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I think it’s about time someone put it candidly this way … thanks to your luxury of thought, care and concern … That is so true … Not only have we raised a nonchalant middle class … we have been raising a generation of people with poor attention span and intellectual laziness and largely a selfish-involved culture in our approach to everything in the world … I have addressed the same thing sometime back with respect to our education system.
http://flawsophy.blogspot.com/2010/09/commonwealth-games-why-we-should-blame.html
Very interesting conference. I would prefer you post all parts in a one combined video rather than having it stranded in different videos. The current format of the videos doesn’t do any justice to your valiant effort.
Beware of the man who gives you one single reason for all problems. There’s a saying:
“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong”
Agree: all do-able and achievable.
For long-term planning, pls refer to the foll. talk by G.Edward Griffin:
video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6015291679758430958#
Well said! True!
HAF (Hindu American Foundation) has come out with a good 2 min video (on a similar theme) – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJ48dA-8Kss
The idea of blaming middleclass for everything was the discovery of the 19th century when Mr. Marx was the groundsman. Till a few decades ago, many batsmen made runs and built careers on that type of wicket. I didn’t know you were a Marxist although I do remember to have pointed out to you about the possible Marxist influence on a prominent thinker.
You don’t have to go too far from India to find out what happens when the middleclass is truly dysfunctional. You don’t need to think too deep to figure out who else is against middleclass. I hope you are not part of any of those groups.
@flawsophy: Thanks for the comment and the link…great post over on yr blog.
@Karmasura: Thanks a lot…The full video is here: http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/activism_non_profit/watch/v20456702xp4Ewdx8(It is LONG!)
I thought people would be more interested in the snippets (although I agree it may apepar to be a bit disjointed in parts)
@Bhagwad: Touche! There is no simple/single solution…I wish there was!
@seadog4227 Thanks for the link. I shall have a look.
@Indian: Thanks.
@Milind: Thanks…will have a look…
@Prakash: Re. “I didn’t know you were a Marxist..“, now you are crossing the line into personal abuse!!
The central theme of the middle class being responsible for the root of all problems is right, but correct me if I state that this has been the case for 1000s of years. If a large majority (which defines the middle class) had strong moral principles then we probably would not have had Islamic invaders breaking down temples, British ruling the country for hundreds of years with a skeleton crew (and our own countrymen to support them) and of course Nehru-Gandhi family for the last 60 years.
The recent non-violent, secular, uber friendly principles of India lend more to the chalta hai attitude. The only thing which can infuse some strength (which of course is hated by media, politicans, educators) is a strong base of the Sanathana Dharma. But that’s a story for another day.
Keep up the good fight my friend.
@8 Shantanu, I am happy to note you don’t like being called a marxist. There was nothing personal about my conclusion and I will write why. I believe that class distinctions have been imposed on the Indian society by Western (Marxist?) thinkers and most of us have unwittingly followed their nomenclature, their language, and their ideas. Inevitably, it forces us to believe that a certain class is more responsible for the ills of the society than certain other class.
The only way to avoid this trap is to check each of the imposed ideas and each word emanating from such alien concepts. What, for example, is middleclass? What do you mean by saying it is dysfunctional? We have a vibrant democratic society. We have elected politicians. We have independent judiciary. These institutions should function properly. If I suggest that there is no middleclass and there is no function assigned to any such class and that Class distinctions are unconstitutional, am I too far removed from truth?
Naryan Krishnan serves food to destitutes and poor in around Madurai. Please go thru his web site and donate.
http://www.akshayatrust.org/
see the above web site, there is a CNN poll for the best among ten heroes.Narayan Krishnan is one of them to be voted.
Atanu Dey captures briliantly what I wanted to convey.
He concludes: I am getting convinced that the root cause of our misery is that we just don’t care. Only if there is a way of making caring people out of Indians, only then can India progress. I don’t know if there is such a way.
Do read – and think.
All is not well. Now see this UPA moron selling us out to make a career out in green activism circle:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Last-minute-climate-change-India-drops-two-year-old-policy/Article1-636196.aspx
Just few hours ago I read Swapan Dasgupta’s cautionary post about this and what he feared finally happened:
http://www.swapan55.com/2010/12/green-fundamentalism-as-state.html