Shiv ji, I don't think your thoughts are mad or politically incorrect. My 2c:
shiv wrote:Now if you approach this "normally evolved" human population with the viewpoint that "all human are equal, so lets keep them that way" then what you will attempt is an experiment where you tweak the things you things you think are wrong and "unbalanced". You reduce undernutrition, try and equalise education, stop color discrimination or other discrimination etc. What you are doing by that is to aggravate other imbalances that you know nothing about by fiddling with what you imagine is what needs to be fiddled with.
When someone says, "All humans are equal", we have to ask, "Equal in what way?" According to Vedic philosophy, there is no
roopa-samatvam, but only
bhaava-samatvam, i.e., there is no equality in terms of forms and material qualities, but rather there is equality and complementarity of the selective importances of their relationship with a higher power. For example, the Ramayana depicts the same principle in the episode of the ecstatic humiliation of Hanuman by Shri Ram in the presence of the tiny spider volunteer.
Just as the introduction of an arbitrary external element (such as "god", "hidden imam", "jinns", etc) to justify a system causes a recursive spiral of more and more mumbo jumbo and jinn technology explanations, so also, the management of selective importances is vital to the stability and clarity of the individual and social mind.
It seems here lies the crux. If a society or individual is not spiritually clear enough to experience work within a higher
power, then it shall labour under lower physical and metaphysical
force - such as forces of other human's machinations and the assaults of one's own memory and its psychological scars, macroscopic forces of nature, compulsions of physical limitation. The subtle difference between one and the other is the difference between
self-determinism and
fatalism.
Self-determinism does not mean absolute free will, but it is a virtuous spiral brought about by a conscious engagement or withdrawal from the natural course of present conditions. Whereas fatalism is a dwindling spiral of further and further entanglement brought about by unconscious or ignorant battle or resignation to present conditions.
The quality of guidance and the relationship between the guide, the people and the system is important. Hierarchies of service and privilege are
daivi only in the presence of a Fourth Factor, indicated by Bhishma Pitamaha on Kurukshetra:
brAhmaNyaM durlabhaM lokE
rAjyaM hi sulabhaM naraiH |
brAhmaNyasya prabhAvAddhi
rathE yuktau sva-dhUryavat ||
"It is difficult to attain brahminhood in this universe,
While sovereignty of any kind may be acquired with relative ease.
It is only through the puissance of a brAhmaNa
That we are yoked to a fine Chariot like well-broken animals."
Sovereignty involves acquisition and management of land, capital,
and people, harnessed to realize the fullest civilizational potential, materially and spiritually. The soft and hard power of a brAhmaNa is of a different class from these three. It is of a different class from even the general class of "people" resources. It cannot be "managed" or "acquired" by sovereign administrators like the other three factors.
It is the "puissance" (tapasya, i.e., power born of Right Penance)
of this class that really harnesses the general class of people to
the Chariot of the Lord. Otherwise they are nothing but beasts of
burden for a material social enterprise (subtle, or sometimes quite
gross).
Related to the distinguishing 4th quality of a real brahmana (attained in addition to the other three), from the Mahabharata again:
naratvaM durlabhaM lokE
vidyA tatra su-durlabhA |
shIlaM ca durlabhaM tatra
vinayas tatra su-durlabhaH ||
"Human birth is rare in this universe,
Attainment of knowledge and wisdom is even harder.
To then build a noble character is even harder,
And harder still is to attain deep and humble supplication after all
that."
IMHO, that's the difference between Vedic philosophy and Breivik ji's philosophy. His culture does not have the delicateness and sophistication to create a truly progressive multicultural order. either it congeals into Nazism, or metls away into a wishy washy leftism.
