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.