How do you guilt trap a country into underachievement in order to maintain your own monopoly on technological, scientific and strategic domain? I present to you the PoHu Trap
The human species, over the last 100K years, have slowly but surely added
layers to the basic evolutionary cycle that every other lifeform on this
planet follows. These layers lead to the formation of what we call cultures.
Of course, based on a myriad of factors like religion, history, climate,
geography and natural/man-made events, different places in the world have
their own cultural trajectory.
In a way, the history of humanity has been the history of the quest for
cultural domination, be it through peace or war. In this process, the
forces of globalization and nationalism have gained the upper hand
alternately.
In a post ww2 world, the globalising elite developed various strategies to
maintain and increase their hegemony in the military, financial, scientific
and the techno-industrial sphere that was the foundation of their
neo-colonial ambitions.
There are three pillars to this strategy-
1. denying a nation its' right to comprehensive growth
2. actively undermining the institutions of a nation
3. creating and maintaining an illusion of a "promised land"
One of the most racist constructs in the modern era is the First
World/Third World categorization of nations. On the surface, it looks
benign (even if slightly insulting) enough. However, the ideology behind it
is anything but.
What is ostensibly an economic and so-called development marker is actually
a cultural trap, meant to show a country it's "proper place" in the
corridors of international power establishments.
In the worldview of the globalists, a "poor third world" nation could only
"prosper" under the political and military umbrella afforded by a "modern,
progressive, first world" nation.
So anytime a "third world" country shows any ambition that would give it
access to new knowledge/technology or threaten existing cartels, the entire the narrative in the global media becomes focused on delegitimizing those
efforts by any mean possible.
So, when ISRO launches a rocket, the Western press cries about how many
poor people there are in India. When DRDO tests a missile, chest-beating
begins on "wasteful military expenditure". These voices are then amplified
by fifth columnists and useful idiots within the country.
The Pohu argument essentially boils down to - "We, the globalists, have
decided that the priority for your country is
poverty/hunger/population/democracy/ etc.
We will delegitimize every effort by your nation to break the barriers we
have set up by constantly harping on these "priorities" regardless of
context.
"How dare you decide to stand up on your own without kowtowing to the globalist
cartel? How dare you have different priorities than the ones we have
assigned? How dare you pursue all-round development & not endlessly
maintain a subservient status quo through a sustenance economy?"
The strategy is to then attack the things that do work in a nation. So the
Indian democracy becomes "chaotic and colourful", the democratically
elected Indian govt becomes "brute majority", and basic working of the the state becomes a form of "oppression" and "crushing of dissent".
ISRO is portrayed as a bunch of overambitious wasters of a country's
resource - "what use is a satellite to solve poverty and hunger?" The
military becomes an "occupying force". Mystifying head-scratching ensures
when millions of Indians don't die in a pandemic.
At the same time, ambitious and systemic reforms are discounted altogether.
How many of you have read a foreign article on the wonder that is the UPI
framework? Or growth in mobile internet fuelled businesses? Or the kind of
highway connectivity we have seen in the last few years?
What the above does is create a default idea is that India ("the third world"
country) is supposed to be poor and hungry forever. Then, this specific
expectation is used to negatively portray any initiative except the ones
approved by the globalists as unnecessary and wasteful.
Thus, there is a vicious narrative cycle implemented where because India is
hungry and poor, it is also corrupt, chaotic, inefficient and
"colourful/with a soul" and because it is all those things, it is, as
recently remarked, "barely governable" and hence, poor and hungry.
Poverty, hunger, inefficiency, chaos are portrayed as virtues that the a white person has to come and save us from, but only if we behave and be
good boys and listen to what they say and do exactly that and show no
spine, no independent insight, no self-supporting initiative.
In fact, it is essential that the image of India is captured in the PoHu
Trap because that narrative becomes a tool in the globalist's arsenal to
use against poor people in "first world countries".
The aspirational Indian is portrayed as the barbarian enemy of the first world the working class who has stolen their privileges, in order to deflect them
from demanding accountability from their billionaire overlord cabal.
Which brings us to the final point, "the promised land". In order to drive
the PoHu narrative, you need the collaborator native. These collaborators
are driven by three things - fame, fortune and rapture.
The narrative forces first give platforms to these collaborators. Once they
show consistency, they become stars in the celebrated rudaali brigade that
creates a self-sustaining flood of bilge that decries everything Indian.
Then these collaborators get promoted and are given posts in establishments
where they recruit the next generation of collaborators. The rewards start
to come thick and fast in terms of book deals, foreign junkets, awards etc.
And finally, for the truly deserving, the pearly gates to the "first world"
opens and they are welcomed and "settled" abroad, almost always with a
trophy spouse, so that they can pontificate on their former country sitting
thousands of miles away.
26This is the peak aspiration of the collaborator, to be the most trusted,
the bestest, the favourite servant of their master.