Honey show me the money

Time and again my life revolves around same things. One of these is a deep sense of inadequacy. I keep getting stuck around words and move over them again and again. This title is just another set of words I got stuck around. This time connecting this with something totally different as may not be apparent at the first look.

When reading maths we learnt the concept of uncountably infinite. Its a beautiful concept as I understand it. It answers a simple question, can you count infinite. No I can't, but the tools I use, can. The tool is mathematics. Infinite is after all infinite, so is the tool. As long as I can put a number to every item without missing any, I can count as many of them as may be there. This includes infinite items. So I can count infinite. However there is a limitation, the item to be counted has to mapped to a linear scale. Any expansion that happens in more than one dimension cannot be counted, hence the concept of uncountably infinite. Actually I have digressed a lot from what I had to say so I'll come back to track with the intended meaning derived from this gyan.

Paisa haath ka mael hai (money is the dirt of palm, it comes and goes with no trace). A commonly used joke. Actually the creation of money is one of the biggest changes that have occurred in the history of mankind. Its a blatant attempt to linearize the world on a single scale "money". A few personal experiences shook me hard to think about this. Last couple of relationships that I saw being forged and destroyed as a result of this linear judgment of things, money. We'll break a commitment because we can't see it fitting the higher position on the universal linear scale or we are eager to form one as it takes us higher on the linear scale. I'll spare the details, but these slew of events that I have witnessed and as I have understood are a mockery of everything that's present around us. We can rate anything and anyone using this single scale. And there comes the market, the concept nursed and glorified (shall I say daemonized) by a unipolar world.

There used to be a term I often heard in my childhood, "lakeer ke fakeer" being used for people who would never listen to reason. Looking around I find that this can correlate with my environment, the lakeer being, money. Somehow my impression is that the life has multiple dimensions and hence is mathematically unmappable to a single linear scale. However it seems that solvability of this problem is no concern for people who think they solve the problem on regular basis.

Sometime ago, if my memory serves me well, I read that "prominent educationists" find that the system of exams and marks does not adequately judge a student. Therefore a grade system is being pushed that rates students on a coarser level. Though its implementation is another point of a major debate, its better then before. But anyways, it still is a linear scale and lives are judged by people who are themselves qualified by this very system. I wouldn't push this line of thought much as this will mean another digression.

Back to money or the problem of a single linear scale. For "his dumbness" as I refer to the common man this scale is a single measure of comparison. This is common man is not a fool as he always takes care of his money. By most standards that I am aware of, this is the smartest thing to do. Families split, friendships break, faith is destroyed, trust evaporates, all for conformance to the single scale of human existence.

(Can't resist some sensational statements). All this exercise just to relieve myself of the itch to say something.