Monday, January 9, 2012
Living Flag Challenges
Different motivations and varied aspirations among members make living flag ambition a herculean task. Despite of this, the experience of 'building the aeroplane while traveling on the same' is awesome. We want to control our desitny than someone else does this. Each community says this, indirectly, when they give shape to traditions which contain rules of governing the resources of those communities and the relationship of members with those resouces.
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In case of living flag each member has the temptation to see the flag,if everyone decides to follow their heart than the flag will no longer remain. So they formulate rules for seeing the flag(each one take turns). However after some time some members will back out or take longer time under the varied pretexts. So at that point of time it is possible that other members got desperate and flag itself will no longer remain. Thus rules are formed to avert such situation such that they are inclined more towards community benefits in comparison to individual benefits
In continuation of above point i would like to say that after a point of time these rules takes the shape of tradition which reflects community gains. Once the tradition is establish it is easy to follow. And depending on the condition how egalitarian these traditions are a success of society will be decided.
As said in the post, each community whether civilized or uncivilized (like tribals) has its own rules to govern commons. Like the worshiping of a village pond/river, or the practice of allowing use of forests only to those people who help take care of it. This way, the people control their destiny by controlling the resources available to them.
- Bhavi Patel (32011)
There is a basic difference between the ‘Living flag challenge’ and the ‘building an aeroplane and travelling in the same’. The first one is mutually exhaustive event and the later one is mutually exclusive event. In the first one the person can be an observer or a participant, he cannot enjoy both at the same time, but the later event is sequentially spaced, so one can build and then can enjoy it. Community gives shapes to its tradition each and every second and hence a ‘Living flag challenge’ situation exists.
Tijil Thomas - 32045
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