1. As another Prime Minister of the UK steps down in just six weeks, the drama of parliamentary democracy heats up in the UK once again, and showing us that democracy is beneficial most of all - not to the public and the citizens - but to the dalals of the system. #LizTrussPM
2. The system is as claimed, 'by', 'for' the people and it is the 'people' who are mentioned again and again in their legal documents and the politico-legal language, and it is the people who are the least concern of this system.
3. Democracy is a self-perpetuating system, with a string of institutions attached to it including the judiciary, executive, legislature, police and the press which exist to 'separate' the powers that are, but in actual reality they are the real benefiters of the system.
4. Institutions whose defined job is to 'keep an eye' on the system won't be able to justify their existence if the system worked perfectly. Their vested interest is for system to malfunction so that their own & permanent 'existence' is justified. Sicker the system the better.
5. It is a system designed to keep a certain class in employment. It isn't much different from French aristocracy against which the Revolution happened. Yes the clothes are less ridiculous. Yes, the public language is more flowery, but the 'labor divided' system is for itself.
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1. The Paradigm Shift that #Kantara is Ushering into Hindu Society
Kantara like any civilizational moment unites & divides. Any such moment produces a universal emotion in population, which in this case is Hindus. And so it unites. But it also divides, for an important purpose.
2. Its reactions are so sharp that it is impossible to be neutral. You are either for it or against it. And so it divides its own people in two camps and that division is for a reason.
3. Any such civilizational moment is on the cusp of next paradigmatic shift. And that comes after a great internal struggle. What was gray until yesterday is no longer possible. Most choose to cross the boundary and to reach where they had never ventured before.
1. Temple Heritage of India – by @artist_rama – Ramakrishna Kongalla, or as we all know him as the Tourism Teacher
Friend and great scholar of Hindu iconography, sculpture and architecture, Ramakrishna Kongalla comes out with his first work.
2. The wonderfully written work is the result of his constant labor for many years to interpret Hindu iconography to contemporary Hindus to enable them to understand their own culture and its symbols more deeply.
3. Centuries of apathy and destruction of our heritage by the enemies of Sanātana dharma has resulted in a Hindu population which has no idea of what the Hindu symbols mean anymore and thus temple going is devoid of much understanding. (Not commenting on darshana aspect here.)
And yet some would come up with ‘faults’ in the movie showing their ‘aesthetic elitism’ in the words of Jataayu Bangaluru. The ‘reserves’ are many. And they are so frivolous you can sense that the Deva doesn’t want them to see.
2. Some says the plot is not original. Okay. It sounds like someone complaining about next Vishnu avatara, saying the avatara concept is not original and so ‘maza nahin aaya…’
3. For some performances were over-the-top. Especially the performance where Guliga comes on Śiva. Those who complain about this have not even had a single brush with deities in their entire lives. Deities ARE over-the-top. They exist in realms which have no need for mannerisms.
1. When Gods Wake Up – What the movie ‘#Kantara’ means for Hindus
Raw! Visceral! Existential! Unprecedented! And flagrantly Hindu! That is what Kantara is, and oh how! It is a celebration of ‘Being Hindu’. It is a movie made by the Deva himself. This is how.
2. Kantara completely inverts the way the colonized Hindus have been interpreting their own world, culture and civilization to the world in the past 200 years and inverts it to bring it back to its original position – fearless, unconscious recognition of the Divine all around us!
3. It is not a story told by humans about the Devas. It is a story which the Deva tells to humans, from a divine point of view. Since our contact with the West, Hindus have been trying to ‘interpret’ their dharma, rituals, customs & tradition in the language of the colonizers.
Aamir Khan once again shows he is no different from medieval Islamic invaders who just wanted to destroy Hindu traditions. But the question is: why do some of our own support such things in the name of ‘changing tradition’?
2. The line ‘Sadiyon se jo pratha chalti aayi hai… wahi chalti rehti hai… aisa kyun?’
We need to break down the mentality behind this line.
The implied accusation here is AGAINST something which does not change too rapidly; and FOR something which always keeps changing.
3. In both cases, the ‘why’ is not only forgotten but rendered meaningless. Why should something change which has been working for ages? In fact, as the Lindy effect says, something which has been working for thousands of years has proven its worth by existing for that long.