When Far-LEFT Has No Idea of Life Under Communism
The other day I was reading “A New Idea of India” by Harsh Madhusudan and Rajeev Mantri. And, in one of the sections, they have quoted the great American artist Andy Warhol making on observation on the American-style capitalism:
“What’s great about this country is that American started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking”
When I see the so-called SJWs being sold out far-left ideas and portraying capitalism as some kind of evil that humanity needs to be protected from, it just begs one question — “Have they ever lived under communism, actually, to experience what it is?” Because I can bet a million dollars (if I ever have any), if they live, they’d not like the indignity — which I think nobody should experience.
While India wasn’t 100% communist but it was a lot like it — maybe we can call it semi-communist — at least till about the mid-1990s. But it is important to give an idea of the divide, which perhaps these SJWs aren’t able to understand.
Let me share an example:
Let’s go back to late 1980s (or, for that matter, early 1990s) India.
Let’s say I had to talk to my cousin in the UK — how would that process go?
To begin with, I don’t have a landline at my place because we are very middle class and even if we could afford a landline, it will take forever to get one due to years*, if not months, of wait list. So, I will have to walk down some distance from my house to an PCO-STD-ISD booth which will have only one or two phones — and may be just one with an ISD calling facility. So, I wait for my turn. Once available, I go to my booth and dial my cousin’s residence number. If she/he is home, I will get to talk. Assuming, she picks up, we will have the conversation — all the while my sight is monitoring the constantly updating call charge based on the number of seconds I talk. I will be under pressure to articulate my sentences to minimize the time and maximize the message. Once we finish the conversation, she hangs up and goes back to whatever she was doing or wanted to do after the call. Meanwhile, I hang up the phone, pay the booth operator and then walk back to my home and get back to whatever I intended to do after the call.
Now, let’s say if my cousin from the UK had to talk to me — how would that process go?
To begin with, since I don’t have a landline at my place, I would have probably given the phone number of the only neighbour in the building (or one of the very few in our colony) who had the luxury of the landline. So, she has to be very mindful at what hour is she calling because otherwise, it will affect my relations with the neighbour. She dials the number from the landline in the living room of her home. If my neighbour is home, she/he will pick up. She asks for me and says that she’ll call up again in 5–10 minutes. My neighbour sends someone to call me asking that there is a phone call from my cousin. So, I leave whatever I am doing and rush to the neighbour’s place to prevent a missed call (because it’s not like my cousin will hold). So, I wait for the call. Once she calls the second time, we talk. While she is also under pressure to keep it brief to prevent exorbitant ISD charges, it would possibly be comparatively less than what I experience. We speak on whatever we want to speak. She hangs up and gets back to whatever she was doing. I also hang up, thank my neighbour for letting me know about the call and allowing me to use their landline and perhaps even a courtesy apology for the interruption.
COME 2020;
If I have to call the same cousin in the UK — how will that process go?
I pull out my cell phone. I have this application called WhatsApp, which my cousin also has in her cell phone in the UK. I pull out her contact and press the dial button. She picks up. We talk without any consideration for time (at least not due to charges) since I have this unlimited data pack or I am using my home WiFi. We finish our conversation (plus gossip) and hang up. I get back to whatever I wanted to do after the conversation and she gets back to whatever she wanted to do after the conversation.
Let’s say, if my cousin from the UK had to talk to me — how will that process go?
DITTO
And the reason is CAPITALISM.
* — https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1742766518759794
