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Money is the sole criterion for all value including of ourselves. So we try constantly to show how ‘successful’ we are by showing how wasteful we can be. Contribution to society is not even in the reckoning any more. Sure, some of us, especially the new entrepreneurs are looking at ways to contribute. But in the same breath we idolize those who have institutionalized corruption in the land to such an extent that they actually have entire departments in their companies specifically dedicated for this purpose. We are a nation today where when 3000 innocent civilians were slaughtered in Gujarat, aided and abetted by the very government which they had elected, not one single industry head either raised his voice against it nor did he or she offer any aid to the victims who survived the heinous crimes committed against them,. Can you imagine this happening if Sardar Vallabhai Patel had been the Chief Minister of Gujarat?
We are today a nation where corruption in the Judiciary is called ‘Speed Money’ and is justified in that delay in project implementation would cost more. We are today a nation where murder by the state is called ‘Encounter Killing’ and the murderers are glorified by the name ‘Encounter Specialist’. We are today a nation where corruption is justified as a ‘reality’ that we have to face. By that we mean ‘accept’. After all, to fight corruption one would also have to face it, wouldn’t one? But that is not what we mean when we use the word ‘face’. We are today a nation where even lip service to poverty eradication is not fashionable any more. Instead even our communist party is killing farmers whose lands are sought to be ‘annexed’ to create walled fortresses called ‘SEZ’ for rich industrialists. Money talks. And nowhere does it talk louder than in India. For on this band wagon one can see some strange companions. Together are people who at one time ran organizations that were the symbols of corporate integrity and responsibility along with those who always stood for the axiom that ‘charity begins at home, so what’s good for me is good for the nation.’
Before I dive into the angle of view illuminated with the term "Speed Money" I'm going to link a Google Search on J. Krishnamurthy.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=J.+Krishnamurti
http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/quotes/2007-07-20_The_world_of_relationship
If we do not understand the world of relationship and bring about a fundamental transformation there, we cannot possibly create a new culture, a different civilization, a peaceful world. So it must start with ourselves. The world demands an immense, a radical change, but it must begin with you and me; and we cannot bring about a real change in ourselves if we do not know the totality of our world of thoughts, of feelings, of actions, if we are not aware of ourselves from moment to moment. And you will see, if you are so aware, that the mind begins to free itself from all influences of the past. After all, the mind is now the result of the past, and all thinking is a projection of the past, it is simply a response of the past to challenge, so merely to think of creating a new world will never bring a new world into being.
Speed money
If the family of human beings can be seen as an organism and this unit is alive with a blood traveling through it, then, it is possible to view what happens to the organism when the flow of blood changes.
Before moving onto a view of change it must be a consideration to view what the flow of blood in humanities organism looks like before the change.
What does the flow of blood look like before it changes?
Example:
Suppose you are shopping on-line and your screen shows a new thing that you must have and this new thing is in India. You type in the required information and send that information somewhere. Three days later the new thing arrives at your door.
You send something. Something arrives at your door.
The blood of humanity flows.
We are looking at the blood of humanity flowing; before it changes.
Now add up all the exchanges occurring today where all the people connected in the network of human existence send stuff and receive stuff. Humanity is like a single body where blood flows through it.
Now take away all the blood.
What happens tomorrow?
Today the blood of humanity flows and tomorrow there is no blood.
That is a change.
That is a change from one day where you send stuff and you receive stuff to a change where you can't send stuff and you can't receive stuff.
One day there is blood in the organism called humanity and the next day there is no more blood.
The change went from a flow of blood to a no flow of blood.
The consequences of the change should be obvious.
What happens if the bloodless condition lasts only one day and on the very next day a new blood is added to the organism called humanity?
One day the blood flows. The next day there is no blood.
On the next day a new blood is injected into the organism called humanity.
Which blood is best?
Corrupt, innacruate, deceitful, poisonous blood
Accurate and intending to account for the facts blood
This is as simple as asking which is better between lies and truth.
If you are a criminal and your business in life is to live at the expense of other people, then, you must incorporate falsehood in your business. This is fact.
Which do you prefer?
If the blood in the organism called humanity flows too fast from those who produce and maintain the blood supply to those who cannot handle Speed Money without corupting their own personal lives, then, the organism empowered with the job of creating and maintaining the blood supply is failing to govern that supply accurately. The supply of blood becomes a poison.