Disruption is courage!

By Vishesh Anil Kumar 

(3rd prize - St.Joseph's College Of Commerce, Bengaluru)

There seems to be a year-on-year rise in socio-economic inequality around the world. In India itself, 1% of population owns 68% of the wealth (Credit Suisse, 2016) and a recent study by Oxfam suggests that 8 individuals in the world own more wealth than 36,000,000,000 (3.6 billion) of the poorest people in the world. These numbers suggest that our system and establishment is failing or at the least not doing enough to change things.
Disruption is to ask, keep asking questions!
The Brexit referendum and the rise of Donald Trump among various other events around the world shows that the people are afraid and have lost faith in their institutions and are resorting to irrational measures to bring the system back in balance. I believe these are just reflections of a deeper problem that is rooted in inequality. These statistics and events are not just the result of inefficient and corrupt politicians and corporate overlords, but more importantly a dull and ignorant society that passively enables the system. As a part of this system, I believe it's my responsibility to question the establishment when it is failing us and refuse to accept the status quo.
In times where conformity is incentivized, I believe disruption is the courage to look inwards and question conventional wisdom, be it the neoliberal economics we are taught in schools and colleges or the caste system which we are brought up with in our homes, which both have perpetuated and exacerbated socio-economic inequality. We should strive to create intellectual spaces so as to promote alternative ideas if we hope to create a post capitalistic society, with more emphasis on building dynamic, heterogeneous communities than just selfish consumers. This would also enable active political, economic citizenship. This is what I believe disruption is in the current context, to break away from the shackles of conformity and preserve diversity and share economic prosperity in an age of populism.




                                                       

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