Thursday, June 12, 2008

Inflation war...what for ?

Even if you are NOT an avid reader...or a news watcher.....still you must have been listening to the pundits on various mediums...you would realize that we are suffering from "Inflation-o-Mania". Everybody seems to be bitten by this new bug, everybody seem to have different opinion on it, and each one has a strategy to fight it !
But is this problem really serious enough ? Look at Janpath, and you would wonder if you are in the same world. There is absolutely no problem there....except when there is a camera and a microphone visible. The world is calm....fuel is abundant...and inflation...? what ? whats' that ? Probably there isnt food shortage there..grains still cost "nothing" and "salaries" are super high still! I dont know if they worry about the big-bull...after all....they know how to tame it !
Now....lets look at some place else...and we'll still wonder if the problem is serious enough? The problem is enormous...but we arent serious enough to acknowledge it...! We still think that the world is calm....fuel is abundant..but yes ...its becoming costlier. But thats ok....considering that its after all "subsidized"..lets have some morality for heaven's sake. Can't except the fuel to be sold at peanut prices right ?
Ok...so where is the roblem really ? The problem is where this blog wont ever reach...the problem is where we've never been..where we would never be...and where we never wish to be. Thats a different world..where inflation loses its lusture...its high-society tantrum...its magnum scientific possibilities...its super-intelligent controls....and its ever-increasing size. It simply resides there in the form of high-priced grain....in un-affordably-priced-fuel....in un-realistically medicines and in the form of FEAR.
I sometimes wish we knew that world way before...atleast we could have THOUGHT / TRIED to stop the dreaded bug spreading there.