Food4Thought:

The whole of liberal politics is based on the premise that people want to be free, equal & peaceful. For liberal elites this is the self-evident truth. Nothing more needs to be said for liberal politics is the obvious choice 4 liberals & people.

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Now consider a predatory elite: 1 that believes it is the ubermensch, and is entitled to the labour of others to feed itself and to live off the wages of others. It doesn’t believe in equality but hierarchy, it believes in freedom 4 self not others, & is prepared 2 use violence.

The predatory elite has no use for liberal politics or liberal elites. The liberal elites are the real enemy b/c they occupy the same sociological niche that the predatory elite occupies.

The predatory elites fashions its own discourse to keep the sheep engaged and quiescent.

Of necessity, the predatory elite’s discourse will privilege servitude to a abstract entity like “nation” which is secretly controlled by it. It will find an idiom to justify hiearchy and to control upward mobility. It will keep classes divided. It will keep women under control.

In addition to nationalism, it will use the inherent religiosity of people to control the sheep and shape/reinforce its narratives.

It is in the fitness of things that it will disrupt and indeed ban any other alternative narrative. It will capture schools 2 perpetuate its own.

I could go on but you get the idea that a predatory elite has to do certain things in order to structure society in a way that it serves its purpose.

And that this will be vastly different from that of the liberal elite.

There are 2 things to note here. The class interests of the 2 elites are not very different. And they both employ controlled narratives to shape the perception of sheep and keep them enslaved.

Except in one sense. The liberal elite is more fair to the sheep, allows more …

.. upward mobility and gives a far larger share of the pie and takes proportionately less itself.

Now, liberals and predators are fighting each other over who should rule the sheep.

What are the predators saying after 70 years of liberal rule?

The predators are saying to liberals:

1. You are bloody idiots, class & caste traitors who in foolish liberalism, gave away too much freedom to the sheep, to a point where they are challenging us, gave them too much in wages, left too little for us.

2. We need to put you swine away and regain control of the sheep in the proper way our ancestors did 4 thousand of years. We are going to teach them religion, respect for authority, tighten up on wages and save more 4 ourselves that we can educate our spawn for a better future.

3. So shut up, sit back and if you don’t make too much trouble, we will give your share of spoils.

That’s basically the predator elites proposition. Note the sheep are dumb. They have no say in the argument.

What is the liberal counter proposal from liberals?

Guess. … make an effort. I will wait.

Not 1 tweet in reply. The was my point. The liberal elite has no counter proposal. Zilch. Neither RG nor ST has one.

That’s why liberals have no political plan to fight the predator elite. They are outraging with any idea of of how to proceed.

Fact of the matter is unlesss liberals are ready to embrace the sheep as brothers in arm, not notionally, but really, there is no way to fight the predatory elite.

You cannot fight them by appeal 2 constitutional morality, good sense, enlightened self interest, nothing.

You have to rouse & organise the sheep, bring them awareness, involve them in the struggle. Why do I say this.

Congress represents the same predatory elite as BJP/RSS. As I said before, they are the same people. Congress will not betray its own class interests.

So the predatory elite is now actually asking for a revolution. In this day and age, such revolutions are very easy from abroad unless you impose draconian measures to control information as in Iran or North Korea. What that does to your economy however is no secret.

Modi is painting India into a corner where it will have no good options.

Think about ir.

And then let’s debate a way out of the gathering tenebrosity.

Remember the point I made about Indian public intellectuals? It was in this context. What I have said here is not rocket science. Every thinking Indian will have figured this out.

But Indian intellectuals are so safety conscious that an anonymous handle has 2 make this pint.