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Sameer Rao retweeted
We genuinely need better intellectual options on the Right. I am increasingly exhausted by the establishment old guard. The normative foundations of today’s anti-intellectual establishment Right need not merely to be reformed, but radically transformed.
A neo-Right must emerge, grounded in a serious engagement with Savarkarite thought. But for that to happen, the intellectual framework itself must first be developed with conceptual precision. That was supposed to be the intellectual task of the establishment Right. It failed miserably.
Instead, they spend their time protesting Arundhati Roy and Nivedita Menon without undertaking the far more difficult intellectual work required to develop a coherent theory of Hindu statecraft, political philosophy, civilisational identity, and a modern Hindu worldview.
So, however exciting the label sounds, it remains largely irrelevant without the intellectual architecture to substantiate it. You cannot build a new political order on slogans, outrage and nostalgia.
Where is our Dugin to intellectually guide our Hindu futurist Putin?
We genuinely need better intellectual options on the Right. I am increasingly exhausted by the establishment old guard. The normative foundations of today’s anti-intellectual establishment Right need not merely to be reformed, but radically transformed.
A neo-Right must emerge, grounded in a serious engagement with Savarkarite thought. But for that to happen, the intellectual framework itself must first be developed with conceptual precision. That was supposed to be the intellectual task of the establishment Right. It failed miserably.
Instead, they spend their time protesting Arundhati Roy and Nivedita Menon without undertaking the far more difficult intellectual work required to develop a coherent theory of Hindu statecraft, political philosophy, civilisational identity, and a modern Hindu worldview.
So, however exciting the label sounds, it remains largely irrelevant without the intellectual architecture to substantiate it. You cannot build a new political order on slogans, outrage and nostalgia.
Where is our Dugin to intellectually guide our Hindu futurist Putin?
Sarr but Sarr votechori sarr
REALITY CHECK: 28 MLC seats, Congress wins ZERO — including the loss of a sitting member’s seat in Karnataka.
MLC elections are not a direct reflection of voter mood, but they do offer clues to regional power equations, party organisation and the local level challenges facing Congress. Zero wins across 28 seats is a result the party cannot afford to ignore.🙏
Sameer Rao retweeted
Do you unironically think the greatest philosophical and ritualistic minds of Ancient India would just look at modern history, archaeology, genetics, the consequences of the Industrial Revolution, modern political structures and say: "Well, yeah.. all the answers are found in the Gautama Dharmashastra!"
They'd be aghast at how far we've fallen behind and come up with an entirely new system to approach all this. Of course, such astute leadership is a far cry so we are stuck with either subaltern politics or people acting as caricature of what the subalterns think Hinduism was.
Sameer Rao retweeted
100% agree that as we enter the age of Artificial Intelligence, religion becomes even more important to humanity. But I think the author’s use of “Hinduism” needs to be understood differently.
Hinduism isn’t a religion in the Abrahamic sense. It is a civilisation and a nation of people that our ancestors built. The Hindu civilisation never had a single dogmatic book equivalent to the Bible or the Quran, nor did questions of consciousness, God, and the nature of reality belong exclusively to a “religious” sphere.
They were philosophical questions. An academic pursuit, at the very least. We built a culture of debate, expression and intellectual inquiry directed towards understanding the nature of reality and the universe.
Hinduism, in this sense, is the civilisational and sociopolitical framework that made these pursuits possible.
Until now, humans could easily distinguish between consciousness and non-consciousness. We were comfortable not being able to scientifically define consciousness because we had an intuitive binary: we are conscious, objects are not.
AI complicates that binary.
As AI advances, consciousness may begin to look less like a binary and more like a spectrum. Hopefully, humanity remains at one end as fully conscious, with objects at the other as unconscious, while different forms of AI occupy points somewhere in between.
That ambiguity will be far more unsettling to humanity than people realise. So when he speaks of a “post-religious” world, I don’t think he necessarily means abandoning the Hindu tradition. Perhaps it means abandoning the assumption that Hinduism is “religious” in the Abrahamic sense altogether.
Our entire civilisation was built around asking questions about consciousness, existence and the nature of reality. That may become more relevant, not less, when machines begin forcing us to ask what it actually means to be conscious.
"modernist, pro-India, anti-woke, anti-socialist, anti-Dehat and post-religious?"
"Modernist and post-religious" produce demographic suicide. We are here because our ancestors had faith, no not the "spiritual but not religious" kind, I mean real faith.
And then AI, which ends our intellectual pretense. What is left that is truly human? I suggest Nature, Nurture, Culture and Scripture; the core of Sanatana Dharma is that all of these are connected.
Anyway I will make this prediction: religion will become even more important in the post-AI landscape.
100% agree that as we enter the age of Artificial Intelligence, religion becomes even more important to humanity. But I think the author’s use of “Hinduism” needs to be understood differently.
Hinduism isn’t a religion in the Abrahamic sense. It is a civilisation and a nation of people that our ancestors built. The Hindu civilisation never had a single dogmatic book equivalent to the Bible or the Quran, nor did questions of consciousness, God, and the nature of reality belong exclusively to a “religious” sphere.
They were philosophical questions. An academic pursuit, at the very least. We built a culture of debate, expression and intellectual inquiry directed towards understanding the nature of reality and the universe.
Hinduism, in this sense, is the civilisational and sociopolitical framework that made these pursuits possible.
Until now, humans could easily distinguish between consciousness and non-consciousness. We were comfortable not being able to scientifically define consciousness because we had an intuitive binary: we are conscious, objects are not.
AI complicates that binary.
As AI advances, consciousness may begin to look less like a binary and more like a spectrum. Hopefully, humanity remains at one end as fully conscious, with objects at the other as unconscious, while different forms of AI occupy points somewhere in between.
That ambiguity will be far more unsettling to humanity than people realise. So when he speaks of a “post-religious” world, I don’t think he necessarily means abandoning the Hindu tradition. Perhaps it means abandoning the assumption that Hinduism is “religious” in the Abrahamic sense altogether.
Our entire civilisation was built around asking questions about consciousness, existence and the nature of reality. That may become more relevant, not less, when machines begin forcing us to ask what it actually means to be conscious.
"modernist, pro-India, anti-woke, anti-socialist, anti-Dehat and post-religious?"
"Modernist and post-religious" produce demographic suicide. We are here because our ancestors had faith, no not the "spiritual but not religious" kind, I mean real faith.
And then AI, which ends our intellectual pretense. What is left that is truly human? I suggest Nature, Nurture, Culture and Scripture; the core of Sanatana Dharma is that all of these are connected.
Anyway I will make this prediction: religion will become even more important in the post-AI landscape.
Sameer Rao retweeted
The mental gymnastics these people perform to pretend Hinduism is somehow foreign to Kerala are genuinely pathetic. Some are so desperate that they’ll even claim Christianity is more native to Kerala than Hinduism.
Hinduism is the foundational backbone of Kerala’s history, culture and identity. You can deny it, rewrite it or cope with it, but you cannot erase it.
This is not historical illiteracy or ignorance; this is a threat. A steady threat that could rewrite Kerala's history.
And Kerala should be a warning to Hindus everywhere. Demographic change doesn't stay demographic. Eventually, it becomes cultural and political diktats.
The mental gymnastics these people perform to pretend Hinduism is somehow foreign to Kerala are genuinely pathetic. Some are so desperate that they’ll even claim Christianity is more native to Kerala than Hinduism.
Hinduism is the foundational backbone of Kerala’s history, culture and identity. You can deny it, rewrite it or cope with it, but you cannot erase it.
This is not historical illiteracy or ignorance; this is a threat. A steady threat that could rewrite Kerala's history.
And Kerala should be a warning to Hindus everywhere. Demographic change doesn't stay demographic. Eventually, it becomes cultural and political diktats.
Sameer Rao retweeted
People should remember the more the left gets radical, so does the Right.
Globally we are entering a phase of radical politics much like the Interwar years. This is because ordinary people are losing faith in the post WW2 Liberal order.
Sameer Rao retweeted
The more the world gets radicalized, the more we end up outside our comfort zones questioning fundamental assumptions. It’s all good in the end. The things that survive this are things that get solidly stress tested.
People should remember the more the left gets radical, so does the Right.
Globally we are entering a phase of radical politics much like the Interwar years. This is because ordinary people are losing faith in the post WW2 Liberal order.
Sameer Rao retweeted
In a Nation-State, the Nation is the Soul, and the State is the body. As the human goes through Samsara, so does the country. The State is temporary, but the Nation is immortal!