Careless Interpretation : The Diary of A Music-Junkie

So, how do they connect?

Jakarta has a chaotic urban development, everybody knows that. Tiny roads, neglected size of pedestrian, dizzying scatters of commercial, traffic lights, electrical cables and traffic signs placed between seemingly unorganized rows of buildings, all pointed to the chaos of Jakarta. When you see this picture of Jakarta from the skyline, you’ll really get a clear view of how messy this is.

Now, how and when do these problems show up? Management of the city could be the number one answer, however something even bigger is looming in the horizon: capitalism. Why do people wanted to build buildings? to offer a multistorey place right? why? for efficiency.. why efficient? so that business owners who don’t have land capital don’t have to go buying lands when they want to open up business. Commercials..why do they appear? simple, because they are a medium or messenger of a message of a producer to its consumer. The reason we are seeing those commercial is because WE are the consumers. We are their target. Why are we made target? because we have the ability to buy the producer’s product. We give them income. Now traffic signs..when do they show up? they show up just when people get a bit out of hand to manage. Why a bit out of hand? Jakarta is the most condensed place in the world and its citizen needs badly traffic management. Why condensed? Since 60% of our country’s capital flow in The Capital, all sorts of capital and luxury lives here, this make people come. Why does people come for capital? because that’s how capitalism works: personal profit can be acquired from investment of capital and employment of labor - that is you need to invest capital in order to make personal profit, and later re-invest this profit into capital and make new profit, and so on.. Now finally, why do all these things show up in Jakarta in such a mess that if you really think of it, it really looks like a jungle? Answer: capitalism, especially free market capitalism.

to be continued..

Why capitalism fail?.. This question finished a period of long deferred intention to write blog again.

As i was looking at the skyline of jakarta, the poluted air and the deep stirring inside myself how i miss mother nature with its naturally built sceneries, i realize how capitalism has failed and its going down.

How do skyline, poluted air, and natural sceneries click together with capitalism? Easy…i’ll tell you about it tomorrow when i finished this blog.. Really sorry but it’s just past my bedtime now.. =)