To The Youth

In Puri, I noticed so much "real knowledge" ordinary Oriyas possess, that they never learnt at any school. Like the guy who gave me a great massage. The guys who do the cooking - and this includes some experimental "continental" stuff especially for the wandering gora. I bought some magnificent hand-painted postcards of Lord Juggernaut - as seen in the photo alongside. They are fabulous sculptors, too - in wood, metal and stone. They are an artistic and creative people - and on the radio in the tea-shack I heard great Oriya music. 

In this post, my central message to the youth is:

Stay away from State Education. 

There is a big world out there - and lots of real knowledge to obtain. To help you start off right, here is a short lesson for you all, things I have privately studied over many decades, and which I think it my duty to share with you all.

Let us begin with the understanding that Labour is suffering; it is disutility. The fun only begins when you start spending what you have earned with your labour. Our people work hard; they "labour" - but the little "fun" they have, they only get the worst ganja, the worst alcohol (some desi sharaab sells here) and the worst tobacco - bidis. This is a public health disaster - and it brings to mind the deep errors involved in the "labour theory of value" that the Property-hating Communists teach. What is happiness; what is anand? Value is "subjective." Utopia means Utopianism - each to his own, and to each his own: Property.

And then comes Liberty. Capitalist enterprise is the "service of your fellow man"? The camel guy on the beach answered, with the usual "wisdom" of our common people, "The service of man is the service of God." But that doesn't answer the question: What is the service of your fellow man?

The woman selling tea is serving her fellow men and women - and tirelessly so. The profit she earns is entirely honourable - shubh laabh. At the end of the day she packs up her cutlery and utensils, loads them on her head and walks home - and that is her Capital. Capitalism is poonjiwadi. Each operates with his own Capital. All are "private economies" run by subjectively valuing independent minds. This is what you see the ordinary, uneducated people doing all the time in any Indian city or town. They are going about buying and selling - and trying to "accumulate capital." 

So I told the camel guy, "God is very rich here; so many big temples; he doesn't think about you poor people and your suffering; so just serve your fellow man; serve him faithfully and honestly; and you will be Free."

Our country's problems are caused entirely by a faulty Economics - and its only cure can be the mass understanding of basic economic laws and principles that are correct and scientifically valid. One principle I have already enunciated - labour is NOT value. The second is that Inflationism erodes the Capital of all poor people. "Macroeconomics" is nonsense. And so is "Microeconomics" - but that's another story.

The "educators" of our The State have got everything totally wrong - they view Profit as Loss; and they view Loss as Profit.

They see the "population" as a Loss - but cows don't create wealth. The milkman does. Densely crowded cities and towns are richer than vacant countrysides. Our children are our wealth. They see them as a liability. 

And they view their "budget deficits" as "economic stimuli" - this is how they see Widespread Loss as Profit.

The "educators" and, hence, the "policy-makers," are thus blind to certain things that matter for economic success:

• they are blind to Markets

• since markets occur in cities and towns, they are blind to Urban Issues

• they are blind to Transportation - and all tradeables must be transported, which is why they say "every great city sits like a giant spider on its transportation network": and "all roads led to Rome."

Both their Theory and their History are wrong.

All they are doing is Misusing Force to take away Liberty and Property.

This is nothing but Arbitrary, Tyrannical Government.

It is FOOLISH to go to them for Education.

After all, they think you are the "population problem."

Indeed, in 1997, on the 50th Anniversary of Independence, the Parliament of India passed a "unanimous resolution" asserting that population was India's biggest problem. That is, in this Democracy, the "representatives of the people" think - in unanimous terms, that too - that their constituents are a Problem; and their children, too.

Sanjay Gandhi forcibly sterilised lakhs of poor people.

They are doing "rozgaar yojana" (in the villages) but they are stopping poor people from trading freely (in the cities).

They are destroying every city and town with overcrowding - thereby making an urban home even more difficult for the poor. And there is SO MUCH free land all around.

Whatever else you do, do NOT go to their institutions for Education.

Especially in Economics, Political Science, History and Law.

Do not study "Indian Economics." Burn all these books.

Do not study their "Civics." Burn all these books.

And stay tuned to this blog, which will try and guide your minds in the right direction as long as it is able, with a Daily Post.

Boom Shankar!