Re: Elitism

["MV" <maxv@vsnl.com>]

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>  <<but can we really leave the law making process to unlettered people

> who do  not respect the law in the first place? Does it make any sense

> that  while we have such a rigorous selection process for those who
> implement
>   the law, we let just any "lallu-panju" (no pun intended) frame those

>  very laws. If this is democracy, God help us!  >>
> There are lot of points in the above 'logic' which I dont share.
> 1. Why this contempt towards 'unlettered' people? Who has kept them
> unlettered over generations? By our combined failure to live upto the
> ideals of the Constitution of India (I dont see any relevance of any
new
> manifesto or vision or mission documents as the constitution of india
is
> very clear in its objectives and manifesto, as a clear cut statement
is
> found in its part IV, from articles 36 to 51) all of us have some
> contribution, whether direct or indirect in the general mess around
and
> in particular, on the high levels of illiteracy we have in this
country.
> Why have contempt or hatred towards illiterates? What are several of
the
> highly "brilliant" people of this country doing after they migrate?
How
> does that help this country any more than the daily toil which most
> 'unlettered' people in this country put in?


Very valid point.

Look at the class of people who are migrating to US in droves, they are
mostly the ruling "class" who were in administrative position,
irrespective
of which "emperor, king, or company" ruled India this class of people
are
spread across all religious, social groups. One identifying factor is,
they were "literate" while the masses were forcibly kept "illiterate".
In
fact we can say this elite class were the real rulers of India for past
4000 years, since they could influence the administrative policies
easily
due to their proximity to rulers.

Now let us see what this so called "brilliant" people has achieved in
the past 4000 years? I know there are lot of tall claims of our ancient
literature. Let us burst that bubble, if we look closely most of it is
distorted pseudo scientific writing.  Which clearly points to the fact
that
people who wrote these were not the people who "developed" or
"practiced"
the technology described in those literature.

A single visit to most Indian villages (I have traveled through 18 of
the
Indian states, UT) will prove this point look at "who" practices
technology
in these villages, it is the - Black Smith (Mechanical Engineering)
Mason,
Carpenter (Civil Engineering) Gold Smith, Potter and people who make
wide
range of highly decorative Handicrafts. To make this things requires
"technical skills" and "high creativity". By the way all these
technology
were developed and practiced by "illiterate" people.

Now some of you  will ask, if India had all those creative techno savvy
people why is India still technologically backward and poor.  The answer
is
"Caste System" which kept the "real creative people" illiterate and
allowed
"mediocre" people to masquerade as "brilliant people" and rule over
them.

Now let us see how the "illiteracy" factor slowed down the technological

advancement. India was technologically on par with other nations of the
world, until printing and literacy for "all class of people" came into
effect in Western world.  Printing and literacy allowed western people
to
"store" existing knowledge base and incrementally add to the existing
knowledge base much faster.

There is a specific reason for this, human intelligence is  uniformly
distributed irrespective of class, race, religion or social factors
and follows the "bell curve", means that, a small number of people in
any
population will be highly intelligent, most of the people will be of
average
intelligence and small number may be below average. The incidence
of high intelligence is not hereditary, but very random.

In India due to the forced "illiteracy" among the people who practiced
technology by caste system, incremental addition to knowledge base
remained
slow. Technological innovation made by one person could only be passed
to
the children who may not have the same level of "intellectual" prowess
as
the parent who made the innovation, this meant children may not "pass
on"
the innovation to their children. This is like taking one step forward
and
two backward and substantially slowed down the incremental additions to
technology. This was fine till the western world introduced printing and

literacy for all people, which accelerated the incremental addition to
technology. Each innovation in technology was now recorded and passed on
to
next generation of brilliant people who further innovated and added to
the
existing technology. This started the explosive growth of technology in
the
western world and There is no way India can catch up with this until the

caste system is abolished.

Now some of you may ask didn't we abolish the caste system?
theoretically
yes and practically no. When the social caste system was abolished it
was
re-introduced in a more "potent" version in educational system.

So we now have different "caste" of schools, ICSE, CBSE and the English
Medium Schools for the "Elite's" and the Vernacular Medium schools for
the
"ordinary" people. All the "elite" bureaucrats and "education" experts
say
education should be in "Mother Tongue"  but send their own children to
"English Medium" schools and All the "higher education" is in English
medium. Isn't this caste system in a more potent version than the social

caste system???

Now let us look at the effect of Reservation system combined with the
Educational caste system. We have seen many people in this forum suggest

Reservation system should be abolished. Let us look at who really
benefits from the Reservation system. Now suppose if there is 50%
reservation for the poor sections of the society in Education, Govt.
jobs, because of the caste system in the Education (elite's children
studying in English Medium and all the Higher education being in English

Medium give them undue advantage) this 50% Reservation for poorer
section of
the society in practice means 50% reservation in Education and Govt.
jobs
for the "Elite's" who consists just 15% of the population of India. So
who
is reservation "really" for?

The reservation system should be immediately abolished, and
simultaneously
the "caste system in education" should also be removed and uniform
education
syllabus introduced all over India. If English Medium education is good
for
the "elite's" it is good for the ordinary people of India also. If
uniform
education system is introduced let's see how many of the so called
elite's
will be able to compete with the "really brilliant" ordinary people.

If for the past 4000 years the so called Indian "elite" were not able to
do
much for the development of India, what can we expect from them in just
53
years or till they are the ruling class of India. After democracy has
been
introduced in India, the elite ruling classes know that their days as
the
ruling class is numbered, they are doing their best to delay the
transition
of power to the "ordinary people" by manipulating the education system.
But
these tactics can only succeed for limited time, they know that very
well.
No wonder large number of "elite's"  are migrating to US. It is
interesting
to note that these elite classes never migrated when Mughals or the
British
ruled India, but are migrating in droves once Democracy is introduced in

India.

The brain drain is actually "brain gain" since it gives more opertunity
for
people who really care for development of India. So let us encourage
"brain
drain", at least it may avoid a civil war or will it....?


MV.





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