A Society Not Worth Protecting
A society in which the quality of education or health care one receives depends on one’s ability to pay is not a society worth protecting.
One of my favorite public intellectuals, and one with a razor-sharp sword, has just begun a blog, and his second entry—a riff on Slumdog Millionaire—is a reminder of Vinoth Ramachandra’s unique intelligence: well-read, well-aware, well-articulated, and unapologetically Asian Christian.
Ramachandra, who I've had the privilege to meet in the buildup to his landmark address at Urbana 2000, is a Sri Lankan leader in the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students, is IFES Secretary for Dialogue and Social Engagement.
Here he looks at the dominant theme of this year’s Academy Award winning Best Picture (previously reviewed here): growing wealth discrepancy in India.
The Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire movingly depicts the casual brutality that haunts the lives of the urban poor. India’s social elites regard the latter as a national embarrassment, while depending on them for their daily chores, building their houses and keeping their work spaces clean.
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Two million university and college graduates emerge every year from a country in which two out of three women are illiterate. The obvious question that arises is: what will these graduates do for these women and other forgotten poor? The answer, as in most other nations, is: not much.
But it’s not just an Indian problem, Ramachandra continues: many countries have similar situations. And Christians can’t be callous about the problem: "Gross social inequality," he says, "is an affront to the God of justice."
Of course we can argue about how to get there, but preserving a system that generates such inequality is, Ramachandra says, not a valid consideration.
A society in which the quality of education or health care one receives depends on one’s ability to pay is not a society worth protecting. In this regard, the US and UK are little different from India and far worse than continental Europe.
I suppose that is logically true, but impossible to work out with simple policy changes. Because the society that created neo-liberal economics is, for instance, but one branch of the same society that also generated the modern ecology movement. And where one stops and the other begins are hard to tell.
Any ideas out there? I’d love to hear if any changes are afoot in leading business schools, etc.
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