Monday, January 31, 2022
A threat to humanity
Sunday, January 30, 2022
Friday, January 28, 2022
Sunday, January 23, 2022
The Thuggery
Shouldn’t it be Britishery?
The question here is where does the reference thuggery
come from? How did it get into English? Thug in hindi means cheating, and is
commonly used. There is no word as thuggery in hindi it’s a british
creation. Thug gets its reference from medieval times when small time highway
robbers looted and strangulated travelers. When Britishers started to colonize
the region through East India Company they exaggerated these and portrayed them
as blood thirsty monsters in the process the racist colonizing exploiters were
positioned as benign protectors. Many of these highway murderers were
classified as criminal tribes and the tribe members prosecuted for no reason. Studies
points to these portrayals as mostly a construct -based on no empirical
evidences, by cunning britishers with narrative control ably helped by caste
cannibals -playing the traditional role of enthusiastic sycophants to power. Britishers
therefore created Thug Department (the irony!) in 1830s to demonize and contain
these threats. These small-time criminals were isolated from their socio-economic
conditions into monsters who believed in divine sanction for killing as some
kind of ritual. It’s quite obvious that the myth of divine sanction can only succeed
socio-economic factors, it can easily be understood as an attempt to moralize their
transgress. Thug narration was worked as metaphor of other -the unpredictable
sinister natives. This gave colonizers a moral authority to justify acquisition
and exploitations. After transfer of power Castetva forces instead of
rectifying these grievous mistakes continued with these brutalities. Ganesh
Devy (in a study conducted in as late as 2000) notes that some of these tribes continue to suffer from human right violations that in many
cases go unchecked by the law enforcement authorities -the police, the continued
teaching of the Criminal Tribes Act in the curriculum for police training is
cited as a major reason. He claims that the police are “taught” to believe that
they are born criminals, leading to their continued persecution in spite of
legal safeguards against the same.
In a much reasonable narration thugs can be
viewed as those who rebelled against the system of exploitation and exacted
what they thought appropriate in their circumstance. Thugs did in open what
squatters did inside sanctum. Thugs sacrificed humans while squatters
sacrificed souls. The audacity of colonizers to classify thugs as criminal
tribes while they themselves were racist murderous exploiters spanning the
globe needs special attention. All these elaborate ruses were hinged on
something called justice system that they conceived. These were meant to
streamline exploitation while giving the semblance of propriety -which was to
be taken as justice. These famously harmonized with squatter’s cannibalistic framework.
Therefore, the critical and common-sense question of how justice can prevail in
injustice system was never confronted. There is a reason why Indians took up to
becoming lawyers and ended up serving the colonizers with gusto (one fellow
even went all the way to South Africa). Even now the tardiest and one of the
most incompetent judicial system on earth has lawyer luminaries many of whom
control power at the top most level while the society suffer.
The question that bothers me though is why the
word thuggery was accepted into English without any challenge. It shows amazing
level of moral vacuum among Indian elite who actively connived to normalize these
(ofcourse there are worst references from putrid pit into English which is as worse
as racism but still normalized, these should be expunged at the earliest). Why is that racist colonizer Britain doesn’t have any reference in English that is concomitant
with its past brutalities?
Why is thuggery a word in English while britishery isn’t? Boris Johnson represents the britishery.
Saturday, January 22, 2022
Grateful
Friday, January 21, 2022
What kind of religion is this?
It is in this milieu of depravities that one reads about abuse of
children in Churches. Then you read that the topmost functionary of the system
i.e. Pope was involved makes you sick. The fellow Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict
from 2005-2013) was fully aware of the atrocities. He was incapable, indeed
incapacitated, to do what even a normal person would do in such circumstances. A
grievous matter like child abuse should shudder any human being and instigate immediate
remedial action. Unlike “woman abuse” which can be subjective and needs
investigation since it involves adults -who can be scheming, children are
innocent to the darker ways of humans. There really cannot be any crime worst
than what is committed on children. It’s a crime on human conscience. That a
religious head couldn’t make himself cognizant to even this basic human value
speaks volume of the system.
Christianity in putrid pit: like erstwhile colonies Christianity spread
with brutalities of colonialism. It was in a mission to civilize. Indian
society being amazingly depraved that even brutal racist colonizers did end up
giving contexts of civilizational values. Though flawed in many ways it did
provide framework for democracy and help underpin alien values of equality and
liberty into a ruthless society. Christianity -in its vigor to spread, opened
up many educational institutions thus nurtured unanticipated values of
knowledge to a primitive society. That ends there. Kerala is a prime example of
how religions can severely degrade society -it’s a meeting ground for lowest
denominator of every religions (even communism -which has become another
religion with well-defined rituals of power) to cannibalize the herds while
charlatan politicians squeeze benefits. It’s a putrefying pit that Indians -as
they gain literacy, are heading to. Limited by their own limitations.
To be fair Kerala had religions landing up much before
the other parts in the region. These are seen as some kind of achievement but
the reality is they worked to segregate an already despicable bunch. In the early
part of 20th century there were many positives, and I am not here to elaborate these, it’s the contemporary concerns that matters. There is nothing
charming about religions in contemporary world. Christianity in Kerala is
nothing but another bunch of power broker haggling for their herds. They
construct ugly monstrous structures in already densely populated region to awe
the herds indicating lack of concern for contemporary reality and evolved
nuances of living (huge temples and mosques are
equally cringey and nauseating) and drill in miracle book that contains
regressive anachronistic values and isolate from realities of life. Kerala had the advantage of literacy that can
be easily traced to Christianity but now its presence is regressive. As with
everything in a primitive society religion has a control over media hence
charlatans in political parties. Media outlets effortlessly identified caring
interests of respective religion. Christian controlled media is quite powerful and influential meanwhile equally
regressive for market driven concerns of putrid pit. They play beleaguered minority
at the national level and pose as some exotic savior of secularism. These are the worst
kind of people taking advantage of cannibalistic value systems that permeated
into every aspect of sickening lives of herds from sanctum irrespective of religion.
Christian media vehemently promotes caste organizations as part of news and shows
enthusiasm for squatter’s world view as they assuage Christian herds of their special
place in diversity. Degraded media is habituated to pose inanities as news. Wonder
whether to call herd controllers and power brokers as journalists. They are known
to openly align with Castetva congress working the narration of liberal secular
saviors. A party essentially of bickering feudals. It must be reminded that it
is such a deviant society that it was the only state in India that voted Congress even after brutalities of Emergency (now Hindutva has nurtured such
deviant herd vote bank in north India). Such is the level of degradation. A congress
“leader” (byproduct of nepotism) was quoted recently “Gandhi only said
when somebody hits you on the left cheek show them the right. He never said what
happens when somebody hits you on the right cheek. We will break their jaw”. It’s
a veiled threat to Left party on campus violence wherein the ideas of awareness
of politics in youngsters through education system is diverted by charlatans
into puppets for political vendetta. Kerala finds the lowest denominator on every
egalitarian attempt. Literacy is ineffectual to extricate humans out from herds.
Meanwhile the 'communist' CM is in 'imperialist' USA for treatment. Now that the Kerala
model has collapsed. Kerala capitalized on christianity and communism to rise spectacularly
in 1960s and 70s but the primitive society just couldn’t work on itself. It now
spews grandeur of putrefying pit to rally the herds.
Saturday, January 15, 2022
Commemorating Kumar Gandharva
Sunday, January 02, 2022
Thursday, December 30, 2021
They talk by flapping their meat
This excerpt from their brief exchange:
"Spare me. Okay, maybe they're only part meat. You know, like
the Weddilei. A meat head with an electron plasma brain inside."
"Nope. We thought of
that, since they do have meat heads like the Weddilei. But I told you, we
probed them. They're meat all the way through."
"No
brain?"
"Oh, there is a brain
all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat!"
"So...
what does the thinking?"
"You're not
understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The meat."
"Thinking
meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
"Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?"
So when you watch the dimwits in media one can but think “They talk by flapping their meat”, ofcourse with no thinking meat, the brain. The meat is driven by money, greed, power, prestige, ego and entitlements.
Monday, December 27, 2021
Threshold of biomass
There are reasons why paradigm shifting and path
breaking discoveries and inventions happen in certain societies or regions. It
has to do with how much a society has evolved. The threshold of biomass of
humans to sense the reality and express is very much determined by
socio-cultural factors which in turn impacts the systems that thrive and how
much these provides independence for minds to explore and souls to dance. Sensing
the threads that runs through the universe needs acceptance of silence and systems
that nurtures and values contemplative space. It must value varied thoughts, free
exchange of views that are built on logic of mind and illogic of soul. It must
encourage inquisitiveness and consolidation of knowledge through understanding.
Such society creates space for excellence which then percolates into every
aspect of human expressions. Individuals too are not confined to narrow fields
of inquiry as they seamlessly cross in search for understanding. As they reach
the threshold of inquiry it starts to synchronize with expanding reality. Many
regions across the world have experienced this. In modern times cities like
Vienna, Paris or New York have seen spurt of expressions that significantly
sensed the reality and helped in consolidating understanding for humanity. Even
during restrictive ancient world Greece, Egypt or China etc. had provided such
spaces that help consolidate human civilization by exchanging these into
collective knowledge. Think of intellectual vibrancy during the
period of Socrates, Plato and Aristotle or during the early period of Buddhism
in Indian subcontinent – that saw many universities and libraries being set
which latter shifted to East Asia, you will realize how much these matters and
how much these have contributed to put foundations of evolved societies. As Foucault
asserts it’s not about individuals but systems that nurtures these evolved
ideas to be expressed, discoveries to happen and inventions to be carried out. Societies
that lack these evolved attributes (essentially primitive) focus on individuals
–who are elevated as heroes (or even god/incarnation). They wait for miracles,
and work to build stories around these to assure its worth and myths of
grandeur. There is a constant need for inane records to compensate quality. Lacking
any framework that nurtures free minds and attributes that contribute to excellence
–essentially expressions of heightened beauty, they seek to downgrade these.
In the last few years something remarkable has
happened. Internet has created virtual world. Real has shifted to virtual and
with it distance has vanished. Though real world cities and centers of learning
still hold sway virtual is consolidating and is set to make real immaterial in
knowledge dissemination, exposure to liberal values, liberty and freedom, and
experience of excellence of all of humanity presented through a click. There are
also restrictive system like religion and market that have consolidated, and is
attracting unthinking minds and herds, which have started to have detrimental
impact. As has been the case through human history these have degraded
societies, caused immense misery while wasting human lives into drudgery. It restricted
humanity, isolated minds into dead habits and drained souls. It created barren
lands of thriving primitives who have no contribution to humanity and seek to
trap in dark ages, capitalizing on fear and insecurities. If humanity has to face
the emerging challenges and evolve to new realities then it will have to keep
its threshold for free minds much above herd reach. It must be aware of this
ever present threat. It will have to therefore make every effort to restrain
degrading systems. Diversity is crucial but it cannot be representation of regressive
values and restrictive systems. These can only degrade and increase
potentialities of problems. Diversity means diversity of knowledge, experience from
diverse regions and challenges of different social realities, and not the
least, diversities of ideas and approaches, these add to vibrant understanding
and creates synergy for evolving into better world.
Saturday, December 25, 2021
The launch
Will be watching live. Thanks to internet anybody anywhere in the world can. Truly amazing.
James Webb Space Telescope by NASA/ESA/CSA is a crucial mission, as also quite complex with complicated deployments. Hope everything goes fine, and we will know more about the universe. Rooting for the mission.
Also, don't forget to watch this movie Don't Look Up (on NetFlix). Based on truly possible events (truly happening events is probably a better description!).
Tuesday, December 21, 2021
Human intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, and patterns
What is important here is that AI doesn’t work
on any strategy, atleast the way human being understands, but on patterns from
vast set of possibilities. What it means is that it is not working on a linear
time frame but is synchronizing with patterns to optimize. You must have studied
in school science about how synchronicity (resonance in this case) is exhibited in vibrations/oscillation (famous
example being the soldiers crossing a bridge asked to break their synchronous
steps), or how chemical reactions reach a critical phase to change the state or attribute.
It reaches a point, and then as if with a snap of finger, there is an awakening
into new reality. A spontaneous synchronicity that change the reality. It
happens when part find its synergy with the system. Patterns are always seeking
to synchronize, and when it synchronizes it ignites the path for synergizing
with the system. It is how life happened. It is how consciousness awoke in the
mind. It is what evolution is seeking; to optimize energy and matter by
synchronizing with life system. It’s
clear therefore that the reality that AI is creating or sensing is synergizing with
complexities that we are not aware of. A system much nuanced and waiting to be
understood. I was reading physicist Wolfgang Pauli who writes (to psychiatrist
Carl Jung) “Synchronicity should be defined in
a narrower sense so as to comprise effects that only appear when there is a
small number of individual cases but disappear when there is a larger number…
In quantum physics, there are not just effects that appear with large numbers
instead of with small ones…”. It is therefore conceivable that AI is tapping
the potential at quantum level of involvement. Strategy works in causality.
While synchronicity is meaningful coincidences (Schopenhauer) i.e. simultaneous
events not casually connected.
If you ask me to define human. I would say
human being is a pattern seeking animal. Atleast that is how I identify myself
with. World is about patterns. Everything has shape but when the shape recurs
and associate -sometimes not apparent to human senses, then there is a pattern.
What is not apparent to human senses tend to awake in subconscious and creates
its own associations that is mistakenly attributed to clairvoyance. For pattern
to be apparent one must have deep sense of connection with reality with all
senses acutely aware, the perceptions go beyond senses. Its not spiritual
nor divine nor any religion driven chicanery but comes with consolidation of
all the information sought through inquisitive vibrant presence, contemplation,
sustained reflection into stream of knowledge, sifted in time and abstracted
into wisdom. Great ideas, thoughts and expressions tend to carry this imprint. It’s
an ultimate consolidation of human expression that validate being a human and opens new horizons of reality and reason.
AI is coming out with insights and aspects of
reality that humans have never known and may not even directly know. It is perceiving
reality heretofore unknown to human minds that has potential to transform all
realms of human experience and fundamentally change social political
structure of our societies. AI’s thinking, ofcourse within the defined problem
and measurable goal, is far superior to human that it even questions our identity.
I think therefore I am is how human being identifies. What happens when thinking is taken
away from humans and presented with superior logic of which the process cannot
be understood? Where does that leave human beings?
AI has an advantage of space while humans are limited by size of the skull. However, unlike GPT-3, good reading adds to thinking and contemplation. That is a distinct advantage for human beings as GPT-3 only works in specific framework searching connections to reality that may astound but human brain is an open system with potent tool for reflection and consciousness to broader reality. The advantage of good reading unlike digital reading is that it avoids echo chamber closed insular loops. Before I took reading seriously, I was mostly into comics but quite significantly encyclopedias. The things about reading encyclopedias is that its random knowledge. It is a surprise package of different knowledge from varied disconnected fields.
(inputs from ‘The Age of AI and Our Human Future’)
Monday, December 20, 2021
Theatrics of power
If Conservative
Party is about wanton display of special place in universe as herd controllers
(we don’t give a f*ck -to put it mildly, you have to depend on us as saviors) then
Labor is about opportunists miming the empathy reaction binary frame as
concerned meanwhile “minorities” boxed and ardently petted for necessary
redemption incase truth hits home. Then there is insidious insular media spread
across the spectrum for binary niche weighing heuristic benefits as the occasion
provides. Castetva Congress easily worked into the frame of saviors with liberal
pointers picked from colonizers -imagine the level of degradation that liberal
values have to be learned from racist colonial exploiters. Assortment of lawyers
and squatters were baffled that they saw themselves as adversary to ‘refined’ british.
They saw more in common hence the easy liberal claim of connecting with humanity
-which sprightly gandhi worked into his theatrics. Always benevolent, working
for higher and highest morals, for humanity sake while placed in putrid pit meanwhile
keenly eyeing the next opportunity to grab and accumulate as blessing. Caste cannibal
primitive Indian elite had more in common with racist colonizers they therefore
begged, cajoled, supplicated, and indeed argued for transfer of power (hence irresponsible
positioners for gravy tidied as liberal argumentative Indians, indeed what was there
to argue? Britain left when it emminently suited while causing immense misery
for common people as despicable herd controllers haggled for power), afterall we are
quite similar humans what is their to fight, hence nonviolence, meanwhile wanton
greed and untold exploitations were unleashed on Indian subcontinent culminating
in massacre, maiming and displacement of partition not seen in annals of
history -the role of herd controlling
natives in this horror is not the least. White racist colonizer, caste cannibal
mediocres and monster mullahs struck the deal for arbitrarily dividing land for
herd purity – a degraded value system that each understood and empathized.
The Indian origin
members in Conservative party is also symbolic to the narration. It is not surprising
that they got along with these entitled whites (or it must be higher calling,
something called conscience!), it’s the same that ruled India with stratospheric
connection with liberal values. The Labor party is another chicanery to deal
that bleeding-heart gravy posers salivate on. Despite blatant violations, gross
behavior and absolute incompetence of Conservative party Labor don’t really
find much favor with common people is a testament on distrust. When I became
aware of the scene Britain was ruled by Labour party headed by one who went by
the name of Tony Blair. He played poodle to US as they attacked Iraq while the british
media sexed up the reasons. This then was sought to be balanced by feeding
monster mullahs in Britain as compensation who in turn care the gangrene as multicultural
display. All miseries meanwhile are easily delegated to common people. With firm
control over narration these miseries become nonexistent unless ofcourse there
is some eyeball catching scandal and then there is collective “Aw” loop.
Caste cannibals
could be seen loitering around labor party venues with enlarged pupils to eke
even a half a chance as saviors which resonates back home as ‘making India proud’
within putrid pit ofcourse. The debating clubs in London is where feudals exact
their strategies of entitlements while surreptitiously working the semantics of
liberal which then percolates into India as desired template. Hindutva has
slashed all these constructions to push its own reality that vibe with large
herds, it also has firm connections and semantics of Indian reality unlike the
debating club fluffing assertions. Castetva manipulators are realizing where
the gravy has shifted and will fold up into Hindutva. The entitlements to
control will find its rationale.
Footnote: I recall two decades back, in early 2000s, when USA was preparing to attack Iraq, we took out a signature campaign against war. It is important that each individual make their presence felt when there is atrocity on humanity, as also it was quite clear that this was unwarranted. Unlike some clever positioners I was for targeted intelligence input driven attack on monster mullah controlled Afghanistan as much as firm response to terrorists in Pakistan in the aftermath of Mumbai attack -as the evidence were substantial and compelling. To understand Castetva Congress’s mindset you have to get into the rotted minds of cow urine drinking despicable like Digvijays (it’s a statement that likes of him are airdropped as leaders, and even now finds suitable to be nominated to RS. This arrogance is what defines). They dithered since their concern was whether this will antagonize monster mullah, how this will impact herd vote bank, hence the ruse of nonviolence. They have no value for human being. They don’t care about their fellow citizens who elected them. The state not only failed to protect its citizen against wanton attack but miserably failed to respond thus emboldening the terrorists and their controllers.
Sunday, December 05, 2021
Saturday, November 27, 2021
Omicron: The variant of concern
Tuesday, November 23, 2021
Monday, November 22, 2021
Secularism needs to be replaced with humanism
Any structure
that nurtures systems that degrades humans is a constant threat to humanity. Secularism
is an idea that was initiated with egalitarian intention of providing freedom
to practice and propagate faith, that essentially regress into oppressive
systems of religion. Religion isolates from reality into fantastical fictions
that animated minds of people many centuries back. To put faith in these anachronistic
systems (indeed ridiculous and juvenile if the harm is not this severe), that
once assuaged the terrified ignorant souls with mounting uncertainties and threats,
negates understandings and progress of last few decades hence severely degrades
human capacity for critical thinking and connect to everchanging exciting
reality. Religion seeks to trap and ossify mind into catacombs of dead thoughts
and meaningless ways. It preys on human spiritual urges and natural fear of
unknown. It extends solace and security but extracts heavy price on humanity. It is segregating and branding humans, increasing
source of degradation, and is a major reason for strife among perfectly normal
and decent humans with all their faculties alive being turned into snarling herds
or tolerating actors devoid of basic sensibilities that defines humans. Faculties
that developed critical thinking and ability to extrapolate data and facts into
precious knowledge and understanding are being compromised. Verifiable
evidences authenticated through science, rational inquiry and modern technologies are being
questioned without any logic or even basic understanding of premise or skills of
argumentation. It is as if everything is being reduced to a battle of binary. In
primitive societies this battle is between religions while in more civilized societies
religion pose itself as victim to reign in the herd.
Religion creates
individuals who pendulate between fate and entitlements. Beggar minds incapacitated
to use their faculties they are led and deluded into fantastical narration and are easily exploited. The rise of fake news and easy
acceptance of conspiracy theories points to herd's incapacity to handle reality.
Evolved thoughts -democratic institutions being byproduct, cannot nurture such
systems that seeks to convert humans into herds for the simple reason that
herds are threat to democratic institutions, they constantly weaken egalitarian
efforts and make democracy meaningless. Hard earned values of liberty and
equality that defines humanity and nurtures individuals to their potential and
possibilities is severely negated. Democratic values thrive with open mind, debates,
discussions and interactions. Communication cannot happen when the other is not
free and doesn’t matter when the other is incapacitated to use mental faculties
hence cannot be equal. Communication happens and thoughts shared when people
are free to express and think, assert their liberty and are placed in framework of equality.
This breakdown of communication leads to prejudices, bigotry, and further
spiraling of conspiracy theories among herds. This then severely impacts the
functioning of democratic institutions and threatens the basic foundation of
society.
Religion has become an assault on humanity and contemporary sensibilities hence idea of secularism has become meaningless and oppressive. State cannot be a bystander when degrading system encroaches into vibrant spaces of humanity and attempts to create staid barren lands of god’s wishes, commands and swift repercussions for erring. Its pertinent to point out that all religions are not same though they all have the same pernicious potential to degrade into exploitable herds. Despite the strife the commonalities are more pronounced than the differences. Christianity has had devastating impact on humanity in the last few centuries through dark ages, colonial exploitations and racism -the pernicious slave system and apartheid. But reaction to Christianity gave space to reforming movements and renaissance, it gave space to modern developments as well as exploitations. Independent thinking and philosophies helped to consolidate and institutionalize ideas of liberty and freedom, democracy and modern values that help assert human rights. Connection to reality, hence observation skills, gave primacy to logical thinking and foundation of science through systematic studies. Though Christianity remains potently dehumanizing -in its varying degradation from gay rights to anti-abortion so on it has provided lots of space for protest and ridicule hence template to deal. The world though face serious threat from gun totting white supremacists as they encroach into institutions of powerful nation like USA. This is a live threat and has the potential to take the nation into civil war. Other religions have undergone reformation in varying degree but not to the extend of Christianity. Hinduism, though lacking a single rallying point and is dependent on outside to define and play victim, is a potent degradation that would shudder humanity to its core for its depravities. It has converted a vast population into fatalist herd who gnaw and brutalize each other. It has nurtured some extremely devious inbred people with highest estimation of themselves and entitlements hence infected with acute savior syndrome. Though caste cannibals have spread across the world their damage is limited by lack of spread and insular nature. Other religions like Jews, Buddhism, Shintoism, Sikhism etc. too are limited hence the degrading impact is confined. Not denying that where the numbers are more these have the same potential to degrade and dehumanize whether Hindus in India or Jews in Israel or Buddhists in Myanmar (though Buddhism negates god hence takes the sting out of degrading potential but the herds converted buddha into god and nurtured the degradation of religion). That brings us to Islam which carries all the horrors that religion as dehumanizing system presents, it’s being transported across with all its regressive ways intact without any questioning or scrutiny. The spread, reach and definite rallying point of miracle book and its pernicious references and interpretations makes it a live threat to every cherished ideas, enlightened thoughts and humanistic concerns. Religion is a threat to humanity and Islam represents the threat and immediacy since it is being mollycoddled as representation of minority and pushed in as beleaguered to a large part of the world. With its spread it has been persistently presenting problems to humanity, it is degrading democratic institutions, challenging human rights and undermining evolved thoughts. It is creating reactionary and regressive forces in other religions too -not that they need any provocation but yes an alibi to consolidate. Instead of pointing out the problem it is being presented as stand point for tolerance and lynchpin for adherence to democracy and freedom. Miseries cannot be delegated to common people since elite want to work out a narration to showcase themselves as benign meanwhile very much complicit in maintaining systems that bomb and exploit common people.
Its
dehumanizing to identify humans through religion. It needs to be seen as
personal choice and private matter. Secularism is a natural way to humanism
hence ideas of secularism should have seen to it that state has no business to
do with religion, and made every effort to negate it from public space as also stifle
its effort to entrap common people. Ideally human beings were expected to evolve into these through increased understanding and thinking. Minority protection is an important
component of civilized world and defining aspect of democracy but unfortunately, and frustratingly, it is usurped by religion and has redefined enlightened
intent into its credulities. Minority ideas, the way these are held, expressed
and understood needs protection. Ideas that majority find problematic but holds
an evolved view to humanity needs protection and nurturing. Take for instance
the issue of LGBTQ and understand how religion works to degrade while this
minority idea holds that humans have choices that must be respected. Humanity
thrives if these ideas are cherished. That is how minority needs to be defined.
To tolerate anachronistic and violating religion is also numbing senses to
protest against what is wrong and encroaching into humanity. To tolerate such violation
on cherished values makes us less human hence must be resisted.
There are
entrenched powers that have gained by keeping humans segregated and dehumanized
into herds, these powerbrokers gain from status quo of degradation. They have
manipulated egalitarian values into euphemism of transactions for short term
gains. Devious elite section control narration (akin to Marxian controlling means
of production), and in effect history of humanity is how these controls are
expressed. As the societies moved from feudal to market to virtual the
narrative control is where the power struggle is. These narrative controls are
used to extract benefits and penalized those who stray. It is how deep state
spreads its tentacles through democratic institutions, media and all
expressions of power. Take for instance the monarchy patriotism narration that
is controlled by deep state in Britain. Despite patently feudal and against democratic
principles, hence humanity, these are pushed through control over narration.
Protagonist changes and contexts vary but deep state’s control over the
narration remains. It deals severely with any attempts to question the
narration and distributes largesse generously for adhering to the same (for
instance, the stampede for gandhian narrative benefits by worst kinds of people). They
have consolidated narration for religion, defined religiophobia and explained minority
protection that everyone is expected to adhere to despite glaring lacunas,
untold misery to common people and severely degrading democratic institutions
and cherished values. There is clearly an attempt to pander religion. Extolling
religion is how benefits are accrued from deep state. Degraded societies are
example where power, positions, literature, art…all extol religion for gain without
critically examining nor any care or concern. This then give primacy to
mediocrity and status quo exploitation hence nurture hypocrisy and apathy. Religion tarnishes the aesthetics of truth. It introduces ugliness of false absolutes.
Feudal
cunning elite have been using religions to control people. Already reactionary
forces accentuated by destabilizing climate concerns and pandemic are playing
havoc. Humanity must assert that the system that is intolerant cannot be a
reference to tolerance. It can only slide to bigotry and strife. Not having
strife is not an achievement. To avoid strife is where the humanity
compromises. It negates cherished values. In these virulent competing forces
that segregates and drag hapless humans into medieval frames is where the
possibilities of humanity is lost. Even the ever-limiting space that is left in
religions for sane discourse is being bludgeoned by competing forces. They take
human identities. They claim children, their innocence targeted. They occupy
land. They claim regions as theirs. They infect even something as innocent
as color, expression of art, language, food…so on. They seek to control our
past, present and claim our future, its heart wrenching. Every space that is
claimed by religion is a loss for humanity. With predatory claims of religion there is decreasing space for other narrations. There is no space for nuance or humanity. It is as
if we are dragged into medieval setting and are made to glimpse and partake atrocious primitive ways
despite having better understanding.
Religion cannot
solve any of the crisis that humanity faces and is not part of any solution -it
never was and it never will be, the framework is just incapable. If ever it is
a compromise, a compromise over humanity, hence a violation. Meanwhile it
causes daily nuisance and undermines the seriousness of the critical issues as
also deflect it into superficial matters that humanity has least time for. Isolated from reality herds are lost and
become dead weight on human efforts. They will patronize and claim ‘god will
save’, express love and community feeling in a redemptive effort. Yes, many
become immune to deteriorating reality and are content with their blinkered ways
and limited understanding. Studies show they live happily and longer. So do
some crustaceans. To live as a human being needs effort, a capacity to be alive meanwhile
painfully aware of absurdities, searing connection of senses to be present to
the moment and the capacity and consciousness to decide what to attend.
Religion negates this. There are however limits to which we can live the
reality and express the same. Indeed, reality is expressing through our will to
be free. Yes, one must assume Sisyphus to be happy. That seems to be the only way to
align ephemeral with vastness of existence.
Friday, November 19, 2021
Disappearance of Peng Shuai
International bodies must take action. All sporting links with China must be suspended with immediate effect. If Chinese authorities are complicit, and it is increasingly clear they are, then there is a case for even expelling China from UN and other affiliated bodies. This matter must be taken with all seriousness it deserves.