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Science | Equal Opportunity | History | Nutrition | Self-Sovereignty | Divinity | Permaculture

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Truth Signal@de_bose·
I’ve a Bayesian theory around why “believe in science” and “believe in technocratic progress” are so high, even if the counter-evidences are strong. Thread 🧵 1/N
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> Australia is a fortress with unlimited natural resources. Let’s terraform the whole thing! Incentivise small business, families, creativity. Create 40 new states and let them self-govern. Australians are pioneers and innovators. Not economic serfs. Only country that has achieved something closer to this, is US after a brutal civil war kicking out all Tories, before the Fed got created in 1913 But individual communities can do a lot. - Terraform basics: Instead of going in outback, building a sustainable Hydrogen city with solar & waters from aquifers, offering tax credit to companies in order to move there, setting up innovation hubs for BioTech, AI & EnvTech across these sustainable cities, creating massive job opportunities, a bunch of politicians and silver-spoon-fed businessmen are angry on their abysmal ROI from commercial REs. First snapshot is picked from a now-obsolete AU government document Politicians and majority of the immigrant populace (mandatory psychometric test to allow migrants with value alignment, not some nepotist technocrat) lack vision: Second pic is artistic vision of sustainable desert/outback cities.
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IMPERATOR@IMPERATORAUS·
Forget Mars. We need to start terraforming the Australian interior and turn our beautiful nation into a global superpower. We have the room, the resources, and are in the perfect geographic location.
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There is no “manager” tree in a forest. There is no ROI measured for the services of nutrient exchange, air O2, holding soil etc. Value is exchanged through distributed network. Nature is distributed. Governance is distributed and so as the incentives. And, we call ourselves “intelligent” by allowing someone to create a central bank 1000miles away, who would devalue our local currency of value exchange at a political whim based on who is in the top of the pyramid. LOL. Nature is not a pyramid.
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Massimo@Rainmaker1973·
In the 1990s, Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard made a groundbreaking discovery that challenged everything we thought we knew about how forests work. While studying managed forests in British Columbia, she noticed something puzzling: when birch trees were removed to promote the growth of valuable Douglas firs, the firs did not flourish as expected — they actually struggled and grew more slowly. Determined to understand why, Simard traced the movement of nutrients using radioactive carbon isotopes. What she found was astonishing. Trees were actively sharing resources through vast underground fungal networks known as mycorrhizae. These delicate, thread-like fungi connect the roots of different trees across the forest floor, forming a complex web that allows the exchange of carbon, water, nutrients, and even chemical signals — sometimes between entirely different species. She discovered that older, larger trees often serve as central "hubs" or "mother trees," supporting younger saplings by redistributing vital resources and helping the entire ecosystem remain resilient. When these key trees are removed, the underground network weakens, and the health of the remaining forest declines. Simard’s research overturned the traditional Darwinian view of forests as battlegrounds of ruthless competition. Instead, she revealed a far more sophisticated reality: forests operate as highly cooperative systems where trees communicate, support one another, and even warn neighboring trees about threats like drought, disease, or insect attacks. What appears to the human eye as a silent, still forest is, in truth, a vibrant, interconnected living network — built not on isolation and rivalry, but on deep connection and mutual aid.
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Competition & Collaboration both exists in Nature. It’s mostly collaboration. We have amplified the competition aspect through our collective greed in a post-money society through a dysfunctional economics. @Rainmaker1973 —- I’ll say it again. Nature was brutal. Nature killed. Nature has scarcity more often than abundance. Humans experienced it. We sought convenience & comfort & abundance. We build layers of Matrix one by one, and was able to create a man-made world full of comfort (and later abundance) We re-wrote history, anthropology etc that world before 1800 was full of fealty and barbarism. Science rescued us. And now $cience and fake money, is manipulating our so-called intelligence that, this is “progress”. All we ever ended up doing is making a pyramidal system where top-of-the-pyramid prospers on the back of the vast majorly at the pyramid base. And we have created a system that reflects that. We forgot to read Nature that, beyond its predator-food threats, nature is a mostly co-existence or inter connectedness. Our over-reaction to the “nature kills” didn’t allow us to be stewards. Instead we have chosen to be exploiters of “resources” When one organism, or part of it grows too fast without caring for the rest, it’s called cancer. Human civilisation shares 4 attributes of cancer. Search for papers on that. Our education, narratives, economics etc are all anchored around to sell you promises on how you can be “part of top of the pyramid too” and enjoy prosperity without caring for the rest. Nothing can be done about it: our society is built on the foundation of pyramids and exploitation.
Truth Signal@de_bose

Humans are the only divergent species that would brainwash peers/self-delude/self-bondage oneself against an evolutionarily-hostile place/situation just for “economics” or “social status”. Around 85% of global workers are reported to be dissatisfied or hate their jobs. Yet they have to go to office next morning to bear debt/mortgage/status-linked CoL and maintain “social status”. news.gallup.com/opinion/chairm One of the core reasons of dissatisfaction is “I hate my boss and workload and lack-of-meaning” Given human psychology under hierarchical power dynamics and lack of novelty involved in running a company, it comes down to Authenticity / Having Agency Let’s go back to evolutionary biology. Across 300,000 years of human evolution, 95% of human existence was: - Decentralised - Non-hierarchical (or very flat) - Flexible work rhythms - Shared decision-making - Seasonal, not clock-measured - Autonomy-preserving James C. Scott, Against the Grain — early states reduced autonomy significantly compared to hunter-gatherer life. Marshall Sahlins, “The Original Affluent Society” — hunter-gatherers worked ~15–20 hours/week with high autonomy. Human neuropsychology (and animals alike) evolved for autonomy, self-direction, and distributed decision-making. Not for rigid hierarchies, repetitive labor, or imposed meaninglessness. Sure, there was short-term flight-and-fight stressors, but no long-term self-delusional self-bandage to meaningless work. “Industrial Revolution” (IR) it was not, barring few improvements in ACUTE healthcare/immunotherapy etc) changed that: - Time discipline (E.P. Thompson, “Time, Work Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism”) - Factory discipline - Hierarchical supervision - Fragmented tasks (Adam Smith > Taylorism > Fordism) - Loss of meaning in work - External metrics and surveillance E.P. Thompson shows that the single largest psychological transformation of the Industrial Revolution was: “The subordination of human rhythms to mechanical time.” That is an explicit loss of agency. Unless small-scale agriculture made impossible by mechanisation (so that peasants can go to city to work in factories / tech were the premise of many economists’ BS) and early migrants to cities showed TFR, there was no way we could have self-deluded ourselves into this IR-driven mechanistic & soulless existence. Being Authentic and having Agency is core to life, healing and all animals. It’s the humans who continue to brainwash others (as an example accounts like @kimmonismus who gains agency by running a media business on AI but never worked as engineering/AI) and self-delude to shove a IR-driven mechanistic life through everyone’s throats. PS: There should be studies on “Lack of Authenticity / Meaning / Agency” as the root emotional causal factor behind many chronic diseases including cancer. Agency / Fertility / Health — are real metrics on which modernity is failing. However, a set of billionaires and e/acc accounts are trying to “manufacture consent” for tech accelerationism Let’s keep deluding ourselves for “stock portfolio goes up, shiny tech and cool AI” Kernis, M. H., & Goldman, B. M. (2006). A multicomponent conceptualization of authenticity: Theory and research. In M. P. Zanna (Ed.), Advances in experimental social psychology, Vol. 38, pp. 283–357). Elsevier Academic Press. 40/N

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Massimo@Rainmaker1973·
@Contexto_Visual But, we live in competition, every single day and we are taught to compete, since we are kids. This is my fundamental doubt about the real intelligence of humanity. Humanity has neither real intelligence and probably nor freedom: humanity is here for a pathetic show.
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Truth Signal@de_bose·
@AmericanVsGov “We” need to belong to a tribe. Its evolutionary requirement fulfilled by few charismatic psychopaths.
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Kaecey🇺🇸
Kaecey🇺🇸@AmericanVsGov·
Why do you belong to a political party? Seriously. I want you to think about that for a second. Not the rehearsed answer. Not "because the other side is worse." Why? There are multiple political parties in this country, but only two get airtime on TV. Only two get government funding. Only two get on the debate stage. And most of you openly admit you're choosing "the lesser of two evils." You're literally telling me your choice is evil... and you're okay with that. The men who built this country warned us about exactly this. George Washington called political parties the people's "worst enemy." In his Farewell Address, he warned that parties would allow a small group to seize power and make themselves the masters of the government. Tell me that doesn't sound like 2026. John Adams wrote, "There is nothing I dread so much as the division of the Republic into two great parties." He said it would lead to the most "horrid evils." 230 years later, we're living in it. James Madison called them factions and said they were a dangerous byproduct of liberty that would allow one group to dominate everyone else. My personal favorite founding father, Thomas Jefferson, said "If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all." That one hits different when you think about how many people today would burn a friendship to the ground over a political party. Even Alexander Hamilton, one of the most partisan founders, warned that factions would be exploited by demagogues seeking personal power. Every single one of them feared the same thing. That party loyalty would replace civic virtue. That politicians would prioritize their faction's victory over the nation's well being. That parties would divide the country into permanent hostile camps. That foreign powers would exploit the division. That compromise would become impossible. That demagogues would whip up partisan passion to seize control. Sound familiar? Now look at what these two parties actually do. Every election cycle they come to you with the same pitch. "Give us your money or the other side wins." "This is the most important election of our lifetime." "We can't let them destroy the country." So you donate. Millions of you. Billions of dollars. Where does it go? Consultants. Ad agencies. Political operatives. Media buys on the same networks that give them free coverage. Private jets. Fancy dinners. Lavish retreats. It doesn't go to fixing your roads. It doesn't go to lowering your grocery bill. It doesn't go to securing the border. It goes to keeping the machine running so they can come back next cycle and ask for more. These aren't political parties. They're fundraising operations disguised as public service. "Save us from the mess we created" is not a platform. It's a scam. And every two years, you fall for it because they've convinced you the other side is scarier than they are. The founding fathers didn't just warn us about this. They begged us not to let it happen. And we did it anyway. So I'll ask again. Why do you belong to a political party? What has it actually done for you? Not what has it promised. What has it delivered? If you can't answer that honestly, maybe it's time to stop giving them your money, your energy, and your loyalty. They don't deserve it. They Both Suck.
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@mattvanswol Money is fake too. Fiat. That’s the root issue. Money is the foundation of value exchange. If money itself is fake, everything else built in top of it, would be fake too. Economists and leaders won’t ever acknowledge that.
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Matt Van Swol
Matt Van Swol@mattvanswol·
I think I know why everything sucks... ...and it's because everything is fake We are getting fake college degrees that cost 4 years and six figures that teach you fake education and get you fake jobs. We are eating fake food, with fake ingredients, funded by fake research. We are scrolling through fake lives, with fake relationships, who take fake, curated vacations to promote brands that make fake products. We are voting for fake candidates, who run on fake promises, inside a fake system that was never designed to fix anything. We are raising kids in fake schools that teach fake history, fake science, which quietly produce fake adults who can't think for themselves. We are watching fake news, about fake crises, produced by fake journalists, for fake outrage. We are borrowing fake money that was printed from nothing, to fund a fake economy that would collapse in an afternoon if people stopped pretending it was real. We are buying fake organic food that's just a paid label, and drinking fake juice with two percent juice in it, and putting fake cheese on cheeseburgers that's just "cheese product" on fake burger meat. We are donating to fake nonprofits where the moeny never makes it to the people and then funding fake foreign aid that buys real weapons to prop up fake governments. We are going to fake therapy that teaches fake coping skills instead of telling you hard truths. We are buying fake furniture made of fake wood that's actually compressed sawdust and glue that looks like wood, ships in fourteen boxes with instructions written in a fake language that isn't quite any language, requires tools it doesn't include, takes 4 hours to build, wobbles on day 1, and is totally destroyed in 6 months. We are downloading fake "free" apps that charge a subscription after three days for AI features that don't work, hidden behind a paywall we didn't see, protected by a privacy policy we didn't read, buried inside Terms of Service written by lawyers specifically so we wouldn't read them, that we agreed to by tapping a button the size of a thumbnail, that gave a company we've never heard of the right to sell our data to companies we'll never hear of, to build a profile on us we'll never see, to influence decisions we'll never know were made. IT. IS. ALL. FAKE. And we all yearn for what was once real. Don't you remember? Did you forget? There was a time with a simple handshake between men was a contract. When bread went stale because... well, that's what real bread does! When kids played outside all day until it was dark, and nobody tracked them. When a family could live off a single income. When music was made by people who LIVED something real and you could feel it. When schools was HARD... and that was the point! When doctors knew your name and your family, they even came to your house, When you bought something once... and it was yours forever. When the chair your grandmother bought once lasted 70 years and she passed it onto your dad. And now nothing is real, and that's why everything sucks.
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Many “nerds” got interested in programming through this, before Corps-Jobs and DEI ruined it.
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Truth Signal@de_bose·
Psychopaths: Leaders/Rulers expert in “48 Laws of Power” Schizophrenics: Marginals, often not interested in power and sycophancy The rest (majority): Followers, Finds psychopaths charismatic and loves sycophancy to trickle some power to them. Marginals should realise that this pattern is as old as humanity. Instead of trying to “wake up” Followers, they should live a self-sovereign and blissful life like a mystic.
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Gavin
Gavin@GavMcCracken·
Schizophrenics have been right about every major conspiracy theory for years. Psychopaths have been taking major losses on the frontlines lately. 5 years ago you were sent to an insane asylum for suggesting the elites had pedophilia trafficking rings. We're making progress.
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Glizzy Gulper@0xGoyim

@GavMcCracken @toiletkingcap @taobanker schizos are in control

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LOL. Taxation originated as a fee to protect private property of rich. Define Rich ? Rich will always use a CPA & Tax Attorney to avoid tax. In guise of “tax the rich”, it’s a taxation to the general public screwing up social mobility even more. More tax to pay more interest on national debt. Good evil strategy.
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Pramila Jayapal
Pramila Jayapal@PramilaJayapal·
Let me break this down simply: We have a greed problem. We can afford Medicare for All. We can afford to house every person sleeping on the street. We can afford to make public college tuition free and guarantee access to universal pre-k to every child in America. The money exists. It's just sitting in the bank accounts of billionaires who write blank checks to corrupt politicians to make sure it stays there. Tax the rich. Fund the people. That's it.
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Majority of that growth as demanded by shareholders, rises from intention to generate higher inflation-adjusted return. CPI is fake. Real inflation numbers are around 13-15%. Move to “Gold Standard”, and high IR, many big business would collapse, small local businesses will thrive. Unchecked growth is a requirement in the Fiat Standard.
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₿en Wehrman
₿en Wehrman@benwehrman·
The deceivers of our world have successfully convinced the majority of humanity that we live on a dead rock, spinning and corkscrewing through an empty void of space at incomprehensible speeds. Thankfully, a spark of enlightenment has taken hold, and the collective human consciousness is beginning to wake up and realize this was all a lie to detach us from our Creator. In reality, Earth is a living, breathing, electromagnetic machine, and YOU are part of its harmonic circuit. Once you understand that we live in a meticulously-engineered realm, you will never look at anything the same again 🌱🌊⚡️
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@itsolelehmann No. There were/are many advanced civilisations. But, you need to modify Drake’s equation with survival stats or probability to avoid self-destruction. There’s a high probability that the window between invention of radio waves and self-destruction is small enough.
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Ole Lehmann
Ole Lehmann@itsolelehmann·
it’s insane we just live with the fact that we are the only advanced civilization among billions of stars we can observe in our universe what a crazy miracle earth seems to be
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Posts like these are idiotic and key to degradation of image of Indians. “Model Minority” A group of Indians have gone to powerful positions in last 20y or so, have created a thick nepotism layer kicking out everyone including other Indians barring sycophants; have created all kinds of issues and low-trust attributes for which they themselves escaped from India. Many Indians from early waves of immigration were more scholarly and understood low-trust issues they escaped from. They mingled well. But the newer wave are more like zionists. “If you are so special, start making the water of the river you worship as Goddess, pure” That would establish the integrity of the nation.
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The fastest growing economy in the world !!

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hoe_math = PsychoMath
hoe_math = PsychoMath@ItIsHoeMath·
This is how 100% of Indians feel about you. Yes, I checked. I never met an Indian who did not feel this way. They feel entitled to be above you in your own country and they constantly belittle you for wishing to keep your way of life instead of gifting it to them for stinking up the place and shitting everywhere. It was cute when there was like 10,000 of them here and they ran their little restaurants but they need to go now. All of them.
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@exQUIZitely Novelty effect of a marginal toy as a hobby. Then the toy became mainstream and graduated to become “boring business software”.
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exQUIZitely 🕹️
exQUIZitely 🕹️@exQUIZitely·
I got my C64 in 1984. One of my earliest memories is the strong desire to understand how it worked. Games obviously had the highest appeal, but I was also curious about what lay “behind” the screen - how things functioned, how they were connected. Not so much from a hardware perspective, but more from how programs actually worked. Naturally, in those days, you would read about programming in magazines, and they often included several pages of code that you could type in to create "your own" program. None of those programs were overly complex or particularly great, but that wasn’t the point. It was simply fascinating to see that if you wrote this, then that happened. If you tweaked a value here, a color would change there. Add an extra parameter and the result looked even better - or it all fell apart, depending on what you changed. I remember one of the earliest programs I wrote in BASIC was a number guessing game. You had 5 guesses and started by entering a number between 1 and 100. The program would then tell you "too high" or "too low" relative to the random number it had generated for that session. What a truly epic experience for a 9-year-old at the time! I changed parameters that were easy to identify in the code, such as the number of tries you had, the range of the random number, and - what made me especially proud - I even modified the computer's replies. Instead of just "too high" or "too low," it would now give more precise feedback (e.g. way too high, too high, a little bit too high, etc.). All of this sounds extremely trivial from today's perspective, but it was a playful way to explore what was possible. I continued writing programs in BASIC and later dabbled in Turbo Pascal. It never went much further than that, but it remains one of my best memories from a time when computers felt more fascinating and accessible - they made you curious and invited you to be creative. Did you ever do this back in the day? If so, what were your first steps? BASIC, Pascal...?
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@ick_real No. It’s not. It can be deduced with high probability that you are a woman.
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UNPOPULAR OPINION: THERE’S NO DIFFERENCE IN SOMEONE PLAYING VIDEO GAMES FOR HOURS TO YOU DOOM SCROLLING TIKTOK OR IG FOR HOURS..
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The thing is, given the taxation and over-regulation, people just hold a political job, borrow and dump it to RE portfolio. And there is “tall poppy” I used to have your view earlier. If you are technocratic, you need to go to US, due to availability of VC capital at reasonable term-sheets. e/acc But the direction world is going on, I’ve started focusing on e/ageco (permaculture, self-sovereignty etc.). ANZ is not a bad place for e/ageco.
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lua ~ 🌸 (cutemaxxing)
i am genuinely done with australia. i have not met a single competent person with a decent moral compass in any position of power. there is no structure or standard here, every section of government, corporate/private and every ICT related sector is absolutely retarded and there is no way to fix any of these systems because australians are raised to not engage in intelligent conversation with others and instead have dick swinging contests. idc if other countries have their own issues im sincerely done here. it’s a shame because it’s such a beautiful country, too bad the people in charge of it have below average IQs and allow corrupt companies to literally rape us financially.
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Slim@onu_slim·
If your parent is 75, I need you to stop and really sit with that number for a moment. 75 is not old in the way we used to think of old, but it is a number that carries weight, a number that asks something of you, a number that quietly changes the rules of the relationship without announcing itself. At 75 they move a little slower, they repeat stories you have already heard, sometimes twice in the same sitting, and you smile and listen because somewhere inside you already know that one day you will beg God for just one more telling. They sleep earlier now, tire faster, and some days the body that once seemed invincible reminds both of you that it is only human after all. But watch their eyes when you walk into the room, watch what happens to their entire face, because that is not nothing, that is everything. At 75 your parent has buried friends, survived things they never told you about, swallowed fears they did not want to pass on, and still asks how you are doing before they ever mention how they are feeling, not out of weakness, but because their love has become instinct. The reversal is happening whether you acknowledge it or not, and sometimes it shows up not in grand gestures but in a phone call that lasts longer than necessary, a visit with no agenda, a moment of sitting beside them and letting the silence mean something. So go, call, visit, sit with them, listen to the story you have heard before as if it is the first time, because one day it will be the last time and you will not know it until it is already gone. At 75 they do not need your pity, they need you to show up, fully, presently, as the person they spent their whole life building. Give them that, while you still can.
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MC Squared
MC Squared@mcsquared34·
Capitalism is stimulation overload. Human beings weren’t designed to be busy or productive all the time. We were designed to forage for berries and nap under trees.
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jessica 🍉@ItsMrsRabbitToU·
Fuck you.
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No. Class problems — rich vs poor, are everywhere. But nowhere else on earth, have so much social fragmentation in the name of “caste & varna” And it’s the root of most of India’s problem - status obsession, lack of civic sense, corruption and scams and even lack of sports and R&D culture. “Seriously, lack of sports culture” Sports need an honest framework and system to identify talents early and nurture them. Low-trust mercantile societies don’t see value in sports. Same goes for R&D It takes a high-trust, apolitical, non-bullying and high-autonomy environment to nurture projects and talents focusing on deep research. A low-trust mercantile would think: “How can I grow $5M in $20M by opening a chain of dialysis clinics than investing $5M in a research-driven nutraceutical curing CKD with a potential to grow that to $5B while curing a chronic disease”
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Origin of the low-trust society of India is deep, and it’s at a point when nothing much can be done. Time for a Japan’s Meiji-like social reform was 60-70Y back, around the time of independence. Funny thing is, I’ve seen more ego-driven arrogance and refusal than self-introspection, once someone tries to point to the root cause. Vedic India lived with social mobility, higher consciousness, marriages across the social strata till 100-200AD. Then some rulers had a wonderful idea to make Varna system (division of society based on roles/work which started based on qualities) based on inheritance/genetic. This had devastating consequences. Genetic research shows Indian society became highly endogamous (marrying strictly within one’s group) ~1,900 years ago (hms.harvard.edu/news/what-dna-…), around the time caste rules were first codified. This entrenched a hierarchical social order that enforced birth-based segregation and discrimination, a system that has endured for millennia (timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/caste-ba…) Some 70 generations of strict endogamy have made India “an extremely large number of small populations,” with strong trust within jati (caste) communities but very little trust between them (nitinpai.in/2024/12/16/how…). B. R. Ambedkar warned that such caste fragmentation is “anti-national,” undermining social unity and generalized trust needed for a healthy society. Caste-based social stratification erodes the sense of common civic identity. Lacking a feeling of shared community, individuals often prioritize private or in-group gains over the public good. As a result, public spaces suffer – for instance, traffic-choked cities and littered streets – because people feel less responsibility beyond their own group (nitinpai.in/2024/12/16/how…). This weak social cohesion perpetuates a vicious cycle of low civic engagement and neglect of collective well-being. Traditionally cleaning work has been delegated to “lower caste”. Many Indians till day tend to think, keeping public spaces clean is not their “problem”. Shudra (lower in the Varna) or Government would handle that. In 1911 Tagore wrote that India’s problem is not spiritual but social. It’s still the problem. Enduring caste loyalties translate into patronage and nepotism in politics and business. Officials and parties have historically treated castes as “vote banks,” channeling jobs, contracts, and resources to their own caste networks in exchange for support – a practice that undermines meritocracy and fuels corruption. Studies of public programs find, for example, that politicians disproportionately awarded infrastructure contracts to contractors of their own caste, inflating costs and even creating “ghost” projects (paid for but never built). indiaspend.com/how-caste-netw… Despite laws banning caste discrimination, caste still profoundly shapes social attitudes. Nearly two-thirds of Indians today say it’s very important to stop inter-caste marriages (pewresearch.org/religion/2021/…) reflecting a continued emphasis on caste purity. Astonishingly, 27% of Indians admit that they or their family members still practice some form of untouchability – the ostracization of lower castes – even 70+ years after it was legally abolished. These deep-rooted divisions corrode societal trust and hinder collective action, posing an ongoing challenge to India’s civic life and development. The caste/hierarchy consciousness goes all the way to Tech companies. Read the Cisco case. Astonishing aspect is, Vedic spiritual wisdom (Vedas/Upanishads/Vedanta etc.) is deep and egalitarian in nature. Yet the country ended up focusing on the ritualistic aspects of the religion and caste-games.

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vanguard9345
vanguard9345@vanguard9345·
@de_bose @_prafullbillore When ppl just don't know how to handle life its very easy to complain cast and ritual as a reason for suffering. I have seen societies across places in the world it is not different. Understanding limitations and living within it with satisfaction is what most ppl do.
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Prafull Billore
Prafull Billore@_prafullbillore·
I travel across India and meet hundreds of people. Rich ones. Struggling ones. Young ones. Middle-aged ones. And the most common thing I see isn’t ambition. It isn’t poverty either. It’s quiet suffering. Marriages falling apart. Relationships that feel like prisons. Work that drains the soul. Debt that never ends. Businesses that won’t grow. Finances that spiral. Careers going nowhere. Bodies moving. Minds drowning. Obesity. Tension. Anxiety. Depression. Nobody talks about it. Everyone is experiencing it. We are a society that is physically the most present — and mentally the most absent. Sitting in the same room as their family. Gone somewhere else inside their head. The real crisis isn’t in the economy. It’s happening inside people — silently, heavily, every single day. What’s your thoughts on this ?
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