A few
months back I wrote a blog titled as ‘making of curative society’ which was talking
about how we collectively as a society (and also as a broader culture) always
inclined to cure rather than prevent any crisis/phenomenon/attack etc. The blog
also deliberated on why we are more curative than preventive.
When I was looking around, I could find some of the
glaring examples with an imprint of curative instead of preventive psychology.
Financial/Economic scams & crisis:
In spite of financial/economic history of the world is replete
with scams & crisis we cannot boast of designing a better system which can
help prevent the next copycat crisis/scam.
IL&FS financial crisis in Indian market is yet another
story of reaction/cure after the crisis erupted. However, there were enough warning
signs indicating crisis was brewing under the surface which were ignored.
IL&FS financial crisis could have been prevented like many other
crisis/scams.
The debacle of Jet Airways/ Rcom and other companies prove the same point. If we dig deeper, many of such
companies had long journey full of many warning signs hinting towards crisis
looming over a horizon. Again instead of preventing or reducing such troubles,
our curative mindset allowed it to stretch resulting into full-blown crisis.
The outbreak of Swine flu or other such incidences: We have been witnessing an intermittent outbreak of swine
flu for quite some time now. But every time when honorable court asks municipal
corporation/ health ministry to share what measures are taken to control swine
flu, under-preparedness and lack of preventive measures got overwhelmingly reflected
in response from these bodies. We know better preventive healthcare system is
the solution but we tilt towards curative/reactive healthcare system.
It seems our mindset is deeply engraved with the ideology of
reaction/cure to any problem rather than prevention of the problem. Why it is
so, is the topic for another blog!
