50 percent of the country believes Aurangazeb is a hero. 50 percent of the country believes Aurangazeb is evil and his legacy smells worse than a monsoon sewer.
Like taking a speedball, the effects are volatile balance where history is weaponized for identity politics, a switch to turn on autopilot into self-destruction through denial.
A society that befriends enemies and rejects truths is a builder who uses knockoff cement. And residents of that building hand out sledgehammers to the wrecking crew.
Erosion of values and ethics is often through preferential treatment to harmful ideologies and groups to disperse hate speech, violence and vengeance. If a population venerates their invader, what has happened to them over generations? Like pickles resting in their juices, it only gets intense over time.
Francis Xavier, so called Saint, is exalted by family trees that experienced genocide, got looted and unsuccessfully dodged his conversion squads. He sailed in with a Bible in one hand and a “convert or else” vibe in the other.
The hundreds of thousands of Indians making pilgrimages to his shrine, do so as their lineages were falsely promised a better life and paradise through shunning their heathen disbelieving brethren, gleeful of attacks towards them.
Dalit churches play Hindu cosplay for reservation benefits while praying to a dude who called their ancestors heretics. Talk about a spiritual bait-and-switch.
The belief of the attacker syncs with the victim. A mental compromise solves everything. If an inebriating drink can postpone anger or frustration for a day, a left wing education can make you fantasize reality and spread it to the masses.
That’s not progress; that’s a group project where everyone’s failing but nobody’s admitting it. You’re not just undermining your own foundation— you’re live-streaming the demolition.
The voting masses believe in the politicians, their children believe in teachers and professors, and the teens believe in social media.
The Hindu home is irreligious; the Muslim home is zealous.
Democracy is evil, if the vote is performed from a position of misinformation.
Democracy’s only as good as the brains behind the ballot. When half the country’s voting based on misinformation, it’s not democracy—it’s dumb-ocracy. If you’re syncing with your oppressor’s playlist, you’re not solving problems—you’re swaying into your downfall.
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