AI may help create happy morons: Rajiv Malhotra

 Rajiv Malhotra talks about Artificial Intelligence, how it may help the material progress of the society but also create a society of morons. Click on the image to watch 'AI may help create happy morons' (7:41) video excerpts from ‘AI and Sri Aurobindo’s Consciousness Theory’. Transcript of the video is given below. 

Radhe, Integral Life Center: We are extremely honored to have with us today our esteemed speaker Rajiv mahotra. Welcome Rajiv. Thank you! He is the author of the well-known book Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power. Artificial Intelligence is only partially visible just like an iceberg and to understand it fully we must look beneath the surface. Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power is a wake up call to action compelling public intellectuals to be better informed and more engaged. We certainly would encourage all of you to read his book if you have not to date. With that we'd like to go ahead and hand it over to you [Rajiv].  

Rajiv Malhotra: Namaste everybody. Thank you for inviting me. Vladimir and I have known each other since I think late 90s. My Foundation did a lot of projects in Pondicherry and Auroville on many fronts and Vladimir and I have collaborated on some of the works that we did. So I'm delighted when he called me some couple of years ago that he's moved to South Carolina and we discussed ways of staying in touch more closely and I'm very glad that he invited me to share my perspective on Artificial Intelligence.

This book Artificial Intelligence and the future of power - Five Battlegrounds, this came out a few years ago and at that time people were not ready but I started talking about it in 2015, 2016, so about 10 years ago. Battleground  Four is where I think the Sri Aurobindo people and the Integral Yoga, Integral Psychology people will be most interested. I call it the battle for self. Who am I am and in what ways I am autonomous, in what ways I am my own adhyatma, my own inner being versus being controlled and giving up that control because it's very tempting, it's very exciting. Now you see, we talked a little bit already about the control the algorithms and AI systems exert upon you from the outside but these are still external devices like I'm sitting in front of a laptop. When I start wearing goggles [Virtual Reality Headset] now it's even more close to me, now I'm immersed. Now I'm moving around thinking that this guy is here I'm talking to him I'm touching I'm picking up this thing from the shelf in a store, I'm really in involved.  I'm immersed and this world is a direct encounter between me and my environment so I'm actually living a whole life in a metaverse okay and I could be living in it all the time or much of my time. I could get entertainment, I could do my banking, I could do my shopping, I could have holidays, I could imagine I'm going to such and such place, having a holiday because I paid and bought it but actually it's a virtual immersion experience.

So that's the next level but that's not enough, that's not close enough for them. Implants in the brain which is real which is coming - it's not just Elon Musk's company but the Chinese are doing it, the Pentagon is doing it. There are just three or four major organizations again it's a concentration of power that are developing these such that the the the implant is able to recognize a burst of neurons and say this burst is happiness for this guy, this burst is sadness, this burst means he is angry, this pattern of neurons means he's likely to get violent, this burst means that the idea I gave he  is happy with or not happy with. So being able to correlate the pattern of neuron with what are your emotions, what are your thoughts, what's likely to be happening gives this ability not only to read what's happening but also to influence it. Now how will this be sold? It will be sold very nicely. It will get FDA approval and government approval and popular approval because the first application will be for your good. It will be able to look at patterns that predict heart attack. So, it'll be good because, wow!, we can tell if you're going to have a heart attack or if you're going to have a stroke or something like that and health issue and we're going to alert and get an ambulance and maybe you know inform your loved [ones], your near and dear, a doctor. So we're going to save lives. And who would mind it? Everybody would like it. Another application maybe controlling violent behavior. So there is a criminal and he's released now and one condition of being released is he has to wear this thing so that if he if he's about to get violent or about to rape somebody or something this thing will predict and alert and maybe get some help. It could also be for mental health. If somebody has a bipolar then you know wearing this could be a good solution because if you are about to have a fit and about to do something wrong maybe commit suicide this thing will stop you. So, medically it could be very useful in terms of crime control and behavior control and violence control. It could be very useful in Mental Health Management. These are the kind of applications which are good for everybody under which the whole implanting technology will become popular and who would not want it? Government might even require it that you If you are a violent person and we want to release you on condition that we have to monitor you so this is how we're going to monitor you.

So, once the technology becomes accepted then then other applications come. We can sell you entertainment, fantasy. You could have fantasy sex by having this kind of experience inside you. You could have a holiday, you could imagine that you're going down the Niagara Falls and there's all this water this mist coming at you, and this wind, and it's so exciting. It's like the real stuff or you are falling, you're coming down on a parachute or something and you're having that experience virtually. So this business of faking your senses,  giving your senses an experience which is not actual stimulation from the external indiriyas. It is like artificial indiriyas, they are giving you this experience so this will be a great entertainment and on and on, you could end up creating a generation where you can decide how happy they are, how sad they are, who gets pushed… You push a button and keep him happy all the time. So you will be able to create happy morons and I use that I explained that in this book. Happy morons which means the person is really not that smart not that knowledgeable not that involved in all these things but he's full of himself. They've beefed up his ego and he thinks a lot about himself and they're keeping him happy. So this kind of a society. I predict a stage after that - which I don't want to get into - you need to read it for yourself but I'm predicting what will this happy moron state of affairs lead to, what kind of a society are we heading toward. 

Also watch: Rajiv Malhotra on 'Conscious use of AI'

Davos Devatas: Klaus Schwab and the WEF

Excerpts from Rajiv Malhotra & Vijaya Viswanathan’s book ‘Snakes in the Ganga’  (Images and titles added):

The public is being deceived with the impression that the global elites have suddenly become big-hearted and selfless. The fact is that they are repositioning themselves for even greater concentration of wealth and power.

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[The technocrat founder of World Economic Forum, WEF] Klaus Schwab’s power comes from the grand by-invitation-only annual party he throws called a global summit in Davos, Switzerland. It brings together the most powerful influencers from academics, corporations, governments, artists, royalty, celebrities, activists, and public figures of all kinds to join its carefully thought-out worldview. Through this networking clout, WEF has infiltrated most governments, businesses, and NGOS.

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Klaus Schwab has discussed his new world order in a book titled COVID-19: The Great Reset. He says that ‘the pandemic has presented a rare opportunity to reset our world’. According to British journalist James Delingpole: “The Great Reset, as every half-way informed person now knows, is part of the sinister plan by the World Economic Forum (and others) to turn the world into a gigantic slave state in we are the vassals (‘You will own nothing and be happy’) and the Davos elite rule over us like Pharaohs or Babylonian kings. But for some weird reason the puppet governments only obeying the orders of this elite just don’t want to admit this in public.”

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Many world leaders cultivated by WEF have publicly supported the principle of the Great Reset.

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Klaus Schwab has an unbelievable God complex, and he frequently reminds the reader of his apparently unlimited technocratic faculties. He routinely reveals that he believes his group of colleagues have deity-like powers, and that once they unite their overall expertise, these technocrats, once in charge of all of us, can bring about unprecedented happiness and order.

Klaus Schwab, Founder, World Economic Forum

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Environment, Social Justice, and Governance are the pillars of stakeholder capitalism, and the ratings of companies will determine how businesses operate and who gets funded. But the question is, who is deciding the criteria for rating under the ESG system? Answer: Big banks, big consulting and financial institutions, certain corporations, governments, and United Nations officials – all under the aegis of World Economic Forum’s task forces. But this presents serious conflicts of interest because the global elites are designing the value system by which corporate social credit will be managed.

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It is safe to assume that the rubric imposed on corporates via the ESG program, and the social credit system scorecard imposed on individuals, will all be based on Western social sciences ideas of what constitutes social justice, environmental compliance, and governance.

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The World Economic Forum is also bringing ESG to the venture capital world, forcing companies to invest in only those start-ups that are ESG- compliant. Even more shocking is that it wants venture capitalists to use organizations like Amnesty International to supply human rights reports. It says that a “report by Amnesty International highlighting the failure of VC firms over human rights due diligence demonstrate that venture capital has been a laggard when it comes to incorporating … [ESG] considerations in investment processes”.

Davos, Switzerland, where WEF is headquartered

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Just as ESG is a way to control the behavior of corporations, individuals will be controlled through digital IDs and digital currency which will reward them on social credit earned with ‘good behaviour’ as prescribed by the elites. We witnessed this during the pandemic, where the poor were not given rations if they refused vaccinations. This is just the beginning!

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We could also be headed towards a system of algorithmic justice in which Artificial Intelligence embeds the values of the global oligarchs. The World Economic Forum’s devatas will punish the heretics who commit ‘sins’ as determined by the social credit system. Social credit will determine if one is eligible for services like healthcare, food, insurance, shelter, and travel/mobility. The digital IDs and personal data will prevent dissidents from availing of goods and services. Corporate ESG ratings will effectively shut down small businesses that are non- compliant.

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The irony of this new game is that it is being played in the name of saving humanity from a variety of problems. Sadly, many Indian elites are all in it as the new zamindars, sepoys, and shishyas.

Vasudaiva Kutumbakam or Ahimsa doesn't mean we put up with everybody's nonsense

 François Gautier, a French-origin journalist/author and a long-time resident of Auroville tweeted to the Prime Minister, Home Minister, and Education Minister yesterday that the Secretary Dr. Jayanti Ravi of Auroville Foundation has made the conflict [between pro-City and anti-City residents] "a battle between Indians (many of them coming from Sri Aurobindo ashram) and westerners. This goes against Narendra Modi's slogan of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam made for the G20 Summit". He wrote: "It has degenerated to such a degree that I who stood against all for the @BJP4India & defended Bharat against all odds, for 40 years, is told by some of Dr Ravi's followers: "go home Frenchman". It hurts !" He has attached a "sad video of 50 years trees being cut on her orders".

Dr. Jayanti Ravi is the only Secretary, who with prior intimation, attended a meeting of residents called by foreigner-dominated Res. Assly. They didn't allow her to speak. She is also the only Secretary who declared that she would meet every Auroville resident at his place of work or living. She then invited the residents in batches for meetings with her every week and many attended those meetings and I too attended one. I found her absolutely courteous while talking and listening to foreign residents. The only instance of her talking of Indians and foreigners - among the numerous public speeches of hers recorded and published - was when she asked in a meeting of residents with Visas to respect Indian law and reminded them that Indians cannot disrespect laws in foreign countries. That was a perfectly legitimate observation by her as an Officer of the Govt. of India. She then visited and spoke at most communities in Auroville where foreigners also live, in the short span of the past year and a half.

In the Auroville master plan, there are just 2 ring roads and 12 radial roads totally taking less than 2% of the city area. To lay water/sewage/and cables trees next to the Crown Road have been cut by the Town Development Council in recent days after the Supreme Court lifted a major part of the stay imposed on carrying out developments in Auroville by the NGT for the past 2 years. A statement from the section of residents opposed to the Foundation's Initiatives to build the city, made on 8th January 2024, shows they have realised it is futile to protest the Supreme Court's lifting of the stay imposed by the NGT that has enabled the Foundation to cut the trees wherever indispensable to build the city according to its Master Plan: "Indeed, the NGT ruling had been preventing this from happening since April 2022, and this consequence was to be expected since the ruling was stayed in December 2023".

It is claimed that 1 million trees were planted over the past decades in Auroville, to prevent soil erosion, they have naturally doubled to 2 million trees. The foreigner-led extreme environmentalists in Auroville fiercely protested whenever any of the trees were sought to be removed for city development. François Gautier's idea of Vasudaiva kutumbakam is individual housing with gardens amid forests for him and like-minded in tens of thousands in an urban sprawl 4 times bigger than Auroville's approved Plan that he calls "Vaster Plan"!

Coincidentally, Rajiv Malhotra published a speech, covering among other things, the topic of Vasudeva Kutumbakam yesterday which has the reply for the Vaster Plan (40 seconds): https://youtu.be/jPgazMbqJAA

𝐎𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐲𝐚𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤: 𝐓𝐫𝐨𝐣𝐚𝐧 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚

"Omidyar is basically a dot com version of Soros. He’s a massive leftist donor and his network is fleeing India."

'The move comes a year after Omidyar Network and nine other NGOs came under the radar of India’s Central Bureau of Investigation, which serves similar roles as the FBI in the U.S., over alleged violation of the nation’s Foreign Contribution Regulation Act that oversees a firm’s ability to receive overseas donations.'

Source: https://www.frontpagemag.com/crackdowns-on-leftist-nonprofits-cause-omidyar-network-to-flee-india/

(Excerpts from Rajiv Malhotra & Vijaya Vishwanathan's book "Snakes in India" 2022) 

Omidyar Network India (ONI), based out of Mumbai, is the Indian initiative by Pierre Morad Omidyar, the founder of eBay, a man with a net worth of around twenty billion dollars. He is a great example of a philanthropist wanting to change the fundamental workings of society and politics. A reasonable way to introduce him would be to think of him as a younger version of another billionaire, George Soros.

Both are ultra-wealthy and self-made and want to use their wealth to bring about social change worldwide in accordance with their favorite model of how society ought to be. Both are portrayed as humanitarians who are ‘protecting democracies’. They want to help societies fight authoritarianism. Both are the proverbial ‘good cops’ operating on the global frontier where savages (i.e., those that disagree with their worldviews) and their cultures need to be civilized.

Between them, Omidyar is far more tech savvy and strategic in his approach to social engineering. His ‘investments’ are couched in carefully selected jargon, and one must dig deeper to tease out the socio- political disruptions hidden beneath the surface. A Forbes article depicts Omidyar as a champion protecting ‘democracies under attack’.1 When he invests in ventures that offer ‘data protection and privacy rights’, the long-term vision is to protect citizens from their own governments that might use the new technologies for surveillance and control. Ironically, many of his own ventures are specifically in the field of data collection, behavioral analysis, and different kinds of AI applications.

Pierre Morad Omidyar

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By comparison, earlier civilizing missions from the West were less sophisticated, requiring more time, resources, and manpower. Omidyar’s approach is far more efficient because the Indians themselves do the work, generate revenue and provide feedback for real-time monitoring. They are often young, inexperienced and bright, and are being carefully groomed into the kind of leaders that can fulfil his mission. Additionally, Omidyar has investments in organizations of strategic value that can yield datasets or provide the desired media coverage.

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Omidyar’s activities are described with great precision – quite like an engineering project. There is the aura of a highly disciplined, formal process. Young technocrats are impressed by the jargon that makes them feel like proud members of a movement driven by ‘facts’, ‘science’, ‘evidence-based decision-making’, and various kinds of ‘toolkits’. Omidyar also invests in an extensive network of ‘research’ institutes that compile information and develop position papers for advocacy. This so-called ‘groundbreaking research’ is part of the complex web that supports their ideology.

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These billionaires have the financial strength to bypass FCRA regulations, and enter India as a for-profit business, to conduct their Breaking India activities. India needs to therefore take another look at foreign enterprises entering India on the pretext of doing business. It is going to be a challenge to separate the wheat from the chaff, but that is the need of the hour.

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There are four ways in which ONI wants to change Indian society: Build infrastructure to implement tech solutions that will transform society and align it with ONI’s ideology. Invest in innovative entrepreneurs and leaders, especially the young using the latest technology, initiatives, and opportunities. Turn them into Omidyar’s loyal army of youth leaders and help manage their careers. Create a network of tech start-ups with equity enabling this social engineering to become financially self-sufficient. Influence the Indian government’s policies by funding various organizations, including its own start-ups, industry organizations, and established institutions. This four-pronged approach is rapidly building ONI’s footprint in India. It is very open about this multifaceted strategy and its websites and social media publicity are very informative.

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Omidyar-China Nexus

Omidyar’s connection with the Chinese Communist Party and the fact that it seems to be working in ‘cooperation’ with the party is a direct national security risk to India. Whether this ‘cooperation’ means working for Chinese interests in India is the question. A 2017 report revealed that China was bragging about its control over President Joe Biden’s national security team and names Omidyar among others:

A 2017 report effectively claims – on the CCP’s behalf – that CNN host Fareed Zakaria, Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Facebook Oversight Board member Helle Thorning-Schmidt, NeverTrump philanthropist Pierre Omidyarand many others “co-operate” with the CCP and its goals.

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One of ONI’s high impact projects brings the latest technology into areas already teeming with missionaries and separatist movements. The ReSolve Initiative project empowers some of those very NGOs we have been fighting over the previous decades that prey upon India’s rural and marginalized populations. It targets the 110 million Indians that help run micro and small businesses and the migrant workers estimated to be between 80 and 130 million.

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The opportunity ONI has seized upon is that the social and cultural needs of these small businesses and migrant workers ‘have not been addressed systemically’. The vulnerability is identified as follows: ‘How do gender biases against women and the girl child play out among migrant women and children? How many of them get adequate food, nutrition, and education?’

This project brings entrepreneurs, thought leaders and policy makers together. So far ONI has funded sixty-seven rural projects in seventeen states of which twenty-one claim to have nationwide impact. At least 3.2 million people are directly involved; another 48 million Indians will get evangelized by ONI’s social justice activities.

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Omidyar Network India is investing in Ashoka University’s Centre for Social Impact and Philanthropy, which claims to be India’s first academic center focused on enabling strategic and robust philanthropy for greater social impact. The ONI states: ‘The Centre intends to achieve this by developing knowledge products that inform sector strategy and action, providing independent, non-partisan platforms that build sector vision, voice and norms’.

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Janaagraha is another NGO funded by ONI claiming to ‘transform the quality of life in India’s cities and towns’. It claims to bring ‘reforms to city governance’ through its activism to educate the public on local political issues and advocacy. This project helps ONI infiltrate local, state and Central governments in four thousand-plus cities across India.69 This is similar to the role Omidyar has played in US local politics to organize voters, promote specific policies, and pressure politicians.

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Akin to its US parent, ONI is always looking for ways to influence media for political and sociological themes. For example, it has made equity investments in NewsLaundry and Scroll. Its grant to Swarajya raises eyebrows. One wonders if this is meant to be a public display of ‘balance’ or an entry point with long-term strategies to influence the editorial policy the way it did in the case of The Independent.

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Indians familiar with the East India Company know very well the risks and uncertainties of foreign interventions in political and government affairs. What starts as friendly cooperation can easily turn hostile when there is a conflict of ideological or commercial interests. In Omidyar’s case, there is precedence of this in other countries. One example is the Omidyar funded movements that allegedly helped topple the previous Ukraine government.

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In effect, Omidyar is building a parallel civic-governance infrastructure that is digital and bypasses the brick-and-mortar infrastructure. It is openly justifying this on the grounds that the existing infrastructure is ‘inadequate’.

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The process of driving a wedge between the government and the people of the country has already started. The foundation has been laid and the structure is being rapidly built up. The risk to India’s sovereignty and democracy seems unprecedented.

𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐚 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐛𝐲 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬! 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟔: 𝐈𝐬 𝐄𝐒𝐆 𝐚 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝?

Harvard University’s influence and power stretch far beyond its ivory towers. We will show this by explaining the pivotal role being played by the WEF led by the technocrat Klaus Schwab, a product of the Harvard Kennedy School and a protégé of former US secretary of state, serving under Presidents Nixon and Ford, Henry Kissinger.

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Klaus Schwab, Founder, World Economic Forum

Klaus Schwab’s power comes from the grand by-invitation-only annual party he throws called a global summit in Davos, Switzerland. It brings together the most powerful influencers from academics, corporations, governments, artists, royalty, celebrities, activists, and public figures of all kinds to join its carefully thought-out worldview. Through this networking clout, WEF has infiltrated most governments, businesses, and NGOS.

Davos, Switzerland, where WEF is headquartered

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Klaus Schwab makes no secret about redefining life, as we know it, on a global scale. His ideas on global governance, use of social credit system to control the population and the environment, are explicit. He even has ideas on the use of technology for what is being called transhumanism.

One of his most audacious ideas is that ‘you will own nothing and be happy’. In other words, your life will be a subscription model in which you will get a certain lifestyle delivered end to end depending on your level of participation. This could be seen as a new kind of digital slavery.

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We caught a glimpse of the wealth re-distribution during the pandemic when the big tech became even wealthier. Many changes were accepted by the public out of fear – such as digital IDs, use of private data, and so forth. Similarly, we could see a sudden worldwide rise in unemployment that will become an opportunity to implement Universal Basic Income (UBI), another mechanism to control the masses. This will be clothed as a genuine-sounding concern for humanity.

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Once incomes are centrally controlled, it can be used to modulate behavior. Companies will play a role through stakeholder capitalism which is a way to evaluate companies on their social impact (i.e., ESG ratings) and not just on profit. The WEF has been promoting this as a way to re-organize the world and re-distribute wealth. Environment, Social Justice, and Governance [ESG] are the pillars of stakeholder capitalism, and the ratings of companies will determine how businesses operate and who gets funded.

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The public is being deceived with the impression that the global elites have suddenly become big-hearted and selfless. The fact is that they are repositioning themselves for even greater concentration of wealth and power.

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Klaus Schwab has an unbelievable God complex, and he frequently reminds the reader of his apparently unlimited technocratic faculties. He routinely reveals that he believes his group of colleagues have deity-like powers, and that once they unite their overall expertise, these technocrats, once in charge of all of us, can bring about unprecedented happiness and order.

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The World Economic Forum is also bringing ESG to the venture capital world, forcing companies to invest in only those start-ups that are ESG- compliant. Even more shocking is that it wants venture capitalists to use organizations like Amnesty International to supply human rights reports. It says that a “report by Amnesty International highlighting the failure of VC firms over human rights due diligence demonstrate that venture capital has been a laggard when it comes to incorporating … [ESG] considerations in investment processes”.

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Just as ESG is a way to control the behavior of corporations, individuals will be controlled through digital IDs and digital currency which will reward them on social credit earned with ‘good behaviour’ as prescribed by the elites. We witnessed this during the pandemic, where the poor were not given rations if they refused vaccinations. This is just the beginning!

The irony of this new game is that it is being played in the name of saving humanity from a variety of problems. Sadly, many Indian elites are all in it as the new zamindars, sepoys, and shishyas. India has indeed been sold out by its very own elites!

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(𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 𝐛𝐲 𝐑𝐚𝐣𝐢𝐯 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐢𝐣𝐚𝐲𝐚 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧)

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𝐂𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐛𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬. 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟓: 𝐈𝐬 𝐄𝐒𝐆 𝐚 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐥𝐝?

The dangers of allowing foreign ownership of India’s critical infrastructure and foreign control over information flow on that infrastructure cannot be overstated. Especially when the foreign hand has a history of facilitating civil wars and regime changes. And specifically, when it explicitly states its intention of influencing every level of operation of the country, of advocating for the underclasses, and demanding accountability from the government. And when, by virtue of its control over the critical infrastructure, it can anticipate the government’s response. The process of driving a wedge between the government and the people of the country has already started. The foundation has been laid and the structure is being rapidly built up. The risk to India’s sovereignty and democracy seems unprecedented.

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The core thesis of Wokeism is that all structures must be dismantled that are in any way linked to the oppression of any groups of people and that were erected by the oppressors. We support this in principle as a way to remedy the past and move forward to a better future for humanity. But we point out that: Entirely new structures of oppression are being erected using technologies like Artificial Intelligence and big data in which the oppressors are the new elites. Entirely new kind of oppressor/ oppressed categories will replace the identities of race, ethnicity, religion, gender and sexual orientation. Dismantling the old structures is helping pave the way for the new technology-driven structures of oppression to fill the vacuum of power. We are referring to a digital caste system. Such a scenario ought to lead all well-wishers of humanity to investigate: What is the relationship between these two mega trends: Wokeism as a dismantling force, and the rise of the new techno-elites?

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One clue is the strange irony in the partnership between the Global Left’s Wokeism and the global billionaires: The billionaires have outsourced the dismantling of the old order to the Left using them as useful idiots. This alliance will be a temporary one in which one side is using the other to do the dirty work. Once the job of dismantling is done, the Woke Left will be rendered useless, and a new hierarchy will emerge, with the billionaires at the helm.

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The diagram on the following page gives the big picture with India as the case study. It depicts the ultra-rich as the barbarians at the gate, using Wokeism as a useful tool for dismantling India. We will explain the scenario in which the global elites will run the new power structures with the Indian billionaires as junior partners much like the zamindars served the East India Company. The global elites have articulated their strategies openly and with clarity, and the events thus far indicate they have built up considerable momentum. One of the big developments under way towards the new world order is the removal of the separation of business and government, leading to a concentration of power that is essentially a global oligarchy. This new paradigm has been termed stakeholder capitalism by its lead proponent, the World Economic Forum. Its main tenet is that corporates should take over many of the roles that governments play. This is being done in the guise of social justice and impact investing. Stakeholder capitalism will transform capitalists into oligarchs by merging business and politics.

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A screen displays at the venue of WEF, Davos, Switzerland

The limited liability company, that was meant to pursue shareholder profit, is being repurposed as a vehicle for social interventions. The question arises, why do they not use the structure of independent non- profit philanthropies that are meant for charity? The answer is that public charities are open to public scrutiny under the laws. The limited liability private companies are not subject to the same accountability for their social impact the way public charities are. For instance, India’s FCRA laws monitor foreign funds coming to non-profit charities. But the FCRA laws do not apply to Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) because this comes as business investment and not as philanthropy. The use of business entities to indulge in social-political interventions is a ploy to maintain secrecy on the goals and activities.

(𝐄𝐱𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐚 𝐛𝐲 𝐑𝐚𝐣𝐢𝐯 𝐌𝐚𝐥𝐡𝐨𝐭𝐫𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐕𝐢𝐣𝐚𝐲𝐚 𝐕𝐢𝐬𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧)

(to be continued)