Consolidated Strategic Corp

 

It was while reading about Artificial Intelligence and its future implication on security that there was a realization of need for Consolidated Strategic Corp – cutting edge wing that consolidates all the latest innovations, awareness and challenges, into a systematic system for consolidated strategy that protects democratic nations and their geopolitical interests from external threat as also a means to synergically contribute to international security challenges. With rogue players like Russia, and multilateral organizations like UN undermined by Western powers, as also pernicious rise of authoritarian China, national security has become a matter of grave concern for nations across the world. The blatant reality of crimes on humanity perpetrated in Ukraine while international community are reduced to audience is shocking, the cascading impact on food security is equally grim, meanwhile happenings in SriLanka is a forbidding possible future. The efforts for international association to tackle urgent pan national issues facing humanity is being grievously undermined, hence it looks like climate injustice will be the first impact of climate catastrophe. Hedonist feudal and status quo forces controlling and gaining from the system will be the early perpetrators of the climate crimes on humanity. What is a threat to international community is essentially a threat to national security.      

With AI revealing, in its discreet setting ofcourse (we are indeed quite far from AGI -Artificial General Intelligence), a new dimension of reality and a new understanding of logic it is but incumbent for policy makers dealing with national security to be not only be aware but actively involved. Knowledge was expected to be bring humanity together but AI -functioning within its discreet settings that is going to guide strategic decisions, is creating national interest silos of intelligence controlled and dictated by AI. Defence establishments across the world are expected to ‘blindly’ follow decisions since they are incapable to scrutinize these. Secondly, because of the acute awareness that AI has access to intelligence and pattern logic that humans are incapable to decipher nor anticipate, and lastly, the matter of urgency and reluctance to take human responsibility when facing higher intelligence and stakes of national security. For these very reasons there is a call for international moratorium on AI. Then there are other emerging technological challenges like quantum technology and biotechnology, both these will have serious implication on national security. With quantum computer supremacy classical binary computer encryptions face immediate threat which means all strategic information -that has national security implications, is being compromised. Present strategic data and interest are also threatened by future decryptions -harvest now decrypt later is the clarion call of data pirates. Post quantum cryptography is an immediate challenge to protect public key digital infrastructure since classical computers will have a long run despite quantum computers. Defence establishments must be professional enough to not only be fully aware of these challenges but be equipped to face eventualities. CRISPR Cas9 has completely revolutionized and scaringly democratized biotechnology. It has a direct impact on national security. It is an important tool to face climate change impacted food security and biodiversity conservation by removing chemical fertilizers and pesticides. CRISPR gene drive can change species. Then there is issue of Neurotechnology, Brain Computer Interface (BCI), that set to tap brain data, despite medical benefits malicious intent is much severe with even UN creating framework for Neuro rights as Human rights. Outer space missions is another area with strategic implications.                          

With climate change impacting weather pattern climate vulnerable regions like India needs special attention. At regional level climate crisis is also a serious national security matter. It has potential to severely disrupt society through migration, lack of access to nutrition and shortages of essential supplies. With intensity and frequency of climate events set to increase National Disaster Management will have to eventually include Defence forces or for effectiveness vice versa. Defence establishment needs to be equipped with these new challenges. They will have to be reoriented and train (or be trainer) for climate related unique prevention, rescue and salvage missions through NCC and sainik schools, NDA so on. These will be much crucial in climate vulnerable regions particularly on or near vast international borders. So, clearly, they will need to chart down strategies and operation in consonance with meteorological departments. Have they worked out channels and procedures? Are they aware of immense challenges? Are these being included in the training manuals of future soldiers?         

Consolidated Strategic Corp need to have an Active Research Wing that works on real time collecting and consolidating data, looking for pattern, for strategic attention. Meanwhile human exposure to dangerous terrain and risky actions must be minimized and automated. Human as data collector and response unit -which is what a soldier essentially is, must be replaced by deep learning robots. Primitive conceptions of army corps (as feudal patriarchy domain) and references herein (caste/religion based racist colonial manipulations consolidated by caste cannibals) must be replaced with thinking soldiers. Modernization of Defence forces must strive for a thinking soldier who is an asset to society, and not a representation of patriarchal primitive feudal ways (as is mostly seen in India, or much grievous in Pakistan that is a serious threat to democracy, nor psycho-social liabilities as in USA or a robot following order of mass murdering maniac like Putin). It should not be reflection of conceptions of medieval times. Defence establishment must synergically associate with challenges of our times.

Consolidated Strategic Corp need be center for keeping abreast with latest innovations in fast changing world, analyzing patterns, unique aberrations, and its implications on national security. It must therefore act on these inputs for preparedness and variable responses. External threat is becoming quite fluid hence the response must too be context driven with complete awareness using all the modern insights and repercussions. Human life is precious, so is biodiversity and other species, and importantly ideals of democratic society. Nation’s defence force must be prepared for emerging challenges.      

All that matters

All that matters

 

When home is washed away 

Trees uprooted

Streets silted

Living ends

Survival begins

Dearly hold on to memories of the land

Say final goodbye to flameback's rattling calls

Measure your steps with care as you leave

For it retrace hominin hope and anguish 

Sacrificial rituals of fatal flaw

 

Democracy is the most evolved form of governance despite shortcomings. It offers voice and space for individuals to associate, explore and grow. It provides the lynchpin for liberty and equality. It makes egalitarian society possible and provides individuals wherewithal to pursue their life in freedom and care. It gives choices and potential to grow and explore. It is a vibrant value of inquisitive logical association that synergize with evolved ideals hence humanity. It provides space for contrarian ideologies and ideas against stagnant thoughts and regressive majoritarian values. Democracy is independence with meaningful restriction when threatens life and liberty of others.

US is an evolved democracy on many parameters but is also deeply flawed thus offers valuable lessons. Much of progressive thoughts, scientific insights, technological progress, individual brilliances and pinnacle of associations can be traced to US. It has attracted best of minds from all across the world over the decades.  The flaw of US is the fragility of democracy, it will become fatal if citizens are not vigilant. It collapses when citizens can no longer associate as humans. Democracy is dependent of responsible citizens. Citizens make democracy. A better human makes a better citizen. Systems that dehumanize human being into unthinking entities, isolating them from their existential realities, capitalizing on their insecurities to offer a better world is a constant threat. Systems that insidiously hunt on spiritual yearnings of human beings by offering secure fraternal associations based on miracle books, regressive practices and values, segregation and exceptionalism adds to problems of democracy making it weak and vulnerable for charlatans to work on opportunities. Religion everywhere is a threat to humanity. Democratic societies therefore must rigorously scrutinize religion, providing no place for it to nurture. Systems like capitalism driven market have perniciously entered human minds through digital media. These dopamine based algorithms keep them excited as they increasingly loose their faculties to comprehend, analyze and think hence associate with lowest denominator of comfort. Market exaggerates and trap humans as consumers and data source. Democracy is reduced to shows that seeks to ensnare humans into voters, consumers and followers connecting the basest and crudest expressions. It is as if humanity has been stalled and wrenched to its primitive references. Charlatans with expertise to tap basest instincts use strategies of market to manipulate narrations of exceptionalism. They present grander world using the semantics and opportunistic concerns of religion -easily tapping into centuries of subconscious memories of control. Critical issues are turned into binaries of religion using ruse of market. Every human concern is reduced to show, scripted to excite and evaluated on scale of entertainment. US has become a TV show gone rogue. It's riveting but tragic. People are kept entertained until they get killed. All progressive values -achieved through centuries of struggle and consolidation, and evolved thoughts and means are reduced to sideshow.        

Cocktail of capitalism driven market and religion are creating havoc on earth. It is apparent through degradation of democratic institutions and promotion of wanton consumerism -that is least concerned about life sustaining nature and biodiversity. Self-perpetuating systems controlled by few that care about itself than any human welfare or greater good. This is quite apparent in US. Leaders are controlled by the systems. They are incapacitated while people are executed wantonly with desultorily ease that even question the idea of a nation state. These sacrificial rituals of fatal flaws should shudder human conscience. Flaws that facilitate innocent children and ordinary people -especially marginalized and racially discriminated, to be massacred. Most grievously it has incapacitated sane people to respond to their innate humanity or even react to their basic instinct and primal know. Flawed US that is spiraling into abyss is a lesson for humanity. Its a pity, it had so much potential.        

   

Biodiversity Day

The gracious heart of hummingbird

Stills itself to measure

Life on its thread feet  

There are instances when soul is sheared

And exposed to elements

Opens to deep space of galaxies

Frozen time as if on an apogee

Of momentary stillness on a swing before it slips

Glimpse of all that vastness

As if life is time itself

Churning all the moments 

Hell on track

 

Few days back I was travelling in train along Tamil Nadu -the temperature was hovering at +40degrees. The pantry car in the train was preparing lunch and the temperature could be easily 50degrees as the metal coaches chugged through heat wave. The contrast was acute as I moved from ac coach to pantry, and felt quite dizzy as the temperate rocketed by 30odd degrees in an instant. That human beings are exposed to these miserable conditions is beyond me. It is also quite unhygienic (I don’t blame these half naked men stirring the boiling pot, they are trying their best in the limited sweaty space with limited resources, and to prepare decent food for hundreds of people in running train is no mean task. I quite admire them).

What is the need to prepare food in running train? Why cannot they do like Shatabdi trains and get food delivered from railway stations -they can even order from grassroot level organizations like Kudumbashree (women run community kitchen-hotels, an initiative started by Communist govt in Kerala 25years back, a success story in empowering women so much so they are being elected into democratic institutions. A Grassroot level empowerment that needs to be studied and emulated). It’s amazing that when human beings are put into horrendous situation, and are displayed in hundreds of trains crisscrossing through hot terrain as the temperature skyrockets, nobody seems to be bothered. What will it take them to realize that something is seriously amiss and that there are human beings who are facing hell like situation. Or is it a lesson on fate and blessing?    

Between the chaos

Between the chaos 

Strands from unknown cosmos 

Strands from unknowable realities of quantum

Knit the improbable rise of billions of atoms

Jumping protons and uncertain electrons

Spinning and jiggling into shapes

Ethereal waves of photons orchestrate a symphony

The murmuration of matter

Prodding the potential of reality

Synapses collectively sense all at once 

The consciousness

Cradled preciously in Space Time hammock.   

 

Noise of the matter

 Common people shouldn’t be bothered by snarling Castetva cannibals and Hindutva hooligans nor the angst of monster mullah. These are posturing for gravy, the cosmic itch to play savior as ordained by otherworldly connections. They must go by the issue at hand and whether unfolding events helping them live a better life. These fake binaries are created by manipulative controllers for their ease and signs of proprietorship over common people.

The attempts to remove loudspeakers from religious spaces is a much welcomed step that is long overdue. SC guidelines are outdated, new laws must be framed and strictly applied. All loudspeakers from public places must be removed. Loudspeakers can only be allowed in closed enclosures, auditoriums so on that doesn’t create problem for people and shouldn’t exceed 50db. Loud noise, particularly in congested densely populated places, are serious source of misery. It also harms other species too. Already there is too much noise from vehicular traffic and various celebrations of inconsiderate primitives. CPCB report points that many cities in India have more than 80db noise level (Moradabad in UP is the second most noisiest city in the world according to UNEP 2022 report with a noise pollution level of whooping 114db). Entitled inbred mediocre elite ensconced in squatter’s value system cannot really understand, indeed not really bothered -since this is another fertile source to showcase matters of blessing and fate. Lutyen’s delhi nor posh colonies across the country face noise problems hence they weren’t really bothered for decades as noise reached levels that harmed and gradually take lives of people only a few kilometers from where these saviors squat. As expected, there are no data on how many millions die due to noise induced illness. Meanwhile they claimed largesse of mind and posed as empathy driven souls tolerant to anything as long as it doesn't directly affect them. While depraved marketeers try to capitalize. They made louder shriller gadgets (even claiming through a white man in an advertisement that Indians are noisy lot hence deserve the loudest! Such temerity of louts). Even now conniving caste cannibal controlled media playing liberal reports how temple in some place switched off their loudspeakers for mosque loudspeaker during festival. This we are informed -in their entitled role as castetva herd controllers, as how secularism and syncretic culture works that Hindutva needs to learn. How these loud noises affect common people is not their concern and can never be. When you assume proprietorship control common people are always disposable for bigger narration.

A primitive society will find difficulty to accommodate latest technology since these didn’t develop organically into the society. These were byproduct of much open and enquiry driven spaces, an outcome of critical thinking that were nurtured. These are thresholds of society that had creative liberal values spread all across the spectrum. Overwhelming number of people across the world are still cave dwellers piggyback riding best of humanity. Social media is only accentuating what is innate. These are having debilitating impact on the world. BigTechs will have to take the responsibility, their primal urge to accrue money and power must be contained. Platform Accountability and Transparency Act is valiant attempt by US government. Algorithm must be opened for scrutiny by experts to trace manipulation so as to initiate stringent action. Meanwhile education system will have to focus on critical thinking and values of understanding, and strive to create more evaluation free zones to nurture free minds. Grading children and gauging education as means to multiply money leads to narrow limited views of life, it favors pecking order mindset (the reason why hierarchy driven primitive societies fails miserably to contribute to humanity except as status quoist money multipliers) that easily falls for authoritarian mindsets.