| | | Last visit 1997. I know India has much improved. But it's still just a blip on the horizon compared with what India could do if it went full VVV. Dump the Karl Marx British Disease and go full steam ahead with VVV.
Fortunately for India, the young people [way back in 1997, according to what we were told in India by a young bloke], told the dopey old geezers to get lost with their idea of dumping english and going hindi as lingua franca. Young people understood that their ticket to the future was global and lingua franca [an excellent english word, HiJacked into the lingua franca]. The boss of Google, Microsoft etc won't be somebody who is not highly capable in english, or american in this case.
Unfortunately for Maoris, they are being told that their stone age genocidal cannibal culture was awesome and that maori language is their ticket to the future. Of course maori is useless outside Aotearoa-Zimbabwe and of no merit inside unless to get on the gravy-train of opm from Big Brother government kleptocrats who use taxpayer loot to bribe votes from Maoris. At best maori can be considered a fun thing to do like Morris dancing, playing bridge, or golf. It's fun to do, gives social context and identity in belonging [which is a good thing], but as a means of earning a living and doing good in the world it's as useful as me playing golf - which is nice for me, a few friends, the golf club, but at the end of the day, I've held the line on fitness, had a bit of fun in a hobby, and got a card with some indifferent numbers on it which then goes in the bin and contributes zero to the greater good.
India was fascinating and I think has and will contribute fantastically to the greater good. I'm quite the "racist" and think of breeding humans like dog breeding. I don't buy that we're homogenous, and neither does anyone else, really, despite what they say. Women don't just marry a random bloke that happens by. They are very picky and choosy. We all know you can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. I won't be Albert Einstein or Michael Jordan no matter how many thousand hours I practise. We're all made up of DNA and some people are better than others at various things, and not just through practise.
The thing that interests me most is intelligence, imagination, creativity [in maths, science, physics, engineering type things rather than weird modern art, music and arty stuff which is interesting and fun, but not going anywhere that I can tell]. I don't care much about super amazing sports DNA and physical prowess. Dolphins, chimps and birds can beat us at swimming, chimping and flying, no matter how good our DNA.
About 20 years ago, pondering Ashkenazi Jews, Albert Einstein, Irwin Jacobs and swarms of others, and why they not only have a very high average brain power, but the supersonic super high imaginative talents at the very high end, I saw that tracking haplotypes, which became doable a couple of decades ago, showed how people have moved around the world and therefore their origins. My 23andMe analysis of Y chromosome and mitochondria show my ancestral origins for example.
Ashkenazis are bred from a big area from north west Africa, across to Morocco or thereabouts, and over to northwest India, in a smallish region. As you probably know, there are phenomenally talented individuals from that north west India area - prodigy types, who can do maths upside down and inside out and generally exhibit cognitive abilities that regular humans don't have.
My theory is that those genes that provide the cognitive horsepower have been bred with Bedouin and whatnot Persians and various across that horizontal region with the great results we now see. After spreading into Europe and then to USA and around the world, their economic output became enabled, writ large. Of course those genes have been spread hither and yon so it's not as though registered Ashkenazi church going Jews are the only people who have that hot-stuff DNA, but it's still concentrated enough that it's obvious to all but the obtuse.
The great strength of the USA is that they attract swarms of the most talented and those relatively tiny fraction of people [such as Elon Musk, Irwin Jacobs, Albert Einstein, and all the rest] and turn them loose to go big. Even though 90% of Americans are just mongrel average types who can do the donkey work, and 10% are talented enough to keep things on the straight and narrow and do what the super smart tell them = code this, build that, invent a better production line, it takes only a minuscule fraction to come up with CDMA and make it work, figure out the relativity theories, invent the internet [hooray for Al Gore], and hopefully fusion reactors, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering and a dinkum Cybermoney unit of value [not the dopey blockchain idea], and maybe electromagnetic and gravity theories to really get things going, such as gravity reversal machines to make transport free, in 3 dimensions, thoughout space - using the sun's gravity field as propellant rather than drag for example. Tootling around town in a 200 kg gravity reversal flying car would mean zero traffic jams. My prototype graviton spin reversal device is admittedly still in the shed and not progressing well = I need some of those Indians or Jews or somebody to figure it out as I appear to lack the cognitive functionality.
Anyway, India has a combination of variables that could do anything, if turned loose. It doesn't seem to be as dynamic an economy as can be. Turn it loose. Shut down the kleptocrats, dump the Karl Marx, ditch the hindi [language compulsion], go full VVV free enterprise and all those virtuous values that enable glorious greatness. I have thought since our visit that living in Bangalore would be a really good place. Just the mangoes, coffee, and cashew nuts would be worth it. It was just getting going in 1997. I guess it has gone ahead in leaps and strides since then. But I doubt it has fusion reactors.
I was pleased to see India told USA to get lost, and kept buying and selling with Russia. I don't want USA ruling the world. They've proven to be bad rulers. Starting WWIII over Crimea for example. They had started it long before that, but that's the current hot-spot. Victoria Nuland and her lack of Virtuous Victorian Values [despite her name], Obama, Biden etc were the problem, and the USA electorate who gave them the authority to do it. Voting for DementiaJoe10% was the last straw, but hopefully not end times. But the average American is gung ho for WWIII against Russia, which will end horribly if the obvious, simple and sensible solution is not agreed quick smart.
Meanwhile, horrors continue in Ukraine. Russia proposed the solution before the Americans geared up Ukraine to conquer Luhansk, Donetsk and Crimea.
Have Brexit and Scottish type referenda and establish two or three new countries to run their own shows. It seems likely that like Ireland, they'll choose independence from Zelensky, Azovs and the brutal bosses of Kiev. Kievans should agree to not be a forward base for USA to prepare onslaught against Russia.
Americans and Australians are getting their noses in a knot over Solomon Islands which is thousands of kilometres from USA/Oz, unlike Ukraine which is a fraction of an inch from Russia, and even claims Crimea which is part of Russia, and attacks Russians in eastern Ukraine. Americans are not totally stupid and should be able to see that Russians would be very concerned about USA setting up shop in Crimea. Sevastopol is Russian, Honiara is not American or Australian. Honiara is far from Sydney and Los Angeles.
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