It is a common thing to regard a doctor more than a gatekeeper but what if I tell you they are inherently doing the same thing?
Ridiculous . . . right?
Let me open you to a perspective with these questions:
Is there a principle that guides all Professions?
If there is none, shouldn’t there be?
What if there is one, but we have not thought deeply enough to find it?
This questions have made me questioned the validity and the importance of highly rated professions that people clamour and compete for. They also made me aware of the underlining principle about profession that we have been schooled and trained to ignore.
From my pondering, I did not only discover that the ‘Major Professions’ we aspire for are valuable and novel, I also discovered that other ‘Minor Professions’ are as valuable as well.
A single principle guides the existence and validity of all professions:
All Professions are genuinely founded to make mankind’s existence an orderly, peaceful, and productive one.
Anyone who takes up any kind of Profession and majors on it, is obeying what I called “The OPP Principle” and it states that:
“All of man’s existence and exploit is geared towards the creation and/or maintenance of ORDER to foster PEACE and ensure PRODUCTIVITY.”
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As simple and mundane as this principle is, it is the guiding principle of all Professions!
When these three elements are the foundation of any kind of educational system, every Profession would be adopted based on the full understanding of the purpose and significance as opposed to rating Professions based on the complexities and the incentives involved.
Let me give you a perfect example:
The doctor wants to make sure your body is productive i.e. functioning well, so s/he helps your body be at peace by making sure your organs and your systems are in order.
The gateman or gatekeeper wants to make sure everything going on in a house or company is productive, so s/he ensures that the environment is at peace by maintaining the order of who comes in or not.
The same is for an accountant, lawyer, and engineer. The same principle applies to ALL! Some Professions or Vocations indeed need a higher level of expertise than others and therefore monetary incentives are meant to compensate for their expertise.
When we see professions as means to have the upper hand against another human being, the education we design will not be true enough to raise generations of compassionate and problem-solving individuals. We will only succeed in raising highly competitive individuals who will do anything to win or dominate other people without any regard for compassion.
If we approach professions with the consciousness of The OPP Principle, everyone will be valued and life will be more cooperative and habitable because of the understanding that we are inherently doing the same thing.
Please feel free to agree or disagree . . . especially to disagree ;-) but in few days from now, I will share with you about the relationship between Profession and Philosophy.
Cheers to you Friends!