Faking It

The world is "maya" or make-believe. Or, as Shakespeare chose to put it, All the world is a Stage, and we are players. Therefore, we should not be making a big fuss about a few fake pilots. In fact, I would propose that we have fake doctors, lawyers, Supreme Court judges, Parliament, Corporates, Universities and so on. The imagination boggles at the extent to which the 'fakedom' (only rhymes with sheikhdom, but otherwise an unrelated concept) can go.

Most of our worldly problems can be solved if we 'just fake it'. Sorry, Nike, and Pfizer (for different reasons). We can have fake crops, and fake crop insurance. Imagine how much money can be saved. If we even have fake supermarkets, we don't have to argue about allowing FDI (foreign direct investment for those who don't read the papers) in the retail sector- Carre fours and Carry Fives can all have a ball. Precious amounts of time, ink (in the print media) and airtime (on TV) can be saved, thereby keeping everyone cool, and not warm. Goodbye, global warming.

Fake aeroplanes can also be given to fake pilots, and the rest of us can use 3G mobile phones to conduct our business from our homes. By the way, we were supposed to have paperless offices and virtual video-conferencing to replace physical visits, so why hasn't it happened? We could actually have fake notes in circulation officially, because investment advisers have been selling so-called derivatives for so many years, with only a mirage of collateral to back it up. It may also save us the effort of distinguishing between white and black money, or trying to lug it across oceans from the vaults of faraway banks into India.

Finally, let's have fake nuclear plants, so that real people are not endangered when they decide to go 'boom'.