Am I Apolitically Incorrect?

American president Ronald Reagan is famous for saying "Politics is the 2nd oldest profession in the world. It got inspiration from the 1st one" !

The more a prostitute sells her service, more the customers she will attract but the more her reputation will get tarnished.

The prostitutes paradox may as well be ascribed to the politicians.

A politician has been elected by us, his job is to do pure politics - the more he does it, suffers the same fate.

In a public company, we have an appointed CEO & then the Shareholders. The CEO stays as long as he's serving the Shareholders, else is fired.

However, intuitively the CEO is often the short term guy, in pursuit of constant profits & always wanting to look good and so attempts to bring about a highly transactional culture.

The Shareholders however are the owner & so assert sustainability, asking for appropriate dividends at relevant times, demanding to keep the organisation's liquidity position & reputation be kept intact and so asserting a culture of longevity.

So if India is the organization & Modi the appointed CEO with public the Shareholders - what we are witnessing is something unprecedented.

The politician Modi is refusing to do politics as far as response to Coronavirus & yet his reputation is getting tarnished.

Wearing a politician-CEO's hat, the easiest thing for him to do is - have no lockdown, waive the loans and reduce the taxes.

One can surely argue that the populism will win him favor with the public, therefore the reappointment & so a continuation of his job.

However, he's going against his deep political ingrain & doing the difficult thing, so rare a trait in politicians.

He is actually thinking of the India-organization by keeping the Shareholders' assumed demands in mind.

But what do we the Shareholders really want? Are we abandoning our role and wanting our appointed CEO to take the easy road & prostitute away our India?

It's a worthy ponder.

It should shock anybody with a robust sense of fairness, that a politician - stays away from home, works long hours under the fullest glare of media, performing under a rigid rule based system, with power pawned to public and at mercy of the opposition to cooperate even for projects of national importance ...& must still manage to do his job !

And for that, we lampoon him through cartoons in the dailies, making him the butt of our popular jokes and roast him in stand-up comedy circuits.

In the end, Karma 101 strikes - we get what we deserve.

The buck should stop....where it started - me.