It's an oruboric problem- if history is written by the winners, and we are doomed to repeat it unless we learn from it, yet can we "learn" from biased information?🤔😐🤦♀️
Nice piece and while I was familiar with sociopathic Clive and his ilk amongst the EIC, this looks to be a very good book.🙏😊
This story nicely shows that the history we are taught in schools is not the history we are experiencing live. We have here a saga of a business enterprise that spans over multiple generations. It has certain objectives, follows certain rules, does things, makes arrangements, advances and retreats, like any business. The difference is that this one was created to last across centuries. The founders were deliberately forming a lasting impact, and they knew that their company would live longer than themselves.
Think about it. What level of self-determination you need to sacrifice your temporary benefits (like being an employee) and to pursue a goal the achievement of which you would never witness? This is the inner power of the founders. The positive generation factor, the energy behind their actions. They didn’t go wide, building hundreds of franchise establishments, scattering their power. They must have had a vision which is almost extinct these days.
Now compare it with your own business, a family-run small thing or a corporation listed worldwide. How far into the future your creative power reaches? How do you measure the value of this business? You have a company merely to survive and be (self)employed (with false security), or you have something to offer others that will live long after you are gone?
If you draft business plans, how far do they reach? 5 years? 10 years? Or 200 years? Do you ever assess and reassess what you do? Have you ever tried even primitive self-checks like SWOT? Do you learn from these analyses?
The phenomena like the EIC are here to show us what we rarely think about. It’s not about money. The ruling caste know it and live it. No wonder they are THE leaders. And they are certain of it to the degree that they can openly say: “…when we are successful… and we will be…”
You are right. This transnational, multi century mindset is not one understood by the “ruled”…it’s why virtually knowbody understands the “why” behind it all.
People just assume that everything happens organically and spontaneously and accidentally and then the chips fall wherever they fall. It’s impossible for people to conceive of multi century planning that is hard wired into the “algorithms” of the built institutions.
I wonder where is the switch for “understanding”. For example, we are officially told that there is the continuity of the state and of the government. Rational and reasonable, without it we would have to change the name, flag, anthem and so on with every elections. OK, but. If the continuity is the primary premise, why the fight about the elections? It should not matter at all. But we so strongly believe that the “new” government will be different from the old one. Impossible, that’s the continuation of the same structure. This puzzle is literally mind-twisting, almost like the question “If the universe is infinite, what is behind its end?
And before that you had the forerunner, i.e. VOC meaning Verenigde Oos Indiese Companie run by 17 dutch lords, same difference. They started off at Cape Town, working their way inland, to provide fresh water and food for the ships on their way to Java and Indonesia to grab the spices and much, much more. That was from 1652. So a company run part of South Africa with some success, and from what i have read there was a big volcanic eruption in Java which meant that the water canals were standing still, due to the ash blocking it and mosquitoes were getting to be a huge problem, and the Dutch had to move their offices and houses more inland, away from the coast line, which made it possible for the English to conquer those parts with ease. I think it was the same year that you had the potatoe rot in Ireland, due to these eruptions which had a huge impact on the seasons (the volcanic dust?) In europe or part of europe as well And the beauty if history is you could pick these weather patterns up in ship logs all over the worldl. It forced many Irish to emigrate to different colonies, to south africa as well.
It's an oruboric problem- if history is written by the winners, and we are doomed to repeat it unless we learn from it, yet can we "learn" from biased information?🤔😐🤦♀️
Nice piece and while I was familiar with sociopathic Clive and his ilk amongst the EIC, this looks to be a very good book.🙏😊
Thanks...ok, that is my word of the day "Ouroboric" 😊
This story nicely shows that the history we are taught in schools is not the history we are experiencing live. We have here a saga of a business enterprise that spans over multiple generations. It has certain objectives, follows certain rules, does things, makes arrangements, advances and retreats, like any business. The difference is that this one was created to last across centuries. The founders were deliberately forming a lasting impact, and they knew that their company would live longer than themselves.
Think about it. What level of self-determination you need to sacrifice your temporary benefits (like being an employee) and to pursue a goal the achievement of which you would never witness? This is the inner power of the founders. The positive generation factor, the energy behind their actions. They didn’t go wide, building hundreds of franchise establishments, scattering their power. They must have had a vision which is almost extinct these days.
Now compare it with your own business, a family-run small thing or a corporation listed worldwide. How far into the future your creative power reaches? How do you measure the value of this business? You have a company merely to survive and be (self)employed (with false security), or you have something to offer others that will live long after you are gone?
If you draft business plans, how far do they reach? 5 years? 10 years? Or 200 years? Do you ever assess and reassess what you do? Have you ever tried even primitive self-checks like SWOT? Do you learn from these analyses?
The phenomena like the EIC are here to show us what we rarely think about. It’s not about money. The ruling caste know it and live it. No wonder they are THE leaders. And they are certain of it to the degree that they can openly say: “…when we are successful… and we will be…”
You are right. This transnational, multi century mindset is not one understood by the “ruled”…it’s why virtually knowbody understands the “why” behind it all.
People just assume that everything happens organically and spontaneously and accidentally and then the chips fall wherever they fall. It’s impossible for people to conceive of multi century planning that is hard wired into the “algorithms” of the built institutions.
Let alone false flags and dialect dynamics.
I wonder where is the switch for “understanding”. For example, we are officially told that there is the continuity of the state and of the government. Rational and reasonable, without it we would have to change the name, flag, anthem and so on with every elections. OK, but. If the continuity is the primary premise, why the fight about the elections? It should not matter at all. But we so strongly believe that the “new” government will be different from the old one. Impossible, that’s the continuation of the same structure. This puzzle is literally mind-twisting, almost like the question “If the universe is infinite, what is behind its end?
And before that you had the forerunner, i.e. VOC meaning Verenigde Oos Indiese Companie run by 17 dutch lords, same difference. They started off at Cape Town, working their way inland, to provide fresh water and food for the ships on their way to Java and Indonesia to grab the spices and much, much more. That was from 1652. So a company run part of South Africa with some success, and from what i have read there was a big volcanic eruption in Java which meant that the water canals were standing still, due to the ash blocking it and mosquitoes were getting to be a huge problem, and the Dutch had to move their offices and houses more inland, away from the coast line, which made it possible for the English to conquer those parts with ease. I think it was the same year that you had the potatoe rot in Ireland, due to these eruptions which had a huge impact on the seasons (the volcanic dust?) In europe or part of europe as well And the beauty if history is you could pick these weather patterns up in ship logs all over the worldl. It forced many Irish to emigrate to different colonies, to south africa as well.
Thanks, that’s good additional insight!
For a wider context I would recommend https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40765500-the-modern-anglo-dutch-empire
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Very soon after reading this I was looking for a podcast to listen to & settled on this (without really knowing what it was about). The coincidence is too great for me not to post the link https://geopoliticsandempire.com/2023/11/06/daniel-natal-oligarchy-remake-nations-slave-plantations/
Fantastic...thank you!!
Is there a worthy book which narrates the history of the EIC ? Are there accounts of the shareholders of the EIC?
The Anarchy that the article refers to is a great place to start