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spectre is haunting the world \u2013 the spectre of Capitulism…\n\nIt happened precisely at 11.09 p.m. on a Saturday at a friend\u2019s 30th birthday after only three glasses of wine. News had just broken that Yogi Adityanath was going to ascend<\/a> to the highest seat in Lucknow and everyone was talking about how broken everything is. The world is wrecked, social structures have crumbled, philosophy is ruined, and capitalism is broken. That\u2019s when realisation struck. I am no longer a capitalist \u2013 I am a capitulist<\/em>.\n\nIt was one of those rare epiphanies that grace our ugly time in this ugly age. And this kalyug merits a new word and possibly a new philosophy. Capitulism.\n\nCapitulism (<\/em>noun)<\/em>\n\nAn economic, political and philosophical system in which a person simply capitulates or gives in to whatever is happening around him\/her.<\/em>\n\nWhen future generations write about the discovery of this word, they will invent fictions about its origins, because the truth is, I don\u2019t know how it came about. But my educated guess would be that it emerged out of tiredness. Of alcohol. Of saffron dreams<\/a>. Of knowing the many things wrong with the world and gracefully acknowledging my inability to do anything about it.\n\nSo I tend to capitulate, not fight. It\u2019s a wonderful, content feeling \u2013 like falling asleep in the warm embrace of a cashmere cocoon.\n\nI like to think of myself as a pacifist, but maybe I am just a coward. I have been the victim of the schoolyard bully. I have been asked to bend my will, break the pact I had made with myself to be the best version of me that I could be, and pour cold water all over my ego and follow. I followed. The option was too terrible to contemplate.\n\nSomething similar is happening all over the world. The bullies have left the schoolyard and entered our television screens, our homes. Saffron is rising<\/a>. Dalits are dying<\/a>. Lovers being hunted<\/a> down. Leopards burnt<\/a> alive. Wrongful arrests<\/a> being made. Shots being fired<\/a>. Terror. Hunger. War. Ecological devastation. Floods. Fires. Hate. Murder.\n\n

I tend to capitulate to every whim and fancy of my monkey mind. Let\u2019s have a ciggie? Sure. Let\u2019s jerk off. OK.<\/p><\/blockquote> \n\nNearly a hundred years ago, Irish poet WB Yeats wrote a poem<\/a> titled \u201cThe Second Coming\u201d. It begins:\n\nTurning and turning in the widening gyre\nThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;\nThings fall apart; the centre cannot hold;\nMere anarchy is loosed upon the world,\nThe blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere\nThe ceremony of innocence is drowned;\nThe best lack all conviction, while the worst\nAre full of passionate intensity.<\/em>\n\nWhat are we to do in the face of the epic monstrosity of man? Collectively capitulate to the horror unfolding all around. The option is too terrible to contemplate.\n\nMaybe it\u2019s time to stop believing in anything anymore. I definitely believe that nations and religions are complete fabrications, yet the vast majority believe they are more real than trees and mountains. Religion is the biggest fabrication of them all. Power is empty, beauty transient, and God a myth. Barely anything that we are fighting for is real. So why fight at all?\n\nThe word capitulate owes its origins to the Medieval Latin word \u201ccaput\u201d, meaning head. From there it became capitulare, to arrange under heads, draw up terms, hence to make terms of surrender.\n\nSurrender, of course, is the cornerstone of Buddhism and almost all other religions. As the great Osho says \u201cSurrender means \u2013 Now I am not. Only you are. Now there is no question of my protection. Now you are just a plain sky, an empty house. There is nothing left to be finished. I have finished myself long before you. The meaning of surrender is I am finished, there is no need for you to finish me. I will not give you that trouble. I will do it myself.\u201d\n\nI tend to capitulate to every whim and fancy of my monkey mind. Let\u2019s have a ciggie? Sure. Let\u2019s jerk off. OK. Let\u2019s just lie down and do nothing. Kewl! Let\u2019s have another drink. Awesome.\n\nIn a time when everything from democracy to truth has contorted into an ugly manifestation of what it should have been, surrender is just what humankind needs. We have tried the alternative and we have failed. We have ranted and written, and fought in living rooms and bars, signed petitions and voted carefully and taught our children right from wrong. And yet, what have we been able to do to prevent what is happening in the world? Have we even been able to stop forces like Yogi Adityanath at home?\n\nMaybe it\u2019s time for a new socio-economic philosophy. One that marries the best of Capitalism (self-interest above all), Buddhism (non-violence above all), Nihilism (meaninglessness at the end of day), Stoicism (grin and bear it), and Epicureanism (eat drink, and make merry for tomorrow you may die). And leave the rest up to life, fate, God, or whatever higher energy you believe in.\n\nGo with the flow. Be like water.\n\nChi. Tai Chi. Tao Chi. Whatever-the-fuck-chi.\n\nAnd for everyone who tells you that it is times like these that demand action, that only when our values and beliefs are tested do we know what we are made of, that \u201csabse khatarnaak hota hai humare sapnon ka mar jaana<\/a>\u201d (the death of our dreams is most dangerous)? For them I have only one answer.\n\nHurling yourself against a concrete wall hurts only one person.\n\nYou.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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