杰扬特·班达里 一位内部人士对印度文明崩溃的反思
Jayant Bhandari | An Insider's Reflection on Civilizational Breakdown|Oct 5, 2024.
2025年12月29日
印裔加拿大投资顾问杰扬特·班达里在土耳其举行的第18届财产与自由协会年会上|2024年10月5日。原文:• PFP272 |贾扬特·班达里:“理解我……”
班达里并非以外部批评家的身份发言,而是以受生活经验塑造的内部视角出发。他运用大量具体、日常且反复观察到的微观层面的案例,审视了印度社会长期积累的根深蒂固的问题。他认为,印度的挑战并非仅仅是贫困、制度薄弱或政策失败的结果,而是源于最根本的文明失序——信任、责任、理性以及共同价值观正在遭受系统性的侵蚀。
公平、正义、信任、同理心和公正等概念对印度人来说完全陌生。他们无法区分对错。他们根本无法区分是非对错。他们没有这些概念,没有你认为理所当然的西方价值观。事实并非如此。我从未见过哪个印度人不因缺乏信任而饱受困扰。他无法信任他自己的……家庭。他无法信任朋友。他无法信任机构。所以我们经常谈论繁荣和教育如何真正造福这些贫困国家。
那是个神话。那是胡说八道。根本行不通。我会详细阐述这一点。谢谢霍普博士。嗯,自从我33年前离开印度以来,我去过近100个国家,其中很多国家我都去过好几次。
在我看来,这让我对社会有了独特的视角。我今天要谈的印度,是第三世界的鼻祖。地球上三分之二的人口生活在第三世界。
印度有8亿人口,相当于北美和欧盟27个国家的总人口,却依赖政府提供的免费粮食。
三分之一的印度五岁以下儿童发育迟缓,而且这个数字还被夸大了,实际数字要高得多,可能只有个位数。即使在他们当中,我也从未见过一个印度人不饱受……的困扰。担忧源于信任的缺失。他无法信任家人,无法信任朋友,也无法信任各种机构。
印度简直就是人间地狱。我将阐述印度文化是如何变成毒瘤,扭曲并腐蚀西方赋予它的一切。
这对西方有着重大影响,因为移民仍在不断涌入。在我的演讲中,我将概述印度社会的结构(或者说结构的缺失),正是这种结构使得印度的生活成为一种持续的苦役,充满了无时无刻不在的剥削和虐待。
在我的童年经历中,强权即公理。
绝对的一切。动物本能潜移默化地根植于我们体内。
权力总是被滥用,掌权者认为他们拥有上帝赋予的权利去剥削、支配和非人化他人。
权威的展现如此极端,以至于任何质疑,哪怕只是问老师一个简单的问题,都会立即遭到报复。期望掌权者履行职责,会导致立即遭到报复。报复。
那些当权者,以及如今更多当权者,嗯,这就是我稍后要谈到的。印度的情况是如何随着时间推移而恶化的。他们认为自己的职位不是为了服务他人。
情况总是如此。没有哪个政府官员或掌权者,即使在私营部门,也不会认为他是为了服务他人,提供服务。
他认为自己身居要职是为了个人利益,无论是通过贿赂——这在那个国家无处不在——并且厚颜无耻地要求施虐——这是对人性的扭曲和对敬畏的追求。他们
想要你向他们——这个国家的当权者——俯首帖耳。唯一表现出尊重的人是……印度
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是那个接受社会等级中较低从属地位的人。
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我56岁了。我从未在印度见过任何掌权者主动解决自己负责的问题。
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我在印度上大学的时候,一个男孩,一个年轻的男孩,
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被清洁工鸡奸和强奸。
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我向有关部门报告了这件事。我把这个男孩带到了警察局和大学官员那里。
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没有人,没有一个人站出来采取行动。
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一件非常直接的事情向前推进,这是他们有权采取行动的事情。
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5分23秒 事实上,当局和同学威胁我说,如果我继续追究此事,将会有严重的后果。
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现在,这就是我至今仍然感到困惑的地方。
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5分35秒 我理智上理解,但情感上我无法理解。这让我感到困惑和沮丧,因为在
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在我刚才描述的情况下,即使我腐败,我也会通过预订
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一个真正的罪犯,因为我知道我不是,我不会收受贿赂,我也知道不会有任何关系
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牵涉其中。印度的运作依靠两种燃料:腐败和关系。
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6分4秒 嗯,为什么他们没有立案?
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6分9秒 除非有物质奖励,比如金钱或性交易,否则印度当局绝对不会采取任何行动,甚至连一根手指头都不会动。
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6分20秒 他们的冷漠就像一个无底洞。现在,问题来了。
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6分27秒 在那种文化中,当权者认为做好自己的工作是微不足道的。
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6分33秒 做好自己的工作意味着你意志薄弱,不够成熟。如果你逃避责任,在那种文化中你会被认为是男子气概十足。
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做正确的事没有荣耀可言。在那个社会里,没有荣耀和荣誉的概念。
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6分54秒 但这还远不止于此,远不止如此。如果你打电话叫水管工来修理,他来了,他会看到……
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他会故意敷衍了事,不弄得一团糟。
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即使花不了更多时间就能做得更好,他也会故意偷工减料。
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为什么会这样?傲慢、自负、礼貌、等级制度、
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部落主义、性别歧视、僵化的规矩、教条和迷信思维交织在一起,驱使着他们的行为,
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使他们情感僵化,无法做出理性或道德的决定。
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7分39秒 公平。这些都是欧洲的概念。你认为这些是天体的一部分吗?它们不是。
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公平、正义、信任、同情和公正等概念对印度人来说完全是陌生的。他们无法区分对错。
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他们根本无法区分对错。他们没有这些概念,没有西方价值观。
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你认为这些是自然存在的一部分。它们不是。
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即使在实现公平或正义的过程中不需要付出任何代价,印度人也漠不关心。
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8分22秒 我甚至可以说,即使他们能够做到,即使他们能够在不付出任何个人代价的情况下实现公平正义,
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他们仍然宁愿不这样做,因为他们认为做正确的事
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是软弱的表现。我想任何每天预算低于50美元去过印度的人都会明白我的意思。
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如果你每天花500美元,你永远不会了解印度。我们
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从小就被灌输要顺从的思想。
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这种灌输如此根深蒂固,以至于印度人甚至称呼比他们地位稍高的人为“先生”。
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他们的行为往往是顺从的、卑躬屈膝的、装腔作势的、讨好式的。
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即使他们在西方国家生活多年,他们仍然称呼你为“先生”,因为这是印度人根深蒂固的顺从观念。
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但你永远不应该把这当成……
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他们称呼你为“先生”是一种尊重,因为尊重对印度人来说是一个陌生的概念。
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他们称呼你为“先生”,这反映了他们认为你在互动中比自己更强势。
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他们一贯秉持强权即真理的思维模式,一旦你处于弱势地位,他们就会贬低你。
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印度
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在等级制度中,你要么高人一等,要么低人一等;你要么是施虐者,要么是受害者。
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在那个社会里,实现平等是不可能的。一个人一旦在那个国家生活了一段时间,他
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很快就会从经验中意识到,说“请”和“谢谢”是软弱的表现,是那些想要贬低自己的人才会用的。
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印度人无法维持英国人建立的制度。这些制度已经被彻底掏空和腐败。
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它们已经变得掠夺成性。宪法和法律在那个国家毫无价值。驱动这些制度的唯一力量是
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贿赂和关系。
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你去法官面前,贿赂警察和法官面前的官僚,就在法庭上,当着法官的面。
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在那个国家,贿赂就是这么公开进行的。
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嗯,你职位越高,唯一改变的是贿赂的数额。呃,如果你去法院,呃,贿赂的数额会改变一切。
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贿赂的数额会改变一切,这是那个国家唯一重要的事情。街头智慧在文化上非常
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在那个国家,街头智慧备受重视。那些成功逃脱法律制裁的罪犯会受到社会的赞扬。人们会在社交场合……呃
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赞扬那些犯罪并逃脱法律制裁的人。
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我的一位亲戚,满怀自豪地告诉我,他永远不会支付他租的房子的租金。
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他宣称,除非他死了,否则他不会离开那处房产,而这实际上也发生了。
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理性在那个国家是不存在的。嗯,当有人被欺骗,而在这个国家信任荡然无存时,他
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很少会寻求对欺骗者进行公正的审判。很少。相反,他会为自己欺骗他人的行为辩解。男人
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虐待妇女。妇女虐待儿童。在这个国家,妇女是无辜的。妇女虐待儿童。儿童虐待动物。
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动物会攻击任何它们能攻击的人。
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高种姓的人虐待低种姓的人。但这并非一个线性的、单向的高种姓或低种姓问题。
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要么是因为低种姓的人像鬣狗一样争斗,以确定哪个低种姓群体比另一个低种姓群体更高贵。
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这是一个永无止境的非理性和任意性的循环。
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人们公开撒谎。
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每个人都知道每个人都在撒谎。但每个人还是会撒谎。
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大多数人感觉不到认知失调,因为他们无法区分真假。我稍后会解释,
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当我搬到英国时,我对真理的意义有了新的认识。
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他们如此深信自己的谎言,以至于无法区分神话与现实、事实与虚构。
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我知道这听起来像是反乌托邦,一些从未去过印度的人可能会摇头,认为这不可能是真的,但我
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无法想象印度有什么不是反乌托邦的。 13:32
13分32秒 顺便说一句,乔治·奥威尔其实出生在印度。
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13分36秒 那个国家的谈话完全是为了个人利益,他们坚信零和博弈,或者
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实际上,他们更喜欢零和博弈。如果你在交易中没有损失,他们就不会感到高兴。这种文化中存在着强烈的虐待倾向。
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13分58秒 那些最亲近你的人最终会成为你最大的敌人。
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14分3秒 那个国家的每个人都会在自己的房产周围建造坚固的高墙。
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14分10秒 这是你买房后做的第一件事。你完全清楚,如果邻居有机会,他们就会侵占你的土地。你睡着了
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如果你的土地上没有围栏,第二天早上你的土地就会被侵占,而你
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却无能为力。我一旦开始在英国生活,就花了数年时间才理解为什么西方人不做同样的事情。
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忠诚和荣誉的概念在那个国家明显缺失。
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谈话内容围绕着背后议论、八卦朋友、讨论名人、交流迷信
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以及对其他群体的敌意。印度教徒憎恨穆斯林。穆斯林憎恨印度教徒。锡克教徒怀有巨大的敌意
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对印度教徒。然而,这些群体内部却一直争斗不休,导致每个人都四分五裂。
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15分10秒 然而,正是对其他群体的仇恨,表面上将他们团结在一起。
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15分16秒 我第一次去英国旅行时,发现动物们既不害怕我,也不攻击人,这让我觉得很有趣。
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我惊讶地发现,那些掌权者并不期望人们敬畏他们。
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多年来,甚至直到今天,有时在需要某人
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尽职尽责,而他也确实做到了的情况下,我却感觉自己没有尽到应尽的责任,因为我向他行贿。这就是你在那种社会中成长的方式。
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15分51秒 直到
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我怀疑我是否真正将真理和忠诚的概念与荣誉的概念联系起来,并理解它们更深层的含义。
15:59 直到我在英国生活了一年后,我才开始理解这些概念。我花了很长时间才开始理解这些概念的深层含义。
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16分10秒 我当时在曼彻斯特的一家办公室工作,有人告诉我,在宣传我负责的机构时不要夸大其词。
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那是我暑假期间负责的工作。我生平第一次开始意识到,人们想要说真话,
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仅仅是为了说真话而说真话。
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16分30秒 我一直
Jayant Bhandari | An Insider's Reflection on Civilizational Breakdown|Oct 5, 2024.
2025年12月29日
Bhandari does not speak as an external critic, but from the perspective of an insider shaped by lived experience. Drawing on a large number of concrete, everyday, and repeatedly observed micro-level examples, he examines the deep-seated problems that have accumulated within Indian society over time. He argues that India’s challenges are not simply the result of poverty, institutional weakness, or policy failure, but rather stem from a form of civilizational disorder at the most fundamental level—one in which trust, responsibility, rationality, and shared values are undergoing systemic erosion.
India is a veritable hellhole. I will explain how Indian culture has become cancerous, warping and provoking everything that that the west has provided it.
This has significant implications um for the west because immigrants keep pouring in. I will in my talk outline the structure or lack thereof that renders life in India a constant drudgery filled with momentto- moment exploitation and abuses. As a child, my experiences was one where might is right underpinned everything. Absolutely everything. Animalistic instincts sublim subliminally were hardwired into us. Power was invariably abused with those in control thinking that they had the god-given right to exploit, dominate, and dehumanize others. The display of authority was so extreme that any questioning even you asked your teacher a simple question or or 3:31
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expecting those in authority to perform their duties led to immediate retribution.3:42
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Those in authorities those days and even more today and uh that's what I'm going to come to later. How India is worsening with time. They believed that their positions were not for serving others.3:53
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That's invariably the case. No government person or person in authority even in private sector thinks that he's4:01
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there to serve other people to provide a service.4:05
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He thinks he gets he's in that position for personal gain whether through bribery which is uh omniresent in that4:12
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country and shamelessly asked for uh sadisma which is a perversion of human character and pursuit of reverence. They4:21
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want you to prostrate in front of them the authorities in in the country. The only person who shows respect in India4:29
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is the one and was the one who had who accepts a lower subservient position in life in the hierarchy.4:39
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I have never I'm 56 years old. I have never witnessed a situation in India where someone in authority took the4:47
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initiative to address a problem he was responsible for. When I was at the university in India, a boy, a young boy,4:56
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a male boy was sodomized and raped by the janitors.5:01
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I reported the man matter to the authorities. I went, I took this boy to the police and to the university officials.5:11
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No one, not one person stepped forward to take an action.5:17
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something that was very straightforward, something that was within their powers to take actions on.5:23
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In fact, the authorities and the fellow students threatened me with grave consequences if I pursued the matter further.5:32
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Now, this is what confuses me even now.5:35
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I understand it intellectually, but emotionally I don't get it. It confuses me and frustrates me no end that in a5:42
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situation I just described where even if I were corrupt um I would actually find a soulen enriching experience by booking5:50
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a culprit properly because I knew I wasn't I wouldn't be getting bribes and I knew that there wouldn't be any connections5:58
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involved. India operates on two fuels corruption and connection.6:04
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Um why did they not book that case?6:09
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Indian authorities would do absolutely nothing, not even lift a finger, unless there's a material reward, money or sex involved.6:20
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Their apathy is a bottomless pit. Now, here is the problem.6:27
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Doing your job in that culture is seen as epheminite by those in authority.6:33
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Doing your job means that you are the this you are a weak-minded person. You are not mature. If you can shoke from your responsibilities, you are considered a macho in that culture.6:44
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There's no pride or honor in doing what is right. There's no concept of pride and honor in that society.6:54
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But it goes a bit further, quite a bit further. If you call a plumber for repairs, he comes, he will see it7:01
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beneath him to leave without creating a mess.7:07
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He will deliberately do a shoddy job even if it would not have taken him more time to do a better job.7:16
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Why does this happen? A complex web of arrogance, egotism, civility, castisma,7:23
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tribalism, sexism, rigid dos and don'ts, dogmas, and magical thinking drives what they do,7:31
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leaving them emotionally constipated and incapable of making a rational or moral decision.7:39
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Fairness. Now, these are all European concepts. You think that these are parts of firmament? They aren't the the concepts7:48
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like fairness, justice, trust, empathy and impartiality are completely alien concepts to the Indian mind. They cannot differentiate between right and wrong.7:59
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They can't simply can't differentiate between what is right and wrong. They do not have the concepts, the western value8:07
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concepts that you think are a part of the natural existence. They aren't.8:13
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Indians are indifferent even when there is no cost involved in doing the right thing in delivering fairness or justice.8:22
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I would go as far as by saying that if they could do if they could deliver fairness and justice without any8:30
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personal cost, they would still prefer not to do it because they see doing the right thing8:38
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as a sign of weakness. I guess anyone who has been to India on a budget of less than $50 a day would recognize what8:46
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I'm saying here. If you spent $500 a day, you will never understand India. We8:53
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were as growing up indoctrinated to be submissive.8:57
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The indoctrination is so profound that Indians address even those slightly above them in authority as sir.9:07
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Their behavior tends to tends to be survile sikopentic sophentic and ingratiating9:15
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and they call you sir even after they have moved through the western countries for years because that's how deep the9:23
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hardwiring of submissiveness in among Indians but this you should never ever take9:31
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they're calling you as sir as a sign of respect because respect is another concept that is alien to Indians when9:38
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they call you sir it reflects their view of you as a stronger person in the interaction9:46
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consistent their consistent with their mindset of might is right they will demean you the moment you are in a9:54
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weaker position in this system in the system of India10:01
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you are either higher or lower in the pecking order you're either an abuser or abused.10:08
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Achieving equality is impossible in that society. Once a person has started living in that country for a while, he10:17
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soon realizes from experience that saying please and thank you are signs of weaknesses and reserved for those who wish to demean themselves.10:30
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Indians cannot maintain the institutions established by the British. These institutions have been completely hollowed out and corrupted.10:40
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They have become predatory. The constitutions and laws hold no value in that country. The only forces driving10:49
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these institutions are bribes and connections.10:53
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You go to go in front of a judge and you bribe policemen and the bureaucrats in the judge in the court right in front of11:00
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the judge. That's how openly bribe is conducted in that country.11:05
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Um the higher you go the only thing that changes is the quantum of bribes. Uh if you go to the court uh the the level of11:14
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bribe changes that's the only thing that matters in that country. Street smarts culturally street smartness is highly11:22
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valued in that country. Criminals who manage to evade justice are socially celebrated. People will in social c uh11:29
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settings praise those people who were criminal and evaded justice.11:36
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A a close relative of mine brimming with pride um once told me that he would never pay the rent for the house he had rented.11:45
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He declared that his his dead body will would leave the property and that's what actually happened.11:54
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rationality is is absent in that country. Um when someone is cheated and trust is nowhere in that country, he12:02
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rarely seeks justice against the cheater. Rarely. Instead, he rationalizes his cheating of others. Men12:11
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abuse women. Women abuse children. Women are innocent in that country. Women abuse children. Children abuse animals.12:19
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Animals attack whosoever they can.12:23
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Higher cast individuals abuse lower cast individuals. But then it's not a linear oneway higher cast or lower cast issue12:30
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either because lowercast people fight like hyenas to determine which of those lower cast groups is higher than the12:38
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other lower cast group. It is a perpetual cycle of irrationality and arbitrariness.12:46
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People lie openly.12:49
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Everyone knows everyone lies. But everyone lies anyway.12:56
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Most people feel no cognitive dissonance because they cannot distinguish between truth and falsehood. And I'm going to13:03
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come to it in a bit explaining that it was the meaning of truth was a revelation to me when when I moved to the United Kingdom.13:11
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They convinced themselves of their lies so much that they can no longer differentiate between myth and reality, fact and fiction.13:19
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Now I know this sounds dystopian and some people who have never been to India are probably shaking their heads thinking this couldn't be true but I13:27
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cannot imagine what about India that is not dystopian.13:32
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George Orwell was actually born in India by the way.13:36
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Conversations in that country are driven solely for personal gain with a steadfast belief in a zero sum game or13:46
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actually they prefer a win-lose game. If you don't lose in in in an in a transaction, they don't feel good about it. There is this strong element of sadism in the culture.13:58
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Those who are closest to you will turn out to be your biggest enemies.14:03
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Everyone in that country build solid is strong high fences around his property.14:10
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That is the first thing you do when you build buy a property. Fully aware that his neighbors would encro would encroach on his land if given a chance. You sleep14:19
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without a fence on your on your property and next day morning your land would have been encroach encroached on and you14:26
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can do nothing about it. Once I started living in the United Kingdom, it took me years to comprehend why people in the west don't do the same thing.14:37
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The concept of loyalty and honor are conspicuously absent in that country.14:44
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Conversations revolve around backbiting, gossiping about friends, discussing celebrities, exchanging superstitions14:52
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and animosity towards another other groups. Hindus hate Muslims. Muslims hate Hindus. Siks harbor huge animosity15:00
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towards Hindus. These groups, however, within themselves fight all the time, leaving everyone atomized.15:10
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Yet, it is the hatred for the other group that superficially unites them.15:16
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When I first traveled to the United Kingdom, I was amused to find that animals weren't fearful of me or15:22
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aggressive towards people. I was surprised that those in power did not expect cervility or reverence.15:30
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for years and even today sometimes I feel uneasy uh in a situation when I need someone to15:37
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do his job and he does it. I feel as if I'm not doing my part of the transaction by offering him bribes. That's how you grow up in that society.15:51
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I doubt if I connected the concept of truth and tr with the concept of loyalty and honor to their deeper meanings until15:59
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I started until I had lived in the United Kingdom for a year. It took a long time for me to start understanding the deeper meanings of these concepts.16:10
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I was working in an office in in Manchester and during that time someone told me not to exaggerate while promoting the organization something I16:18
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was responsible for during my summer days. For the first time in my life I began to see that people wanted to speak16:27
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the truth for the sake of speaking the truth.16:30
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I had always of course known the word truth but for the first time I started to grasp its essence.16:39
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Now strangely very anomalous in India were my grandfather and my dad who were in financial matters very extremely16:46
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honest and held self-respect uh very highly.16:52
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Um our family was pretty reasonably well off and well connected politically but17:00
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this only allows me to understand 25% of India's depravities and degradations. I simply don't have an understanding of17:07
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what else really happens in the country because I'm not a woman. I'm not from the lower cast. I don't live in slum areas and I'm not raped and brutalized17:15
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by the police the way 80 to 90% of Indians do.17:20
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Um the problem however is that if you invited someone who understood who had experienced more than 25% of Indian17:28
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deprivity deprivities and degradations his mind would have been fright by what what he would have experienced and he would have been incapable of communication.17:39
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Indians of course failed to differentiate between the difference between depravity and non-depravities.17:48
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So here is the foundational principle to understanding India. It is an amoral It is an immoral irrational society devoid of values.18:00
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Any values you try to instill will slip off like a water of a a duck's back.18:10
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In my lifetime, I have seen a continual worsening of Indian society. Whatever grace and civility Christian missionaries and European colonizers had18:18
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instilled in India in Indians has been slowly but surely eroding.18:24
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I I I distinctly recall the first day I was in outside the country. I flew into London. I was on a train to Manchester.18:35
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What I observed outside the train um made me very gloomy. I saw18:42
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dull-looking houses which were too clean for my taste. Um, very clean waterways and very clean air. The absence of18:51
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hustle and bustle in the trains and calmness of the train made me disoriented and gloomy.18:59
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I did not know how to cope with a situation where there was no constant assault on my senses.19:10
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With time um uh in living in the west I realized that for most immigrants the sit this situation of calmness, peace,19:17
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lack of noise, lack of a smell in the air leads to an existential crisis19:24
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and a compulsive need to recreate India wherever they move to. That is why when you even when you go to a million-doll get million-dollar house ghettos in the19:33
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western society occupied by Indians and other third world people you you face19:39
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familiar smells and noise and chaos they desperately know need those smells and chaos and a constant hustle and19:47
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bustle they create neverending emotionalism fruitless conflicts and intellectual19:55
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inbreeding in those ghettos in in the western society.20:00
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When I was in the Manchester Business School, um we were given um the the FOB, the electric electronic fob to enter the university whenever we wanted to 2420:09
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hours a day. Um uh we the the fellow immigrants I talked with, we always wondered if British were20:17
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so stupid that they that they trusted us. This was so unusual, so completely unusual for us.20:25
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Most of these people, however, most of these immigrants would never try to grasp the emotional significance of20:32
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trust and gratitude. Worse, they discovered as time passed by that complaining often led to material20:40
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benefits. That the only thing that genuinely cared for in the multicultural west.20:49
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Once a friend of mine and I went for a drive in Manchester. My friend had had a couple of drinks too many. He ran a red light.20:58
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We were pulled over by the police. I was completely stunned by the respect with which the police treated us, treated my21:06
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friend. In India, the police would have humiliated and exploited even the passengers who were who had no no21:13
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business in the game. U abusing and exploiting uh the weak was and is a way of life in India. Of course, because my21:21
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friend friend had um high alcohol level, he was arrested. The policeman who arrested him of said that instead of21:30
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leaving me on the highway, he would be happy to give me a ride to the police station uh if I wanted to do something else from there on. I said, "Yes, I will21:37
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come with you." So, I sat next to the policeman in the car.21:41
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Now this was a year into my life in the United Kingdom but I was emotionally overwhelmed21:49
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that on the way to the police station I talked with him this police guy how the same situation would have turned out in India. Uh the cycle of abuse and21:58
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exploitation and humiliation they they would they would have inflicted on the driver and the passengers.22:05
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U now those days I used to live in a very high crime area of Manchester. I was I had no money. Uh the police would follow me late at night with just they22:14
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would just follow me while I walked. Um I asked this policeman who was driving me to the police station why did they never stop me to ask me questions on22:22
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what I was doing. And he he told me that they followed me to ensure my safety but more importantly they had no authority to stop me without a legitimate cause.22:34
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For the first time in my life, I was beginning to grasp the British respect for personal space.22:42
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Now I my intention was not to manipulate the policeman at that time, but after making my friends uh what he did was he22:49
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got my friend to sit for an hour or two to sober up and without charging him, he let us go.22:56
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Um uh I began to realize over a period of time that while those in those in power in the United Kingdom often23:03
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applied the law with flexibility considering the spirit behind it, I guess the policemen realized that we were decent fellows. He he did not23:12
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really want to pursue that anymore. Um in India, every single law is wielded as a tool for exploitation and predation.23:21
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There's no exception.23:23
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Now I will soon elaborate on how the positive aspects that the west um contributed to India uh has been have23:30
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been all perverted. Um so we often talk about how prosperity and education will actually benefit these poor countries.23:38
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That's a myth. That's fellacious. It does not work and I will expand on that.23:44
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But the problem is that how do you change the underpinning irrationality and immorality of those people? How do23:52
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you remove the operating system of magical thinking and implant that mind with rational thinking? And because24:00
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British are no longer in charge, the situation has continued to worsen.24:06
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Statistics fail to resonate in the Indian psyche. There is no sense of gray24:12
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area among Indians. Everything is perceived as black or white with no appreciation for nuance.24:21
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This lack of pro proportionality leads to indecisiveness and inability to value things. In the24:28
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end, unrestrained emotions drive their lives even of the intelligent people. I carried I carried the same a part of the24:36
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same mindset with me when I moved to the UK. Realigning my thinking with reason, morality and western values was a cispian task.24:48
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In India, I attended one of the top engineering colleges and believed myself to be very creative, decisive and well-grounded.24:57
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But as I started witness witnessing social interactions in Manchester and behaviors of people in the United25:04
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Kingdom, I I I I started to realize that even a grocery store grocery shop operator had more confidence and was more decisive.25:16
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I realized my cloud my mind was clouded with confused thinking, conflicting motivations they were which were implanted in me as growing up and rules25:25
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lacking a principled foundation. Now imagine working on that kind of mind.25:31
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Imagine the layers and layers of confused worldviews, behavioral patterns and dishonest scheming tendency your25:38
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upbringing in India ingrains you in with. Despite my best intentions, shaking them off and rewiring my25:46
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thinking took decades, not years, decades. Even if I believe that something was good, it was often still25:53
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even if a belief was is still good, I of it was of often still based on irrational or magical thinking uh26:01
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principles. uh if I can you call those principles an erroneous belief I became aware of and tried to change clashed with other26:10
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deeply ingrained beliefs and behavioral patterns. It was a cispian task. It was like trying to change a broken brick in26:18
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a castle of my beliefs and worldviews um without destabilizing the entire structure.26:26
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However, with time and consistent effort, I noticed that I started to sleep better and felt mentally freer26:33
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despite facing severe financial crisis and often going hungry. My body started to change and the mental cloud that had26:41
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cled my thoughts began to lift. A reassuring sense that those around me26:48
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had my back was immensely helpful. Now remember in in India your family and friends are your biggest enemies.26:58
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[clears throat and snorts] Um um strangely um a chronic stress that afflicted me started to fade away as27:07
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well. Um India continues to be one of the most stressed countries on the planet. Most of the third world countries are um my grandmother told me27:16
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two things u to which I thought were very backward-looking. something that I have changed my views on and I have come27:23
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to side with her ways of thinking. She believed that some people needed to stay on the edge of his starvation because if given more they would create problems.27:35
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Despite being one of the most egalitarian people I knew, befriending her chauffeer and Taylor, she would remind me that not everyone deserved a27:43
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seat at the table unless he was truly fit for it. Human rights is a western concept that is incomprehensible to27:51
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Indians. They fail to understand personal space and respect for the individual. Is speaking to them about rights um even negative rights. I'm not28:00
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talking about positive right even about negative rights only leads to confusion.28:05
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They fail to differentiate between negative and positive rights. When taught about negative rights what will they do? Because remember the underpinninging the substrata is28:14
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irrationality and immorality and a absence of values. They glean only the selfserving part of the negative rights.28:22
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For example, when people are taught about property rights, what do they glean out of it? They learn to protect their property but fail to recognize28:31
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rights of others. Women when they are taught about that rape is a violation begin to perceive rape in everything and28:40
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use it as a tool to exploit men. Most of the filed rape cases in India are today fake.28:48
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As as Indians are introduced to the concept of rights, their minds instead of getting some sense out of those28:56
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negative rights, their minds start to shift from uh focusing on their rested lives to and accepting their rest life29:03
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as fate. They start adopting a victim mentality.29:08
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That's where my grandmom was coming from.29:12
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So here is the problem with Indians. You cannot teach them anything good until the foundations of morality, rationality, causality, and other29:20
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western values have first been laid in their minds. How would you do that job?29:24
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I don't know how you can do it. Without these foundations, the fruit of the western civilization only serve to turn29:32
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their hedonistic tendencies into something more malevolent.29:37
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every civilizational fruit, education, western clothing, prosperity, western institutions have been perverted in India. [clears throat]29:45
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The left the institutions left behind um by the British have been hollowed out become purely predatory and sadistic.29:53
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This occurred because in post British India those in power, price, expediency and resource acquisition. Remember their instinct is all about money and sex.30:03
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They have no interest in ideas. they have no interest in anything spiritual.30:08
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Um they see acquisition of resources as the sole purpose of their lives. Today India lacks even the vague rule of law30:17
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that existed before the arrival of Europeans. This is why in my view when India has fallen apart and it will fall30:24
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apart and a Taliban-like system comes into exist in in in in India from the ashes it will be an improvement on what India is today.30:36
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Uh I'll continue talking about how the good things that the western civilization offered to India have been perverted. uh without western30:44
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missionaries, Christianity has been nourished by uh Indian Indian superstitions and magical thinking um30:51
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and has become voodoo. Um given the lack of interest in ideas that Indians have a lack of interest that they have in30:59
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abstract thinking, grammar is unnecessary to them. English for most people have become pigeon.31:07
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Western western education and western clothing have been adopted purely from a cargo cult mentality. The focus is on31:15
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obtaining certificates, putting on western clothes and they think that is all that matters. The skills behind those certificates is completely immaterial to their minds.31:26
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Um they they completely fail to see education as a path to intellectual growth or as a means to become better31:34
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human beings. Um now what happens to education applied on31:44
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irrational mind u which processes um information through magical thinking.31:50
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Education becomes burdens burdensome. It burdens your mind making educated Indians worse than their uneducated31:58
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counterparts. They function as rigid cogs. Cogs not understanding the meaning and value of their actions. They are32:07
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micro compromises in a complex society may be untraceable but result in horrible outcomes. I worry32:15
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about what why those max 787 fell from the skies and why forest fires are so32:23
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many these days. I wonder what happened what what is behind it. In economics there's a concept called middle income32:30
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trap. I prefer to call India's situation low income trap. It will stay here and it will get worse with time. Now let's32:39
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talk about another western concept prosperity. Uh prosperity has led to not led to social peace. Um it hasn't become32:48
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a platform for intellectual or spiritual growth in that country. Indians do not understand the concept of comforts32:56
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either. So they cannot use their money for comforts. They build garish houses um only to show off to other people and33:05
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to control those weaker than them. Um was the easy prosperity of recent decades which is essentially a result of33:14
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western technological advancements has disincentivized the pursuit of rationality and morality. So now Indians33:22
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are actually becoming more irrational and more immoral. More immoral because they just don't need to. the causality in their minds is functioning the the33:31
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other way. Social media serves as a platform for exchanging myths and superstitions. Today is India is more33:39
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entrenched in magical thinking and superstitions than it ever was in when I was a child. Now again another fruit of33:47
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western civilization was the institutions. Those elevated Indians elevated to higher position become arrogant and sadistic.33:56
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This behavior stems less from a desire to mask their incompetence and psychological weakness and more from a34:03
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genuine belief that arrogance and sadism define power and class. Think about it.34:09
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They think arrogance and being sadistic is have being classy.34:15
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Additionally, it serves as a mechanism to cope with deepseated inferiority complex. I talked about the the the34:23
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constant um brutalizing of people who are weaker who who are in weaker position and everyone is weaker at some34:31
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point of time. Um um34:38
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the the wealth that the when Indians look at the western society and when they look at the wealth it hypnotizes them. um they fail to understand the34:48
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underpinnings of that circus success because they are only interested in the facade and that's all they can unsee.34:55
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They when they they view the west they equate westernization with Hollywood stereotypes. Girls wearing short clothing, promiscuity, uh drinking and35:04
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using drugs, flaunting wealth. Um and generally an a hedonistic way of life.35:10
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They see in their souls. They see what their souls want to them to see. In Hollywood, India see a reflection of35:17
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their pre-colonial, pre Victorian moral hedonic culture.35:25
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So here is uh where I conclude my talk and this is the whole narrative was to come to this conclusion. Um and the the35:33
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basic issue with understanding the Indian mind is that it is irrational and immoral and it does not hold any of the35:41
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western values like honor, loyalty, dear to itself. They don't understand the concept of truth. They view the universe35:49
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as arbitrary and engage in magical thinking. They cannot think beyond. Now this is where animalistic instincts operate. When you don't have a35:57
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civilizational values, animalistic instincts operate. They cannot think beyond sex and money.36:04
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Uh but this should be expected and this is why I think there's a problem with why things cannot change. This is what happens with a society with an IQ of 77.36:14
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Low IQ people cannot hold any values in their psyche.36:20
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Driven by animalistic instincts and expediency, they rationalize everything to serve their materialistic and self-s serving purposes. Every western value36:29
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given to them has been caric caricaturized and corrupted to these ends which is materialism.36:38
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Uh they have no interest in honor, faith, spirituality, loyalty, truth or truth or um or any of the western values. They have no ten commandments.36:48
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Western people think that ten commandments just exist in nature. They don't. Civilization does not exist in nature. They are so unaware of these36:57
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values that they remain oblivious about these values even if they are forc even if these values are forcefully presented37:04
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to them. And there's nothing you can do about this except to understand how immigration from India and the rest of the third world will impact the west.37:13
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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you very