Ponder these THREE important points:

1. The “system” you have been born into and trapped in for decades now is not something you have chosen consciously.

2. The “system” has, well, systematically disempowered, marginalized and zombified you, and it will continue to wreak havoc on you if it is left unchecked, unchallenged and unchanged.

3. The “system” is well past its “expiry” date – that is, it has outlived its utility, and is ripe for not just overhaul but comprehensive and peaceful transformation. Allowing the system to continue will lead to unimaginable disaster.

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And yet, you, the Middle-Class Indian, have received a lot so far, in terms of material benefits, perhaps more than you deserve for your efforts, from the same system.

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But your benefits have come at an enormous price.

You have been conned into making huge trade-offs unconsciously.

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#Trade-off 1: You probably don’t realize this, you’ll probably even get angry on hearing this; but, TRUTH to tell, to receive your perceived “benefits”, you have been made greedy, fearful, intellectually lazy and mediocre.

t’s a system that rewards you for becoming and staying mediocre, selfish, insecure, egotistical, powerless, ignorant and irresponsible.

It’s a system that makes YOU addicted to “cheap thrills” like comforts, pleasures, indulgences and sense-gratifications that have no real meaning or long-term purpose but entail untold long-term consequences.

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#Trade-off 2: By encouraging you to be mediocre, selfish, et cetera, the system has ensured the society or the country remains largely undeveloped or under-developed, even uncivilized, regressive, crass, while the majority middle-class Indians remain trapped in the “rat race” at an individual level, but wrongly imagine they are getting ahead.

On the other hand, the “creamy” layer of the society gets creamier, super-wealthy, unimaginably rich.

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#Trade-off 3: By cleverly co-opting the middle-class into it, the larger “system” operated by the elite has legitimized and institutionalized the exploitation of the poor and the downtrodden.

So much so that today, the middle class have learned to make peace with their inner guilt for participating in and perpetuating an unjust system.

It is a system that creates and widens socio-economic inequalities and inflicts untold suffering on hundreds of millions of hapless lower-income and poor people, ravages the environment, and mesmerizes the majority middle class to remain ignorant about the system itself and those who operate it.

The middle class accept this unpleasant reality as a “fact of life”, and delude themselves that they are NOT responsible.

They simply blame “the authorities” and the institutions for the mess.

They blame the system, as if they are not part of it.

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#Trade-off 4: The crass consumerism created and perpetuated by the system, which is now global, has led to reckless plunder and pillage of natural resources in an unsustainable way, threatening the very survival and future of the planet, and our children, the future generations.

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#Trade-off 5: Mind you, all this has already exacted a heavy toll on the majority middle class.

Deep within, at the core of their being, at their innermost level, most of the hundreds of millions of middle-class Indians feel stressed, frustrated, unfulfilled, clueless, powerless, guilty, and uneasy.

The emotional, psychological and spiritual health of middle-class Indians has been compromised by this long disconnect between body, mind and spirit.