08-27-2011, 03:32 PM
[quote name='G.Subramaniam' date='27 August 2011 - 09:43 AM' timestamp='1314417906' post='112609']
The fact is that despite this, most Tambrahms vote for ADMK and not BJP
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During election time the corruption and heavy handedness of the DMK in the last five years had overwhelmed the voters and that include the Brahmins. In democracy such bull-dosser phenomenon takes place. It replaces one corruptor with another.
Democracy itself is a genus of capitalism that turns everyone into a slave-laborer and there is nothing special about being a Brahmin nay actually a hinderance. In democracy's eyes varnaasrama is anathema. So how does Brahminism really play out in this process that had corrupted the Brahmins and turned them against themselves? Brahmins see JJ as a Brahmin because MuKa says so. BJP is not seen as a Brahmin party or even Hinduthva party and is at best seen as a target for the Congress. In Tamilnadu both are irrelevant.
To continue on democracy and its parent viz. capitalism: Capitalism is the amassing of wealth on man-made rules and laws. Smrithi or traditional practices are irrelevant in the eyes of capitalism (and its democratic practice). It is always guided by peremptory man-made laws. Laws are always made under pressure to lay down the limit and extent of greed. This means you can make money only within the ambit of the law yet the law-makers think that the laws they make is for others and not for themselves. This is the source, the fountain-head of corruption. Thus corruption is the engine of democracy.
Democracy is corruption for the people, by the people and of the people!
Traditional Brahmin is spiritual. But modern Brahmin is one who won't care even to wear his upaveedham. He is like the Indian Muslim or Christian whose ancestors are Hindus. Modern Brahmin's ancestors are Brahmins but he has reconciled himself to his so called 'equality' with a vaisya or a sudhra. He is caught up in the turf war of castes and meekly pleads for a space in it.
Enge Brahmanan?
The fact is that despite this, most Tambrahms vote for ADMK and not BJP
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During election time the corruption and heavy handedness of the DMK in the last five years had overwhelmed the voters and that include the Brahmins. In democracy such bull-dosser phenomenon takes place. It replaces one corruptor with another.
Democracy itself is a genus of capitalism that turns everyone into a slave-laborer and there is nothing special about being a Brahmin nay actually a hinderance. In democracy's eyes varnaasrama is anathema. So how does Brahminism really play out in this process that had corrupted the Brahmins and turned them against themselves? Brahmins see JJ as a Brahmin because MuKa says so. BJP is not seen as a Brahmin party or even Hinduthva party and is at best seen as a target for the Congress. In Tamilnadu both are irrelevant.
To continue on democracy and its parent viz. capitalism: Capitalism is the amassing of wealth on man-made rules and laws. Smrithi or traditional practices are irrelevant in the eyes of capitalism (and its democratic practice). It is always guided by peremptory man-made laws. Laws are always made under pressure to lay down the limit and extent of greed. This means you can make money only within the ambit of the law yet the law-makers think that the laws they make is for others and not for themselves. This is the source, the fountain-head of corruption. Thus corruption is the engine of democracy.
Democracy is corruption for the people, by the people and of the people!
Traditional Brahmin is spiritual. But modern Brahmin is one who won't care even to wear his upaveedham. He is like the Indian Muslim or Christian whose ancestors are Hindus. Modern Brahmin's ancestors are Brahmins but he has reconciled himself to his so called 'equality' with a vaisya or a sudhra. He is caught up in the turf war of castes and meekly pleads for a space in it.
Enge Brahmanan?