Tuesday, 25 April 2017

New slave morality

An education system that emphasizes meekness and obeisance to authority and a historically engrained sense of caste roles in society is currently proving detrimental to the interest of the modern malayali; be it in his work environment or home environment. At his corporate job his ingrained sense of reverence to authority serves to put him in a position of never ending moral perturbation. His psyche fails to comprehend his role in the new establishment as a commodity. The larger historicity of his link to the old establishment affirms in him his role as that of a slave or a person of lower caste; morally obligated to please his masters. 

The malayali must realize that the old establishment is paving the way to a new establishment.  This establishment takes root from the self esteem movement of America and as such favors people who have been educated in an environment that gives prominence to the growth of self esteem. As a consequence to this emphasis, self esteem grows in them as a moral feeling (this is in contrast to the casteist moral feeling prevailing in Middle class India). This self esteem lends itself to Americans excelling at the new establishment. He an impartially negotiate the position of the commodity that he is without casteist moral hesitancy. 

The middle class malayalee inevitably will have to change his way of thinking to align himself with this new reality. He must own up to the inevitability and accept the the consequences (including the most evil one of individualism) and accept death of the old slave establishment and the growth of the new slave  establishments. 


Friday, 14 April 2017

What scares us.

The  fears of both conservatives and liberals are reactive. Only they react in fear to different things. A person of liberal mindset is  programmed to fear authority. So a news article on the lynching of someone for their religious view would effect a liberal  more than a case of a shoot out or a mass killing or a lone wolf terror attack. The random act violence by a lunatic or a fringe group is not as scary to them as the wilful action of an establishment.

For a conservative however, it's disorder they fear the most. A random act of violence by a fringe element is seen as a threat to the establishment that they look to for security and symbolic meaning. Any act of violence perpetuated by it or in its name is a necessary cost for the survival of the establishment. Ultimately it can be written off.

Saturday, 8 April 2017

The temporality of will.

In our assumptions of will there is one aspect that is overlooked. That is time. We as so accustomed to seeing the so called will manifest in timeframes that are conducive to the clock rate of our minds that we shut ourselves to the possibility of a natural will manifesting in a much larger or smaller time scale. It would be a worthwhile thought experiment to think of a will manifesting over a thousand year. An awareness in nature that spans multiple individuals species or generation. A flash of consciousness lasting a thousand years to form.