04-23-2007, 01:20 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-SwamyG+Apr 22 2007, 11:50 PM-->QUOTE(SwamyG @ Apr 22 2007, 11:50 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Well in my opinion, it is definitely our chance now to say what is civilized and what is development and progress.
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It certainly is.
Indian and Hindu culture is treated on par with "lost cultures" aka Inca/Mayan civilization, while Hindus have been living that culture hidden away in their homes, successfully leading double lives as though the culture did not exist.
This was IMO - the most successful covert, culture saving operation in the history of the world and successfully staved off the culture-erasing assault of Islam and Christianity, although Hinduism was not left untouched.
The story of how Hindu memes have survived has got to be one of the most amazing stories of survival - because the world was successfully made to believe that those Hindu memes were dead and not worthy of study.
However the downside is that the supposed death of those Hindu memes have been celebrated and justified as essential and positive events that were needed to destroy the evil, pagan/kafir forces of Hinduism. So we now find that any outward manifestation of Hinduism beyond the recessed practices at home is looked upon as "Resurgence of Hindutva".
Resurgence it is not. It was always there - it never went away. The word resurgence is used in the sense of a horror movie in which a ragged ugly corpse climbs out of the grave to terrorize good Christians.
There are certain cultural stereoypes, manifested as images representing good and evil that exist as deep rooted memes in Christian societies that appear every now and again as "popular imagery"
Evil forces are often represented as fully shaven heads and evil dark faces. Fully shaven heads are perfectly non threatening images for Hindus and from the now dead pre-Islamic Egyptian civilization. Check out Amrish Puri in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom from 1984, or the evil soldiers in "Eragon" from 2006.
The forces of "good" are all long flowing robes and closed collars. Check out Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings, or even Dumbledore in Hogwarts.
The reason I point these out is that even in this day and age you will find common people in predominantly Christian societies feeling fear and revulsion at images that have been permanently associated with evil, and are reassured by the padre look. The people may not be overtly racist or religious, but Christendom's memes run in their minds just below the surface, reinforced by the images I have described.
When an innocent unsophisticated Hindu from a small temple town in India behaves like himself and gets seen, he does not realise that by being himself he is evoking horror and revulsion in a world dominated by Time-Warner and CNN and their insidious Christian memes - a world that Hindu memes have hidden themselves from in order to survive.
This is what I am talking about when I speak of unsophisticated Hindus who don't even know how far back and how deep the scales are loaded against their just being themselves. These are things that will have to be reversed with finesse by those of us who can see what is happening.
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It certainly is.
Indian and Hindu culture is treated on par with "lost cultures" aka Inca/Mayan civilization, while Hindus have been living that culture hidden away in their homes, successfully leading double lives as though the culture did not exist.
This was IMO - the most successful covert, culture saving operation in the history of the world and successfully staved off the culture-erasing assault of Islam and Christianity, although Hinduism was not left untouched.
The story of how Hindu memes have survived has got to be one of the most amazing stories of survival - because the world was successfully made to believe that those Hindu memes were dead and not worthy of study.
However the downside is that the supposed death of those Hindu memes have been celebrated and justified as essential and positive events that were needed to destroy the evil, pagan/kafir forces of Hinduism. So we now find that any outward manifestation of Hinduism beyond the recessed practices at home is looked upon as "Resurgence of Hindutva".
Resurgence it is not. It was always there - it never went away. The word resurgence is used in the sense of a horror movie in which a ragged ugly corpse climbs out of the grave to terrorize good Christians.
There are certain cultural stereoypes, manifested as images representing good and evil that exist as deep rooted memes in Christian societies that appear every now and again as "popular imagery"
Evil forces are often represented as fully shaven heads and evil dark faces. Fully shaven heads are perfectly non threatening images for Hindus and from the now dead pre-Islamic Egyptian civilization. Check out Amrish Puri in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom from 1984, or the evil soldiers in "Eragon" from 2006.
The forces of "good" are all long flowing robes and closed collars. Check out Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings, or even Dumbledore in Hogwarts.
The reason I point these out is that even in this day and age you will find common people in predominantly Christian societies feeling fear and revulsion at images that have been permanently associated with evil, and are reassured by the padre look. The people may not be overtly racist or religious, but Christendom's memes run in their minds just below the surface, reinforced by the images I have described.
When an innocent unsophisticated Hindu from a small temple town in India behaves like himself and gets seen, he does not realise that by being himself he is evoking horror and revulsion in a world dominated by Time-Warner and CNN and their insidious Christian memes - a world that Hindu memes have hidden themselves from in order to survive.
This is what I am talking about when I speak of unsophisticated Hindus who don't even know how far back and how deep the scales are loaded against their just being themselves. These are things that will have to be reversed with finesse by those of us who can see what is happening.