Every regional traditions and human values are just at the brink of destruction.
A new force is to be there right now to save humanity, to bring about the lost self-esteem of every cast and culture and mutual respect for each of them securing geographical and political existence of the country and to do this each country-population must be made aware of by reaching them out in their own way. Otherwise, everything will remain the same, just the topic of discussion at the dinner table of a handful of people.
Therefore, the Study of any subject cannot be devoid of these facts. It is the high time that Education must take the unified form by integration of all the subjects, as none is actually very different from the other, that also duly emphasized on one’s local culture, tradition and socio-economic structure; to prevent it from falling apart.
