An institution is an organization constituted to promote an ideal. The relationship of the employees and members in an institution is more emotional than contractual. An institution's motto is not profit but service. An organization may be an institution or also any other unit where mainly profit and not service is the motto. A business organization is not an institution. The relationship among the employees and also members in a business organization is contractual and not emotional. It has now become mechanical with employees under the 'hire and fire', dictum becoming disposable mechanical tools. A business organization is an inanimate monster. Now most institutions are changing into business organizations. Normally when there are ideals, there will be respect and reverence for nature. All ideals are based on the realization that nature is supreme and not a resource for using up. Better emotions like love, dedication, service, empathy, even belief in God govern the policies of institutions. Even the term profit means, profit in terms of achieving the mission. Most members in an institution are missionaries, who strive for a mission or the practical attempt to achieve an ideal. The descent of institutions into business organizations, or the descent of respect for nature changing into total poisoning of land, water and air for business profit, is the history of today's commerce, a rotten cult in which I also wallowed as a student and member of the faculty. Today mechanization of outlook in every facet is almost complete, the decimation of institutions having attained a momentum of its own. Human relationships are no longer governed by emotions like love and affection but by codified legal enactments—the Judges and Lawyers strive to achieve the good mechanical fix in a dispute between human beings. Justice no longer is emotional. It is mechanical. We have commercialized Swamijees and other Holy men/women claiming the status of God and using all the methods of commercial advertising to propagate their Godhood. Tribes changed to joint families, to nuclear families, now to single parent-hoods, to surrogate coolie mothers and bottled sperm in the drug store. The faculties of Philosophy, Religion etc are simply closed in most Universities which have become total anomalies with only faculties of commerce, Business Management and various technologies—computers,electronics,bio-medical, even legal technologies as Law Colleges... The number of pure institutions is very few. There are only Business organizations, though many of them call themselves institutions. Right before our eyes we are seeing the wanton destruction of institutions—parliament and legislatures paralyzed, courts with lakhs of back log cases with Judges yet to be posted, political parties becoming personal proprietorships... |
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