May 17, 2009

Conventions & Logic




  He:   Hey..Why are we doing it this way ?
  She:   Its supposed to be done like that 

  He:   Why? It doesnt seem to serve any purpose .
  She:  This is how it was done till now & we need to maintain that way.

  He: But there are better ways of doing this..Why spend such an awful time for doing this in an archiac way ?
  She:  That deviates from the convention.. 

  He:Its like a dogma..U spend so much of your time to preserve a convention which doesnt seem to serve any purpose. 
  She: It was done like this till now & it'll be done in the same way going forward no matter what effort it takes..We got to do it.

  He: Sigh!!.. Is there any single word for 'useless convention' :)  

         -  There's this wonderful movie - 300 - in which they picturize how statements from Oracles are made..And the futility of obeying to a convention/norm/dogma is shown in a touching way... We get exposed to different systems in our life...None of them are perfect..Rather, those systems are the need of a particular time frame..When times , technology & people change , systems got to change.. We may very well comeback to the old system at a later point in time..But that doesnt mean that we should be averse to experiments / change...People who think differently from conventions tend to come up with something better..Change should be in everything we do..it should be in technology, processeses, people...everything..

            Always respect two kinds of people the most - People who make a system & people who break a system...