A Strange Time In The World

World is a strange place. You start reading public domain classics which you had already read in some form or other and your world starts changing. This is what happens when you live in India, a democracy on the outlook. But then you realise that the setup is global, and you stumble across The Memory Police written by Yoko Ogawa. George Orwell and Aldous Huxley had already written enough, but you couldn't expect this kind of Big Brother setup in India where people do not even have the basic necessities to survive. Orwell had said

    If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.

The difference between India and other countries is that though people in other countries also have boots stamping on their faces, they at least know how to flush a toilet. The more you know about this country, the more it disappoints you. But then in the outlook things are so ethically perfect that no one can question it, and just suffer on the inside. Orwell had the right idea even back then, during the World War 2 era. Is it safe to assume that technology of mind control was present even back then? How did Huxley get the idea of Brave New World? He had said

    Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

We know that in 21st century nothing can be more true than this. In 21st century everyone is a slave, and the narrative is controlled and contributed to by paid propagandists and idealistic idiots. Idealistic idiots however are just cannon fodder and who would be done away with when time comes. Who would have thought that movies are not made for providing entertainment? I hadn't. Still, they provide entertainment and people watch them for entertainment. To an enlightened mind, movies are useless. Movies play a multifold role, they entertain the cattle class, they gaslight the enlightened and they delude the young, not to mention that they earn money for people who make them. India is becoming progressively worse and the internet is contributing to it. People's online activity is recorded and would be used as a ledger of things to blackmail them or their progeny with. There is not much hope, but then being incurably hopeful is the only way to survive in this country and world.