OUTSOURCING
An extension on an excellent mull by Tarana...:).at anurana,com, .quite a thought provoking song in fact...I add to the theme..in poetically speaking..another outsource...:)..Pardon the inspired ramble...:)
Ah the times...
like the seasons...some
everchanging
as winter and spring
in cycles...come
in the ranting
dawn so bright
inevitably comes
a daylight
lies relentlessly
cloaked...in evenings
gloom and night
to mark...in splotches
of warm colour
the blight...
or as icy finger paint
a blanket...
rather virginal white
Yes...this round probably represants the 'seasons' as they be reflected in the national psyche...the uneasy fears of an age in the phase of possible deprivation...The ending of the boom times etc. the effects in the shorter cycles...or, in the longer ones, the rise of other nation states...A slavery of sorts being un-yoked with the liberating 'power' of education and the raising of national prides...new power-centres...elsewhere.
After the spring of 'feel good' and well being...interspersed with basically just the smatterings of now-n-then' crisis' of plenty 
(like eco-political flex and powerplay exercised in use and misuse)...In such times, a little handout of 'christian largesse' to the have-nots (traditionally the under-privileged third world citizenry) didnt matter/cost so much...At least not until the inevitable drying out phase of societal renewal which is almost axiomatic...
Its a lesson re taught by history again and again ...yet its often ignored and therefore perils sporadically such variance on the quality of life.
In such...winters of discontent...of seemingly less to go around, a scape-goat must be found, to insulate the inherent or generic 'in-efficiency'.At stake, the national id/pride, the questions on the 'quality' of appropriate skill-sets, of those at the helm of affairs or at the foundational worker-ant levels. Considered too, must be the tendency to retreat within protective jingostic social gyrations, or simple 'tribal' huddles. Barriers to wall-off in 'superior' teflon or lamb skins mindsets shedding...fuelled by and in, the bottom-line blame games.
Ensues thus, the need to dump on...and quickly. Something or someone to pin on, all or as much of the baggage and blame for the current set of ills...All the 'shortfalls', be it jobs , resources...or consequences of earlier decisions made...Of bad long-range planning...or higher local salary/cost desires which are in sharp contradict with the lower price to pay expectations... for goods and services....Talk of wishes...:)
Educational 'labours' be it by states or as individuals as investments in ability, are factors too. Some trials endured though are largely self made, by lack of earlier effort invested, or at worse some delusional divisive wafflings and some admittedly...genuine generic causes.. Unadressed they become potential red-herrings raised to politically amplified... sound bites...that can and do, become hurtful and directed.
I guess those who exemplify and contribute to a national strength..to build its 'greatness' are always drawn from all over...Power thus created is finite in that system..and it must flow... from focus to focus...necessarily leaving some places...undernourished...In lieu of concentration..at one place, .it must thus naturally be drawn and thus lacking elsewhere...
Thats the synergy that drives 'progress' as couched in that famous cliche, laws of supply and demand. One effect in this controlled redistribution in the use iconic power is that such 'concentrations' must decay too if unreplenished, as by use, its effects gets spent...
Those places and peoples and climes who launch and strive for a fresh charge...fresh
'concentrations' are the new kings of the heap...or as new kids on the block. But fundamently theirs too is, but a crown in possible transition...New birthings/ambitions/equations and yes remarkable ideas ensure... competition...youre egged to be on youre toes...Or sadly as individuals or on collective national backs...lie flatout and ready to be taken...by the new bulls that lead the 'whos now mighter' charge.
But hark, this may be seemingly so...:)...but not really...for real 'power'...which in less obvious show of nuances...has many more games to play....or move on to....and take over.
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