June 28, 2019 Friday
Bedtime Story
Five-Point Summary of Economic Exploitation
Tonight we shall continue with the 5 points
(we had left midway of the third because I want to limit my bedtime stories to
an arbitrary short but specific length since most apes inherently show little
interest in reading and knowing Mon Ami being exceptional of course; long
essays will sap away both the energy and attention of average apes) that
summarized the economic exploitation of the Hindu Subcontinent.
As always - you must have surely noted that
by now - I am consistently cynical and critical of human apes thereby
establishing myself a confirmed misanthrope.
Being a true misanthrope I am first and
foremost most critical of my own self first.
The French novelist Gustave Flaubert had
put it:
I would “die of suppressed rage at the
folly of fellow men.”
I can then very well say, “I ought to die
of suppressed rage at the follies of my own makings.”
Now back to the great baniya.
The English worker not only has the
advantage of better wages, but the steel companies of England get the profit of
building the factories and machines.
Wages; profits; all these are spent in
England.
Point 4: The finished product is sent back
to India at European shipping rates, once again on British ships.
The captains, officers, sailors of these
ships, whose wages must be paid, are English.
The only Indians who profit are a few
lascars who do the dirty work on the boats for a few cents a day.
Point 5: The cloth is finally sold back to
the kings and landlords of India who got the money to buy expensive cloth out
of the poor peasants of India who worked at seven cents a day.
As I have always said it is very important
to have not only basic literacy but also numeracy (if not outright baniyapanti)
to have a true understanding of reality.
“Baniyapanti” is not a word found in English
lexicon though the word “baniya’ is.
Hence it would be not too far-fetched an
idea to introduce “baniyapanti” into English language as this word contains the
essence of wide explanatory power for so many things that human apes do and the
way they conduct themselves in integrated societies.
The last component that was necessary for
the motto “Cotton is King” to be realized in Deep South of the United States
was of course the slaves and the prevalence of the Atlantic slave trade.
Slavery was such a contentious issue (for
economical reasons than for anything else) that even the Constitution of the
United States and its framers never allowed the word “slave” or “slavery” to
appear on it even once.
More tellingly the Constitution of the soon
to be great nation that defied its mother land and sought liberty against the
tyrannical and unfair rule did not explicitly prohibit slavery.
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Good night Mon Ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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While I narrate stories, Professor Subhashish an electronic
engineer and a former professor at BARC, does and teaches real mathematics and
physics.
He started the participation of Indian students at the
International Physics Olympiad.
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