Intellectual Bankruptcy

Intellectual Bankruptcy Current mood: sympathetic

Dear Readers:

Most of the developed world has the facility to file for fiscal bankruptcy to protect someone or a company not to slide down into oblivion and put other people or organizations’ life or their future at risk. The same does not apply for the government though. They can borrow in Trillions and get away with it without having to explain to anyone. It does not sound fair, does it? Well, before a company gets into a bankrupt situation, it is preceded by an intellectual bankruptcy within the company. It must be the work of the company executives that takes a business into such a quagmire with their faulty business direction or the lack thereof. While the businesses are protected against such an eventuality, are the people of a nation or the nations themselves are protected from the onslaught of other nations to render a targeted country intellectually Bankrupt.

I was thinking should the United Nations also come up with such an innovative idea of “Hold Harmless” clause in their resolutions for the governments on the verge of moral or intellectual bankruptcy and for their “action or inaction” in dealing with their countries’ problems. While there is no such protection as yet for the helpless citizens of the countries around, who have inefficient leaders and ineffective bureaucrats, who seem to have the mandate of the people to rule the country and take it to the shambles, as there are no better option at hand. While looking at the desperate situations in some countries around, there is also the possibility of creating a vacuum of intellectual capacities of a given country to cripple their economic and social development efforts and make them depended on outside sources so that their will can be imposed. Whatever the case may be. UN and other international agencies need to come up with some sort of moral supervision of such phenomenon that are making so many of the developing world at risk of total anarchy and dismal economic performances. On the other hand, the process of brain drain and target removal of intellectual capacities from a country or an organization is a great threat to the developing nations. Should there be some efforts by the international agencies to look into such acts of cold acts of intellectual incapacitation.

The greatest blessing of a land is the combined knowledge capital that God has blessed it with. While the knowledge Capital might contain opposing bases and views, yet they in no way neutralize each other as they add value in varying spheres of life and sometimes they are used to strike the critical balance that is so much needed to bring about the check and balance control of any given system. Any nation falling short of the knowledge Capital goes through a vicious and violent period of self adjustment that often are marked by violence, self inflicted wounds or even destruction. The greatest damage one can inflict on a nation is to drive the country to intellectual bankruptcy. Time and again many nations and vindictive leaders around have taken the initiative to drive the opposition into such a state, whether to brain drain a country or to engage in direct killings of the intellectuals to bring the intellectual deficiency.

Brain drain obviously is the most creative weapon for such an act and has been successful in driving many countries into such a Bankruptcy. Some have been more direct in establishing their objectives through target killing of the intellectuals in a given country to destabilize their development and progress. And such a process does not stop at one or two killings but is a process that endures over a long period of time until their ultimate objectives are fulfilled.It is important that an international mechanism be initiated to check such a heinous act of vengeance that in many ways bleeds a given economy or their development process. Most of the developing nations do not have the power of its own to contain such a worldwide phenomenon and are easy prey to such an onslaught.