Topic started by Rohit (@ webcachem03b.cache.pol.co.uk) on Sun Aug 25 20:05:45 .
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55 years after independence, India is still struggling for social, political and economic stability. In these 55 independent years, India has produced two new generations, half of them literate, and half of them illiterate and a total population of 1030 million people. Despite the wide spread illiteracy and ignorance, India has somehow produced one of the largest pools of highly qualified workforce in the world, only second after the USA; still it has failed to alleviate the curse of national poverty and millions still remain deprived and counted among the world’s poorest. Though India has gained its political freedom, it has miserably failed to attain the intellectual independence form its former colonial masters and the vast majority of its educated mass, both in political and public arena, remains incapable in forsaking that opprobrious colonial mental slavery. Despite being the second most populous country in the world, it remains unable to harness its huge human resource and transform it into a formidable workforce; instead, India behaves like a small and insignificant country in the World Economy and World Politics. On the one hand, the educated Indian mass remains obsessed with the western lifestyle and culture, it still remains unable to free itself from the clutches of centuries-old rote social system and post-independence corrupt political system on the other hand. Caste system, class clashes, communalism, dalits, disunity, gender discriminations, language problems, moral corruption, over population, political corruption, regional conflicts, regionalism, religious violence, social and political chaos, social discord, tribes, untouchables and such like social enigmas still remain the formidable obstacles against any attempts for positive changes. And ironically, the same idiosyncrasies earn India the title of the “most diverse country” in the world, and most of us seems quite happy with it.
When one attempts to describe a society, culture, nation or civilisation, one comes upon to describe the intellectual character of the people belonging to the nation. When one tries to measure the population density distribution of intelligence among the people across the nation, the statistical measurement data will take the shape of Gaussian probability distribution function and the width of that distribution will depend on the statistical variance of intelligence among the people across the nation. If one assigns nation’s average intelligence value as 100, then depending on the statistical variance, the spread of intelligence across the nation’s population will span up to 8 times the statistical variance.
Once, a society comes into existence, it must evolve with time to remain intellectually competent. During the evolution process, the interaction between nation’s intellectuals and general public, no matter how significant or insignificant, is absolutely necessary and vital; and the quality of this interaction process essentially depends on the statistical variance of the population density distribution of nation’s intellectual abilities. The interaction process can be described as an exchange of thoughts, among the members of community, peer groups, educational institutes, government, political organisations, media and other forms of social and mass communication.
The process fundamentally involves the influencing effects of higher intellectual strengths over the immediate lower intellectual strengths. Where the intellectual strength is defined as the ratio of two population densities, differing in intelligence by a known unit value and then multiplied by the higher intelligence value of the two. At given intelligence values, if the ratio equals or exceeds 100, the process becomes generative, if it is lower than 100, the process can degenerate into a non-recovering state and the people in those groups of the society will remain stagnant or degenerated. Now the rational choice will be to assume that the quality of the nation’s overall interaction process can be judged by the values of higher intellectual strengths. Based on this rational, I have calculated the intellectual strengths for three statistical variances i.e. 7.25, 9.60 and 11.25.
Statistical Variance = 7.25
Intelligence>>Intellectual Strength
50>>130.7
60>>129.7
70>>125.1
80>>118.2
90>>109.9
100>>101.0
110>>91.8
120>>82.8
130>>74.2
140>>66.0
150>>58.5
Statistical variance = 9.60
Intelligence>>Intellectual Strength
50>>86.5
60>>93.1
70>>97.5
80>>99.9
90>>100.9
100>>100.5
110>>99.2
120>>97.1
130>>94.4
140>>91.2
150>>87.7
Statistical variance = 11.25
Intelligence>>Intellectual Strength
50>>74.5
60>>82.6
70>>89.1
80>>94.1
90>>97.8
100>>100.4
110>>102.0
120>>102.9
130>>103.0
140>>102.5
150>>101.4
It becomes quite clear that as the variance increases, higher intellectual strengths shift towards the higher intelligence and the society becomes more generative. At a statistical variance of 9.60, the interaction process becomes critical and it has a potential to become generative, at the statistical variances below 9.60, the society becomes degenerative.
Based on current social, political and economic situations, India is operating at the statistical variance of just 7.25, seriously below the critical mark of 9.60. However, the process can change over time, but it is essentially a slow and interactive process and that takes more than one generation for the required changes to be realised (from feedback) and then forced into the new process. But India seems to have failed miserably to achieve any significant changes in the process even after the two generations of post-independence period.
May I take this opportunity to invite people with all backgrounds, including those who are involved in the study of social and political sciences and those who are engaged in psychological studies perticularly in the Indian context, to contribute in the discussion and the evaluation of the analysis that I have presented here.
Thank You.
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