The Indian situation is after all part of a universal one. On the stripping away of "normal" democracy to reveal "raw" democracy and what that's about: as much about the use of "coercive power" as any other. And arbitrariness.
https://t.co/W6N6cvMKPy
https://twitter.com/kazhugan/status/1244314635437654017?s=19
Among other things, it speaks of an idea that I've been thinking of but don't hear anyone mentioning: an all-party 'national government' to meet #COVID2019india. Back in the day, it was frequently tossed up as an idea.
Why national government?
Because, instead of wasting energies on finding fault after things go wrong, or relying on this or that individual politician's genius or lack of it, this extraordinary crisis needs everyone on board. Not blame games.
Why are the police bestialising us? Why are humans trying to get home, with no other means to do it except on their feet, being brought to their KNEES? Crawl, duck-walk, frog-march? The symbolism is unmistakable. My column.
https://t.co/owVFHrYI5M
1. Situation is unprecedented in human history; in fact, human civilisation.
2. All theorising of past fall short by huge margin.
3. Unprecedented in another way too: instant communication.
4. Virtually it's a world-govt guided by macro-data like of WHO.
5. So seems Evolutionary.
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1244322024161308672?s=19
Blogging and tweeting from 2005 to 2020 has been a great learning experience and raining of Grace. I have always highlighted the Global agenda and Integral paradigm despite my puny understanding. Today humanity is facing an unprecedented catastrophe. So we pray only She can save.
Easy to find many well aware, well read, intelligent, and articulate persons on Twitter but with a rotten worldview. The Mother and Sri Aurobindo have given me the chance to apply corrective no matter if it reaches only a dozen people. Pranams on March 29 #TheMother's arrival day
https://twitter.com/SavitriEraParty/status/1244031885132451840?s=19
Retired persons bearing the unhappy burden of the title, 'senior citizens' have become a near-derogatory category in this crisis. Such stereotyping and patronising is against needed autonomy and freedom. Social norms as regards their different exigencies too need standardisation.
Two thousand years of political theory has been on society and collective life whereas the current crisis has reversed the gaze towards home and family. It has been a neglected area and many loopholes as regards loneliness and neglect need to be addressed. https://t.co/ZXkUpWxvS1
Basically, it's individualism, common sense, and refusal to succumb to herd mentality or superstition. In India, the children are taught the opposite in the name of Sanskar and Parampara. Parents want to be cared for in their old age and apply all kinds of tactics upon offsprings
To be fair Harsh, what you said wasn't any constructive criticism but more of an average rant. A better way would be to engage, understand the process and suggest what can be improved. Ad hominem is really useless. Saying this since I respect your views a lot.
https://twitter.com/rg_gupta92/status/1244254405467267072?s=19
There are plenty on Twitter who indulge on general arguments and rants but specific points, metrics like you bring out on other topics would help your case here 🙂
But, there's another reason I'm mentioning all this. I would consider myself a 'naturalist'. I like to look at phenomena such that the cause-effect chain can be explained right till atomic / molecular level (and may be even till level of quarks).
If there are systems of knowledge (?) that don't delve on the cause-effect relationship in simple terms or posit existence of too many entities that cannot be demonstrated, I don't easily believe them (e.g., astrology, palmistry, homeopathy, etc).
A decade back I used to swear by 'science' and 'evidence'. A decade back I used to believe in Aryan Invasion Theory because it was written in the textbook. I'm a sort of black sheep in medical field because I don't believe in 'evidence based medicine'.
The reason I remain skeptical of EBM is because unless and until cause-effect relationship for a phenomenon is explained at molecular and cellular level, I consider it sophisticated statistical jugglery. So, I no longer "swear by science" so to say.
https://twitter.com/KetPan/status/1243921436143738880?s=19
But, there is another reason I mention all this. There was a time when I used to hold people believing in the 'supernatural' in some kind of contempt for not possessing sufficient intelligence. But, @mmpandit sir is one of the first and most prominent people to have humbled me 🙂
While I still continue to not believe what I categorise as supernatural, I get to learn a lot from him. I'd urge @srikarreddym to go through @mmpandit sir's movies. They're very informative and cover the undertaken subject very well. You'll find them here. https://t.co/mQpgr0gVxj
Then you should hate the BJP and Sangh-they killed 10K Hindus in one stroke in Bangladesh with the LBA. You should hate the mercantile groups who butchered millions and are butchering thousands even today. But you don't, do you? Your hatred is ... selective.
https://twitter.com/maidros78/status/1244241750337544192?s=19
In my spare time I work with grps that care for the elderly and animals. Elderly humans and animals, those of no monetary value, are the ones most quickly abandoned in crises that makes society fearful of their own lives. Our naked selfishness comes out in its mesmerizing horror.
https://twitter.com/dikgaj/status/1244032117752897536?s=19
I feel like saying to those who think they will never grow old or that they are not animals, you too will be left beside the road one cold night, in the hope that you be frozen or beaten out of life, so you no longer have to be spent on, so that the space you occupied is free.
when you will fall sick, even with all the money you gave in your jolly days to insure for your care and the tax you paied, you will be taken off the ventilator, you will not be resuscitated, you will not be given medication or sustenance that will prolong your life.
even with all the love you gave your children or family or kin, all the hours you toiled to get them fed or taught or sheltered, they will one day see you as a liability, resolved through termination, in a setting for which no one can be seen as responsible. It will just happen.
dont see any one aspect of life as more important than others, even if society will do its best to convince you otherwise so it can get you to spend valuable times in your life working for its benefit and pleasure.
at the end of the day, most of society runs as a profit maximization machine - input the minimum and extract the maximum. It uses the lottery drive in humans and profuse conditioning to lure the human into and keep producing. But it spends a huge effort in hiding that mechanism.
Most of the values taught to us from childhood in cultures not openly predatory like jihadi cults, is to make sure we dont realize whats really going on, and the more productive are brainwashed more to ensure that they dont pursue self-interest to the same degree as brainwashers.
Yet I still feel that those "kinder" values are a better way to live, just that kindness needs a firm hand to ensure its not a means for exploitation. Society must be held responsible for those it has used once, whether for production or pleasure. We must choose the better way.
