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Wednesday, 24 June 2026
AC 3 Tier
Scarcity turns people into beasts. I have no particular sympathy for the poor except the humane sympathy that everyone must possess but doesn't. What sustained poor of this land was culture, divorced from culture they are just beasts, which they are considered as by the ones having power, and fodder for slavery and indentured servitude. Yet they occupy a better position in society than the middle class which is entangled in relationships and can't roast green grams and potatoes in fire under the night sky. The poor weren't culturally homeless earlier but now they are because the culture has been dismantled by greed and yet at many places they are forced to carry a mongrel of old culture and culture that is a result of rampant clandestine exploitation on their heads while there was a time when culture was embodied. The past decade taught me that it is all economics, politics and technology. Technology is the new shastra that has to be gatekept and expecting people to have technolgical literacy when they don't have basic literacy is idiotic. It amuses me how needlessly convoluted and cumbersome government banking website and how smooth private bank websites are. Is it intentional? I do not know, but it is India so you never know and the fact that remains is that it is the poor who use government banks and their websites more. I entered my 30s and I understood the Indian railways design of the society, first class, second class, third class, sleeper class and general class. What troubled me is not that this is a tangible design of exclusion and gatekeeping, but that it is coupled with extractive exploitation and rent seeking and that this arrangement is at the psychological and metaphysical plane, a socio-politico-economic financial Islam of absolute surrender while your labour and your souls are harvested. It is here it becomes clear to define one's true politics and which in my case is nothing but only dignity, as the first move of what rules this land is blaming you of communism while my actual politics is ethical capitalism and social democracy which is very close to the idea of modern India.
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