Dynamic Economy

Ever notice, my compassionate readers, how the hegemonists keep talking about how it is only capitalism which can keep the economy dynamic. HyperTree feels this opinion reflects a lack of understanding about socialism. You see, in compassionate socialism, we progressively take money from the sinful rich and give them to the virtuous poor. We do this to save the souls of the rich by making them poor, but by giving money to the erstwhile poor, we make them rich. Consequently, we have to repeat the above process and keep shuttling money between different groups of people. If this is not keeping the economy dynamic, then what is?

Libertarianism

In this ironically indicting post, Sandeep, a hegemonistic right wingist, compares selfish libertarianism and compassionate socialism.

Libertarianism, for the compassionate innocents amongst my readers, advocates ruthless self-interest as a sole moral virtue, instead of an innocent altruism that gets according to need and contributes according to ability. It relies on machinistic rigid reason instead of a righteously vague human emotion and feeling. It emphasizes vulgar money, most probably obtained by unsustainable practices, instead of a collectively joyous egalitarian poverty. Do read that post for more gruesome descriptions that would make even the robust-hearted amongst us feel faint at the hegemonistic threat posed by this ideology.
Hopefully the exposition of the moral hollowness of libertarianism in that post would lead more of the capitalist minions into the inviting arms of us compassionate socialists.

Propaganda

Sometimes HyperTree feels pity on the rapacious capitalists who get so easily swayed by the hegemonistic right wing propaganda and end up with their uniformly hegemonistic and capitalistic views. The poor sods are reduced to rabble-rousing minions who follow the dictats of their leaders with nary an independent thought, much less with their hearts and feelings. Idol worshippers; they drool over their icons barely able to stop at mere admiration.

I was reminded of this sorry state of affairs in the capitalist camp when I was looking at a recent post at ICW; a website that does the good job of showing the evils of the imperialist Indian corporations which are out to entice honest-to-goodness Indians into the bourgeois dream of exploiting the poor and getting rich by unsustainable practices.
Now can you imagine what the capitalists would have done with an autograph of one of their leader capitalist-economists? They would have creamed their pants that is what. Contrast that with the restrained display of Brinda Karat’s autograph in the many compassionate-socialist blogs – [1][2]. Brinda Karat, for the swinish capitalist-chauvinists amongst my readers, is a prominent member of the CPI(M) politburo and is well-known for her efforts to stop the greedy capitalist-imperialists from hegemonistically increasing the capital of India.

Sometimes I get really angry at the way the right wing propaganda brainwashes the minions of the capitalists; this makes it that much more difficult for our brilliant leaders, like Ms. Karat, to show the capitalist minions the light. Truly, we in the compassionate socialist camp have been really lucky to have such maginficent leaders who use their superior intellect to look at complicated economic issues and lead the less gifted amongst us compassionate socialists telling us the righteous things to do.

Mocking the poor

We all know the bourgeois elite hate the poor. But do we know they also mock the poor? In this emotional post, VS points out an advertisement which wants to hideously harp on the fact that ads for things such as cars and cosmetics are not meant for the poor. It is this blog’s opinion that such crassly materialist ads are not meant for the rich either who should rightfully not be rich in the first place.
But the thing which makes my blood boil is the way the ad cruelly puts down the poor in a manner which negates all of our work for the past many years.

For decades, we compassionate socialists have tried to make Indian poverty and filth respectable and dignified by relentlessly showcasing it in front of international audiences and writing articles about it. And now, these unabashed materialist-capitalists think they can demean poverty to crass glossy advertisements by which they hope to sway people into giving them money?

God, how crass can these materialist-imperialists get?

Reform

HyperTree is a hyper tree-hugger. And considering that a greedy capitalist somewhere is getting richer every time you refuse to hug a tree, you my dear reader better be one too. Sometimes, HyperTree wishes it could also be a blog hugger; for it yearns to hug this cute blog: HTOHL. HTOHL is a blog with an incisively emotional take on issues facing the nation while bravely standing up to the imperialist blog-cartel; a group of shadowy bourgeois elite who would like to impose a suffocating hegemony where people are not free to test the boundaries of logical fallacies and where coherence and consistency become not cute guidelines but a fascist necessity, and where innocent bloggers cry every morning they get out of bed at the mere thought of living under such fascism.

I however take exception to this post in this otherwise excellent blog. The post starts off by asking the question, “But why are we reforming?”. I feel this is already falling into the devious trap set by the fascist capitalists. The question we should be asking is, “But why are we not throwing the reformers into jail?”. This I feel would set the bar at the place it should be: on the jail-cells of the incarcerated imperialists.

Come to think of it, even the word “reform” is unacceptable. Can the brutal yanking of the economic reins from innocent government by rapacious businessmen be considered “reform”? Do we want to call “reform”, the stealing of candy from innocent ten-year old kids whose tree has just been cut down; by big burly businessmen with twirling moustaches?
Sigh, much work has to be done, comrades, much work.

Education

While this blog primarily aims to counter hegemonistic capitalist ideologies in the economic arena (a mouthful), it also has non-economic interests. Which is actually the way it should be. We are humans after all, romantic creatures; not machines ruthlessly forced to maximize our economic capital (as the hegemonists would like us to believe).

Anyway, I was looking at this headline and I could barely contain my anger at the brutality of the ostensibly meritocratic culture these capitalists were creating. A brutally competitive culture in which children are being forced to study hard; brainwashed into improving their cognitive capabilities; hegemonistically cornered into being intelligent informed citizens when they grow up.
Is this what our nation has come to?

After getting sufficiently riled up on the headline, I went on to read the article, which turned out to be less about hegemonistic homework loads and more about some educational summit, which was a bit disappointing. But my keen eye spotted another phrase which set my blood boiling again. IITs and IIMs. These elite institutions which in the name of meritocracy fostered an inhumanly inegalitarian ethos; refusing to admit more than a few thousand of the many lakhs every year who wished to partake of the quality higher education that they have paid for with their taxes and that they have a right to.
But alas, they can’t. The only way we can check this imperialism is to prevent the government from building more of such higher-education institutions; and to divert government money from existing ones.
But the capitalists are trying to work their way around this; by wanting to build private higher education institutions. The audacity of their hegemonistic enterprise boggles the mind. Luckily our comrades in the CPI and the Congress have put in place such stifling restrictions and regulations on higher education that, for now, we need not worry about the imperialists exposing more people to their inegalitarian “higher” education. But we need to be alert.
We need to make sure we have a non-competitive dumbed-down primary school system and a non-existent higher education system if we are to combat the capitalist meritocratic hegemony. That we have succeeded till now does not mean we should let our guards down.

Intro; contd

The intro post did not go into much depth. Which I just realized would be a disappointment to my many like-minded readers. Unlike the capitalist “free-to-kill-innocent-poor-babies-marketeers”, my readers are a more compassionate lot. They like to go into the emotional depth of the issue. The issue here being myself.
In particular, the name of this blog. HyperTree. There is a very emotional story behind this, and if your heart does not bleed upon hearing this, then you are not a bleeding heart liberal, which means you should stab your worthless heart and let it bleed. Which would then make you a bleeding heart non-liberal. Not that it’d matter for I’d still hate you and your hegemonistic ilk.

The story dates back to when I was ten years old.
I was young, I was innocent, I was ten years old. I got up that morning, as I used to get up every morning. And looked out of the window. And what do I see? I see that I do not see what I usually see.
My tree. That was always so hyper in its shaking of branches, in its rustling of its leaves.
It had gone.
Somebody had cut it.

My tender childhood innocence was shattered that day. I demanded an explanation for this hegemony but some flimsy excuses were made; it was diseased; had insects; would fall amidst heavy rains injuring children.
Bah.

The lack of compassion infuriated me. This in many ways was a symptom of the rise of capitalist diseased mindset that was spreading its insects and falling on the poor child-like Indian minds. Just because similar diseased trees festered semi-poisonous centipedes and had injured people by falling during rains did not mean that this one would too. Or that other more compassionate alternatives should not be explored.
A year after having cut the tree, there was again a proliferation of the same semi-poisonous centipedes. Which was when I questioned their diseased-tree-cutting “reform” policies. But typical of their closed-mindsets, they kept blabbering about how because of my rabble-rousing they could not cut all of the diseased-trees. That the solution was actually cutting more of the diseased trees. I could not believe my ears! They were so far gone in their capitalist mindsets that they could not see the truth that my more compassionate mind alone could fathom.
Luckily the trees of this diseased-mindset were mercilessly cut right in the trunk for many good years by the good folks at Congress and CPI. But lately, this disease has risen again; the strangehold over the desi-blogosphere by the capitalist imperialists being just one symptom of it.

This blog is dedicated to that tree. To that hyper tree.

Intro

This is an introduction post. Meaning this is about me. I’m very humble, so it is understandably hard for me to talk about myself. But since I’m not the type to shirk from understandably hard things, let me just say that I’m here to stop the libertarian capitalist hegemony of the Indian blogworld. This cartel of capitalist bloggers use convoluted exaggerations and emotional hyperbole to emotionally sway their readers. If left unchecked, the utter and complete ruination and disaster that would ensue is but easy to imagine. Do we want a fate where our desi mothers cannot look at their babies in the eye without tearfully wondering what capitalist hellholish world they have brought an innocent life into?
No more! To throw off the capitalist yoke, Kem Che; as a latin american would say. Kem Che, Kem Che. Catchy phrase that; maybe I should write a song on it.