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📣 graderjs

What Happened to India?


Indian culture created many amazing things that are like incredible technologies for the human body, all different kinds of meditation and breathing exercises and yoga in my personal experience these things are incredibly transformative and operating in ways that Western science is too imbecilic to understand at this time. now we have studies showing that long-term "meditators" have structural changes and behavior changes in their brain and nervous system but that's just for one type of meditation there are so many types of meditation and yoga and and breathing exercises and other practices that could be creating structural or genetic or other changes in us. What I'm saying is these are incredible technologies and even though I have less experience of it it seems that India has a lot of really good social technologies as well like some amount of religious diversity and organizing social narratives and religious stories that let people feel meaning within a larger framework. I'm not saying everything is perfect at all but all I'm wondering is this society created many incredible things technologies that far advanced beyond our present understanding of our so-called civilized and so-called you know "most developed" societies in the west. So what I'm wondering is like why isn't India "ruling the world" or possessing an apparent you know highest quality of life?


  👤 neximo64 Accepted Answer ✓
What you're describing is basically nationalism and saying you're a nationalist and then looking at the difference between that and realpolitik. Meet any person from [insert country here] and they'll say the same thing about their country in some point of view.

The thing with realpolitik is power comes from the ability to produce stuff, at least in our current world, which is where the discrepancy between your view of the world comes from.



👤 slater
Colonialism by Western countries, predominantly by the English.

👤 morninglight
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