Lambu Atta
I think things remain fine as long as one is able to do their job and practice their art. The thing about the world we live in is that it can turn mediaeval any second. I think feudalism has made a full comeback as technofeudalism. The issue about the country we live in is stratification, along with microstratification. The actual truth of the world is that there are basically only two strata, the world above the glass ceiling and the world below it but the ones above the glass ceiling and the lackeys employed by them revel in microstratifying the world below the glass ceiling. The unfortunate part is that the world below the glass ceiling was already stratified and in a good way, based on natural laws and respect, where every person knew his job and introduction of modern governance was a beautiful thing in the already beautiful social order because it gave an avenue of opportunity to any one from any strata from the older order according to their merit and talent, and that means son of a potter could become an IAS officer if he was talented enough. That was the dream at least. Then came the incompetents playing with the natural order seeking permanence in an impermanent world, placing the victims of their forced patronage in positions of power, putting industry plants, and people as props. While totally removing the opportunities of genuine social mobility and identification of actual talent and merit. Now son of a potter can't become an IAS officer unless he is an opportunist and knows to pull the ladder up after climbing. It took me a whole decade to realise that public welfare was never the goal and it baffled me when I realised that actual goal was dispossession of people and depriving their lives of aesthetics and happiness and keeping them in a permanent hustle mode. Indian middle class aesthetics that were present in the 90s have totally collapsed. Languages have been totally disarmed so that one can't name their exploitation. Gaslighting is a normally used technique in Indian sociopolitics and yet there is no Hindi word for it plus literary Hindi has been totally crushed so that middle class intellects are totally deprived of aesthetics. This is a level of incompetence that is rabid in nature. It's a cancer. Of jealousy and unending greed where people are deprived of basic dignity and when someone asks for dignity they are accused of being a communist. For the record, my personal politico-economic leaning is ethical capitalism and social democracy. Though the incompetent rabid retards can't make out the difference in asking for dignity and rebellion. We live in times where an engineer doesn't feel like an engineer, a doctor doesn't feel like a doctor though this is just a symptom of being ruled by illiterate rapists.