Perception managers have only one
use of reality and that is to manipulate it to their advantage. In a degraded beleaguered
society with well-established cannibalistic value system these get heart
wrenching. So they insist and orchestrate as work will set you free. Don’t worry
about outcomes just keep working. God is watching, so you will no doubt get
your dues in next life. Meanwhile charlatans and devious frog leap from sanctum
ethical moral vacuum to cosy entitlements as foreseer and arbitrators. There are
also constant celebrations of higher possibilities that is ofcourse limited by their
own limitations. They also, with riveting purpose, emulate liberal values from
west, hinting also at modernity. It’s a compelling charade if you catch the nuance.
Meanwhile keep the common people occupied in their misery, drivel into them their
fate that is so tenuously hinged to largesse extended. Also, constantly degrade
since they blossom in muck. Standards are therefore always kept low (check mediocre movies
exalted as art and stupid game cricket as sport) while entry carefully calibrated.
Enterer is constantly kept in check by reminders of fate, that could easily be
turned into deep shit. Low standards create manipulative space hence are potent
weapon for reiterating and perpetuating the sanctum sanctioned morally dubious value
system, that works as the deep nature of state. Every society has marketeers
but in here they are the core to which politics, business, media etc. coalesce to
perpetuate the deep nature of society. The worst of capitalism without any innovation
or competence is the model here. Crony capitalism produced millionaires, little
trumps, in every conceivable disgusting indianised ways while millions go
without basic needs. It’s a camaraderie racket that constantly faults facts,
eschew social data and avoid complexities of the society. Patronising elitism
with sanctum entitlement is the safest bubble from which critical issues are
arbitrated. They also recruit and nurture role models as distraction to keep
common people occupied in their misery while firmly tied to fate that could
ofcourse be improved substantially by vigorous penance and being fleeced from their
meagre living in the alter of sanctum. It’s a devious conception and there surely
is no escape, atleast not in this life. These are carefully drivelled in as
modern gadgets are accrued as god given good fortunes to further these primitive
ways. It is no surprise that Indians value themselves as facilitators, hence
whatever educational qualification or skill one may have it need to be
evaluated through money and power, hence managers/MBA and bureaucracy/IAS/IPS (?!) as pinnacle
of life’s ambition, also valuated as excellence and ofcourse the great mediocre
Indian self-asserting urge for merit. It’s a constant strive, ofcourse passed through
primitive family value system in each home, that gets it succour from sacred
sanctum, to be seen as controllers of other’s fate, as someone working over others. The more people under you (or
crucially, dependent on you) better the fate, definite sign of blessing. There seems
to be no understanding of knowing yourself and surrounding, to create life
affirming value and worth. No wonder this is a vassal state for worst kind of marketeers
from across the world, and every now and then little Trumps gives thumbs up
sign as success story for market media to chew on so as to redefine blessing in
modern times and people to gawk at.
Work will not set you free. No amount
of meaningless dehumanising rotating of charkha
will change any reality. These symbols were carefully calculated (despite
valiant intellectualisation by devious gandhians) to trap common people into
submitting to their divine duty, their fate, while being readied to exploit their
body and slowly deliberately extinguish their souls. “By doing the same thing
day after day mechanical skill may be acquired; but the mind like a
mill-turning bullock will be kept going round and round a narrow range of
habit. That is why, in every country man has looked down on work which involves
this kind of mechanical repetition” (Rabindranath Tagore, "The Cult of the
Charka"). There is no pride in degrading jobs. There is no life when body
is just an instrument for extraction of profit. Hopefully automations will
reduce these dehumanising jobs. Government meanwhile must initiate targeted basic
income to vulnerable people, specifically marginalised women (now that many
have bank accounts, as also women’s empowerment), so that people (significantly
children) feel sense of security and can get some respite from dehumanising money
making drudgery and institutionalized exploitation, hence can thrive to their potential
as humans and not cog in machine for devious to exploit. Chatter box will
chatter about where will the money come from (as if the money these market
created dubious jobs get them is what their value is!), quite ironically since
almost all are entitled rent seekers and sanctum blessed with minimum of skills.
The elected representatives are duty bound to provide basic income to
vulnerable. Money can come from natural resources (nature has not
conceived billions of years of its resources to be fed to fattened ambanis and
aggrawals, and to increase their blessings) or through innovative ways like income
from data, inheritance tax so on. Even at international level there is a need to
create fund for climate change adaptation, as the millions of vulnerable people
with arguably least carbon footprint pay the price. About time to tax
international financial as well as data transactions, akin to much touted Tobin tax.
Much to the man is undue
