Jayant Bhandari 印度還沒有人性化

震撼演講：印度的危機根源是文化？｜極端批判挑戰三觀，一場來自內部的控訴

政經脈動  2025年5月3日

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繼前兩期對印度現況的尖銳批判後，印裔加拿大投資顧問 賈揚特·班達裏（Jayant Bhandari），在這段超過40分鐘的完整演講中，展開一場前所未有的文化自剖。他不僅坦率揭露自己童年在印度的創傷經歷，更將批判延伸至整個社會結構與價值體係。 在他的論述中，公平、正義、信任、同情、榮譽、忠誠，甚至「真相」本身，都是印度社會中難以落地的抽象概念。他進一步指出，問題根源不隻在製度與治理，更深植於文化與思維方式中。他甚至提出驚人觀點，認為印度文明對現代製度的吸收出現了結構性障礙，與教育、智識與社會心理層麵息息相關。 這是一位深諳印度內情者的痛切之語，也是一場對「文化與現代性衝突」的極端檢視。無論你同意與否，這場講演都可能讓你重新思考我們對印度、對文化與製度的理解。你準備好接受這場挑戰了嗎？

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自從我離開印度以來的33年裏，我去過近100個國家，其中很多國家我都去過很多次。在我看來，這讓我對社會有了新的認識。嗯，印度，也就是我今天要討論的，是第三世界的鼻祖。第三世界擁有地球上三分之二的人口。印度有8億人，相當於北美和27個歐盟國家的人口總和。他們依靠政府的免費糧食。
印度五歲以下兒童中有三分之一發育遲緩，這是一個誇張的數字，因為實際數字要高得多，一個低個位數。嗯，印度人可能擁有物質資源，即使在他們當中，我也從未見過一個印度人不經常被缺乏信任的擔憂所困擾。他不能信任他的家人，不能信任他的朋友，不能信任機構。印度是一個名副其實的地獄。我將解釋印度文化是如何變成癌症的，如何扭曲和歪曲西方提供的一切，這具有重大意義。對西方的影響，嗯，因為移民不斷湧入，我將在我的演講中概述印度的生活結構或缺乏這種結構，這使得印度的生活成為一種持續不斷的苦差事，充斥著無時無刻的剝削和虐待。我小時候的經曆是，強權即公理，一切都是基礎，絕對一切動物本能潛移默化地根植於我們心中，權力總是被濫用，那些掌權者認為他們擁有上帝賦予的剝削、支配和貶低他人的權利。權威的展示是如此極端，以至於任何質疑，即使是你問你的老師一個簡單的問題，或者期望當權者履行職責，都會導致立即的報複。那些當權者在那個年代，甚至在今天更是如此，嗯，這就是我稍後要談到的，印度是如何隨著時間的推移而惡化的，他們認為他們的職位不是為了服務他人，這是不可避免的。沒有任何政府人員或當權者，即使是在私營部門，認為他在那裏是為了服務他人，提供他認為他能得到的服務。他身居那個位置是為了謀取私利，無論是通過賄賂，嗯，在那個國家無處不在，他們無恥地要求虐待狂，這是對人性的扭曲，追求崇敬，他們想讓你在他們麵前匍匐，在印度，唯一一個尊重他們的人是那個在等級製度中接受較低從屬地位的人，我今年 56 歲了，我從來沒有見過印度當權者主動解決他應該負責的問題的情況，當我在印度上大學的時候，一個男孩，一個小男孩，一個男孩被看門人雞奸和強奸，我向當局報告了這件事，我帶著這個男孩去了警察局和大學官員那裏，沒有人，沒有一個人站出來采取行動，這是非常直接的事情，這是他們有權采取行動的事情，事實上，當局和同學們威脅我說，如果我繼續追究此事，將會產生嚴重後果，這就是讓我困惑的地方，即使現在我在理智上理解了，但在情感上我不明白，這讓我很困惑，讓我無比沮喪的是，在我剛剛描述的情況中，即使我腐敗了，嗯，通過正式登記罪犯，我實際上也會獲得一種充實靈魂的體驗，因為我知道我不是，我不會收受賄賂，而且我知道不會有任何關係。印度的運作依賴於兩種燃料：腐敗和關係。嗯，為什麽他們不登記這個案子？印度當局絕對不會采取任何行動，除非涉及物質獎勵、金錢或性，否則他們甚至不會動一根手指。他們的冷漠是一個無底洞。現在的問題是，在那種文化中，你的工作被當權者視為庸才。做好你的工作意味著你就是這樣，你是一個意誌薄弱的人，你不成熟，如果你能擺脫你的責任，你在那種文化中被認為是成熟的。做正確的事沒有自豪感或榮譽感，在那個社會裏沒有自豪感和榮譽感的概念，但情況更進一步，更進一步，如果你叫一個水管工來修理，他來了，他會認為不弄亂就走是有失身份的，他會故意把工作做得粗製濫造。即使他不需要花更多時間就能做得更好，為什麽會發生這種情況呢？這是一個複雜的網絡，由傲慢、自負、文明、種姓主義、部落主義、性別歧視、僵化的行為準則、教條和奇思妙想組成，驅使他們做事，使他們情緒低落，無法做出理性或道德的決定。公平，現在這些都是歐洲概念，你認為這些是你蒼穹的一部分嗎？它們不是，像公平、正義、信任、同情和公正這樣的概念是這些概念對印度人來說完全陌生，他們無法區分是非對錯，他們根本無法區分什麽是對什麽是錯，他們沒有你認為是自然存在的一部分的西方價值觀。他們不是。即使做正確的事情，實現公平和正義不需要付出任何代價，印度人也漠不關心。我甚至會說，如果他們能夠做到，如果他們能夠在不付出任何個人代價的情況下實現公平和正義，他們仍然寧願不做，因為他們認為做正確的事情是軟弱的表現。我想任何一個每天花費不到50美元去過印度的人都會明白我的意思。如果你每天花費500美元，你永遠不會理解印度。我們從小就被灌輸要順從的思想。這種灌輸是如此深刻，以至於印度人甚至稱呼那些比他們稍高的人為“先生”。他們的行為往往是監視性的、詭辯的和奉承的，即使他們已經在西方國家生活多年，他們仍然稱呼你為“先生”。因為這就是他們的方式。印度人根深蒂固地秉持著順從的觀念，但你永遠不應該把他們稱呼你為“先生”當作尊重的象征，因為尊重。尊重是另一個對印度人來說很陌生的概念。當他們稱呼你為“先生”時，這反映了他們在互動中將你視為更強者的觀點，這與他們“強權即公理”的思維模式相一致。一旦你在這個體係中處於弱勢，他們就會貶低你。在印度的體係中，你的等級要麽高，要麽低。你要麽是施虐者，要麽是被施虐者。在那個社會，實現平等是不可能的。一旦一個人在這個國家生活了一段時間，他很快就會從經驗中意識到，說“請”和“謝謝”是軟弱的表現，是那些想要貶低自己的人的專屬。印度人無法維持英國人建立的製度。這些製度已經被徹底掏空和腐蝕，它們已經變得掠奪成性。憲法和法律在那個國家毫無價值。驅動這些製度的唯一力量是賄賂和關係。你去見法官，你賄賂警察，然後……官僚在法庭上，法官就在法官麵前，這就是那個國家公開行賄的方式，嗯，級別越高，唯一改變的就是賄賂的數量，嗯，如果你去法庭，嗯，賄賂的程度就會改變，這是那個國家唯一重要的事情，街頭智慧，從文化上講，街頭智慧在那個國家受到高度重視，那些設法逃避法律製裁的罪犯會受到社會讚揚，人們會在社交場合讚揚那些逃避法律製裁的罪犯，我的一個近親，充滿自豪地告訴我，他永遠不會支付他租的房子的租金，他宣稱他的屍體會離開房子，而這確實是發生的事情，那個國家缺乏理性，嗯，當有人被騙時，那個國家沒有信任，他很少向騙子尋求正義，相反，他會合理化他對他人的欺騙，男人虐待女人，女人虐待兒童，那個國家的女人沒有無辜，女人虐待兒童，兒童虐待動物，動物攻擊他們攻擊的任何人高種姓的人會虐待低種姓的人嗎？但這並非線性單向的，從高種姓到低種姓。
因為低種姓的人像鬣狗一樣爭鬥，以確定哪個低種姓群體比其他低種姓群體更高，這是一個永無止境的循環。
非理性和武斷的循環，人們公開撒謊，每個人都知道每個人都在撒謊，但無論如何，每個人都在撒謊。大多數人不會感到認知失調，因為他們無法區分真假。我稍後會解釋，當我搬到英國時，他們對自己的謊言深信不疑，以至於無法區分神話和現實、事實和虛構。我知道這聽起來很反烏托邦，一些從未去過印度的人可能會搖頭，認為這不可能是真的，但我無法想象印度的情況。
喬治·奧威爾實際上出生在印度，順便說一下，那個國家的對話完全是為了個人利益，堅定地相信零和博弈，或者實際上他們更喜歡……輸贏遊戲如果你在交易中沒有輸，他們會感覺不好，文化中存在著強烈的虐待狂元素，那些與你最親近的人會變成你最大的敵人，那個國家的每個人都在他的財產周圍建造堅固的高牆，這是你建造時做的第一件事，購買房產時要充分意識到，如果給他一個，他的鄰居會侵占他的土地如果你睡覺時沒有在你的土地上設置圍欄，第二天早上你的土地就會被侵占，而你對此無能為力。當我開始在英國生活時，我花了很多年才明白為什麽西方人不做同樣的事情。忠誠和榮譽的概念在這個國家明顯缺失。談話圍繞著背後說人壞話，閑聊朋友，討論名人，交換迷信和對其他群體的敵意。印度教徒討厭穆斯林，穆斯林討厭印度教徒，錫克教徒對印度教徒懷有巨大的敵意。然而，這些群體內部總是爭鬥，讓每個人都分裂開來。然而，正是對其他群體的仇恨表麵上將他們團結在一起。當我第一次去英國旅行時，我很驚訝地發現，動物並不怕我，也不攻擊人。我很驚訝，那些當權者多年來並不期望人們表現出虔誠或敬畏，甚至在今天，有時當我需要有人做他的工作時，我也會感到不安。他確實這麽做了，我覺得我沒有盡到自己的責任，向他行賄，這就是你在那個社會中成長的方式，我懷疑我是否將真理和 tr 的概念與忠誠和榮譽的概念聯係起來，並了解它們的深層含義，直到我開始，直到我在英國生活了一年，我花了很長時間才開始理解這些概念的深層含義，當時我在曼徹斯特的一家辦公室工作，那段時間有人告訴我，在宣傳我負責的組織時不要誇大其詞，在我夏天的時候，我生平第一次開始看到人們想要說真話，隻是為了說真話，我當然一直都知道“真理”這個詞，但我第一次開始掌握它的本質，現在奇怪的是，在印度非常不尋常的是我的祖父和我的父親，他們在財務方麵非常誠實，並且非常自尊，嗯，我們的家庭相當富裕，在政治上也有很好的人脈，但這隻讓我了解印度 25% 的墮落和墮落，我根本無法理解了解這個國家其他的真實情況，因為我不是女人，不是來自底層，也不住在貧民窟，也沒有像80%到90%的印度人那樣被警察強奸和虐待。問題是，如果你邀請一個了解印度社會的人，一個經曆過25%以上印度貧困和墮落的人，他的大腦會被他所經曆的一切所摧毀，無法溝通。印度人當然無法區分墮落和非墮落。所以，理解印度的基本原則是：這是一個不道德、不理性、缺乏價值觀的社會。你試圖灌輸的任何價值觀都會像鴨子背上的水一樣消失。在我的一生中，我看到印度社會不斷惡化。基督教傳教士和歐洲殖民者在印度灌輸給印度人的優雅和文明，正在緩慢但穩步地被侵蝕。我清楚地記得我第一天出國的情景，我飛到倫敦，然後坐火車去曼徹斯特，我在火車外麵看到的景象讓我很沮喪，我看到了看起來很單調的房子，它們太幹淨了，不符合我的口味，非常幹淨的水道和非常幹淨的空氣，火車上沒有喧囂，火車的平靜讓我感到迷失方向和沮喪，我不知道如何應對這種沒有持續衝擊我感官的情況，隨著時間的推移，嗯，在西方生活，我意識到對於大多數移民來說，坐在這種平靜、和平、缺乏噪音、空氣中沒有氣味的環境中會導致生存危機和一種強迫性的需求，無論他們搬到哪裏，都要重建印度，這就是為什麽當你即使你去了價值百萬美元的房子，在西方社會的貧民窟裏，印度人和其他第三世界人會麵對熟悉的氣味、噪音和混亂，他們迫切地需要那些氣味和混亂，以及持續的喧囂，他們創造了永無止境的情緒化當我在曼徹斯特商學院的時候，西方社會的貧民窟裏充滿了無謂的衝突和知識分子的近親繁殖，嗯，我們被給予了嗯，電子鑰匙鏈，以便我們一天24小時隨時進入大學，嗯，我們，和我交談過的移民同胞，我們總是想知道英國人是否真的愚蠢到信任我們，這對我們來說太不尋常了，完全不尋常，然而，這些移民中的大多數人永遠不會試圖理解信任和感激的情感意義，更糟糕的是，隨著時間的推移，他們發現抱怨往往會帶來物質利益，這是多元文化西方唯一真正關心的事情，嗯，我和我的一個朋友曾經在曼徹斯特開車的時候，我的朋友喝多了，闖了紅燈，我們被警察攔了下來。我完全被警察對待我們和對待我朋友的尊重所震驚。在印度，警察會羞辱和剝削甚至那些與此事無關的乘客。虐待和剝削，呃，弱者過去是，現在仍然是印度的一種生活方式，當然，因為我的朋友酒量很高，他被捕了。逮捕他的警察說，與其把我扔在高速公路上，他很樂意載我去警察局，呃，如果我想做點別的事情，我答應了，我跟你一起去，所以我坐在車裏警察旁邊。那時我已經在英國生活了一年，但我的情緒非常激動。
在去警察局的路上，我和這個警察聊了聊，同樣的情況在印度會怎樣？呃，虐待、剝削和羞辱的循環，他們會對司機施加這種循環。乘客們，呃，那些日子，我住在曼徹斯特一個犯罪率很高的地區，我當時沒錢，呃，警察會在深夜跟蹤我，呃，他們隻是在我走路的時候跟蹤我，嗯，我問了那個開車送我去警察局的警察，為什麽他們從不攔下我問我在做什麽，他告訴我，他們跟蹤我是為了確保我的安全，但更重要的是，他們無權在沒有正當理由的情況下攔下我，這是我生平第一次開始理解英國人對個人空間的尊重。我當時的意圖不是操縱警察，而是在交了朋友之後，呃，他讓我的朋友坐了一兩個小時清醒過來，沒有起訴他，就讓我們走了，嗯，嗯，一段時間後，我開始意識到，雖然英國的掌權者經常靈活地適用法律，考慮到法律背後的精神，我想警察意識到我們是正派人，他真的不想再這樣做了，嗯，在印度，每一條法律被用作
剝削和掠奪的工具，沒有例外。現在我很快會詳細說明
西方對印度的積極貢獻
是如何被扭曲的，嗯，所以我們經常談論繁榮和教育將如何
真正造福這些貧窮的國家，這是一個神話，是謬誤，它
根本行不通，我會進一步闡述這一點，但問題在於，你如何
改變這些人根深蒂固的非理性和不道德
你如何去除他們那套奇幻思維的運作方式，並
將理性思維植入他們的頭腦中？由於英國人不再掌權，
情況持續惡化，統計數據無法在
印度人的心理中產生共鳴。印度人沒有灰色地帶，一切都被認為是
非黑即白的，缺乏對細微差別的欣賞。這種缺乏比例原則
導致他們優柔寡斷，無法評估事物的價值，最終，不受約束的情緒
左右著他們的生活，即使是我所擁有的那些聰明人
也一樣，屬於同樣的思維模式。當我搬到英國時，重新調整我的思維，使其符合理性、道德和西方價值觀對我來說是一項艱巨的任務。在印度，我曾就讀於一所頂尖的工程學院，並認為自己非常有創造力、果斷且腳踏實地。但當我開始親眼目睹曼徹斯特的社交互動以及英國人的行為時，我開始意識到，即使是雜貨店的經營者也比我更有信心，也更果斷。我意識到我的思緒被混亂的思維和相互衝突的動機所籠罩，這些動機是我從小就被灌輸的，缺乏原則性基礎的規則也讓我難以理解。想象一下，在這種思維下工作會是什麽樣子。想象一下，在印度的成長經曆會給你帶來多少層層混亂的世界觀、行為模式和不誠實的陰謀傾向。盡管我本意是好的，但我還是花了幾十年的時間，而不是幾年的時間，即使我相信某件事是好的，它通常仍然是好的。即使一個信念仍然是好的，我仍然認為它通常仍然是基於非理性的。或者說是神奇的思維，呃，原則，呃，如果可以的話，你把這些稱為
原則，我意識到並試圖改變的一個錯誤信念，與其他根深蒂固的信念和行為模式相衝突，這是一個艱難的
任務，就像試圖改變我信念城堡中的一塊破磚
和世界觀，嗯，如果不這樣做，整個結構就會不穩定
然而，隨著時間的推移和持續的努力，我注意到我的睡眠質量開始提高，
並且盡管麵臨嚴重的經濟危機和經常挨餓，我的身體也開始發生變化，
籠罩著我思緒的陰雲開始消散，一種令人安心的感覺開始消散，我周圍的人
都在支持我，這種感覺無比強大非常有幫助，現在記住，在印度，你的
家人和朋友是你最大的敵人，嗯
嗯，奇怪的是，困擾我的慢性壓力開始消退了。嗯，印度仍然是地球上壓力最大的國家之一，大多數第三世界國家都是，嗯
我祖母告訴我兩件事，嗯，我認為它們非常
落後，我已經改變了看法，開始認同她的想法。她
認為有些人需要處於饑餓的邊緣，因為如果
給予更多，他們就會製造問題。盡管她是我認識的最
平等的人之一，和她的司機和泰勒交朋友，她會
提醒我，並非每個人都應該有座位，除非他真正適合。人權是一個西方概念，印度人無法理解。他們
不理解個人空間和對個人的尊重，這與他們談論權利，嗯，即使是消極的
權利，我不是在談論積極的權利，即使是消極的權利也隻會導致混亂。他們失敗了。區分消極權利和積極權利。當人們學習消極權利時，他們會怎麽做？因為要記住，底層的根基是非理性、不道德和價值觀的缺失。他們隻收集消極權利中利己的部分。例如，當人們學習財產權時，他們從中得到了什麽？他們學會了保護自己的財產，卻沒有認識到其他女性的權利。當女性被教導強奸是一種侵犯時，她們開始將強奸視為一切，並將其用作剝削男性的工具。如今，印度大多數強奸案都是假的。因為隨著印度人逐漸接觸到權利的概念，他們的思想開始轉變，不再關注他們的餘生，而是接受餘生是命運的安排，開始接受受害者的心態。這就是我祖母的由來。所以，印度人的問題就在於此。在道德、理性、因果關係和其他西方價值觀的基礎建立之前，印度人無法學到任何好的東西。在他們看來，你怎麽能做好這份工作？我不知道
如果沒有這些基礎，你怎麽能做到？西方文明的成果
隻會把他們的享樂主義傾向變成
更惡毒的東西。每一個文明的成果，教育
西方服飾，繁榮，西方製度在印度被扭曲了。剩下的，英國留下的製度
已經被掏空，變成了純粹的掠奪者和
虐待狂。之所以發生這種情況，是因為在後英屬印度，掌權者崇尚價格
權宜之計和資源獲取。記住，他們的本能就是金錢和性。他們對
想法不感興趣。他們對任何精神層麵的東西都不感興趣。嗯，他們認為獲取
資源是他們生活的唯一目的。如今，印度甚至缺乏歐洲人到來之前那種模糊的
法治。這就是為什麽在我看來
當印度崩潰時，它會崩潰，一個類似塔利班的
體製會在印度從灰燼中出現，這將是對印度現狀的
改進。我將繼續討論如何
西方文明賦予印度的美好事物被扭曲了。
呃，沒有西方傳教士，基督教就被……印度人的迷信和巫術滋養，嗯，變成了巫毒。嗯，由於印度人對抽象思維缺乏興趣，語法對他們來說毫無用處。大多數人都學英語。
呃，西方教育和西方服飾純粹是出於一種貨物崇拜的心態。他們關注的是……獲得證書，穿上西方服裝，並認為這就是一切。證書背後的技能。
嗯，他們完全沒有將教育視為通往智力成長的途徑，或者成為更好人類的手段。嗯，現在，如果教育應用於非理性的頭腦，會發生什麽呢？這種頭腦通過巫術思維來處理……信息。嗯，教育變成了負擔，沉重的負擔，它……加重了你的思想負擔，使受過教育的印度人比未受過教育的印度人更糟糕。
他們就像僵硬的齒輪一樣運轉。那些不理解自身行為意義和價值的齒輪，在複雜的社會中，他們隻是些微小的妥協，或許
難以追蹤，卻會導致可怕的後果。我擔心為什麽那些
787 Max 客機從天而降，為什麽最近森林大火如此頻繁。我
想知道發生了什麽？這背後的原因是什麽？經濟學中有一個概念叫
中等收入陷阱，我更願意把印度的情況稱為低收入陷阱。它
會一直存在，而且會隨著時間的推移而惡化。現在，我們來談談另一個西方概念。繁榮，呃，繁榮
帶來了繁榮，卻沒有帶來社會和平。嗯，它並沒有成為印度人
智力或精神成長的平台。他們也不理解舒適的概念，所以他們不能把錢花在舒適上，他們建造華而不實的房子，隻是為了向別人炫耀，並控製那些比他們弱小的人。更糟糕的是，近幾十年來，西方科技進步帶來的輕鬆繁榮，抑製了人們對理性和道德的追求。所以現在印度人實際上變得越來越不理性，越來越不道德，越來越不道德，因為他們根本不需要。他們頭腦中的因果關係正在以另一種方式運作。社交媒體充當著交換神話和迷信的平台。如今，印度比我小時候更加根深蒂固地沉浸在魔幻的思維和迷信之中。西方文明的另一個產物是那些被提升到更高地位的印度人變得傲慢和虐待狂。這種行為並非源於他們想要掩蓋自己的無能和心理弱點，而更多的是源於一種真正的信念，即傲慢和虐待狂定義了權力和階級。想想看，他們認為傲慢和虐待狂是此外，優雅也是一種應對根深蒂固的自卑感的機製，我之前說過，呃，對弱勢群體持續不斷的殘酷對待，呃，那些處於弱勢地位的人，每個人在某個時刻都會變得弱勢，呃，呃，財富，當印度人看待西方社會時，當
他們看著財富，財富就催眠了他們，呃，他們無法理解
這種馬戲團式成功的基礎，因為他們隻對外表感興趣，這就是他們所能理解的全部。當他們看待西方時，他們把西化等同於
好萊塢的刻板印象：女孩穿短衣、濫交、酗酒、吸毒、炫耀財富，以及普遍的英雄主義生活方式。
他們在自己的靈魂中看到了他們靈魂想要看到的東西。
好萊塢印度人看到的是他們前殖民時期、前維多利亞時代、道德享樂主義文化的反映。
所以，我的演講到此結束。這就是整個故事的最終結局。
這個結論，嗯，理解印度人思想的根本問題是，它是非理性和不道德的，它不持有任何西方價值觀，比如他們珍視的榮譽和忠誠。他們不理解真理的概念。他們認為宇宙是任意的，並沉迷於幻想。他們無法超越當下去思考。這就是動物本能的作用。當你沒有文明價值觀時，動物本能就會發揮作用。他們無法超越性和金錢去思考。嗯，但這應該是意料之中的。這就是為什麽我認為事情無法改變存在問題。這就是。一個智商隻有77的社會會發生什麽。低智商的人在心理上無法持有任何價值觀。受動物本能和權宜之計驅使。他們把一切都合理化，以服務於他們的物質主義和自私目的。賦予他們的每一種西方價值觀都被歪曲、扭曲和腐化，以達到這些目的，也就是物質主義。嗯，他們對榮譽、信仰、靈性、忠誠、真理或嗯，或者任何這些都不感興趣。西方價值觀
他們沒有十誡。西方人認為十誡隻是存在於自然界中。文明並不存在於自然界中。他們如此不了解這些價值觀，以至於即使這些價值觀是被強加給他們的，他們也對這些價值觀視而不見。即使這些價值觀是被強加給他們的，他們也無能為力。除了理解來自印度和其他第三世界國家的移民將如何影響西方之外，你們對此無能為力。女士們，先生們，非常感謝你們。

震撼演講：印度的危機根源是文化？｜極端批判挑戰三觀，一場來自內部的控訴

政經脈動  2025年5月3日

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddViEMmVrRU

Over the last 33 years since I first left India I have traveled to almost 100 countries and to many of them repeatedly um this in my view has given me a perspective on societies uh India which is what I'm here to talk about today is the grandfather of the third world the third world has uh two out of three human beings on the planet 800 million people in India in India which is equivalent to the combined population of North America and 27 nations of European Union rely on free grains from the government
onethird of Indian children below the age of five are stunted and that's an exaggerated figure in the sense that the number is actually much higher a low singledigit um Indian Indians might have the material resources even among them I have never met one never met one Indian who is not constantly plagued by concerns stemming from lack of trust he cannot trust his family he cannot trust his friends he cannot trust the institutions india is a veritable hellhole i will explain how Indian
culture has become cancerous warping and perverting everything that that the west has
provided it this has significant implications um for the west because immigrants keep pouring in i will in my talk outline the structure or lack thereof that renders life in India a constant drudgery filled with momentto- moment exploitation and abuses as a child my experiences was one where might is right underpinned everything absolutely everything animalistic instincts sublim subliminally were hardwired into us power was invariably abused with those in control thinking that they had the god-given right to
exploit dominate and dehumanize others the display of authority was so extreme that any questioning even you asked your teacher a simple question or or expecting those in authority to perform their duties led to immediate retribution those in authorities those days and even more today and uh that's what I'm going to come to later how India is worsening with time they believed that their positions were not for serving others that's invariably the case no government person or person in authority even in private sector thinks that he's there to serve other people to provide a service he thinks he gets he's in that position for personal gain whether through bribery which is uh omnipresent in that country and shamelessly asked for uh sadisma which is a perversion of human character and pursuit of reverence they want you to prostrate in front of them the authorities in in the country the only person who shows respect in India is the one and was the one who had who accepts a lower subservient position in life in the hierarchy i have never I'm 56 years old i have never witnessed a situation in
India where someone in authority took the initiative to address a problem he was responsible for when I was at the university in India a boy a young boy a male boy was sodomized and raped by the janitors i reported the man matter to the authorities i went I took this boy to the police and to the university officials no one not one person stepped forward to take an action something that was very straightforward something that was within their powers to take actions on in fact the authorities and the fellow students threatened me with grave consequences if I pursued the matter further now this is what confuses me even now i understand it intellectually but emotionally I don't get it it confuses me and frustrates me no end that in a situation I just described where even if I were corrupt um I would actually find a soulenriching experience by booking a culprit properly because I knew I wasn't I wouldn't be getting bribes and I knew that there wouldn't be any connections involved india operates on two fuels corruption and connection um why did they not book that case indian authorities would do absolutely nothing not even lift a finger unless there's a material reward money or sex involved their apathy is a bottomless pit now here is the problem doing your job in that culture is seen as epheminite by those in authority doing your job means that you are the this you are a weak-minded person you are not mature if you can shoke from your responsibilities you are considered a mature in that culture there's no pride or honor in doing what is right there's no concept of pride and honor in that society but it goes a bit further quite a bit further if you call a plumber for repairs he comes he will see it beneath him to leave without creating a mess he will deliberately do a shoddy job even if it would not have taken him more time to do a better job why does this happen a complex web of arrogance egotism civility castism tribalism sexism rigid dos and don'ts dogmas and magical thinking drives what they do leaving them emotionally constipated and incapable of making a rational or moral decision fairness now these are all European concepts you think that these are parts of you firmament they aren't the the concepts like fairness justice trust empathy and impartiality are completely alien concepts to the Indian mind they cannot differentiate between right and wrong they can't simply can't differentiate between what is right and wrong they do not have the concepts the western value concepts that you think are a part of the natural existence they aren't indians are indifferent even when there is no cost involved in doing the right thing in delivering fairness or justice i would go as far as by saying that if they could do if they could deliver fairness and justice without any personal cost they would still prefer not to do it because they see doing the right thing as a sign of weakness i guess anyone who has been to India on a budget of less than $50 a day would recognize what I'm saying here if you spend $500 a day you will never understand India we were as growing up indoctrinated to be submissive the indoctrination is so profound that Indians address even those slightly above them in authority as sir their behavior tends to tends to be
survileentic sophentic and ingratiating and they call you sir even after they have moved through the western countries for years because that's how deep the hardwiring of submissiveness in among Indians but this you should never ever take they're calling you as sir as a sign of respect because respect Respect is another concept that is alien to Indians when they call you sir it reflects their view of you as a stronger person in the interaction consistent their consistent with their mindset of might is right they will demean you the moment you are in a weaker position in this system in the system of India you are either higher or lower in the pecking order you're either an abuser or the abused achieving equality is impossible in that society once a person has started living in that country for a while he soon realizes from experience that saying please and thank you are signs of weaknesses and reserved for those who wish to demean themselves indians cannot maintain the institutions established by the British these institutions have been completely hollowed out and corrupted they have become
predatory the constitutions and laws hold no value in that country the only forces driving these institutions are bribes and connections you go to go in front of a
judge and you bribe policemen and the bureaucrats in the judge in the court right in front of the judge that's how openly bribe is conducted in that country um the higher you go the only thing that changes is the quantum of bribes uh if you go to the court uh the the level of bribe changes that's the only thing that matters in that country street smarts culturally street smartness is highly valued in that country criminals who managed to evade justice are socially celebrated people will in social cuh settings praise those people who were criminal and evaded justice a a close relative of mine brimming with pride um once told me that he would never pay the rent for the house he had rented he declared that his his dead body will would leave the property and that's what actually happened rationality is is absent in that country um when someone is cheated and trust is nowhere in that country he rarely seeks justice against the cheater rarely instead he rationalizes his cheating of others men abuse women women abuse children women are no innocent in that country women abuse children children abuse animals animals attack whosoever they can higher cast individuals abuse lower cast individuals but then it's not a linear one-way higher cast to lower cast
issue either because lowercast people fight like hyenas to determine which of those lower cast groups is higher than the other lower cast group it is a perpetual cycle of
irrationality and arbitrariness people lie openly everyone knows everyone lies but everyone lies anyway most people feel no cognitive dissonance because they cannot
distinguish between truth and falsehood and I'm going to come to it in a bit explaining that it was the meaning of truth was a revelation to me when when I moved to the United Kingdom they convinced themselves of their lies so much that they can no longer differentiate between myth and reality fact and fiction now I know this sounds dystopian and some people who have never been to India are probably shaking their heads thinking this couldn't be true but I cannot imagine what about India that is
not dystopian george Orwell was actually born in India by the way conversations in that country are driven solely for personal gain with a steadfast belief in a zero sum game or actually they prefer a win-lose game if you don't lose in in in an in a transaction they don't feel good about it there is this strong element of sadism in the culture those who are closest to you will turn out to be your biggest enemies everyone in that country build solid a strong highrise high fences around his property that is the first thing you do when you build buy a property fully aware that his neighbors would encro would encroach on his land if given a chance you sleep without a fence on your on your property and next day morning your land would have been encroach encroached on and you can do nothing about it once I started living in the United Kingdom it took me years to comprehend why people in the west don't do the same thing the concept of loyalty and honor are conspicuously absent in that country conversations revolve around backbiting gossiping about friends discussing celebrities exchanging superstitions and animosity towards another other groups hindus hate Muslims muslims hate Hindus sik harbor huge animosity towards Hindus these groups however within themselves fight all the time leaving everyone atomized yet it is the hatred for the other group that superficially unites them when I first traveled to the United Kingdom I was amused to find uh that animals weren't fearful of me or aggressive towards people i was surprised that those in power did not expect cerility or reverence for years and even today sometimes I feel uneasy uh in a situation when I need someone to do his job and he does it i feel as if I'm not doing my part of the transaction by offering him bribes that's how you grow up in that society i doubt if I connected the concept of truth and tr with the concept of loyalty and honor to their deeper meanings until I started until I had lived in the United Kingdom for a year it took a long time for me to start understanding the deeper meanings of these concepts i was working in an office in in Manchester and during that time someone told me not to exaggerate while promoting the organization something I was responsible for during my summer days for the first time in my life I began to see that people wanted to speak the truth for the sake of speaking the truth i had always of course known the word truth but for the first time I started to grasp its essence now strangely very anomalous in India were my grandfather and my dad who were in financial matters very extremely honest and held self-respect uh very highly um our family was pretty reasonably well off and well connected politically but this only allows me to understand 25% of India's depravities and degradations i simply don't have an understanding of what else really happens in the country because I'm not a woman i'm not from the lower cast i don't live in slum areas and I'm not raped and brutalized by the police the way 80 to 90% of Indians do um the problem however is that if you
invited someone who understood who had experienced more than 25% of Indian deprivity deprivities and degradations his mind would have been fried by what what he would have
experienced and he would have been incapable of communication indians of course fail to differentiate between the difference between depravity and non-depravities so here is the foundational principle to understanding India it is an amoral it is an immoral irrational society devoid of values any values you try to instill will slip off like a water of a a duck's back in my lifetime I have seen a continual worsening of Indian society whatever grace and civility Christian missionaries and European colonizers had instilled in India in Indians has been slowly but surely eroding i I I distinctly recall the first day I was in outside the country i flew into London i was on a train to Manchester what I observed outside the train um made me very gloomy i saw dull-looking houses which were too clean for my taste very clean waterways and very clean air the absence of hustle and bustle in the trains and calmness of the train made me disoriented and gloomy i did not know how to cope with a situation where there was no constant assault on my senses with time um uh in living in the west I realized that for most immigrants the sit this situation of calmness peace lack of noise lack of a smell in the air leads to an existential crisis and a compulsive need to recreate India wherever they move to that is why when you even when you go to a million-dollar get million-dollar house ghettos in the western society occupied by Indians and other third world people you you face familiar smells and noise and chaos they desperately know need those smells and chaos and a constant hustle and bustle they create neverending emotionalism fruitless conflicts and intellectual inbreeding in those ghettos in the western society when I was in the Manchester Business School um we were given um the the fob the electric electronic fob to enter the university whenever we wanted to 24 hours a day um um we the the fellow immigrants I talked with we always wondered if British were so stupid that they that they trusted us this was so unusual so completely unusual for us most of these people however most of these immigrants would never try to grasp the emotional significance of trust and gratitude worse they discovered as time passed by that complaining often led to material benefits the the only thing that genuinely cared for um in the multicultural west once a friend of mine and I went for a drive in Manchester my friend had had a couple of drinks too many he ran a red light we were pulled over by the police i was completely stunned by the respect with which the police treated us treated my friend in India the police would have humiliated and exploited even the passengers who were who had no no business in the game u abusing and exploiting uh the weak was and is a way of life in India of course because my friend friend had um high alcohol level he was arrested the policeman who arrested him of said that instead of leaving me on the highway he would be happy to give me a ride to the police station uh if I wanted to do something
else from there on i said yes I will come with you so I sat next to the policeman in the car now this was a year into my life in the United Kingdom but I was emotionally
overwhelmed that on the way to the police station I talked with him this police guy how the same situation would have turned out in India uh the cycle of abuse and exploitation and humiliation they they would they would have inflicted on the driver and the passengers uh now those days I used to live in a very high crime area of Manchester i was I had no money uh the police would follow me late at night uh
with just they would just follow me while I walked um I asked this policeman
who was driving me to the police station why did they never stop me to ask me questions on what I was doing and he he told me that they followed me to ensure my safety but more importantly they had no authority to stop me without a legitimate cause for the first time in my life I was beginning to grasp the British respect for personal space now I my intention was not to manipulate the policeman at that time but after making my friends uh what he did was he got my friend to sit for an hour or two to sober up and without charging him he let us go um uh I began to realize over a
period of time that while those in p those in power in the United Kingdom often applied the law with flexibility considering the spirit behind it i guess the policeman realized that we were decent fellows he he did not really want
to pursue that anymore um in India every single law is wielded as a tool for
exploitation and predation there's no exception now I will soon elaborate on
how the positive aspects that the west um contributed to India uh has been have
been all perverted um so we often talk about how prosperity and education will
actually benefit these poor countries that's a myth that's fellacious it does
not work and I will expand on that but the problem is that how do you
change the underpinning irrationality and immorality of those people
how do you remove the operating system of magical thinking and implant that
mind with rational thinking and because British are no longer in charge the
situation has continued to worsen statistics fail to resonate in
the Indian psyche there is no sense of gray area among Indians everything is perceived as
black or white with no appreciation for nuance this lack of pro proportionality
leads to indecisiveness and inability to value things in the end unrestrained emotions
drive their lives even of the intelligent people i carried I carried
the same a part of the same mindset with me when I moved to the UK realigning my
thinking with reason morality and western values was a cispian
task in India I attended one of the top engineering colleges and believed myself
to be very creative decisive and well-grounded but as I w started witness witnessing
social interactions in Manchester and behaviors of people in the United Kingdom I I I I started to realize that
even a grocery store grocery shop operator had more confidence and was
more decisive i realized my cloud my mind was
clouded with confused thinking conflicting motivations they were which were implanted in me as growing up and
rules lacking a principled foundation now imagine working on that
kind of mind imagine the layers and layers of confused worldviews behavioral
patterns and dishonest scheming tendency your upbringing in India ingrains you in
with despite my best intentions shaking them off and rewiring my thinking took
decades not years decades even if I believe that something was good it was
often still even if if a belief was is still good I of it was of often still
based on irrational or magical thinking uh principles uh if I can you call those
principles an erroneous belief I became aware of and tried to change clashed
with other deeply ingrained beliefs and behavioral patterns it was a cispian
task it was like trying to change a broken brick in a castle of my beliefs
and worldviews um without this destabilizing the entire structure
however with time and consistent effort I noticed that I started to sleep better
and felt mentally freer despite facing severe financial
crisis and often going hungry my body started to change and the mental cloud
that had clkeded my thoughts began to lift a reassuring sense that those
around me had my back was immensely helpful now remember in in India your
family and friends are your biggest enemies um
um strangely um a chronic stress that afflicted me started to fade away as
well um India continues to be one of the most stressed countries on the planet most of the third world countries are um
my grandmother told me two things uh to which I thought were very
backward-looking something that I have changed my views on and I have come to side with her ways of thinking she
believed that some people needed to stay on the edge of starvation because if
given more they would create problems despite being one of the most
egalitarian people I knew befriending her chauffeer and Taylor she would
remind me that not everyone deserved a seat at the table unless he was truly fit for
it human rights is a western concept that is incomprehensible to Indians they
fail to understand personal space and respect for the individual is speaking to them about rights um even negative
rights i'm not talking about positive right even about negative rights only leads to confusion they fail to
differentiate between negative and positive rights when taught about negative rights what will they do
because remember the underpinning the substrata is irrationality and immorality and a absence of values they
glean only the selfserving part of the negative rights for example when people are taught about
property rights what do they glean out of it they learn to protect their property but fail to recognize rights of
others women when they are taught about that rape is a violation begin to
perceive rape in everything and use it as a tool to exploit men most of the
filed rape cases in India are today fake as as Indians are introduced to the
concept of rights their minds instead of getting some sense out of those negative
rights their minds start to shift from focusing on their rest lives to and
accepting their rest life as fate is start adopting a victim
mentality that's where my grandmom was coming from so here is the problem with Indians
who cannot teach them anything good until the foundations of morality rationality causality and other western
values have first been laid in their minds how would you do that job i don't
know how you can do it without these foundations the fruit of the western
civilization only serve to turn their hedonistic tendencies into something
more malevolent every civilizational fruit education
western clothing prosperity western institutions have been perverted in India the left the institutions left
behind um by the British have been hollowed out become purely predatory and
sadistic this occurred because in post British India those in power price prize
expediency and resource acquisition remember their instinct is all about money and sex they have no interest in
ideas they have no interest in anything spiritual um they see acquisition of
resources as the sole purpose of their lives today India lacks even the vague
rule of law that existed before the arrival of Europeans this is why in my
view when India has fallen apart and it will fall apart and a Taliban-like
system comes into exist in in in in India from the ashes it will be an
improvement on what India is today u I'll continue talking about how
the good things that the western civilization offered to India have been perverted
uh without western missionaries Christianity has been nourished by uh
Indian Indian superstitions and magical thinking um and has become voodoo um
given the lack of interest in ideas that Indians have a lack of interest that
they have in abstract thinking grammar is unnecessary to them English for most
people have become pigeon uh western western education and western
clothing have been adopted purely from a cargo cult mentality the focus is on
obtaining certificates putting on western clothes and they think that is all that matters the skills behind those
certificates is completely immaterial to their minds
um they they completely fail to see education as a path to intellectual
growth or as a means to become better human beings
um now what happens to education applied on irrational mind um which processes um
information through magical thinking um education becomes burdens burdensome it
burdens your mind making educated Indians worse than their uneducated
counterparts they function as rigid cogs cogs not understanding the meaning and
value of their actions they are micro compromises in a complex society may be
untra untraceable but result in horrible outcomes i worry about what why those
max 787 fell from the skies and why forest fires are so many these days i
wonder what happened what what is behind it in economics there's a concept called
middle income trap i prefer to call India's situation low income trap it
will stay here and it will get worse with time now let's talk about another western concept prosperity uh prosperity
has led to u not led to social peace um it hasn't become a platform for
intellectual or spiritual growth in that country indians do not understand the concept of
comforts either so they cannot use their money for comforts they build garish
houses um only to show off to other people and to control those weaker than
them um worse the easy prosperity of recent decades which is essentially a result of
western technological advancements has disincentivized the pursuit of
rationality and morality so now Indians are actually becoming more irrational
and more immoral more immoral because they just don't need to the causality in
their minds is functioning the the other way social media serves as a platform
for exchanging myths and superstitions today is India is more entrenched in
magical thinking and superstitions than it ever was in when I was a child now
again another fruit of western civilization was the institutions those
elevated Indians elevated to higher position become arrogant and sadistic
this behavior stems less from a desire to mask their incompetence and
psychological weakness and more from a genuine belief that arrogance and sadism
define power and class think about it they think arrogance and being sadistic
is have being classy additionally it serves as a
mechanism to cope with deepseated inferiority complex i talked about uh
the the the constant um um brutalizing of people who are weaker
who who are in weaker position and everyone is weaker at some point of time um
um the the wealth that the when Indians look at the western society and when
they look at the wealth it hypnotizes them um they fail to understand the
underpinnings of that circus success because they are only interested in the facade and that's all they can under
see they when they they view the west they equate westernization with
Hollywood stereotypes girls wearing short clothing promiscuity uh drinking
and using drugs flaunting wealth and generally an a heronistic way of life
they see in their souls they see what their souls want to them to see in
Hollywood India see a reflection of their pre-colonial pre Victorian moral
hedonic
culture so here is where I conclude my talk and this is the whole narrative was
to come to this conclusion um and the the basic issue with understanding the
Indian mind is that it is irrational and immoral and it does not hold any of the
western values like honor loyalty dear to itself they don't understand the
concept of truth they view the universe as as arbitrary and engage in magical
thinking they cannot think beyond now this is where animalistic instincts
operate when you don't have a civilizational values animalistic instincts operate they cannot think
beyond sex and money uh but this should be expected and
this is why I think there's a problem with why things cannot change this is
what happens with a society with an IQ of 77 low IQ people cannot hold any
values in their psyche driven by animalistic instincts and
expediency they rationalize everything to serve their materialistic and self-serving purposes every western
value given to them has been caric caricaturized and corrupted to these
ends which is materialism yeah uh they have no interest in honor
faith spirituality loyalty truth or truth or um or any of the western values
they have no ten commandments western people think that ten commandments just
exist in nature they don't civilization does not exist in nature they are so
unaware of these values that they remain oblivious about these values even if
they are forc even if these values are forcefully presented to them and there's
nothing you can do about this except to understand how immigration from India and the rest of the third world will impact the west ladies and gentlemen thank you very [Applause] Fore speech she follow me.