Dukkha Dimensions

Is life hard? Well for me it has been hard, and I would say exceptionally hard. I was prepared though. Since life was never easy for me, I kind of leaned towards the Buddhist philosophy of "life is suffering" or Dukkha. Turns out it is not, you just have to switch your perspective. I mature and it turns out that life is Dukkha only because of a bunch of greedy sadists and rapists who play six dimensional chess with lives of people in the name of plan or will of God. Turns out Indians can't be trusted in anything, much less designing a proper system of providence and divine justice, even though one ultimately realises that there is nothing divine in the world. I believe in empirical evidences and from what I had seen in this country belief in God was kind of impossible and yet I preserved my beliefs, and still believe in the Samkhya philosophy of Purusha and Prakriti and Divine Mothers, the ones I have chosen to confide in being Chamunda and Saraswati. I maintain my stand of atheism politically though because I believe in keeping faith personal and I believe that's how the world should be, faith being a personal thing. Though these hefty philosophies don't really work when we live in a situation where sand mafia type individuals and local contractors and habitual rapists and extortionists have access to minds of intellectuals like doctors, writers, scientists, art professors and philosophers. Purvanchal is such a place. And why even Purvanchal, this whole country is kind of the same. I have seen Universities employing professors and the owners of those universities lacking in absolute basic manners. And anyway in the past decade people have realised that education in a formal setting matters shit and only the degrees do that too for getting jobs. Jugaad mindset in this country is considered cool, it's actually not except in the rare case of innovation in the face of scarcity. The "jugaad" mindset other than the exceptional case I have mentioned is just reflective of the opportunism of people of this country, which basically means willingness to throw other people under the bus for personal gain. You have social media and the internet, and if you are observant, by now you must've realised that Indians have ultimately zeroed in on to the things that matter the most, sex and money, and it's not out of nowhere, it's because the big daddies zeroed in on to them first. When USA dropped atomic bombs in Japan, the elders and the old volunteered to go and work in the radioactive zones just to save the young people from radiation. I can't see such a thing happening in this country especially now when people have realised it's all about throwing your hanky on the bus seat first, in any setting. Don't take me as too negative as I know it's not all bad, but I also know that it is going to be. I have seen what this country was two decades ago, and it was beautiful, except of course for those for whom it wasn't and those would be the lower classes and the people getting extorted by criminals, but at least the general narrative was good and life was slow and peaceful. The country has clearly been divided like train compartments with first class, second class, third class and fourth class and those who make the move from lower compartments to higher ones only do it in the form of house negroes. The problem is not the permanent stratification, the problem is the needless rape, exploitation, extortion and manipulation of people from the third and fourth compartments and sometimes even the second compartment. Did I say, needless? Yes, and trust me when I say that, I know what I'm talking about. To make it clear and to end this post I would just remind you, animals only fuck and kill out of need, it's only humans that are capable of fucking and killing for fun.