Made In India Schizophrenia

This report attracted my attention:

"MUMBAI: Tata Motors launched the country's first and its only fully indigenously manufactured car - Indica Vista - at a glittering function here Saturday evening."

What great sense does it make to manufacture or consume "Made in India" goods?

I will argue that such notions indicate insanity.

At the individual level, it makes no sense to have a "Made by Me" policy. We all specialize in one area and get our needs satisfied my scores of similarly specialized people.

Similarly, it makes no sense to have a "Made in our Village" consumption policy. Every villager knows that – which is why they rush to the nearest market town soon after the harvest has been sold. There is no "Made in Delhi" policy in the markets of Chandni Chowk. If every Dilliwallah's mobile phone is made abroad, why not the same about his cars, his clothes, his drinks, etc.?

At the level of a federal state too it makes no sense to have a "Made in Maharashtra" or "Made in Goa" or "Made in West Bengal" shopping policy.

So what sense does it make to have a "Made in India" preferential policy maintained by coercive means – the customs department? This is the department Kamal Nutt employs to keep foreigners out of our markets.

We all drink crappy Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) because of the coercion exercised on our choices by Kamal Nutt's customs department.

Would every Indian tippler not gain if Duty Free Liquor Stores were not confined to airports, and there were one or two on every street?

"Made in India" is a producer's policy.

But what about a consumer's policy?

Are we not all consumers?

Why do we work?

To earn the money to consume.

Then why do we not look at our interests as consumers?

It must be "education" – for Kamal Nutt and his bosses are all educated folk. All the Reichwing editors who applauded Kamal Nutt are "educated."

Ludwig von Mises, the greatest economist of the 20th century, actually used the word "schizophrenic" to describe such "divided selves," who do not see their existence as producer and consumer combined. They see only producers. They are blind to their other half. I quote from Mises' Human Action:

"If one is prepared to indulge in the fashionable tendency to explain human things by resorting to the terminology of psychopathology, one might be tempted to say that modern man in contrasting a producers' policy with a consumers' policy has fallen victim of a kind of SCHIZOPRENIA. He fails to realize that he is an undivided and indivisible person, I.e., an individual, and as such no less a consumer than a producer. The unity of his consciousness is split into two parts; his mind is inwardly divided against himself."

Nuts rule our land – and impose their nutty thinking on us, and on our children.

Away with this Bozo Brigade!

Note: Even the new Tata car would have been a better one if the fuel system was Bosch. Every Indian manufacturer would produce better goods, competitive in the world market, if he could freely use imported components.