Articles by Dr. Naresh Jotwani
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Dear NATO Member
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2019
As you know, wars are fought not by the wordsmiths and their paymasters – but rather by simple-minded folk who must somehow be “driven to war”. So every “civilizational narrative” has two major strands coded within it – “master-speak” and “mass-speak”. The former is centred on “self-interest”, while the latter speaks to “duty and love of country.”… You heard “experts” at the summit talking about “new threats” facing NATO. In the hugely lucrative business of “threats”, eggheads can always be found to write up impressive “threat analyses” to suit any given agenda. Sadly, no political leader dares to question the eggheads.
→ read full articleThwarted Intelligence Disorder
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2019
The deep-down sense of being boxed-in, and the outward display of greed, lust and vanity, form a deadly vicious cycle with no avenue of escape. Desperate antics – akin to rattling and banging the cage – only make matters worse; the only possible prognosis is senility. One is tempted to call this state of mind the “thwarted intelligence disorder” (TID); words such as “demonic” have been used for such conditions in earlier times.
→ read full articleDear Butterflies, Help!
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2019
In a world marked by cognitive disassociation, is there a rational option? As long as there is reason, there has to be a rational option; and the first step has to be this: Understand clearly the problem. The following may seem to be a triviality, or perhaps a tautology, but it is also a tough dilemma of human nature: The promise of attaining durable peace goes hand in hand with the challenge of having to countenance the horrors of human nature.
→ read full articleApocalypse!
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2019
In the original, secular sense of the word, ‘apocalypse’ means ‘revelation’ – something which was previously unknown becomes known. When Archimedes discovered a certain law of Physics in his bathtub and jumped out shouting ‘Eureka!’ he experienced an ‘apocalypse’. Due to the influence of scriptures, however, it has also come to mean ‘widespread destruction or disaster’, or even ‘end time’ – although this latter meaning has no relationship to the original meaning of the word in Greek.
→ read full articleTaxes or Debt?
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2019
Economists define ‘the wealth of a society’ as its total stock of useful assets – homes, cars, buildings, roads, factories, cattle, money, gold … et cetera. Let us call this definition D1. It turns out that the original definition of ‘wealth’, a few hundred years ago, was NOT D1. Originally, in Old English, the word ‘wealth’ was related to ‘well-being’, via the word ‘weal’. ‘Wealth’ meant, quite simply, ‘that which brought well-being’. Let us call this simpler definition D2.
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Response to the Bank Chairman
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Feb 2019
The Chairman of JPMorgan Chase International was interviewed on Sophie & Co about the state of the world economy. So-called ‘Masters of the Universe’ regularly come up with self-serving arguments. But any right-thinking ‘amateur’ who is not in their pockets can easily demolish their arguments!
→ read full articleFrom Barter to Debt: A Brief History
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jan 2019
In which the brilliant deductive techniques of Sherlock Holmes are applied to the origins of debt, currency and the debt-linked economy.
→ read full article‘Homo Implacatus’
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Dec 2018
Living Economics – It may be noted that Homo Implacatus–the latter word meaning ‘discontented’–is a more suitable name for the species which has wrongly been named Homo Sapiens. A corollary of the above argument is that excessive economic inequality in human society is wasteful in a biological sense.
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Fly on the Wall
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Nov 2018
‘Wish I could be a fly on the wall when X and Y meet one-on-one’. This is an ardent – and not very uncommon – wish among those who must know ‘what is really going on in the world’. But last night a truly mind-boggling event occurred! Your humble correspondent had his ‘fly on the wall’ wish fulfilled! Naturally, what this particular ‘fly on the wall’ witnessed must be reported forthwith – as being of utmost and paramount significance to the future of mankind. Accordingly, this is your mind-boggled correspondent reporting, much more reliably than CNN:
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Gutless Wonders
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Oct 2018
A chief aim of political or business propaganda is to put ‘common people’ in doubt about their own judgement – and thereby to make them dependent on the judgement of ‘the elites’. Throughout history, it has been a cunning political and business strategy to induce – through ceaseless propaganda – an inferiority complex amongst ‘common people’.
→ read full articleLife at the Top
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
While the author has at times felt being “on top of the world”, he cannot claim any personal experience of “life at the top”. However, being a keen witness and a dogged student, the common idea of “top” fascinates him. After all, a crazed race to “the top” inevitably leads to injustice, crime and war. But anyone obsessed with “reaching the top” can provide only a self-serving report of his or her life. Therefore an objective if light-hearted study is attempted here.
→ read full articleSeeking the Root Causes
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Any voluntary action that an individual performs originates as an inner urge. The urge may be “towards” something, or “away from” something; it may also be based on a wrong understanding of reality. These three states of mind can be termed as “craving”, “aversion” and “illusion”, respectively… If the above are generally applicable observations, then they apply even in a conflict situation – to persons engaged in a conflict, to persons who provoke a conflict, and to persons who escape from conflict or hardship.
→ read full articleDeconstructing Power (Part 4)
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
28 May 2018 – The exploration of “power” made so far has been general. It is applicable to any human society, irrespective of time and place. We shall focus now on the specifics of the exciting but alarming situation prevalent today.
→ read full articleDeconstructing Power (Part 3)
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Apr 2018
With help from court poets and scribes, a “rising power” has traditionally been made to appear “heroic” and “majestic”. But a “disoriented and declining power” is pathetic – although poets and scribes would continue their assigned work, as long as the treasury continues to pay their salaries. Is a declining power more of a threat to humanity than a rising power?
→ read full articleDeconstructing Power (Part 2)
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Apr 2018
16 Apr 2018 – We have noted in Part 1 that the psychology of violence is also the psychology of power. Therefore we may benefit hugely from analyzing the psychology of power; that may in turn help in preventing a breakout of violence or war.
→ read full articleDeconstructing Power (Part 1)
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
2 Apr 2018 – Regular use of violence – for “external” or “internal” security – has become a salient characteristic of the modern age. The enormous capability of modern technology has been aiding the process, multiplying manifold the potential of suffering which is caused by the use of violence.
→ read full articleCompassion, Perspicacity and Power
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Mar 2018
Coercion implies the absence of compassion, and usually also at least some lack of perspicacity. “Leaders” and their “inner circle” tend to take the position that any feeling or view which is judged to be at variance with “collective goals and values” needs to be suppressed – or even perhaps “rooted out”. Within an individual’s psyche, power generates ambition and rapacity.
→ read full articleIt’s the Rapacity, Stupid!
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2018
19 Feb 2018 – A greedy person holds on tight to what he or she has, hoards as much as possible, and is totally given over to the aim of “having more and more things”. Rapacity, on the other hand, refers to a tendency to snatch from others, the tendency being closely related to show of power and enjoyment in power. It may be noted that the words “rape” and “rapine” also derive from the same Latin root.
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Identity and Peace
Dr. Naresh Jotwani – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2018
Until the birth of the modern nation state, people lived in tribal groups. Commerce as well as skirmishes would have been common between tribes. In those days the tribe played a crucial role in shaping a child’s identity. In the modern world, economically defined ‘class’ also plays a big role in defining a person’s identity. Therefore we may use the word ‘tribe’ with this broader meaning of ‘identity group’ — subsuming both ‘caste’ and ‘class’.
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