We Engineers are NOT subtle creatures that tend to dwell upon the complexities of social science. We believe that if there is a problem, there is always a solution.
That’s our motto; Always.
The solution may not be 100% accurate, but we deduce the maximum error which may be induced, and take precautions such as safety factors and what not, to compensate for our lack of in depth analysis.
If we are picky about the output, we would have some sort of feedback mechanism that would tell us when to start, stop or fluctuate the process, so that the output is smooth and stable. And hence we give birth to Systems! (More on this later)
Anyway, I’m not trying to superimpose Control Theory on the minds of the sound and peaceful Sri Lankan Blogging Community. Rather I’m trying to get a feedback from you all, so that the Community Service projects we do, might turn out to be smooth and stable.
So let me introduce myself. I’m R. Due to some severe miscalculation on the part of the Board of Directors, I have been put in charge of the Community Service projects that are being done through the small club of a very insignificant University.
So let’s look into some our quantumly minute Community activities…. I do not guarantee that this will be an adventure of a lifetime, nor a rhetorical tale of a naive community worker that ends with a transcending message. But I do hope that this diary would be useful to anyone working towards similar goals.
6 comments:
Good work Ranga. This has been long time forth coming. To do a difference is what we are here for and to do a difference we need to make a conscious effort towards change.
But then the question arises, is making a difference the right thing to do. Why cant we just let it be, the natural equilibrium of social injustice. Like blood sucking little creatures why cant we just draw on the essence of the poor and let this merry making continue.
Why this urge to form societies/organizations and try to "HELP", we go miles to be with the lessprviliged to share their pain and the suffering and then the next morning we happily go for interviews of those organisations that propagate this endless accumulation of wealth from the feeble hands of the poor to the hands of the mighty and few.
We are strange creatures full of hypocrisy.
Why?
That's a good question isn't it. Lack of motivation is probably the most depressing feeling after self-loathsomeness.
Justice? Even though I do care for it, as you said the natural equilibrium is injustice and I have no intention of complaining about it.
My belief is that we are better of striving to eradicate "the demanding nature" of people than focus on injustice. We are better off focusing on insecurities rather than poverty.
As for hypocrisy, the only answer that I can give you is from the hit TV series "Heroes":
"in the end, what does it matter when the human heart can only find meaning in the smallest of moments?"
Excellent job Ranga..You have started pressing the right buttons...Guess we are off to a great start with our massive incoming community service projects.
Let's keep it up and try to do our best for our fellow human beings.
'Do not go where the path may lead. Find a new path and leave the trail' - So let's start exploring for new ways.
Why?
As Ranga has mentioned it is a very straight forward yet a very crucial question. Why waste our talents, money and energy on all these community service activities?
In my personal view point no human being in the world deserves to rot in the depths of poverty and corruption as being a human is a very rare opportunity. And if we, the so called 'privileged' ones, do not help our own fellow human beings with their problems, a new factor called 'negligence' will join hands with the poverty and corruption to make the things even worse.
'If not us,who?-If not now,when?'
'We believe we can make a difference!!!'
someone can say we can stay without doing things to make a deference & let things happen in their own ways.
But never forget that we have already broken the equilibrium of nature. So there is no turn back. It's more or like getting married... so what we have to do is try to make it work...
Wow, the topic of Equilibrium seems to be worth given a separate post.
Amila, I'm still trying to figure out what marriage has got to do with it. But you're right, by not doing anything also we are disrupting the equilibrium.
Hiranya, your second comment on negligence hits the point. As Martin Luther King said,
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
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