Have you read Bertolt Brecht's radical, ameliorative and innovative play entitled "The Caucacian Chalk Circle"? Obviously allegorical, it tells the story of the good servant girl who sacrifices everything for the sake of Baby Michael. His own, biological mother, runs away with her paramour and her finery. The Revolution over, tables turned in that ferris wheel called politics, now the mother needs the Baby Son as heir. Thus emerges a huge debate about whom the Baby belongs to. Read the great play full of sarcastic fun and great socio-economic philosophy. The play ends with a great exhortation that those who are the best for the job, for the welfare of the activity and for the beneficiaries involved, should get the job.
Does this happen in real life? Most all, never. Look at the educational field, for example. Are lecturers chosen/appointed because they are very good at it, because they have a proven track record? No way! Those who have power and authority wield it to choose their friends, friends' friends, their own or friends' relatives/family, those who appear glamorous to them, and so on. Thus is their power retained. Who cares for the students? For the subject?For the Arts Discipline, for instance? Why, they are not even bothered about the institute that was the source of their own bread and butter for years!
If the course is not hence a success because certain people wanted their nephews and nieces in ( and these would be the people ranting loudly about nepotism in politics!), the powers that be can blame the pandemics, the online education, and the indifferent students! Who bothers why to accept any responsibility? Who needs accountability? So long as the coterie can scratch each other's backs, how does it matter?
Well, a little bit of power, and how it goes to people's head is best proved in academics. And they teach students!Ha!
Pratima@ powerful fish in a small tank are much worse than the worst sharks!
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