Work-Life Balance: Remembering Charlie Chaplin
Classics are for ever. On every re-visit one would get a new perspective. Remember Charlie Chaplins 'Modern Times'. The speed of the assembly line is increased to make the poor worker more productive. The chap comes out as a nervous wreck! Pan the camera to our modern day corporate work pressures. Are we going to end up like the protagonist of Chaplin's classic ? This is more relevant in the context of 'developing countries' like India, where the workers and managers alike have to face the ever increasing speed of the assembly line. They say that the younger generation loves to work 26 hours a day! Older fools like this writer cannot simply comprehend what is happening! We are dead wood. Fancy the so called productive generation coming up when the parents had no time to mend and guide them! There would not have been this generation at all but for the leisure (work-life balance) the older workers were allowed. Is this idea of modern times part of a grand design? Should we re-visit another of chaplin's classics: The Great Dictator ?
posted by Ashok Menath @ 4:24 am
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the number of comments reflects the extent to which idea has touched a chord . In the newspaper world one letter to editor is considered equivalent to 1000 readers thinking on the same wavelength
You cannot be truer, Ashok. Once the so-called 'ideology' that upheld humanism has been bunked, the capitalist is out to grab the baby from the womb and make him/her work, to reap profit! Can't even scream, Ashok!
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