The Perils
of Co-operation
Few of the
most hyped words of today are:
Collaboration
– Indicates entities working together for something new, a shared vision
Co-ordination
– Indicates sharing, teamwork and mutual support
Co-operation
– Indicates entities supporting each other
I agree,
there is certain amount of overlap, in meanings conveyed by these words in actual
use. In fact what I mean here by co-operation is what we get when we subtract what
is shown here against the other two words from, what is shown here against that
word. In fact that is only the meaning that is popularly understood. To make my
point clear, let us consider the historical significance of co-operation.
Egyptian
pyramid is a ‘living’ example. Suppose the people who labored to build the
structure were not at all co-operating. Suppose those desirous of seeing this
monument were quite determined, powerful and did not dilute their demands. That
would have driven the people to the extremes of their efforts, to find a way to
move those slabs of stone.
What could
have been the result? We would have been having heavy earth moving machinery
and related technology, at the time of the pyramids. Those entail us to have
had many of the products of industrial revolution already in place. That would
have advanced the modern world by a few millennia, and we today would have been
ahead by those many centuries.
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