Transcript: The Pen is Nastier than the sword
PART 1 – Introduction
Namaste Wonderful person,
This is a series of videos based on the work of Shri Rajiv Malhotra

What I found fascinating about his work
is that he is not too hung up about providing answers
but rather provokes seekers
to ask themselves some new questions.
A full stop can be such a boring thing a tiny dot that says.. this is it…end of discussion
but a question mark…
a question leaves the seeker pondering….
How the BEEP… does one arrive at that dot?

I digress but its
funny how appropriate some punctuations can be.
Long sentences, that go on and on, without a break, can leave the reader coma-tose
sentences with semi colons are usually half shitty
and some hash tags…
they make us wonder
what the authors were smoking

the real aim of these videos,
and all of SRMs work
is to provoke wonderful people like you
to ask questions that few others are asking
and who knows…
we may end up
with some answers along the way.
So, I do hope you stick with us for the ride!

PART 2 – Discover the circle of ‘Atrocity Literature’
In 1998, while thedot com boom was making new millionaires everyday

An entrepreneur in Florida had plans for a more traditional site
He paid 8.5 million dollars for a river front property in Miami
hoping to make a neat return of the luxury real estate market

But, a mandatory archeological survey
revealed something unexpected
Our investor was about to have a Y2K problem of his own

a perfect circle of holes dug into the limestone bed was discovered
They apparently held
wooden beams for a village which rose above the Florida marshes
ATLEAST— 4000 years ago
artifacts were found, that showed the site was in continuous occupation
for more than a millennium
giving rise to speculation that it was part of a much larger network of villages.
Very little is known of the people who lived there
because they were wiped out soon after America’s first immigrant crisis

today, we can only speculate as to how those villagers lived,
and what dreams they dreamt
and what stories they told their children,
to teach them right from wrong, and good from evil

IRONICALLY, part of the site was already damaged by a septic tank before it was discovered
The Europeans had once again…
ended up taking a dump
on an entire history of another culture
to build condominiums

What enabled the complete extinction of the Miami marsh dwellers,
and countless other native American peoples
had as much to do with the pen,
as it did with the sword,
with what SRM calls, “Atrocity Literature”;

Volumes of work that demonize another culture so much
that it actually ends up putting a “moral burden on the authors”
to civilize them,
and a moral burden on the subjects of the atrocity literature
to tow the line for fear of being labeled as a savage or a bigot

Now atrocity literature, was not restricted to the Americas
the Europeans took it with them where ever they went
even to the land where the Indians were not red!
But the intention to start with an American example
is to reduce the emotional biases
before discussing the concept with people
who may be victims of atrocity literature themselves

who may victims of atrocity literature today

who may be participating in their own vilification, without realizing that they are shitting on themselves!


PART 3 – Let NOTHING divide us !
Now, most of today’s atrocity literature is produced by the “human rights industry”

and SRM calls it an industry because it is fueled as much by evangelical dollars
as it is by an evangelical zeal,
and you or I would be labeled as bigots
for merely tabling the issue for a discussion.
Now, it may be a fact that many Americans liberals
would be shocked at the hardline adopted by their evangelical brothers

But the sheer volume of literature that tells them how uncivilized Indians are
and how we lack the moral compass to comprehend human rights

is used to justify actions that range from disrespectful and predatory
to nefarious and seditious
Entities that are foes anywhere else in the world find common ground to wound India’s unity

and then to keep the wounds festering for their own political advantage

Part 4 : B.E. Infy N.I.T.I.E.
Now if you are from the three idiots generation like me
there was no time to ask questions
or worry about politics
Politics was for the kids who had eight years time
to complete a four year college degree

you had to keep running toward a better life
carrying the baton from your parents
so that you could hand it over to your kids
for them to keep running toward an even better life
We were lucky to be born in an environment that was transitioning into a meritocracy
and every decade seemed to level the playing field for millions more Indians
whose parents may not have been as fortunate as ours
we may have a long way to go
but looking at India in the 80s and the 90s and now
it would not be untrue to say, that we have come a long way

and at this juncture,
it behoves those of us who have reached a point in our journey
TO REALLY ponder

if we want the west to help us with our human rights
or even if they have any moral authority at all, given their track record
It may be time for us to take charge of our own narrative

and it all begins
with the bravery to ask the right questions
Namaste
and until the next episode
SHANTI… SHANTI… SHANTI…

About Speaker: –

Eltibium is an ordinary child of 80s India. Not too special, not too drab, but sitting smack dab in the goldilocks zone of being average. Inspired by new evidence, on the antiquity of Indian culture and it’s role in the advent of civilization… (View More)
I wish 80% of indians get this wisdom to kick out the vicious western forces and their local loyal slaves that live in india. Thanks for throwing the sense out on the internet