The forces of Individual Action

The Issue that I would like to address :

" The concept of 'Individual responsibility' is a necessary fiction. Although societies must hold individuals accountable for their own actions, people's bahavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making"

The concept of ‘individual responsibility’ is a necessary fiction. Although societies must hold individuals accountable for their own actions, people’s behavior is largely determined by forces not of their own making.

People in the world have different task that corresponds to their behavior and decision. Nevertheless, activities are based on many experiences or cultural backgrounds that each individual uniquely has. The forces that are experiences, education level, community norms and rules, cultural background, and family condition are very influential to each people behavior, role, and manner in the community. Moreover, in several villages with strict norms, most people are controlled by the village law, such as in Padang, Indonesia that make the bride to pay certain amount of gold to marry the broom or in Javanese rites that forbid their children to marry people from other rite. In consequence, many actions in numerous areas are based on unlogical but relevant to each person backgrounds.

Before going further to describe the power that motivates people to have different actions, there is a big difference in responsibility depending on the the age or intelligence of each person. Normally, people with the age of older than 17 have bigger responsibility; yet, different country has different views on age. People with that age of 17 are allowed to drive having bigger risk of accident. Nevertheless, different country has different rules like in Finland that has a strict rule that individual starting from 21 year-old are allowed to drive, reflecting the degree of responsibility. Intelligence is one of the factors that influence the degree of responsibility. Logically, crazy people don’t have the opportunity to make their own decision. Moreover, the degree of education also influences the trust to decide something or becoming an example of certain behavior. Age and intellegince also correlated like in the case of in the age 17 people usually studies in college where provide them many opportunity to choose freely. As a result, the individual that has responsibility is in the age from 17 year-old and in a healthy phsycological condition.

Experiences are affecting every actions and behavior, like several height phobic behavior that is based on his/her experience of falling from high ground or his/her realtives accident from certain height. Many society tales are based on the elders experiences like not walking under that ladder is based on the experience that the ladder can be broken. Furthermore, family and education background are mainly influential on thrusting each person decision or behavior. One of the examples how education background affect individual’s way of thinking is between an artist with an engineer. An artist tend to design things esthaetically in the sense of beauty and harmony, yet an engineer design object based on it’s function so an engineer doesn’t care whether the object is solid unattractive thing as long as it can comply with the function of the object. Moreover, laws and norms are differentiating society in diverse areas, like between China that allows abortion because of the big number of population and Indonesia that uphold the Eastern culture and influenced mainly by Islamic rules forbid abortion except for the sake of the mother’s safety. Countless motives are forcing unique bahavior and action.

Inspite of the fact that many factors affected every decision and behavior, the spiritual concept of heaven and hell is definitely based on individual role in the community; therefore, each individual must be aware of the consequences. Moreover, laws are binding in the terms of individual, mostly. As a conclusion every individual despite of different or the invinsible hand that controls his/her behavior must realized that each behavior and action are affecting many people and can create bad or good consequences.

Can it become real ?

I dream people of Indonesia without lack of nutritious food.
I dream people of Indonesia with never-ending electrifying activity of neurons in their brain.

I'm a Maslow pyramid believer. In the bottom of the hierarchy, lies the basic need. All people can fulfill their basic needs; drinks milk 3 times a week minimum, eat chicken or meat almost everyday, loves to eat fish, and of course eat veggies everyday!! Nutritious food is one of the foundations to have a smart and healthy generation..

Not only food and health that related strongly with poverty but education is also an important aspect to consider. Like what I've defined before that I believe that there 2 kinds of poverty, physical and intelligence. Health and nutritious food is most connected with the physical poverty and education is a part of intelligence poverty.

Why does education is very important for alleviating poverty ? Higher education creates opportunity that is needed by most of the misfortunates. The opportunity is generated by several conditions, in school they meet inspiring people that can change the way they think and act or even gives a better job and salary or improve the way of thinking by reading lots of book!! I got many examples!! One of my friends gave scholarship for a high school student for his college in medicine. Now, he has become a successfull man and helped his family. If you watched Oprah Winfrey Show, you can see that education is very important!!How sad if I tell you that there are still many people that is illiterate, half of the world population is illiterate...and it's very sad!!!

Health and education are important...and how can we conduct this mega-project to give equality of opportunity? I believe the solution is EMPOWERMENT!! People must aware of this situation! and not just aware but ACT ACT ACT!!The governement has so many things to think about and we just cant rely on them...There are many success stories, Grameen Bank, Young Leaders Initiatives, Initiatives from Kalpataru Winners, etc...

Guys, just choose which social issues that you felt comfortable to ACT..after that start the initiatives!! only our initiatives..social empowerment can answer many social issues

Thank you very much guys for the comments...it tickled me to write the more detailed version, when I almost decide to stop :)

I really really appreciate it..


-still learning to write-

Dreaming Indonesia without Poverty [Overview]

This writing is based on an interesting statistics that I found,
500 people at the top of the world's pay scale possess the same total wealth as the 416,000,000 people at the bottom of the scale

-2005 United Nations Human Development Report-

Unbelievable numbers!!(writers note: please dont believe in all of the statistics, those I present to you is just a prologue).. There is a simple question that arise complicated answer concerning the statistics,

How can we alleviate poverty ?

After several literature and day dreaming that I did :p, yet constrained with the capacity of a university student not-truly-sensing of the real situation outside the campus, I found there are two main approaches...

The misfortunates have 2 main problems,

• First of all MOTIVATION...

They always think that they are meant to be poor and there arent any way to take the next step of ladder; they dont realize that there are so many examples of great people that take the chances and reach to the next level, what they must have is the revolution of their paradigm..thus, we, the fortunates, must oftenly interact with them; motivate, inspire, and urge them to open or take every chances!!!..take a further step..change their line of destiny..ikhtiar!!allahu akbar!!

• Second, THE GREEN (now valuable) PAPER (money money money money money-like The Apprentice song :p)..

If they want to make their own business then they need enough capital, that reminds me, one of the people that creates a world-recognized system is Mohammad Yunus, with his famous micro-credit..using micro-credit, the people can help themselves, creating small business to cover their household expenses, and furthermore improves their health...giving micro-credit means giving them the chance to improve their lives. Nevertheless, entrusting an amount of money to them must be based on a well-established system of supervisory..The results are over-whelming in many places, Bangladesh, Honduras, and many others...each places has different characteristics, thus the credit system must adapt with the local culture..Moreover, the microcredit system is very strict since it gives low interest to the obligors; usually, if the loans are non performing for 2 consecutive months then the obligors cant get credits anymore, or usually requires a saving accounts of a certain amounts of their income...A strict system but with vision(I believe)

After breaking down into several problems of those misfortunate people have, then it comes to the two aspects or topics that interest me the most, having different effects on the poverty issue,

• Direct effect : Entrepreneurship

It's not a subject that I really know, so I'll only write based on the social impacts..entrepreneurship doesnt really need any academic background..it needs the sense of business and hard work!!..by building a business then it will firstly affect their family, then hopefully affects others in the community by giving new jobs..the unemployed then has the energy to sustain and find a descent food and education...and it's not just that, when an entrepreneur is born then he/she will inspire others in his/her community; thus, creates other entrepreneur spirited by the predecessors success story...in this way the cycle of poverty will be broken...

• Indirect effect : Education

My favourite subject, of course... I believe that education gives a systematic thinking and broader knowledge; yet, every people has their different stages and needs to satisfies the neurons in their brains..like Bill Gates, maybe he doesnt need academic input to become like he is right now...so everyone has it own starve of formal education...and education is not limited only in academic context or formal school; of course, education has broader meaning it's about drawing out our valuable potentials...education will change people, the way of thinking on many issues, creating dreams, etc...ok, like I said before that education is more systematic, involves curriculum, and designed by the experts, I will say that in this writing I eliminate the possibility of experts using curriculum as a way of indoctrinisation, thus, giving a thorough knowledge to the student with particular objective of study...

Yes, as you can see...there are so many options to alleviate poverty...after we identifies this step, then what should we do???..ACT!!!the 3 powerful letters but very difficult to do!!!start right now...choose your own path(like I prefer education than entrepreneurship), or maybe you have a different definition of the poverty root causes, yourself..but put your heart into it, when you found one..put your soul..since it's worthy to give and to pass it to others..

There are so many unfortunate people..when you are thinking that you cant give much, you are wrong!!...little that you give means alot to them!!! if you dont start it right now, then the inspiration will fade..cause just maybe by giving a penny for them, can be used for their food...or maybe abit smile and hug for them, can make them believe that there is always HOPE...

Physics Revolution (from mystical to realism)

written by Gerry van Klinken

This book refresh my thoughts in physics (a subject that I like :p), made me admire those GREAT scientist even more, and gives understanding on several important definitions. Moreover, the book present each great scientist inventions and ideas; and revolutions that connected those great thinker...

One of the things that i've just realized after reading that book is about the definition of a philosopher : I thought that a philosopher only thinks in the social manner..yet in that book I learned that from Plato until Aristoteles, those philosophers interpret the mechanism of nature in their logical way (even though most of it are influenced by the mystical way)...metaphysics so called, interest them the most...

It's marvellous how the book explain about the revolutions in physics.

• The first time those philosophers thinks about physics is when they look at the sky (astronomy-a mystical subjects for the ancient people)...they tried to explain many phenomenon in astronomy; the stars, cloud, planets, and the milky way; you may have heard about the heliosentric theory of Copernicus. Copernicus is one of the milestones of physics revolution..He contributed many thoughts in astronomy, based on observations; such as, the earth is round since you can see a ship in the ocean from the top of the mountain, but you cant see it down in the valley..a logical conclusion based on a simple observation indeed...From the subject of wonders, astronomy, people became fanatics in pursuing the truth of nature...

• The next revolution is based on the thoughts of Newton (I'm sorry I skip many great scientists, but I wanted to make it as short as possible, so it wont be so boring)..a GREAT GREAT philosopher!!!!!!!!!I really really admire this man!!!!!he explains many things and gives the platform of kynematics and dynamics in the modern science..he is a combination of a creative phillosopher and a brilliant mathematician..this combination has made him so popular; thus, so many people were influence by his thoughts and called Newtonian!!One of his biggest contribution is an equation of the Force with gravity and the connections with distance!!!!!!GOSH!!!!!GOSH!!!!!!!!he also creates simple theory in dynamics, about force, acceleration, action-reaction of forces....BRILLIANT!!!!!cant say much except those words (mind me, I have limited vocabulary)

• Faraday is the next great philosoher!!!He made many experiments on electromagnetics...he tried to relates several forces (electrical, light, magnetics) and he succeeded...he found the connections!!!unfortunately he didnt found the relations between those forces with gravitation..he conducted many complicated experiments, for different phenomenon...his experiments and ideas are used by many scientists even until today

• the biggest and my most favourite philosopher ever is Einstein (I even got a picture with him hihihi)!!!! OK, THIS GUY IS MAGNIFICENT!!!he is a philosopher, a pure one!!he seldom reads his predecessor's journals or thoughts but his ideas leaps beyond others!!He solve the debatable topic of eter and light!!debated topics by many of great scientists and he SOLVED it!!!!GOSH!!!!!!!GOSH!!!!SUBHANALLAH!!I wonder how did he found such magnificent imagination..

As you can see in the next photo, I took a picture with Einstein in Madamme Tussaud..hehe..looks like real right?

Physics has set and attracts many great people to think and innovate beyond others imagination..It try to reveals the secret of GOD!It tries to connect between each inventions (electric, magnetic, light, gravity, and so many others)..trying to find the ONE and ONLY secret and absolute formula of GOD!!...To discover the formula each scientists have different approaches, one tried to think and logically explain as a philosopher, while others tried to explain with empirical evidence, and the last approaches are done by the mathematician..All of it is sprited to find the TRUTH and complement each other...

In The Holy Koran there are 2 types of 'wahyu' (dont know the English), kauliyah and kauniyah...Many moslem believe in ALLAH when they read the Kauniyah sections..The Kauniyah section approaches the believer using the nature phenomena, like the process of pregnancy, the big bang, etc..In this point I believe that science is closer to the hand of ALLAH..and now I see the importance of developing science, other than as the engineering foundation

may ALLAH bless the people that seek the truth...

Lolita Moorena

Hahaha...

Mind me guys..I'm being narcistic right now..

A friend of mine ask me (about 5 minutes ago) what does Lolita Moorena means ? so, now here I am excited, to write what does my father prays me to be (in Javanese culture : a name is the parent's prayers)...

My father adores a woman named Lolita Morena, a successful and beautiful woman indeed. She is Miss World and Miss Universe from switzerland and currently a celebrity and a presenter. A very enchanting woman with many talents, I guess. Because of admiring this pretty woman, he, my father, decided to named me after her!!hehehe He prays to have a daughter that has a successful carier and beauty like the original Lolita Morena...yep yep I hope I can make it come true, even though he did a corny modification with my Last name!!hahaha

Many people asked about this name, then with the spirit of puberty (at my senior high school) I searched several literature about Lolita and Moorena...I found several though, Lolita in sansekerta (ancient Javanese accent) means 'moving aroud'...(hehe yep yep I agree with this meaning since I cant stop doing many activities)...my friends usually laugh when they hear this meaning, they absolutely agree with it!!hehehe...

next word, Moorena...I was almost desperate to find the meaning...but coincidentally, a very best friend of mine, a phillipinos, told me the tagalog meaning of this word..in Tagalog, Morena means 'a beautiful girl' hehehe...very exciting!!hihihihi...so here here...another prayer from my father, accidentally, wishing to have a beautiful active girl..hehehe cool

some of you may have heard or read the definition in Oxford dictionary : ok that's not what my father meant...it's just a misconceptual interpretation caused by the Nabokov novel..and you know what, Nabokov actually didnt tell about a 'naughty' girl called Lolita..The morale is a woman can do anything for her lover, yet love is full of sacrifices...hehehe...(always look at the morale guys!!)

Nevertheless, many people uses the word Lolita in many uneducative ways...one of the examples is the websites of lolita.com...really misleads and creates a negative image..hiks..hate those websites!!let's banned them!!
as much as, I always wanted to banned those uneducative SINETRON (soap opera)!!

Anyone ever reads Nabokov's novel 'Lolita' ? please share it with me..