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Re:George Orwell's 1984 and How Power Manufactures Truth by tho23iwlefdsfd on Monday June 16, 2025 @09:01PM (#44294761)
A disclaimer: this "political" nature of everything is deeply baked into Western culture, going all the way back to pre-Xtian 'Western' (~ non-Indian) religion.

Things are a lot more subtlety in broadly "Indosphere" (or atleast its old version before all the rampage of Islam and Western colonization).

Re:George Orwell's 1984 and How Power Manufactures Truth by aks_tldr on Monday June 16, 2025 @09:07PM (#44294797)
The history of "Indosphere" is all but struggle between castes since its origin, so much for the subtlety.
Re:George Orwell's 1984 and How Power Manufactures Truth by tho23iwlefdsfd on Monday June 16, 2025 @09:28PM (#44294922)
This "history" that you vomit out is actually not based on primary evidence, but has been shown to be a "projection" of this very obsession with power in Western academia.

Pollock for eg. is so deep down this hole that he even blames (in his Deep-Orientalism essay) Nazi genocides on them learning "power-politics" from Purva-Mimansa. Contrarily, the DharmaSastras actually prevent this very kind of elite-collusion that is characteristic of the occident, from current times all the way back to Greece.

So much for your retort (assuming this is typical for the Brown Anglo-Sahebs that man HN, who think destruction of India is the greatest gift to mankind).

Re:George Orwell's 1984 and How Power Manufactures Truth by aks_tldr on Monday June 16, 2025 @09:58PM (#44295088)
emancipation is no destruction, the history is well inscribed on pillars.
Re:George Orwell's 1984 and How Power Manufactures Truth by jasonm23 on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @12:10AM (#44306586)
Oh brother... keep drinking the kool aid.