The content presents a deeply critical perspective on Indian culture and society, arguing that it is fundamentally characterized by corruption, a lack of ethical values like fairness and justice, and a pervasive "might is right" mentality that leads to widespread exploitation and suffering.
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I was at the university in India. A boy,
a young boy, a male boy was sodomized
and raped by the janitors.
I reported the man matter to the
authorities. I went, I took this boy to
the police and to the university officials.
No one, not one person
stepped forward to take an action.
something that was very straightforward,
something that was within their powers
to take actions on.
In fact, the authorities and the fellow
students threatened me with grave
consequences if I pursued the matter further.
further.
Now, this is what confuses me even now.
I understand it intellectually, but
emotionally I don't get it. It confuses
me and frustrates me no end that in a
situation I just described where even if
I were corrupt um I would actually find
a soulen enriching experience by booking
a culprit
properly because I knew I wasn't I
wouldn't be getting bribes and I knew
that there wouldn't be any connections
involved. India operates on two fuels
corruption and connection.
Um why did they not book that case?
Indian authorities would do absolutely
nothing, not even lift a finger unless
there's a material reward, money or sex involved.
involved.
Their apathy is a bottomless pit.
Now here is the problem.
Doing your job in that culture is seen
as effeminate.
by those in authority. Doing your job
means that you are the you are a
weak-minded person. You are not mature.
If you can sherk from your
responsibilities, you are considered a
mature in that culture. There's no pride
or honor in doing what is right. There's
no concept of pride and honor in that society.
society.
But it goes a bit further, quite a bit
further. If you call a CL plumber for
repairs, he comes,
he will see it beneath him to leave
without creating a mess.
He will deliberately do a shoddy job
even if it would not have taken him more
time to do a better job.
Why does this happen? A complex web of
arrogance, egotism, civility, castisma,
tribalism, sexism, rigid dos and don'ts,
dogmas, and magical thinking drives what
they do,
leaving them emotionally constipated and
incapable of making a rational or moral decision.
decision.
Fairness. Now, these are all European
concepts. You think that these are parts
of you firmament they aren't. The the
concepts like fairness, justice, trust,
empathy and impartiality are completely
alien concepts to the Indian mind. They
cannot differentiate between right and
wrong. They can't simply can't
differentiate between what is right and wrong.
wrong.
They do not have the concepts the
western value concepts that you think
are a part of the natural
existence. They aren't.
Indians are indifferent even when there
is no cost involved in doing the right
thing in delivering fairness or justice.
I would go as far as by saying that if
they could do if they could deliver
fairness and justice without any
personal cost, they would still prefer
not to do it
because they see doing the right thing
as a sign of weakness. I guess anyone
who has been to India on a budget of
less than $50 a day would recognize what
I'm saying here.
If you spend $500 a day, you will never
understand India.
We were as growing up indoctrinated to
be submissive.
The indoctrination is so profound that
Indians address even those slightly
above them in authority. As sir,
their behavior tends to tends to be survileentic
survileentic
sophentic and ingratiating
and they call you sir even after they
have moved through the western countries
for years because that's how deep the
hardwiring of submissiveness in among Indians
Indians
but this you should never ever take
they're calling you as so as a sign of
respect because respect is another
concept that is alien to Indians. When
they call you sir, it reflects their
view of you as a stronger person in the interaction
interaction
consistent their consistent with their
mindset of might is right. They will
demean you the moment you are in a
In this system, in the system of India,
you are either higher or lower in the
pecking order. You're either an abuser
or the abused.
Achieving equality is impossible in that society.
society.
Once a person has started living in that
country for a while, he soon realizes
from experience that saying please and
thank you are signs of weaknesses and
reserved for those who wish to demean themselves.
Indians cannot maintain the institutions
established by the British. These
institutions have been completely
hollowed out and corrupted.
They have become predatory.
The constitutions and laws hold no value
in that country. The only forces driving
these institutions are bribes and connections.
connections.
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 of
the judge. That's how openly bribe is
conducted in that country. Um
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 of
bribe changes. That's the only thing
that matters in that country. Street
smarts culturally street smartness is
highly valued in that country. uh
criminals who managed to evade justice
are socially celebrated. People will in
social c uh settings
praise those people who were criminal
and evaded justice.
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.
rented.
He declared that his his dead body will
would leave the property and that's what
actually happened.
Rationality is is absent in that
country. Um when someone is cheated and
trust is nowhere in that country, he
rarely seeks justice against the
cheater. Rarely. Instead, he
rationalizes his cheating of others. Men
abuse women. Women abuse children. Women
are no innocent in that country. Women
abuse children. Children abuse animals.
Animals attack whosoever
they can.
Higher cast individuals abuse lowercast
individuals. But then it's not a linear
one-way higher cast to lower cast issue
either because lowercast people fight
like hyenas
to determine which of those lower cast
groups is higher than the other lowerass group.
group.
It is a perpetual cycle of irrationality
and arbitrariness.
People lie openly.
Everyone knows, everyone lies, but
Most people feel no cognitive dissonance
because they cannot distinguish between
truth and falsehood. And I'm going to
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.
They convince themselves of their lies
so much that they can no longer
differentiate between myth and reality,
fact and fiction.
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 I
cannot imagine what about India that is
not dystopian.
George Oel was actually born in India by
the way.
conversations in that country are driven
solely for personal gain with a
steadfast belief in a zero sum game or
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.
Those who are closest to you will turn
out to be your biggest enemies.
Everyone in that country built solid is
strong high
fences around his property. 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 sleep without a
fence on your on your property and next
day morning your land would have been
encroach encroached on and you can do
nothing about it.
Um over the last 33 years uh since I
first left India I have traveled to
almost 100 countries and to many of them repeatedly.
repeatedly.
Um this in my view has given me a
perspective on societies.
Uh India which is what I'm here to talk
about today is the grandfather of the
third world. The third world has two out
of three human beings on the planet.
800 million people in India in India
which is equivalent to the combined
population of North America and 27
nations of European Union rely on free
grains from the government.
Onethird of Indian children below the
age of five are stunted and that's an
exaggerated figure in the sense that the
number is actually much higher.
I have never met one never met one
Indian who is not constantly
plagued by concerns stemming from lack
of trust. He cannot trust his family. He
cannot trust his friends. He cannot
trust the institutions.
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
expecting those in authority
to perform their duties
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.
That's invariably the case. No
government person or person in authority
even in private sector thinks that he's
there to serve other people to provide
the service.
He thinks he gets he's in that position
for personal gain whether through
bribery which is uh omniresent in that
country and shamelessly asked for uh
sadisma uh which is a perversion of
human character and pursuit of
reverence. They want you to prostrate in
front of them the authorities in in the
country. The only person who shows
respect in India is the one and was the
one who had who accepts a lower
subservient position in life in the hierarchy.
hierarchy.
I have never I'm 56 years old. I have
never witnessed a situation in India
where someone in authority took the
initiative to address a problem he was responsible
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