01. Sly secrets of ‘improving others’

02. Digression

03. Tangible experiences

04. What not to do

05. A sacrilege and a conspiracy

Now, there are many things connected to this information that one needs to debate upon when contemplating on the theme of developing others. The core issue is that one cannot identify any person or group of persons as evil. Neither the tribal population nor the suppressing people are bad or good in any particular sense. Everyone is more or less forced to accept certain communication stances which their language software enforces upon them.

Here one must differentiate the issue from moral standards, moral goodness and turpitude. Everyone in a feudal language social system have an innate fear of the lower man. This goes down the social ladder, from the heights to the lowest base. Each person is in a terror of being pulled down, or held down or tumbled down, by others. People act in a wary manner, and use offense as the best means of defence. Giving an inch to the lower man is quite dangerous, as he would immediately make haste to take a mile. These things are universal truths, connected to persons who bear some kind of lowliness, which can be innate, forced upon or indoctrinated.

Sly secrets of ‘improving others’

Now this is a major issue that has to be quite effectively tackled with when one contemplates on improving others. Here the term improving others, is used in the sense of removing restraints in communication, stature, dignity, right to dignity etc. which have been listed above.

It is quite easy to declare one’s aim of improving others. In feudal language nations, it is a falsity and a charade. No one really wants another to improve to the extent that he or she becomes his or her equal in dignity.

All one tries to do is to build up a pyramid of followers who have benefited from him, and have become willing disciples or something like that, and who go around chanting the huge amount of benefits this person has showered on him or her. The relationship that has been built up is essentially that of benefactor and beneficiary, and not a new relationship of equal dignity and stature. Essentially, this is a more or less equivalent to the land lady-maid servant relationship that I had spoken of earlier.

Digression

Once I was going through a nearby village, with my mother. A man of age more than 60 came and started showering her with praises and obsequious affection. On my enquiry, I was told that he had got a peon’s job when my mother had been a government officer in the early sixties. At that time, public service recruitment at that lower levels were not always through the PSC. She had given him a chance to get absorbed into the service, by means of allowing him to work first on temporary basis. He was now getting Rs. 5000 per month as pension. These are minor means of building up a list of obsequious followers in a feudal language.

However, no one can find fault with either of these persons. It is not possible to be otherwise. For, if the benefactor aims to make the lower person improve his stature vis-a-vis himself, all that would happen is that the lower person would simply see the benefactor as an equal, and more or less a fool and a gullible idiot. For, he was simply allowing all codes of respect to himself to be erased. Now, it may be borne in mind that this ‘respect’ is not an empty theme. It is the real power that lends power of command, social stature, rights to communication and articulation and much more. Even one’s earning power is connected to the level of social respect one has.

Even the various NGO’s in India who proclaim that they are working hard to improve the living standards of the lower classes here, actually strive hard to see that mental standards of the lower classes are immovably stuck at the subordinate pejorative levels.

Now, no one in India would dare to meddle with the codes of ‘respect’ versus pejoratives that link human beings as benefactor versus the beneficiary. It is like dealing with uncanny possibilities.

Tangible experiences

From my very childhood I did see that there was something uncanny in Indian language communications. I got a better understanding of it when I learned English. The experience was that when others spoke to me, the child, in Malayalam, their attitude was that of teasing an idiot, tormenting the idiot with idiotic questions, making the idiot act out buffoonery etc. At the same time, when the other person was at home in English and spoke it, the communication was more or less that of between two individuals of equivalent human intellect and dignity.

Later in life I have noticed that this is not really a communication code between a child and an adult in Malayalam, but more or less the standard code of communication between a superior and inferior, feudal lord and his serf, rich and poor, benefactor and dependant, boss and servant, Indian police and a common man and such, in all ‘Indian’ vernaculars.

However, it would not be correct to say that the superior person is bad or evil and the inferior person an epitome of goodness. The relationship is only relative and every person can don different statures in different relationships, wherein he or she will act out the code of behaviour mentioned.

Many years ago, I happened to ask an acquaintance about his social work, wherein he had been seen working for the improvement of others in society. He simply made a very dry remark, to the effect that he had stopped that work, for it improved the others. Meaning that, they improved and went ‘above’, while he went down.

That is the right form of understanding the word ‘improving’ in feudal language experiences. However, when seen from English, these realities do not don on the native-English speaker, until the wider realities really don on him and his social system. Actually, there is no need for a native-English speaker to deliberately strive to improve another person from a feudal language nation.

All that has to be done is to simply allow the other person to move and associate himself in his or her (English persons’) companionship. A rapid change of mental and even physical stature to the positive side perches on the inferior person.

I remember my own daughter’s case. She was brought up in an absolute English ambience, even though she lived in the Malayalam speaking state of Kerala. Once we were right in front of the British School in the New Delhi. We saw the children coming out of their classes in a very serene pose when the bell rang.

It was a very vibrant scene, and quite unusual. All White-skinned children, with a very elevated English bearing, quite different from the arrogant pose of the Indian upper class. My daughter, then only around 4 years old, simply told me with no deliberation, ‘I want to join this school and only this school’.

Well, one may feel that I am showing an affinity for the White skin and such things. However, that was not the case. It was simply the most unaffected understanding of my daughter that there was something of the refined superiority in the English kids, and an association with them would be something of an elevation, both mentally and culturally. However, my daughter couldn’t be admitted into the British school, for I did not have the necessary financial acumen to do that.

What not to do

Now, this is what the Asians and the Blacks who entered the English nations received, with not much expenditure other than the chance to be able to live in English nations. However, are they in any manner grateful for that? Well, no is the answer. They only have more complaints about the native-English speakers.

Well, this is an issue that most Asians know and understand. I did once see an Indian boss being quite feudal to his own factory workers, some of them even of supervisor levels in the workplace. When they come to his house, they have to stand outside. To many of them, some even elder to him, he would use lower indicant words. They were not allowed to enter even the veranda. He would use the pejorative words of Nee and Avan even to and about senior-in-age subordinates.

However, outside this premises they were all in a higher mental and social stature than he allowed them inside his premises. Once I made a minor remark about the issue of being so derogative to his workers. He simply remarked, ‘There is no problem now. If I allow them more leeway and respect, then they will start demands, complaints, questionings, criticisms etc. Keep them in their place, and there is no problem’.

Now this is a very critical element of all feudal language nations’ political, social and even administrative policy. Even the standard schools in these nations are the deliberate disseminators of the philosophy of ‘keeping them in their position’. For, in feudal languages, if you show respect to the subordinates, they literally ‘climb on one’s head’.

Look at all the immigrant populations in the English nations. They have all improved tremendously in mental and physical stature, to levels quite unbelievable if they had continued to live in their native nations. However, what is their stance? It is not that of gratitude, but one of ceaseless complaints of being under ‘racism’. No one ponders on what the native population in the English nations are being put to bear from their presence inside English homeland.

A sacrilege and a conspiracy

Well, what is it that they would be enduring?

It would be the pangs of the unseen attack on the social scene, family systems and human relationships, and even on the mental quality by the evilness of feudal, society-splitting language systems and codes. For, at a minimum, the feudal language codes would splinter every human link along three directions and layers. It can really make the nation and the people atrophied.

However, which native-English speaker would understand these things? Their very proximity does improve the immigrants, and the immigrants know it. For, it is with this intention that they all clamour to reach the English shores. However, it is a great conspiracy that the total reality of what they are gaining and the negativity which they are giving in returned is never discussed or admitted in the open.

I am sure that it is not a conspiracy as one would talk about the illuminati. And possibly it is not something in which there is a centralised leadership. It could be something more or less at an individual level. Almost all individuals who move to the English shores know for sure that they are actually arriving at a paradise when compared to their own native nations.

They also know for sure that they are doing a sacrilege when they speak of the native-English speakers in their own native feudal languages. For the words they use about them, about their children, about the various persons doing a lot many jobs, about their monarch, about the prince and princess, and such persons, simply soil them and pull them or push them to levels of dirt and despoilment.

Yet, no one speaks or discusses these things. Does it really matter? Well, think of the concept of sovereignty. Theoretically it is said that it consists of a process by which all citizens jointly give up a particular percentage of their individual rights to another entity, who assures them that it, he or she will ensure their common rights and security from encroachment from others with inimical interests.

However, the fact is that the law and order machinery, the administrative set up, the various regimentation of social living all have to have a flow of command downwards, and a focus of respect upwards. Otherwise, nothing will work. {Actually there is very specific virtual software code involved in all this, but I cannot digress into those things here}.

It is like this: I went to give a Writ petition in the local state High Court against the compulsory imposition of Malayalam on all students. When I was presenting the case before the Chief Justice, I had to compulsorily address him as My Lord. When he was shifted to New Delhi and another lady Justice came into the position, again I was supposed to address her as My Lord. Well, there is the question of why I should don such a pose of obsequious respect to another human being. Well, the answer is that I am not addressing a human being, but a statutory position.

If this position is treated as a mere person, the statutory authority of the position will get diluted. The same goes with the British Monarchy. During the colonial days, the very words ‘In the name of the Queen’, could act as a very powerful code that set into activation many a regimentation and command routes, and their enforcements, even in far-flung colonial areas, where actually there was no means of enforcement with any tangible tools of power.

When people treat the King, the Queen, the Crown Prince and the other princes who are line to the throne, with scorn, ridicule, jeering and such, actually they are meddling and dismantling the machinery that runs the nation and helps it maintain its antique qualities and command structure and route.