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Tuesday, 18 August 2026
Homeostasis
You live for long enough and patterns of existence become visible. One sees people working on their MacBooks in Starbucks but if you are alive for long enough in India you know that there is no work important enough that requires disruption of coffee time, especially such an expensive coffee. But then importance is all in the mind and people work at places where environment is feasible enough for them to get ideas. A MGNREGA worker gets that environment from his own body, it's homeostasis when the sweat allows him to feel the blowing wind as air-conditioning. I have lived long enough to realise that God in this nation, or if not this nation at least where I am from, is an exploitative entity. I call this entity God because it practically is God and is omniscient and omnipotent and its omniscience and omnipotence falls just a little short of the kind I would imagine the God I used to believe in would possess. The work of this God, at least where I am from, is to make people dispossessed and then to exploit that dispossession. Preventing people from gathering knowledge, skill, experiences and competence and then punishing them for not having them. When people do not have knowledge, skill, experiences and competence what remains is opportunism and hypocrisy, because competence gained through valid means is humble and that has been the design of competence gained from valid means throughout the history. Competence gained through dedication, hardwork, struggle and suffering lasts and also makes a person humble. Hypocrisy treats itself as an exception it has no option but to do so because very often ones who are opportunists and hypocrites are also incompetent. As this country, or probably my region, presented itself to me in the 2010s, I realised that in this nation being able to earn a living honestly too is a privilege. When one looks at it, one imagines what kind of individuals would prevent people from gaining their work through honest hardwork? The answer is simple, those who don't know the taste of bread earned through honest hardwork, those who have lived on money earned from brokerage, debt collection, usury and extortion. A person who wants to earn his living through honest means has to jump in the muck of corruption and become a part of the system and so everyone in the system keeps silent because there is dirt on everyone and fear of their dirty laundry getting aired in public so the system keeps working consuming the innocent and hardworking making them bear the brunt of just wanting to exist while writing a make-believe screenplay or making an excel sheet on one's MacBook in an expensive coffee shop remains a very valid form of work, which it is, at least more than the work of making people dispossessed and exploiting that dispossession throughout their lives.
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