Tag: Tradition

  • A Theory in Thought

    A Theory in Thought

    Human wisdom is finite. All that you will experience has been experienced by your ancestors before you. The rules that tradition has laid down before us are not ill-thought they were guided by years of human evolution. Society progressed in a certain way and within a certain manner under different civilizations.

    But how does a human think about the queries of his inner mind? All humans are born with priors, and these priors inform their outlook. Useful priors are retained by natural selection. Now when we say useful, it simply means it enhances group fitness. All the various Protestant memes are certainly not useful in the sense that they are sustainable. Huntington said “Islam’s borders are bloody and so are its innards”, but note that it is still expanding. Islam may capture a significant chunk of the human population in the future, and what that means for Hindus and other pagans who have suffered immeasurably at the hands of the Mohammedans only time will tell.

    Any ideology that has existed for centuries has some value to its adherents and enhances their fitness in some way, else it would not survive. But the important point is, while it may be beneficial to its adherents, it may not be beneficial to the society at large, or even to its adherents in the long run. A virus or a parasite can bring down a human being, that does not mean it is superior to a human being. Similarly Islam/Liberalism/Communism can take down superior cultures, but that does not mean they are superior to the Gumtree they take down. Liberalism benefits its adopters in that it raises their social station, allowing them to be parasitic on the competent and hard working. Similarly Islam benefits its adherents by free riding on kaffirs. However, once there are no kaffirs/non-liberals left, the whole arrangement collapses, as a parasite cannot survive without a host. Islam cannot build a civilization, for example, it can only gorge on the flesh of existing ones. Once there is nothing external to devour, it will start to devour itself.

    But can certain people fix their priors? And what would it mean to accept a new prior? Now I draw from Bayesianism occasionally since I find it a very useful construct in describing reality. Thought is Bayesian. There is likely some genetic conditioning present in everyone’s priors, and either those priors are enhanced or dismissed, only to be replaced with new priors.

    Once enough coherent priors are acquired, a framework is developed. Once a framework is accepted, all thought is reduced to pattern matching. There is no need for original thought, since the thinker has already accepted that all new information will only be valid within the framework defined by his own priors. This is why facts don’t really matter. Accepting the pill; be it blue, red, black or rainbow coloured means accepting the framework.

    What this does is lead the average thinker into believing things that are simply not supported by reality. But the problem that Communists face is that for the average thinker born and raised in a family of normal people, they cannot convince themselves of these obvious fallacies. And thus political correctness was born, otherwise known as cultural marxism. The way to take control of an entire generation of those who pursue the humanities is to generate a false sense of reality that is supported by the University and the Journalists, what Moldbug calls the Cathedral. The Cathedral has worked in the USA and it is working in Bharata as well.

    Given the high signalling value attributed to education, this ritual is undertaken by more and more Hindus who are fed inconsistent mleccha ideas, aimed at the destruction of its traditional principles. When leftists speak of “modernity” they are speaking with contempt for the institutions of old. It is a thinly veiled strike at the heart of tradition heathen rituals amongst the Yindoos, aimed at deracinating and juvenilizing an entire generation by feeding ideas which lead to permanent adolescence. For example, the old institution of marriage, which evolved separately in all different cultures of the world and definitely has some Darwinian value has been discarded at the altar of modernity and faces the maximum ire of modernists.

    Once the framework of cultural marxism has been accepted, humans delegate little brain power to actually questioning whether the evidence actually fits the framework, instead twisting the pattern until it is matched. This is why Morons are so insidious, since they are highly adept at pattern matching and have recognized the optimal Motte and Bailey strategy to destroy tradition.

    Suffice to say it is time to note their patterns, and identify if they exist within your own thinking. Purge your old priors, accept Hindu ones. Let not the sacrifice of your ancestors go in vain. Uphold tradition.

    With inputs from @ArmchairPseph

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    Photographer: Sebastian Kaulitzki | Agency: dreamstime.com

  • What Hindus can learn from destruction of Chinese culture by CCP

    From our visit to China, it seems that the Western conversion of Chinese civilisation is over — or at least, it will be in a few years. Going by the rate of deracination in the Chinese people, it seems that the Chinese are fast losing their connect with their 4000-year-old civilisation and are now being reduced to being merely a cheap copy of yellow-skinned Americans who have no culture of their own left.

    Temple of Heaven — marriage and tradition
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    Typical pre-marriage photo-ops in the Temple of Heaven, China

    There is no better way to understand the direction where they are headed than looking at their marriage ceremony and photos. The above picture is a typical marriage photo in today’s China and it demonstrates the Westernisation of China pretty well. Notice that the Chinese have completely thrown out their own customs during marriage along with their traditional dresses, which have now been reduced to museums. The Chinese in the marriage setting are wearing Western dresses and the customs followed in their marriages are increasingly getting Westernised. It is increasingly common these days to see Chinese couples doing pre-marriage photo-ops in Western attire from Beijing to Paris, demonstrating that they have completely fallen to the consumerism and narcissism of the West. Soon, China will look like South Korea, which already looks like a yellow-skinned American state — where the only place you will find Chinese civilisation will be in their museums, with the young Chinese deracinated to the point that they don’t want to connect with their civilisation even on a special day like their wedding.

    What makes the above picture even more telling is the fact that the place where the above photo was taken is the Temple of Heaven in Beijing. Even Beijing, which is the heart of Chinese civilisation, could not protect one of its most important civilisational symbols. The Temple of Heaven is a 600-year-old temple in Beijing used by Chinese kings to offer rituals and sacrifices to the Gods, thanking them for their bountiful harvest and for blessing their society. This temple, which was a spiritual and cultural icon of China just 100 years back, has been reduced to merely a glorified museum today — filled with card-playing old people and selfie-hungry young people jumping up and down at the sacrificial altar. Can you expect similar defilement and sacrilege of Rome or Mecca? No one notices how the Communists of China have destroyed hundreds of Pagan and Buddhist temples of China in the last 100 years. Thousands of years of civilisation and history being reduced to mere selfie spots fuelling narcissistic consumer culture. The Western-dressed wedding picture is just the last brick in the wall capturing the fall of Han identity and culture.

    Longmen Grottoes — damaged cultural heritage
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    Defaced statues inside Longmen Grottoes, China

    The Longmen Grottoes of China are another example of the Talibanism of the Communist government under Mao. This is a 2000-year-old Buddhist site where locals destroyed most of the statues inside the caves during the “Cultural Revolution” under state pressure — except the large ones. The large statues survived only because of the superstition of the locals, whose fear that the gods would punish them if they destroyed the statues was bigger than their fear of the Communist state. This site stands today barely surviving, only because of the superstition of the locals. Once again this shows how eager the Communists were in destroying their own past. Recent news seems to suggest that the conversion industry is working on overdrive in China. Given how eager the Chinese have been in destroying their own culture and past, it is pretty safe to say that the Evangelicals will reap a rich harvest of souls from their soul-harvesting programmes in China. With no culture to fall back on, the Church has a much easier job in converting the Chinese.

    One can already see a large number of Chinese people who are starting to use Western names like Peter, Jack, Steven etc. to please their Western masters. Though it appears as an insignificant issue on the surface, it is actually a very important step in losing your own identity when large numbers of people start doing it in your locality. This act of changing names to suit Western civilisation is another example of Western domination of Chinese thought and civilisation — who are all but Chinese in name only. Conversion to Christianity now is only a formality for Chinese people. Also, given how most Chinese are not yet fluent in English, this problem is going to get worse once most Chinese become more fluent in English than they are today. It will only speed up the process of deracination of the Chinese.

    How is it relevant to us Indians?

    The Chinese experience greatly teaches us the importance of rituals and traditions in preserving our identity. Christians and Marxists know this well and that is why they attack our rituals constantly — be it our Sabarimala temple, or be it our Mangal Sutra, or be it our Durga Pujas. Christians attack our rituals like Pongal, Onam and Durga Pooja and want them to be secularised to deracinate us — making it easier for them to convert us to their own rituals. Marxists want our rituals and traditions destroyed, sometimes even masquerading as Hindus (like CPM in Kerala organising Sanskrit and Vedic festivals, or CPM of West Bengal organising ‘secular’ Durga Puja) with intellectual pretensions about how rituals and traditions are backward and hold us back. But the truth is, they understand the power of our rituals and ceremonies much better than we do. They know that if we lose our rituals, traditions and ceremonies, we have nothing to fight for and would be ripe for harvesting by soul vultures.

    So the question is — are we Hindus going to learn from the Chinese experience? Are we going to discard our rituals just as the Adarsh liberals today want? Or should we start preserving our culture by preserving our traditions and rituals? The choice is ours to make. But if you do choose the former, be prepared for our Tirupati Devasthanam, Kashi Vishwanath temple, Thanjai Big Temple, Mahabalipuram Temple and other cultural and spiritual icons and centres to be trampled by the next generation.