In4ser
Junior Member
If that’s the case, then the government will never see the need to fix itself and turn more towards religiosity as a buffer from actual policy failures.
Both Chinese and Indians have strict social hierarchies but the difference is
Chinese have the Mandate of Heaven and Meritocracy engrained into their culture that allows talent and skill to rise and bad governments to be overthrown.
India’s problems are deeply cultural because it more upon society vs the state to govern. Which is why it tends to have weaker, decentralized state and difficulty enforcing policy. So even if the caste system is not official law, the idea of entrenched social classes and inequality, emphasis of the spiritual world and impurity of the physical means focusing sophism vs logic or policies directed at clean and high prestige projects like office work vs manufacturing is embedded into how Indians think.
What India needs is a Cultural Revolution to forcibly remove ancient superstitions and backwards practices. However it is doubtful Modi with BJP are going to ever do that because they’re Hindu Nationalists.
After all, having a deep and sophisticated culture can be hinder to change like teaching an old employee new processes because it has to unlearn what it already knows first. Sometimes it’s better to restart from zero like respecializing your talent tree from Wizard to Warrior. Even for China it was a very bitter and hard medicine to swallow but we know the Indian government will take the easy way out kicking the can down the road.
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