the caste jati system is obsolete in the post industrial world. we can keep crying (because industrialization is interlinked with colonialism in Indian context), but the failure of H society to adapt to the new world is at the root of deracination.
https://twitter.com/Infinitchy/status/1423540001569054722
social order is tightly coupled with social justice. Once industrial revolution happened, H society lost means of providing social justice, because market economy became norm. That lead to inevitable collapse of social order.
but crying about market, industrial revolution etc is meaningless and futile. So is sticking to older notions of social order and dreaming about its return as if they were some golden era. No. Times change. The world change. There is no going back.
primitive, pre-industrial social systems had their place in the sun in a non globalized world. but that world is long, long gone. and folks need to wake up and smell the coffee. Nobody (except the ultra rich and the desperately poor) would want to go back in technology matrix.
I urge everyone to read about the rules introduced by the Tokugawa shogunate in medieval Japan. It was designed to keep Japan isolated, but after 250 yrs, it lead to Meiji restoration and near total destruction of "tradition" as they understood it at the time.
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