Goodbye ‘Service Economy’, Hello ‘Experience Economy’.

Mauritius is catching up, sort of…

The human value chain is being…

…distorted through the dose of ‘quick remedies’ we seek. Such a craving for making things happen quicker than they should does indeed help us progress quicker, but we don’t necessarily become better.

We bypass steps, which we consider to be procedures rather than processes. ‘Divorce becoming a banality while job hopping becoming a trend’ are some of the products of ‘quick remedies’.

Some would say all this is closely linked with technological advancement, globalization, shifting economies or democratization of the tools of production. I think the source of this distortion is the fear of being emotionally weak and vulnerable.

The dynamics of this country…

…are slowly changing. The ‘protégé’ culture is gradually fading out. But there are still some who manage to  resist this logical evolution in socio-economic & cultural paradigms.

The day technology becomes widespread and accessible, i.e the digital divide becomes a minor issue, a new era of democratic power will emerge – that of public/people power. Then the ’protégé’ culture will become irrelevant and illogical. 

But one thing we have yet to learn as a nation is ‘how to manage power collectively’. For power management to become effective and positive, cultural and religious divides have to remain outside the equation, status divides have to be minimized, and intellectual divides have to become secondary.

Public power is going to depend on the chemistry that flows from individual to individual, and I rest my chemistry for now, with patience.

Strategy is simple…

…people complicate it.

 

Why?

 

Because humans think they have leaped light years ahead of humanity based on their adaptation to post-modernity (fashionable modernity) . They fail to recognize post-modernity as an intricate element of the human condition – the need to adapt to change coupled with the reluctance to change. And they fail to understand that strategy is interconnected with the human condition instead of being related to modernity. The modern bandwagon is therefore just an illusion of progress. We should spend more time stopping and looking at where the human condition has reached instead of looking at how modern we are.

 

 

We construct our…

…identity around the other. The other is necessary for us to understand who we are and determine our own position. If the other is not there, then we are void.

If man stopped thinking…

…about the next things that should happen after now, man would be living a satisfied life. But since man thinks about how now will lead to next, man is living in constant uncertainty.