That bother's me since ever... It's been a time since I've started to think in the words to use to describe such question that I raised when studying the capitalism formation... The source of my inspiration is no other than the man who is considered the Father of Modern Economy: Adam Smith.
In his second published book, "An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations", Smith proposes a society created from the division of labour, and specialization as the engine for this new organization method. As Blinded Rats, it doesn't take long for us to follow without even read the second chapter after the one he presents the concept, where it's said that such specialization would lead workers into a "state of mental mutilation"... And this, my dear pseud-readers, is where we are nowadays...
The continued wrong applications of Smith's theory, specially on administration research field, has contributed to one of my many personal frustration about life and what I believe, the frustration of so many people, who are curious enough to not focus only in one aspect of the true knowledge... We grew up listening to our parents saying we must follow the traditional way of life, where we choose one of so many interesting fields of investigation of knowledge, to financially support our lives, and that we call profession. Without a profession, a man has no honor and no value, but how does that limits ourselves?
How can I Study programming (a passion I have) if I can't be a programmer and an economist at the same time? And for those who would say: "OMG you're lying, you can do both activities"... Well that could be true, but the time I spend dedicating myself to Java is a Time I lose to dedicate myself to Political Economy for example! And for those who isn't yet convinced, how can I be at the same time, an economist, a programmer, and a Musician!? Yeah, I love to play guitar, but the Time I choose to study and to practice pentatonic scales is a time I lose to study microeconomics!
And what pains me even more, are the faces of the ones who are content to live their single lives with their singles jobs... We Could be more if we wish to study and to discover more! And not only that, we are so used to think and to "role play" like that, that we even got difficult to think of another ways of life! Yes! It's possible! The Greek Thinkers for example, were much less specialized than us and nonetheless still influencing modern thoughts! Pythagoras made contributions on math and music! DaVinci is another good example, architect, painter, engineer, philosopher and frequently a personage of secret-society-paranoid-novel!
What I'm trying to say, and I'm really making an effort to write in English, is that we became limited, for just accepting this pre-established organization, as the only one possible...
Let's be more of questions, than acceptations
Cheers, my dear pseud-readers
quinta-feira, 6 de agosto de 2009
Specialization or Limitation?
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Perfeito meu amigo. Tomo a liberdade de dizer que faria minhas as suas palavras. A superespecialização tem papel fundamental, sim. Mas muito talento se perde, muitas mentes poderiam contribuir muito mais se aumentassem o espectro de seus interesses, acreditassem em sua capacidade e não se resignassem.
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