Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs! Podcast Episode 31

Wants vs Needs - Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs!
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Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs! – Introduction

Wants vs Needs - Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs!
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs!
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs!
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs!

Welcome back to the 31st episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure!

Today’s episode titled “Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs!” will tell you about corruption in marriage, organized sport, and nation state.

The institutions of marriage, organized sport and nation state make up the sociocultural heart chakra that aims to fulfill the needs of love and belongingness in society.

The currencies it uses are ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’. Identification and attachment turned more important than fulfilling the needs of compassionate love and belonging in society.

Corrupted by the currencies of ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’, these needs gave rise to social institutions such as marriage, organized sport and nation state.

Today, the institution of marriage has come down to the verge of extinction, thanks to the ever-increasing rate of divorces.

Sporting spirit took a big hit the moment it got redesigned on the lines of mini warfare, thereby corrupting its whole foundation.

Loyalty and patriotism promoted love and belonging in society but in an extremely fragmented way, leading to nation states.

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Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs! – Show Notes

Wants vs Needs - Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs!
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs!

In this compelling episode of Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure, I dive into the intricate web of corruption woven through the institutions of marriage, organized sport, and nation states. 

Titled “Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs!” this episode explores how these societal pillars, designed to fulfill our needs for love and belonging, have been compromised by the currencies of identity and loyalty.

As we unpack the socio-cultural heart chakra, we reveal how the essence of love has been distorted, leading to the disintegration of marriage and the transformation of sports into a battlefield of ego. 

The episode highlights the increasing divorce rates that threaten family structures and the rise of nationalism that fosters division and hatred.

I investigate the implications of these corruptions on our relationships and societal cohesion, questioning what true love means in a world where identity and loyalty overshadow genuine connection. 

Through this exploration, I aim to shed light on the profound effects of a fragmented mind on our collective well-being.

Join me as I navigate the complexities of love, loyalty, and the societal constructs that shape our lives. 

This episode invites you to reflect on the state of our institutions and the path toward healing and reconnection.

Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs! – Chapters

Wants vs Needs - Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs!
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs!

Chapters:

(00:00:01) – Corruption in Marriage, Sports and Nation State

(00:03:20) – What is Love and Its Definition?

(00:10:33) – The disintegration of traditional marriage

(00:11:55) – What is patriotism in sports?

(00:22:06) – Why is Patriotism celebrated in India?

Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs! – Video

Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs!
Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs!

Wants vs Needs: Corruption of Love and Belonging Needs! – Transcript with Timestamps

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Love is actually sensed through a flow 
of energy in the body while interacting.

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That is what makes one 
spiritually healthy as well.

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My name is Laadi Ojas. Welcome to 
“Skeletal Leap: A Living Adventure”.

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Skeletal Leap transforms one’s 
life into a personal heaven.

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Today’s episode will tell you about corruption 
in marriage, organized sport, and nation state.

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The institutions of marriage, organized sport 
and nation state make up the sociocultural heart

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chakra that aims to fulfill the needs 
of love and belongingness in society.

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The currencies it uses are ‘identity’ and 
‘loyalty’. Identification and attachment

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turned more important than fulfilling the needs 
of compassionate love and belonging in society.

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Corrupted by the currencies 
of ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’,

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these needs gave rise to social institutions such 
as marriage, organized sport and nation state.

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Today, the institution of marriage has 
come down to the verge of extinction,

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thanks to the ever-increasing rate of divorces.
Sporting spirit took a big hit the moment it got

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redesigned on the lines of mini warfare, 
thereby corrupting its whole foundation.

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Loyalty and patriotism promoted love and belonging 
in society but in an extremely fragmented way,

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leading to nation states. It 
also promoted the “othering”

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and hatred against the so-called enemy 
societies. It never had a compassionate

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concern for the undivided humanity despite 
the numerous slogans it raised along the way.

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This gave rise to disparate ideologies that 
often ended up in arms against one another.

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That was what happened during the Cold 
War that lasted almost half a century.

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Result – sociocultural heart chakra shut!
Marriage

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In the wake of the present human awareness, the 
institution of marriage seems to be moving toward

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disintegration. Divorces are at an all-time 
high creating a traumatic hell for the children

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whose lives are irreparably disrupted 
as and when a marriage breaks down.

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It is too late to go back to the old 
community patternh1 of hunter-gatherers

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where fatherhood was inclusive. The reason is 
that, today, a father can very easily know who

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his offshoot is with a simple DNA test. 
Even an offshoot can do it later in life.

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All this can lead to many kinds of 
complexities in relationship patterns.

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Let’s investigate Maslow’s deficiency need 
for love and belonging a little deeper.

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If we objectively look at it, 
neither psychology nor literature

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has yet been able to provide an authentic 
definition of the phenomenon called love.

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And the hard fact is that love occupies the most 
central stage in the human psyche as a drive.

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All our literature including poetry, drama, 
cinema and fiction thrives on love the most.

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Even religion vouches by it. At times, 
philosophers did try to define the phenomenon,

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but there has not been any consensus among them 
yet. Humanity still understands love only in an

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intuitive sense. But this intuitive sense about 
love is the strongest among all other mental

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phenomena whether emotional, instinctual or moral. 
I think majority of humanity would vouch for it.

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And at least in the modern society, people marry 
only when they have fallen in love with someone.

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So, how do we define love? It certainly has 
something to do with a sense of belonging.

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But that does not take us any closer 
to an objective definition of love.

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At best, it simply acts as a synonym.
Is love an emotion?

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No. Love cannot be an emotion. Emotions 
have their abode in mind alone,

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not in the mind-body system as an organic part 
of it. Love is actually a mind-body state.

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Is love a moral value?

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Not even that! Morals are all foreign concepts 
nailed into mind alone while we grow up.

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They, too, are not there in the mind-body 
system as an organic part of it.

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Is love an instinct?

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Exactly! We are born with it in our body even 
when our mind has not yet started developing.

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The newborn immediately starts feeling a sense 
of belonging to their mother. Later in life, we

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sense it via interacting with anyone or anything 
through our senses. The deeper the interaction,

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the stronger is the sensation of love!
Thus love is a sensation. The more we

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have it through our interactions in-depth, the 
more it makes us sensitive. The deeper we sense,

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the stronger we love. This deep sensitivity 
enables us to feel the other inside out.

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Why don’t we feel this sensation, then, while 
interacting with others all day, everyday?

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Simply because we lose our sensitivity 
considerably as we grow up in an

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unhealthy environment. Here comes the 
debilitating role of the heart chakra

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sticking the chest ‘in’ instead of protruding 
it ‘out’ via abducting shoulder joints

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posturing them away from the torso as the first 
nature of the body. They rather drop down via

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adducting shoulder joints posturing them stuck to 
the torso as an unhealthy habit. This unhealthy

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habit is responsible for closing heart chakra 
as it generates a defensive muscular armor (by

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habitually keeping the muscles named pectoralis 
major and pectoralis minor rigidly contracted)

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seriously limiting the openness of chest and 
arms ready to embrace anyone and everyone around.

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It mentally results in keeping our ‘self’ 
protected from an imaginary threat of an attack on

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it. On the other hand, the openness of chest and 
arms ready to embrace anyone and everyone around

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plays a key role in dissolving one’s ‘self’ with 
an open heart chakra in combination with rest of

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the 6 chakras opened. This results in feeling the 
sensation of love while interacting with others

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through the day everyday. A healthy mind-body 
system is an acutely sensitive system. The more

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it is sensitive physically as well as mentally, 
the deeper it interacts and the more it loves.

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Love is actually sensed through a flow of 
energy in the body while interacting. That

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is what makes one spiritually healthy as well.
And when a healthy mind-body system interacts

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in-depth with another mind-body system of 
opposite gender in adulthood, the two interacting

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personalities not only sense love but may also 
feel like making love between the two of them.

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That is how two personalities may get 
attracted to and fall in love with each other.

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How do sociocultural systems for love and 
belonging needs get affected when their

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currencies, namely ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’, 
become more important than the real need itself?

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They close the sociocultural heart 
chakra of our society en bulk.

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It is just like ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’ 
work in closing the biological heart chakra

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via keeping our ‘self’ protected from 
an imaginary threat of an attack on it.

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These two limiting currencies become the central 
theme of the need for love and belonging.

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Once it happens, these currencies 
make boundaries around the ‘self’.

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This keeps people isolated and 
alienated from other people around them

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in the name of an imaginary safety and security 
to keep their ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’ intact.

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How much do we interact with our neighbors in the 
modern apartment buildings we live in these days?

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And how readily do we unconditionally 
interact with people across the boundaries

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of our ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’, be 
those the boundaries of nationality,

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religion, caste, class, faith, belief-system, 
ideology, gender, possessive attachment,

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emotional attachment, moral attachment, 
generation, and orthodox political affiliation?

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These are the tags of ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’ 
that keep us away from loving people through

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unconditionally interacting with them in-depth.
True love never happens without deep interaction.

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Also, love never happens without an acute 
sensitivity to feel the other while interacting.

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No doubt, then, that in the wake of the present 
human awareness, the institution of marriage

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seems to be moving toward disintegration. Divorces 
are at an all-time high creating a traumatic hell

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for the children whose lives are irreparably 
disrupted as and when a marriage breaks down.

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How important is a father for a child?

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And how important is fatherhood for 
a sensitive father in today’s life?

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If we look at it from this angle, traditional 
marriage seems to be the best solution.

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Even a divorce has no place in it since it 
traumatizes children’s life irreparably.

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But divorces cannot be stopped from taking place.

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In fact, they are well on their way to 
becoming the rule rather than exception.

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Even if divorces didn’t exist, marriages 
turn from fond to dull relationships between

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spouses within no time. When this happens, sex 
turns from a romantic and passionate affair

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into a mechanical rut sooner than later.
It is a catch-22 situation.

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Organized Sport
Sports Vs Sportsman Spirit:

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Sports and sportsman spirit have come to be in 
conflict with each other in today’s society.

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It is simply owing to the way sports have been 
designed and organized all over the world.

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Why do we play sport?

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I think a rational answer should be 
‘to enjoy skilled physical activity’.

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We enjoy the sporting skill that is required 
in order to make strong and specific moves

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demanded by any given sport. We also enjoy 
corresponding moves by opponent players or teams.

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This makes it an awe-inspiring scene not only 
for the players but for the spectators as well.

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Win Or Lose:

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It would be good enough if it were celebrated 
like a festival to inspire awe in the players

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and spectators. But their designers went a step 
ahead and tagged the same moves and counter-moves

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with victory and defeat. This introduced 
the element of ego in their fabric.

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Who wants to get defeated? No one!
Who wants to win? Everyone!

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Thus, winning turned out to be 
the prime motto of playing sport.

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The beauty of the skilled moves got pushed to the 
margin. The result became more important than the

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enjoyment springing out of the aesthetic 
of the awe-inspiring moves themselves.

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We humans have a very crude habit of quantizing 
quality which tends to kill its subtleness.

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Being an instinct, love as a need for belonging 
is always a subtle one. But when it gets

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replaced with its currencies named ‘identity’ and 
‘loyalty’, we start assessing it in these terms.

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Our intention behind this is always to strengthen 
our own limited ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’.

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Assessment is only possible between quantities or 
numbers that we start assigning to this quality.

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No wonder, then, that we invent ways to 
assign those quantities to the quality

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displayed in a sporting event ending up 
with victory for one and defeat for another.

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It is again a very clear case of our sociocultural 
system of sport getting afflicted with a closed

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sociocultural heart chakra. Combined with the 
rest of other closed sociocultural chakras,

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it ultimately ends up getting afflicted 
with practices like match-fixing, betting,

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violence in sports and many more ills.
Brute Force to Win:

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Then brute force becomes the rule of the game.

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Let’s ask the same question again…
Why do we play sport?

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This time the answer is going 
to be ‘in order to win’!

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Where is the existence of sportsman spirit lost?
It is only left in the sloganeering aimed at

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glamorizing sports for the very 
thing they are no longer about!

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Can you see how the motive 
to play changed diametrically

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opposite to the spirit of the sports this time?
And this is what inspires us to play sports in

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the present day scenario to win them at any cost.
Sports have been designed on the model of war.

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Nation State
Patriotism

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Patriotism is a highly revered value all over 
the world. It means love for one’s motherland.

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Ironically the word patriotism has originated 
from the Greek word patēr, which means father.

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Yet, it has been used to 
express the love for a land

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that has been associated not 
with father but with mother.

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Logically, it should have been ‘matriotism’ if 
it was to express our love for our motherland.

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It simply shows our male gender 
bias. ‘Father’ crept in even in the

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formulation of a word that is touted as the 
embodiment of something related to ‘mother’.

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But it is not simply a slip of gender that 
crept into the naming of something wrong.

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It is much more than that.
The Male-oriented Mindset:

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The two mindsets were different…

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The mindset that formulated 
the concept of patriotism.

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The mindset that perceived the land of one’s 
birth as the land belonging to one’s mother.

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Our So-called Motherlands:

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Our political bosses condition 
us to be adversarial in nature.

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They make our soldiers kill and get killed 
without knowing the real reasons why.

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They brainwash us into believing that 
they are doing so to defend their

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motherland from ‘our’ enemies, 
simply because they love it.

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The same is expected from soldiers as far 
as their emotional and moral obligations go.

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How do we define our motherland?
It may be the village I was born in or the city

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or the district or the state or else the country! 
Why can’t it be the planet we were born on?

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It all depends on how narrow or wide our 
field of vision and extent of sensitivity are.

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Why are our sensitivities limited to a 
political expanse of land and its people?

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Why not beyond it as well?
An Example from Nazi Germany:

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By that token, if a German spoke against 
Hitler in the late 1930s or early 1940s,

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s/he would be tagged as a 
traitor or a seditionist.

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But there were many Germans who did exactly that. 
Today, they are not at all tagged as traitors,

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only because Hitler lost the war. Had 
Hitler come out victorious in World War

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II (WWII), they would certainly have been 
dragged out on the streets and hanged publicly.

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Did these Germans not love their land then? Did 
they not love their country while Hitler ruled?

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They certainly did! But they were simply not 
patriots in the narrow sense of its meaning.

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That aggressive patriotism would have asked for 
their loyalty to any official stand their country

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took against the world.
Power Rules The World:

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So were they villains?
As said earlier,

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they would certainly have been tagged as 
villains if Hitler had been victorious in WWII.

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Were they traitors or seditionists?
Again, they would certainly have been

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tagged as traitors and seditionists 
if Hitler had been victorious.

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So, patriotism has to do nothing 
with the love for one’s motherland.

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It simply deals with the loyalty to the 
interests of those who control one’s motherland.

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It is irrelevant how unjustified 
or immoral those interests may be.

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It all depends on who is ruling 
one’s motherland at present.

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The interests are not in favor of the motherland

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but of those who are ruling 
it at any given point in time.

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Sedition means conduct or speech inciting 
people to rebel against the authority

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of a state or monarch.
A Political Conspiracy:

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Isn’t it simply because our political bosses have 
an unwritten, secret conspiracy hatched between

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themselves? A conspiracy that propagandizes 
the love for one’s so-called motherland

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as one of the most sacred forms of love on earth?
Doesn’t this fanatic love for one’s so-called

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motherland automatically create a fertile ground 
for hatred toward other lands and their peoples?

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Especially whenever they get conveniently 
tagged as enemy lands by the respective

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political bosses of these chunks of land 
as and when it suits their narrative?

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Rules Are Made by Rulers, Not by Ethics:
Patriotism and sedition are concepts

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that are defined and held up only by the rulers 
of the land. They have their vested interests in

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people being patriots and never seditionists.
Patriotism can very easily and effectively

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be exploited to sow the seeds of 
hatred for the people of other lands.

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It especially applies to the rulers of those 
lands that are in conflict with the interests

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of rulers of their own land. All these rules are 
defined and decided by the rulers of the land.

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Why should an Israeli hate a Palestinian 
or vice versa if the two countries are

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at war with each other?
But man, the concept of

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patriotism does make them do so!
Another Example from An Epic:

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In the Hindu epic Ramayana, the character of 
Vibhishana has been portrayed as fleeing his

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motherland. He requests Rama, a staunch enemy 
at war with his country, to give him shelter.

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He even reveals the most classified secrets 
of his own country to Rama in return.

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But no one including the author ever criticizes 
him for what he has been portrayed as doing.

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Why? Isn’t his character, the way it is 
portrayed, that of a seditionist or a traitor?

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Vibhishana’s character is not looked down upon 
for what he did. It is simply because the epic was

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written by the author who sided with the character 
of Rama, the eventual victor in the story!

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History is definitely written by the victors. 
As it turns out, so also is mythology!

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Patriotism as a concept originated 
not out of love for our land.

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It rather came out of our loyalty to the interests 
of those who controlled our land, come what may.

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It happens through falling prey to the narratives 
that are generated using ambiguous words and

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phrases acting as emotional slogans addressing 
the fallible psyche of the common masses.

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These narratives hold their superficial 
interests high on a pedestal

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arising from the already unfortunate cognitive 
assessment of their love and belonging needs.

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In the process, their mere currencies, 
namely ‘identity’ and ‘loyalty’, take over.

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Another case of sociocultural 
heart chakra getting closed!

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Thanks for listening to this episode 
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