If the demon's sole purpose is to invade, murder and rape & westerners living a superficial life are making you feel apologetic about your traditions and scriptures,
then the civilization is suffering from an "Intellectual" crises, and no such civilization has ever survived.
Every Imtiaz Ali film is essentially the same movie with different actors, songs, locations and situations. The common formula goes something like this:
The protagonist is emotionally confused and doesn't know what they want from life.
They meet a quirky, free-spirited person who completely changes their worldview.
A road trip, train journey, or foreign travel becomes a metaphor for self-discovery.
The characters spend most of the film talking philosophically about love, identity, and "finding yourself."
They separate due to misunderstandings or personal issues.
One of them has a dramatic realization and chases the other in the climax.
The ending suggests that love is possible only after discovering one's "true self."
Whether it's Jab We Met, Love Aaj Kal, Rockstar, Highway, Tamasha, Jab Harry Met Sejal, or Socha Na Tha, the packaging changes, but the core themes remain the same.
Hear me out.
Population Control Bill should be as follow...
1. Upto 3 kids allowed for those who pay Income Tax.
2. Only 1 kid allowed those who take government welfare schemes like free ration, laadli behnas etc.
3. Rest of them, 2 kids allowed...
Excuse my insensitivity but let's stop this doglapan.
Just last week when rains were delayed once in a decade, everyone wanted to protect trees at all cost.
Now that rains themselves are uprooting dead trees (end of life) and killing children, we suddenly want BMC to do its job.
Also, now that rains are intense and the traffic is super bad, we're deep down wanting the coastal road to happen so that WEH is not cluster fucked.
But tomorrow when we'll try to make the same damn road, we'll be sharing reels saying save mumbai mangroves.
Everyone wants to take the moral high ground, and simply react to things happening around them. Wake up the next day and there's a hard refresh on how and what to outrage about. Rinse and repeat the process, and then keep blaming the authorities ki ya'll are useless.
First make up your own mind please.
most of us are afraid to admit it but ai is making our cognitive skills rusty. i can't even write a simple email anymore without refining it with ai.
we had to think of each and every detail of the problem before starting to write code. and that thought process made our cognition engine better. it kept us sharp in reasoning, questioning, and understanding the edge cases that could have only been discoverable when you work on the problem deeply.
all of these things have gone now. you start with only 20% of the understanding and ai gives you the massive output. now you have to debug that output instead of debugging your original problem.
ai is making us rusty for sure. after a decade, thinking without ai will be super valuable.
I first got it as a hunch. Then I thought about it a lot. Now, I would like to state it:
AI and tech leapfrogging by a few nations, is poised to cause colonization 2.0 - an era where other nations are digitally and strategically subordinated using the tech.
Normalization of colonization by western tech bros, including Elon, too points to what they gonna do.
Europeans travel more because:
• Their countries are tiny and connected like Indian states
• They get stronger passports, cheaper flights, student hostels, work permits and social security
• Average salaries are much higher relative to travel costs
An Indian middle-class kid often carries family responsibilities much earlier. Supporting parents, saving for home, education loans etc.
And calling temple visits or family trips “not travel” is peak elitism. If a family saves for 2 years to visit Kedarnath, Goa or Kerala, that experience matters just as much as a backpacker smoking weed in Bali “finding himself”.
Also funny how people romanticize European gap years but ignore:
• Indians already migrate, struggle and adapt more than most populations globally
• Millions leave hometowns at 18 itself for coaching, jobs and survival
• Indians work in every continent on earth
Travel doesn’t automatically make someone deep, cultured or intelligent.
Some people return from 12 countries with only fake accents.
And honestly, there’s nothing wrong with wanting stability either. For many Indians, that stability is the result of one generation’s sacrifice.
Travel should expand your mind, not your superiority complex.
US authorities restricts green card approvals inside the US to rare extraordinary cases only.
This forces many Indian professionals on H-1B and other visas to return home for consular processing.
US statement:
Indians, especially Gen Z:
Criticize your government as much as you want. Ask hard questions. Hold them accountable.
But never become a pawn for forces sitting outside this country.
There is a reason we were sanctioned after Pokhran. There is a reason our strategic developments are met with protests. There is a reason you are being systematically taught to hate your civilization.
Revolutions don't work in a country as large and complex as India. It will always become a tool for our adversaries to exploit our fault lines.
So protest. Push back. Confront.
But always be cautious of anyone trying to steer a revolution from outside. They have zero skin in the game.