The Revenge of the Morons

A quick note.

Post-CAA (Citizenship amendment Act), the morons have come home to roost and the Modi government has a big problem. On the one hand, Modi 2.0 has implemented its manifesto that effectively turns it into the most anti-moron leadership in India since, who knows, perhaps Chatrapathi Shivaji. On the other hand, for six years, its Human resources development / education department has done little to junk a decaying curriculum and repair the education system that mass produces idiocy. Many 13-14 year olds of May 2014 have graduated into full blown college-going idiots today who burned public property worth crores of Rupees in just days, and brazenly display anti-Hindu placards in the name of protest. WhatsApp university merely serves as a finishing school that polishes these kids off after academic hours, producing more perfect morons.

Sri Aurobindo envisioned the emergence of the Superman but instead what we are witnessing is the descent of man. http://indicportal.org/the-descent-of-man-stages-of-charvaka-ism/




Some opposition politicians and sections of the Hinduphobic English language media, the valedictorians of this mentally colonized system immediately grasp this point. These toppers understand the mindset of fellow dysfunctionals better than the rest and have quickly realized how to win over them- Dumb down and distort your messaging and reduce it to its lowest form by eliminating all reading material; communicate through Tiktok type clips, memes and silly slogans. The Nehruvian dinosaurs who still write a 1000 pompous words when 10 suffice can put out the long form for a few bucks. On the other hand, the government and its more aware supporters in the social media are fighting the battle based on reasoning and logic. Their lawyer base provide reams of sound legal arguments (ream for today's idiot secular = 1 whole page of rigorous language). Their researchers provide the historical context. Their watchdogs expose the horrifically Hinduphobic nature of reporting by the crooked media channels. All good and commendable efforts to educate the moron. However, some others give their CAT/GMAT/JEE scores and ranks in canned exams (another curse of this edu system) to 'empirically prove' their credentials. to idiots.
http://indicportal.org/rw-is-as-mentally-colonised-as-lw/

'Erudite' Hindus who were gullible enough to bring philosophy to gunfights, now bring marks cards.
http://indicportal.org/why-are-indians-so-gullible/

Looking at the placards, it appeared that the 'social sciences' mobs want the 'anti-Muslim' provisions of the citizenship amendment act to be withdrawn. For this, the government had to do precisely nothing since the CAA did not any such provision in the first place. Problem solved. Now the Hinduphobic mobs simply want the democratically produced act withdrawn because of imaginary problems. How to solve this? Here's a thought experiment (actually, it's a 5th standard school joke) - Imagine an elephant going into a matchbox. how will it get out? well, you just imagine it getting out. The CAA protests have reduced the discourse to a complete farce, which suits the morons just fine.  Even Shashi Tharoor joins the race to the bottom.

You had 5 years to fix the school and college system but you did not. You bragged about not changing a thing, and suddenly, the PM of India admits in 2020 that the history in school exams are flawed!

The morons are winning despite your perfect GMAT scores.

Like the Rakshasas getting powerful at night, adharmic mobs revel in ignorance.The CPI may have a few seats in the Lok Sabha but their leftist, materialist, anti-Hindu ideology influence hundreds of parliament seats today. Despite starting late, their web portals carry more traffic even though they know little CS and IT. They can hire the best Hindu CS and IT graduates to take care of stuff. Students emerging from the current school system are putty in the hands of their 'Urban Naxal' college professors. This cannot go on. The Modi gov has to start now and Indianize Indian education. Put Indic thought first. If the "Social science" departments that continually blare out anti-Hindu and anti-Indian literature and bile cannot shut up, then shut them down. Pseudoscience programs are universally worthless. And fix the diabolical UPSC exam material. It produces the bureaucratic crooks that trampled on Modi ji's five years of tapas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RYS6V76lRQ

Make in India cannot just be about making indigenous armaments, Swadeshi manufacturing and services. It is even more important for India to produce young Indian minds guided by Indic thought who will make and operate these things in the future, instead of these juvenile mindsets that can only think of burning and breaking stuff down. If India has to become a Jagadguru, it simply cannot afford a high percentage of morons like some rich countries today possess.

updated Jan 14, 2020 [ link to 2012 article by Sri Rajiv Malhotra on #MoronSmriti]
https://rajivmalhotra.com/library/articles/response-doctrine-sameness/

#Nuts

Trump offer to mediate on Kashmir


Indian response

"August 2, 2019

To the US Commander,

N U T S !

The Indian Commander"

Goodbye Mr. Chips: 100 years later in JNU

Here is the Wikipedia page of the original movie; 'Goodbye, Mr Chips'. (1939). Below is a satirical edit of the original plot summary in Wikipedia, edited to fit an imaginary JNU setting, and the events time-shifted forward by 100 years.

Note: JNU's expansion/definition here is like GNU: JNU is Not a University. JNU is an imaginary university. Any resemblance to any real-life, genuine university is purely coincidental.

Goodbye, Mr Chips: 100 years later in JNU

For the first time in 58 years because of a cold, PhD-scholar-emeritus Mr. Chipping misses a sit-down protest at JNU. That afternoon he falls asleep in his rocking chair and his student career is related in flashback.

When 25-year-old Charles Nurul Chipping first arrives as a Marxist student in 1970, he becomes a target of practical jokes on his first day. He reacts by imposing strict indiscipline in his classroom, making him liked and respected. Twenty years pass and he becomes the senior student. He is disappointed in not receiving an appointment as a permanent PhD scholar within the 'university' for the following year. However, the new Humanities teacher Jey Basu saves him from despair by inviting him to share an explore-the-ruins holiday to his native West Bengal.

While debris-hunting, Chipping encounters Kathy, a feisty Keralite subaltern who is on a recycling holiday with a friend. They meet again in Kolkata where she persuades him to dance to the Red Volga Waltz. This piece of music is used as a leitmotif, symbolizing Chipping's love for her ideology. Jey remarks that the Volga does not appear red, but Chipping remarks it only appears so to those who are in love. On another part of the same boat, as Kathy looks at the river, she tells her friend that it is red. Even though Kathy is considerably younger and livelier than Chipping, she loves and marries him. They return to JNU, where Kathy takes up residence at the 'university' at the taxpayer's expense, charming everyone with her atrocity literature.

During their tragically short marriage (she dies in childbirth, along with their baby), she brings "Chips" out of his shell and shows him how to be a better leftist. As the years pass, Chips becomes a much-loved institution, developing a rapport with generations of lecturers; he studies under the sons and grandsons of many of his earlier lecturers.

In 2009, when he is pressured to retire by a more 'Saffron' social media, mainstream media and the board of governors of the 'university' take his side of the argument and tell him he can stay until he is 100.

Chips finally retires in shock in 2014 at the age of 69, but is summoned back to serve as interim PhD scholar because of the shortage of non-unconscious leftists resulting from the events that year. He remembers Kathy had predicted he would graduate one day. During the loss of Tripura, Chips insists that they keep on memorizing their 'Breaking India' chanting, much to the amusement of his fellow students. As the 'Saffron' years drag on, Chips reads aloud into JNU's Roll of Honour every Sunday the names of the many former boys and professors who squandered their lives became Urban Naxals and ended up in jail.

He retires permanently in 2018, but continues living nearby in Lutyens. He is on his deathbed in 2033 when he overhears his college mates talking about him. He responds, "I thought you said it was a pity, a pity I never misled any children. But you're wrong. I have! Thousands of 'em, thousands of 'em ... and not all ... boys."

The Stupidity of Voting NOTA

Thinking quietly about the role of NOTA in elections.

Voting NOTA is a terrible idea when you feel you only have bad candidates - it is not just an exercise in futility, it is actually harmful to democracy. By giving an equal score of "0" to all candidates, the NOTA voter is effectively equating the worst criminal politician in the candidate pool to the least harmful.

Every NOTA vote by a "frustrated voter" translates to one less negative vote for the worst candidate, whose own supporters will also never pick NOTA. Express your preference for the pickpocket over the armed bandit if those are the choices you have, else only the bandit supporter votes will matter. The winning candidate will almost surely never be NOTA, and as the NOTA percentage goes up, it may actually increase the probability of the worst candidates winning.

All candidates may be bad, but not all are equally bad. Always vote, no matter how inconvenient and how poor the choices are, and always optimize by picking the 'best among the available options' every time, no matter how distasteful. That is the only way to continually weed out the worst and promote reform.

Suppose you only have good candidates, will you still vote NOTA since "all are good, can't pick out any one"? Unlikely. You would endorse the better over the merely good and fairly reward merit.  Likewise, when you have only bad candidates, use your vote to penalize the more terrible candidates. An informed decision has to be made even here. NOTA votes appear to be especially harmful when the candidate pool is bad. Exercising the NOTA option in large numbers may produce even more obnoxious politicians asking for your vote in the next election. Remember Karnataka 2018.

Rama Loves Squirrels Too

There is merit in picking one area, one project, which we are good at and can create an impact on the ground, and keep at it. But sometimes, we forget our dharma and lose the basic ability of sticking to a message.

An old cricket article by Mike Selvey that recalls fast bowler Ottis Gibson's first ever cricket match, for the Barbados team:
"...He was recalling his first-ever match for his native Barbados, throughout which, as the great Malcolm Marshall stood by and watched, he had been getting a run-a-ball tanking.

In the second innings, Gibson recalled, he came and stood at mid-off. "What are you going to do?" Marshall queried after Gibson had bowled a rare dot-ball at the start of an over. Gibson remembered his response. "'I'm going to bounce him' I said, and Malcolm would just say 'Why don't you just do what you did again?' And I did and it was another dot-ball. 'Now what are you going to do?' 'I'm going to york him.' 'No, do the same thing again'. And so he talked me through the first maiden over I bowled in first-class cricket. He taught me to construct an over."

There you have it then, in a nutshell: the simple art of bowling from perhaps the greatest fast man who ever drew breath and not a mention of good areas."


The anger against the corrupt ecosystem and its Hinduphobia cannot be myopically expended in a jiffy on sloganeering and wild, emotional ideas. It can be channeled into long-term, sober, and meaningful effort. Even if it seems lonely, boring, or insignificant in comparison to others. The tiny squirrel that contributed its bit in support of the Sethu was eventually touched by the transcendental hand of divinity.

Kolam Blog at the Indic Cultural Portal

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Decoding the Intellectual Kurukshetra

This post was published in the Indian Cultural Portal. This is an unedited version of the post.
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This blog is about contemporary India, but we start with a bit of European history.

Part-1: 20th Century Europe

Alan Turing 

In 1939, ace computer scientist, mathematician, and cryptanalyst Alan Turning decided to solve the challenging problem of cracking the German Navy version of the Enigma code. Why? In his own words: "because no one else was doing anything about it and I could have it to myself". Thus, the great Alan Turing and his intrepid team at Bletchley Park, through hard work, intelligence, and ingenuity were able to crack the Enigma code, and helped turn the tide of World War 2. The story is well known today. At first, they were resource-strained, and by the time the intercepted messages were decoded and sent up the chain of command, the relevant events had already passed into history. However, thanks to an increase in human and computing resources, and equally importantly, by upgrading their own game, the cryptographers were able to eventually decipher the messages fast enough to reliably predict what would happen in the future. They had turned information on enemy movements into actionable intelligence. Pure gold dust. By closing this gap between interception and decoding, they were able to have a significant impact on the course of the war between the Allies and the Axis powers. So precious was their operation, their work was rated 'Ultra', even above 'Most' secret. Some of Alan Turing's research findings were hidden from public view for 70 years and only published recently. Even beyond WW2, it appears that Enigma machines were sold to 3rd world countries that were unaware that their information could be tracked by the west.

The Nazi analysts themselves believed their Enigma encryption to be fool-proof, and it is acknowledged that in principle, they indeed were. However, overconfidence, and bad operational practices gave away enough clues to Bletchley Park, who were smart enough to take advantage of these lapses. Turing's team was able to make risky predictions that turned out to be right. The allied command subsequently bet the lives of thousands of soldiers on their predictions. Theirs was a solid scientific approach supported by rigorous math and empirical testing, which allowed them to be confident in their predictions. However, if their predictions were wrong, many lives would have been in jeopardy due to faulty intelligence and their work would've been dismissed as pseudo-science. 

What distinguishes science from pseudo-science?

Around 1919, Karl Popper, a western philosopher began to actively ponder this demarcation. He narrowed down the distinction to one of testability. According to Popper, a scientific theory must be able to make somewhat risky predictions about the future. Others would try to falsify this theory, and if this falsification failed, the theory would gain credence. If the events did not happen as predicted, the theory would be weakened, and efforts would be made to either rectify the theory and re-test, or abandon it entirely. 97 years ago, Popper applied his principles to identify at least two theories popular in the west during that time as pseudo-science: the Marxist theory of history, and the Freudian psychoanalysis. Why? These theories simply did not fail! They could explain everything in the past with 100% accuracy, and were irrefutable. First-time viewers, to this day, find this ability to confirm quite irresistible. However, within a few decades of Marx's theory, it failed the risky predictability test not once, but several times. Freudian analysis met the same fate. From this western perspective, it was classic pseudo-science (although, apparently Marx was confident enough to crown himself as 'the Isaac Newton of Social Sciences'). Arguably, Marxist theory or Freudian theory did not become obsolete over time, but were born blind. By brushing away these glaring failures to predict, scientist Karl became prophet Karl. As contemporary events show, 'propheteering' is much more lucrative and unimpeachable (compared to the scientific alternative of forecasting, where a 5% increase in error in predicting product sales may have your client pulling the plug on your project). Well, what on earth has all this to do with India? We discuss this in the next section.

Part-2: 21st Century India

Indology

Welcome to western Indology (India study). The major theoretical foundations of western Indology over the last few decades are, as you may have guessed, Marxist theory of history, and Freudian psychoanalysis! Completely unchallenged, totally unhindered by any need to test predictions, many (but not all, there a few good ones) Indologists have combined to build up an entire body of Indology literature based on these pseudo-sciences. Let us examine the nature of this literature constructed.

The western approach to knowledge-building via math models employs rigorous theorem proving starting from a bunch of 'self-evident' statements called axioms. A 'purva paksha' of the way mathematics historically developed in the west would reveal, at least at a very high level, the contrast between the Euclidean western way of theorem-proving versus the Paninian Indian approach of rule-generation (refer to the talk and work by M. D. Srinivas and others). Infallible western mathematics versus the explicitly fallible Indian Ganita (science of computations) is an interesting topic in its own right, which we will explore in-depth in this space later. The theorem-proving approach allows us to reliably extend existing results, without having to start from scratch each time. By maintaining rigor and by subjecting new ideas to rigorous predictive testing, one can minimize the fallibility of the entire system. Of course, if one of those axioms or proofs were to be found wanting in some future scenario, it can open up a can of worms. 

This incremental approach of knowledge generation used in the hard sciences has been borrowed and applied by the west to social sciences as well, which as we have seen from the time of Prophet Karl, are pseudo-sciences. So we have journal papers quoting and extending the work of previous papers, results building on prior result, producing an incestuous body of Indology writing that can plausibly confirm any and all prior data about India, but is largely useless as far as reliably predicting 'risky' future events. Therefore, not only has this body of work not been useful, but these highly innovative, imaginative and intellectually engaging models have been harmful when used outside academia as a predictor to develop solutions in a real world. If, by chance, a future event does conform to a theory, they can claim credit; if it failed, then of course, the cow and goddess worshiping, "caste" obsessed, curry munching Hindus weren't smart enough to understand Marxism properly. At its core such social sciences are largely a 'Heads I win, Tails you lose' proposition. Thus, when decades of Marxist-inspired methods of planning in post-1947 India inevitably failed to yield results, it was explained away as the "Hindu rate of growth". This also justified the need to continue inflicting Marxism on Indians until they fully understood it, i.e., when enough successive 'Heads' were observed!

Indology Theory versus Hindu Practice

Recently, I visited Columbia University in New York City to add a science conference. The STEM departments in such universities are top-notch. Genuinely curious and good scientists and wonderful human beings. I have learned from them, and my interactions have been beneficial. Only in the last decade did I learn that in these same campuses, in their humanities and social sciences departments, there are other smart professors who are invested in western Indology and Hindu studies. From nine thousand miles away, they were and are doing a whole lot of theoretical model fitting using materialist Marxist and Freudian interpretations of Sanskrit texts that would appear utterly nonsensical to actual practitioners in India. The dharmic content of Hinduism that actually guides its practice is summarily rejected! On the other hand, some western thinkers outside the ivory tower who internalized Hinduism's ideas were able to practically adapt it to solve some of the biggest challenges of the 20th century. For example, the approaches of both Martin Luther King, Jr., and Nelson Mandela, borrowed from the Satyagraha of Gandhi that is fundamentally rooted in Sanathana dharma. The positive and pervasive influence of Swami Vivekananda on western thought is stunning to read, and has never really been acknowledged either. 

The Indology Enigma Machine

In an earlier era, there were the 'orientalists' from a Europe that had colonized and ruined India, who studied India from the perspective of a superior 'teacher' race. These earlier Indologists have been thoroughly exposed and the new generations of Indologists that are based in the United States are much smarter. They are trained in Sanskrit, have learned from the mistakes of the Orientalists, and have proceeded to cleverly write lengthy papers and analyses using extremely convoluted English (search for example, the pomo generator). Their writings virtually became a code that only their peers, who were part of a mutual back-scratching network, could review, read, understand, and build upon. Alternative new approaches to Hindu studies in the US would be branded as "communal" and "Hindu extremism" by their gatekeepers and shut down. If you, as a graduate scholar, wanted to study Hinduism and get funding, you would have to learn their code language, and thereby also adopt the encoded views about India. Simply put, these Indologists had succeeded in creating their own virtual Enigma machine. This Indology enigma machine is then shipped to third-world India, safe in the knowledge that only the encoders in the US, and their elite disciples in India, would truly know what the messages meant. It became their ultimate inside joke on India. This Indology Enigma in principle is also a fool-proof system like the earlier WW2 model and cracking this code would require sustained, single-minded effort, enormous resources, and a high degree of intelligence to break. They progressed, unhindered for decades, until the breakthrough came in the form of a trained physicist named Rajiv Malhotra.

American Orientalism Decoded

Rajiv Malhotra has lived in the US for more than 40 years and his is another successful Indian immigrant story - he studied physics, but got into IT and Telecom and eventually became the multi-millionaire owner of 20 companies. However, it is what happened afterward that is quite extraordinary. He gave it all up (for one dollar) at the age of 44 to devote his life, full time, to Hindu and Indian studies from an insider perspective. He used his personal funds to set up a research foundation and has over the last few decades, given grants, built up a dedicated home team, and done a deep and thorough study of the Indology landscape from an Indic perspective (and this is really key). While others too have attempted such studies earlier, there is really none else who approached this problem in a single-minded manner, applying scholarly rigor, comprehensive research, and thoroughness. Rajiv Malhotra decided that he would take this up as part of his sva-dharma. He became the perfect storm that was required to crack this Indology Enigma code. Based on more than 20 years of painstaking research, and at a high personal cost, Rajiv Malhotra has authored five epic books on related topics, and we will briefly examine a specific trilogy among them, noting that the very first book, 'Invading the Sacred' demolishes the Freudian psychoanalysis applied to Hindu studies in America. 

The first book in the three we examine here is 'Breaking India', which analyzed the prior Indologists, mostly from Europe, whose theories from the 19th century have devastated Indian politics and sections of society (including in my own home state) for more than a century now. Thus, the initial decoding of Indology by Rajiv ji, while being amazing and successful, is associated with a large time lag between when these virulent messages were encoded and when they were fully decoded. However, his next book 'Indra's Net' that focused on newer but equally diabolical Indology theories reduced this time lag. Here, he was able to expertly decipher the more recent discourse around the spurious idea of 'Neo-Hinduism' being propagated in India over the last few decades. Finally, his latest book, 'The Battle For Sanskrit' was released in India a couple of weeks ago. While this book is yet to release in the US, I have studied several video overviews of its content to realize that it has exposed the ugly face of an  'American Orientalism', a new form of orientalism. 

It is clear that today, Rajiv Malhotra's systematic approach has been able to decipher the output of American Orientalism as it is happening in the US right now. In this desperate intellectual and civilizational Kurukshetra, for the first time ever, practicing Hindus will have actionable intelligence that will enable them to proactively mount a defense before these destructive theories fully percolate into the Indian discourse that is controlled by sepoys - the paid native intellectual gunmen of these western masters.

A new generation of dedicated intellectual Kshatriyas are needed to carry this work forward. Who will join this Battle for our Sanskriti?

References

beingdifferentbook.com
thebattleforsanskrit.com

Comic

Hobbes is nonplussed. Calvin needs Rajiv ji's help!