Comments by "Harsh Jain" (@harshjain3122) on "Whatifalthist" channel.

  1.  @daddydeadpool9871  Nope. That's very much incorrect. There are many moving parts here. The south is getting more and more right...while parts of developed regions of Maharashtra to Karnataka to Delhi, all are swinging towards a more liberal ideology on par with their western counterparts. The states neighbouring to hostile neighbours are as nationalistic as always(with khalistani proxies rising up high in Punjab in coming decades) tho bengal is a special case here. It's swinging hard hard cultural right(for very righteous and obvious reasons) For rest of the India with sub-par connectivity via internet, we see 2 forms of identity issues. One is nationalistic whilst a bit centrist and the other is more cultural and religious based like me(I am trying to find answers to some hard questions about you and me, our identity as indians) . A lot of the factions mentioned above(except for liberal ones and the ones in high economic zones) are very core bjp supporters to say the least...with radicalisation on a rise too. Ironically a lot of us hate mooselambs(I couldn't use that word because yt deletes it) but we are coming together against them and hinduistic identity becoming stronger(not just india even the ones living abroad are swinging towards indian right) . IMHO, the stronger this central identity of hinduism gets(along with economic progress- I don't want pseudo scientific people sitting at the helm) the better chance we have of survival in a very turbulent India. The better hinduism is able to integrate it's part faiths of Jainism, Sikhism, Buddhism...the better it will be for the political and socio-economic stability of India. Or we are fucked. As simple as that. Kudos to people who actually read this.
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  2. 200 mil russian women. Holy smokes~
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  3. Yup. I have to watch this twice or thrice to understand and soak in fully. And I am an engineer who watches 24/48hr long videos for certain projects in a stretch. Yet, the amount of ideas and the things I want to write down are way too many. Never in my life have I been more...in a state of trance than this video. So many 'oh damn, this makes sense', it really really...explains so many things that I always pondered about. Amazing work. Never stop. God bless.
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  4.  @votecthulhu9378  sigma grindset
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  5.  @daddydeadpool9871  uk...I always find inspiration in Israel. Such a unique and delicate balance of culture and modernity. Bringing their almost dead language back, reviving it....whilst thriving in such a tough terrain, being one of the most innovative and technological advance nation on earth(they got help obv) but we need India or part of india to replicate it
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  6.  @mayukhmitra5819  I have seen Bengalis focusing on worst of everything, why not, for once...see why it became the way it is in the first place, no? Rest of India isn't like Kolkata. Learn to put yourselves into people's shoes and understand why they are the way they are.
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  7.  Art Man  nope. Don't carry that misconception. Israel is an amazing nation, yes. But I like some parts of economic policies of china too.(You see where I am going with this) Jews in western nations who control most if not all media(and this is an established fact, just check the ownership) don't care about showing us in bad light. And people like Sheldon pollock to Audrey Truschke who we know are very anti hindu and literal bigots when it comes to our civilisational values are also Jews. So stop holding such a misplaced opinion. They don't necessarily hate us but they don't have much affinity either.
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  8.  @polkka7797  it's simply because the current governmental systems doesn't allow them to think further. Tho democracy was extremely stable in europe because of it's homogenity which is changing now. It's like....they are undoing everything they have worked for
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  9.  @diegoaespitia  Not hate. It's just a bit of jealousy (most of the time subconscious or healthy like the guy u replied to) that they are a declining culture. It's sad, because they have quite a beautiful history and today it's just...
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  10.  @miserychickadee  it's literally in their culture lmao. It's not oppression or some shit. The people just don't want to deal with the state rather focus on their own familial affairs...that's been the case for most of china. Idk why people hear auth* and think it's inherently bad, no it isn't always. 💀
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  11.  @gm-so2ld  it was flexible cuz well, it was occupational + economical. But it got social later on.
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  12. @Billy O'sullivan Yeah that seems way too common in west and urban parts of here...esp the 'fascist to commune' part lmao. That's accurate asf
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  13.  @suclox12yearsago56  you are dumb then. Get out of ur western centric society. Others do exist as well. Churchill was responsible for death of countless millions in india during British raj also he said some very very racist things about Browns in general.
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  14.  @mayukhmitra5819  no one is doing that. For economic reasons obv. But for english I would consider a case.... because we are sort of losing the thread that kept us together in the first place.
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  15.  @efxnews4776  everyone secretly lubs china please. Individuals and nations alike...hate china, but have wet dreams of achieving their level of growth and efficiency(be it on paper, but it's not that hard for a billion people to overthrow CCP anyway, right?) every damned day
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  16.  @ashd9196  I heard this...communists in India aren't really communists. Infact, there is no liberalism or a proper left in India. Hence, they stick themselves to religions for influence. I concur that's the case in Kerela as well, looking at how Christians work in RSS down there as opposition to communists, no?
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  17.  @johncunningham8213  no not really. The HK might have caused a bit of issue. But not Xinjiang. Why don't you people understand that majority of them support the CCP because they went from nothing to a superpower, almost a developed nation(even in per capita terms) in a span of 30 yrs. You wouldn't get it what it means for third and second world poor nations to just rise like this. It's immensely trust enforcing and fulfilling.
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  18. That's some good insight hmm. The outlying factors are very much imp to consider when talking about such a large pool of interconnected variables leading upto a civilisation.
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  19. Fck I love the community around this channel
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  20. There was some wrong stuff in there...like some funny stuff, how he was talking about CPI inflation and there was a deflation graph in modern economies showing in the video. And like...he didn't differentiate between corporate or private debt and govt debt. Like majority of debt, esp in china is private debt. Given how china doesn't show data of it's actual govt debt but ok
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  21. Yes, because ports. And it wasn't exactly harmony and all roses.
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  22.  @frentz7  your incomes to standard of life ratio have stagnated since 2 decades now. How much a home cost again in a metropolitan city compared to 2 decades ago? He isn't wrong
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  23.  @TheRishijoesanu  that's cuz indians viewed Abrahamic religions like how Nordic folk religions viewed Christianity in UK(when they invaded them) i.e As something smaller than their base identity i.e 'if my whole lineage was hindu/pagan since the beginning of it's existence how would one dip in the water remove all of that from me?' That's the reason, and it's pan India. The feeling later went away cuz one of the two aforementioned civilization vanished and ceased existing. And Jews are talented merchant class. We always loved intellectually talented peeps. Kerela and Bengal more so(also historically more rich, casteist)
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  24.  @greekhuman8706  every smaller nation is fucked apparently in his video. Tho he did say a long time back to take any predictions with a grain of sand since historians have had a bad record at predicting stuff. So I think he might be wrong about the most of the minor smaller nations being doomed
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  25.  @dynamitebsb4520  they don't. Let's be honest, how many Hindus have actually read their own history? When we talk about India...well it's such a diverse society cuz of the cultural notions put down by Hinduism. So it's essentially a hindu civilisation first. That said, how many know a fraction about Advaita philosophy (that's very similar to buddhism and came before it, so make what u will of that), we had our own Dionysus, Shaktism, Vaishnavism and so on. People don't read, then we have some Christians teaching us how we acted and stuff. Amazing, right? P.S. Am not even a hindu(if you check my username and are from India)...but I do hold a strong sense of realism and attitude away from emotions and morality when it comes to our complex and brilliant history.
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  26. I am 18 lmao... think we fked mate
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  27.  @ulysses1320  ikr. His content is so deeply enlightening it's sooooo....like I take an hour or two watching his videos trying to take everything in, whilst talking with myself and learning a shit ton
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  28.  @andreiz112dn5  that's why your nation is shitty
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  29.  @opai1821  Good comment. Tho, I see you are on your way of learning English, good job on that one(just practice the spellings a bit more)... giving genuine advice. . Now, coming to your comment...if you watched the video, you would understand why religion is an important aspect of our life. We are moving towards western culture and values precisely because of our inferiority complex to some level but that's not a good path to go on esp if you see where western Europe is headed towards(America is Christian) And I am promoting our central ethnic for very specific reasons. 1. We don't know when m-lims will have their reforms, by then should we not hold on to our own, no? 2. The very fabric of india, as a nation(we should be more like EU than a united nation anyway)is because of hinduism and combination of nationalism. You remove either....we get fked. 3. With liberal values prevailing on left side, nationalism is even losing on RW side. Getting influenced by m-lims on how they put their religion over their nation, why should we not do that too? 4. The prevailing of identity of hinduism has more to do with our softpower and diaspora across the world than our own nation(this one should be very obvious) 5. The whole world is moving towards a more technological liberal and free society where ideas can travel instantly from one point to another(already seeing this with yoga). Who do think will fill our inner void of purpose? Atheism and science doesn't hold your hand when times are tough and gives atleast a glimmer of hope that things might get better, does it? . At the end....you don't get to choose who you want to be. The circumstances around you choose that. It has more implications related to socio-economic stability of indian heartland than we think.
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  30.  @sidakbhatia1206  1. What does being a liberal has to do with being able to criticize china or Russia? 2. Land grab on the place where all three of the abrahamic religions were born, you say? Originally, it was the place of the Jewish people that inhabited it. Am not defending Jews or some shit(as u might have read my other comments idc about Jews) but your logic is dumb. Middle east has always been an unforgiving place with empires coming and going. It doesn't work how india or europe does. Hence the people and the state religion keeps changing. It's their shit. We, on our part...are simply siding with the ones who are better for our foreign policy(yet we recognise both Palestine and Israel) as simple as that. And yeah, indians hate m-lims. That too.
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  31.  @KaiserMattTygore927  I see Western Europe and I beg to differ. Either way, you don't get to choose.
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  32.  @Sa1nvictus  ...and then threw it away. You know what else was allowed in 14th century golden age of yours? Differing opinions that went against the book. Now? Now, someone of your kin will chop their head off at the slightest offense against your book.
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  33. @one thousand four hundred eighty eight +1 Very much true. Esp Churchill. Indian here...can confirm
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  34.  @sidakbhatia1206  1. Never call him a liberal. He is an anarchist. Even he himself would be embarrassed over someone calling him a liberal. 2. Being purged from entire euroasian steppe to whole of europe wouldn't leave a good taste for human morality, would it? The way they have maintained their existence and the precision with which they executed these 'great crimes' is precisely why I love israel (other than the things I mentioned before)
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  35.  @martimsalvador9186  one advice: have kids.
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  36. That's more than half a continent
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  37.  @kyliesmith9915  all of western europe isn't so 'pathetic' as he made it sound. 1. France still has a pretty good birthrate compared to the rest of them and Germany and France do dictate their own foreign policies. 2. The thumbnail map(according to me) is wrong at some parts. Indonesia, parts of Africa. 3. Birth rates may or may not necessarily be connected with religion since you have places like UAE with around 1.3 fertility rate....just indicates that normal economic cycles are in effect. Tho I would like to add that analysis on European birth rates and relation with religion rings truth. 4. Some stuff about India is wrong but mostly correct. 5. He loves turkey. A lot.(I mean i personally admire Ataturk too but damn he is on another level) 6. Most, if not all smaller minor nations will get sucked by larger nations(it's incorrect because some nations's philosophy just doesn't allow them to step over others) and man it just sounds too bad for those smaller nations out there
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  38.  @tyger3170  Hinduism was never a religion per say. Rather an ethnicity or a geographical identity of sorts. That said...hindutva is reactionary. I agree. But a good reaction I feel. Why? It's evolution towards a more church based religion(how churches used to set up proxy govts and didn't have any social classes, a dalit and brahmin are both the same in this new setting- yes some parts of orginal philosophy are comprised, but on a social level, doesn't this solve a lot of issues and end a lot of sufferings?) and this evolution came due to the circumstances around us. You see SC and ST getting converted to Xistianity, who's fault is it? It's hinduz....we need to change our societial structure. In our so called religion of hinduism...I have seen more hindus bashing on hinduism than other faiths themselves. Hence why, the identity of hindutva came up to differentiate from the self loathing ones. Historically speaking...hindus have never cared of their religion or community until it was their own family(because we don't have a Friday or Sunday prayer...no sort of any bond between the members of the religion) That's changing too. Again, reactionary. There are obv both positives and negatives to this....it's your choice where to look given the current circumstances. And please, don't base your 'oh these are hindutvawadis' when u see some ultra nationalists. I hate them more than you do. . Secondly, about the....'I have seen hindutvawadis having no knowledge of their own religion'. Chill. We never had any religious obligation to study our religion like others did. It will take time....but they are trying atleast. Hence for their efforts I sympathize with them a bit.
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  39. Because we probably discovered repellents and stuff...you know that right, how our ayurveda has a lot of stuff and info about herbs that prevent such diseases. Plus, not to mention 1000-1600s was our golden age(not india rather the geographical identity of 'hind')
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  40. Hmm. Interesting. But I didn't understand when he said 'buddhism introduced this and this to Hinduism...' That's by definition not possible if they are counted as two separate philosophical and religious identities.
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  41.  @truwu8177  don't let china come in.
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  42. Top notch psycho-analysis. Loved this one.
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  43.  @sidakbhatia1206  1. Vasudhaiva kutumbhakam is useless.... let's not go there. And k, our words are different but core thinking is same. And no....read that link, actions speak louder than words....he is against national sovereignty as a whole because he suffered as a Jew during WW2. The nazis and subsequent Rw in Germany made him like that. . 2. I agree with the...isalm used to be good part but rn we can't do anything except defending our own. There have been reformist in that religion only to be issued by fatwas(except a few)...even u agreed how bad it is right now. . 3. Sikhism is moving towards Abrahamics....I said so, I have seen how they removed the names of hindu gods and goddesses that were previously in the prayers which are read in Gurudwaras. For khalistan(which u mentioned, I have frnds from Punjab too...even they said it's a dead movement there) But, there were pics released from Punjab that some gurudwara had photos of bhindranwala stuck outside. You can't and shouldn't have any sort of separatist movement because no state alone can be a superpower but India together has that potential. . 4. The diaspora which is in Canada rn is becoming increasingly anti india due to a sort of snowball effect(this is a fact)....in future as diaspora will only get stronger between punjab and canada....this movement will 10/10 leak into India. That's why, I never explicitly mentioned Khalistan... but it's a given we will need countermeasures to deal with it in future. . 5. I never questioned the nationalism of Punjab or sikhs(the farm bills became an issue because indian society hasn't become mature enough to differentiate economic reform from a emotional or socio-political one....this goes for both left and right)....along with punjab, haryana, NE states, chattisgarh, Rajasthan are by-default nationalist states because of our hostile neighbours. I understand how punjab is not a place for you guys....it's an emotion, but I hate how there is drift between Sikhism and Hinduism because of some foreign faith. I hate it. As a jain(a third person perspective) I understand how fked the implications of Indic religions drifting away would be regarding socio-political and economic stability. . UwU thanks for reading
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  44. Not propaganda lmao. Communism is shit.
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  45.  @VivekKumar-rb7zk  that kinda sounds like pre teddy USA
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  46.  @siddarthathur8587  no it wouldn't. Because hinduism now isn't what it was back then. The times are different, and how many hindus are actually hindus? They don't know shit. Majority of us have fallen off. If even half of the 70% hindus of this nation followed through it, our nation would be a much better and pure, civilised place(remember we were civil, way more civil before British and Mughals came)...you would be more closer like how we are, us jains(as one of the extension of the indic religions: we follow through our traditions but evolved along the lines too: result is in front of you.) I don't like how hindus like to criticize this and that religion when they themselves can't come together and form a strong social connections. Ask yourself, how many of you go temple monthly or even periodically.... exactly, meet other hindus and talk about this stuff...you don't. Because you aren't taught. The answer is within us. We need to come together and not blame it on others. Then we can absorb others.
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  47. @Inferno Infernape look at our size. We have been a cultural behemoth alongside china our whole history. And what we were reduced to. Even today, if we want to look outwards we need something to get us together and make us strong from the inside first(democracy is anything but unity lol). Then we can expand and put smaller failed/not so failed nations into our orbit with projection alone(and it's not like we would have a choice...either us or china - if we aren't expansionist china will pick on us)
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  48.  @papaicebreakerii8180  that culture is sorta dying so.... But u are correct, what u just said i.e capitalism and meritocracy along with that vigour is the soul of US. It goes away, then the US will too.
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  49. Your religion won't even exist by then because members would be so guilt ridden with all the shit some of the members have done in the name of your religion. Not to mention, how educated fellows in turkey, Iran and wealthy parts of UAE and Saudi aren't even religious anymore and are starting to question the basis of it all.
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  50.  @OkarinHououinKyouma  doesn't matter, sources are needed.
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