Promissory or Promiscuous Note
Wisdom ceases to
be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too
selfish to seek other than itself - Khalil Gibran.
Promissory
ˈprɒmɪs(ə)ri/
1.
conveying or implying a promise.
Promiscuous
prəˈmɪskjʊəs/
1.
demonstrating or implying an unselective
approach; indiscriminate or casual.
In conventional parlance, a Bank Note (Dollar Bill or
Rupee Note) is frequently referred to as a promissory note… a promissory
note made by a bank (Central Bank like RBI in India) and payable to bearer on
demand. Here the Bank stands the guarantee for the authenticity, relevance,
value of the note.
Whereas public in general also issue their own versions of
promissory notes: here the promissory note is a legal/financial instrument in
which one party (issuer) promises in writing to pay a determinate sum of
money to the other (payee), either at a fixed or determinable future
time or on demand of the payee, under specific terms. Bank Notes invariably are
simple instruments because the underlying promise is not subject to
“subjectivity” however the promissory notes have huge legal
tangle-interpretations-
Now let’s train attention to metaphorical promissory notes
of opinion, facts, judgments, right vs wrong, etc. In the increasingly global
& rapidly changing world, there are few institutions that are able to
define or behave as issuing and settling agencies for these concepts. In which
case, humans (depending on the communities they are a part of) are
issuing/voicing their own versions of these promissory-note-type-concepts. Only
to figure out that their concepts have lesser and lesser life and even lesser
universality. In discussions that we have, more often there are logic/factoids
displayed by both “for” and “against” camps.
In a discussion which had two path breaking Scientists, Dr
Rupert Sheldrake and Dr Bruce Lipton, they tried to highlight as to how Science
& Management [that has come to define the “way of world” currently] have issued promissory notes to people around several concepts [concepts
of right vs wrong, justice, way of life, healthcare, cause-effect, etc] only to
realize that time and again two phenomenon mire them:
1. New discoveries/inventions/theory defeating the earlier discoveries/inventions/theory
2. Inherent incompatibilities amongst their various discoveries/inventions/
In ancient times, there used to be a great logician called
“Nagarjuna” who could take up an argument and win either ways. Nobel Prize
Winner Amartya Sen has tried to stem this on “how far is the reach of reason?”.
Next time we are issuing an opinion/judgement/”right vs
wrong”, lets check whether it’s a promissory note or promiscuous note. We sure
borrow concepts from a lot of open sources (largely the external) and then use
own processing capability (again the roots of which are deep from past
outside conditioning), we need to know, in financial parlance, the longevity-liquidity
of our notes.
From Daily Rote to Musical Note. Happy Note.
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