Is there a foolproof way of living in the nation that we live in? When opportunism and hypocrisy rule and everything is a hustle and an unfair one at that because being able to hustle too is a privilege as most of the people gets their legs broken before they can enter the hustle. I personally have tried everything, minding my own business, which I have been doing since my childhood, focusing on my work literally everything and yet I failed to prevent needless interference in my life which mostly consists of doing my job, caring for my family and consuming current affairs and pop culture. The worst part about my realisations in the past decade is that one can't really know whether what actually rules this nation is the government or not, since what I have felt in the past decade is quite informal and unfortunately rapey, demonic and criminal. I might assume that what I am going through is a hell of my own making, the consequences of my own sins but then only sin that I have committed is jacking off during my college days. There is a phenomenon called snowballing, here is an example, like a hate crime or case of sadistic predation by influential or privileged individuals gets so out of hand, because they made the mistake of judging the individuals they were committing the hate crime on or preying upon wrongly and then since the shit has snowballed and hit the fan it has now to be managed by state machinery, here we see a simple hate crime or recreational predation snowballing into persecution by the state. Unfortunately in the country we live in it's not an abnormal phenomenon. Most people don't reach the level of state persecution at all, their stories end at becoming the victim of leisurely predation or hate crime and that leisurely predation or hate crime is made to be seen as act of God or fate or worse they are victim blamed for their own demise. If there is one thing that I realised in my life is that, at least in the nation we live in, minding your own business and choosing your own corner to do your work quietly is not going to save you from your fate or the “wrath” of God. Unfortunately the wrath of God is dependent on how you look, your physical attributes or whether the way you do things is attractive to God or not. This shit is perception based and I ended up realising that the deep administration of the place I am from, Purvanchal, have the personality profile of Definite Khan from Gangs of Wasseypur, and these Definite Khans have access to the personal lives of intellectuals like professors, artists, engineers and doctors. What would you do when you realise that your God is not Lord Ram but Definite Khan from Gangs of Wasseypur? There is nothing that can be done here. No amount of minding your business and choosing your corner is going to help. Still, one has to survive for their family, and so prioritising is important. Here is what I have got for you. Family, money, your job, your art, and your hobbies and interests in any order you like. Relatives and community are important but they can fuck off because what the deep state of this country does and has been doing is weaponising the relationships with the relatives since the beginning and this weaponisation contributes to most of the drama in this nation. The relationships with others needs to be purely incentive based and transactional in the political reality we are living in. Genuine friendships and bonds are a thing of the past. Unless you are privileged, survival is not an option in this nation. And if you are not privileged you must know that your family legacy, your family history have been sacrificed on the altar of rape that operates from the core of this nation.