Part II: Winning / 6. Purposefulness and agency /
6.1

Party worker vs customer mindset

Ever find yourself thinking: “How can I stop being so useless? How can I actually make my side and tribe win? How can I finally make NiṣādaHermaphroditarchaṃśa (Mal’ta boy ka parivar) proud?”

  1. You must see yourself as a party worker/missionary thinking at every point “What can I do for my party?”—not a customer thinking “What can my party do for me?”.

    According to rightoids, the goal of politics is to:

    • express their opinions, “call out” bad things aimlessly

    • generate self-serving cope

    • entertainment

    According to leftists, the goal of politics is:

    TO WIN.

    “To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, to hear the oaths of allegiance of their children ...”

    Rightoids behave with Modi/Hindutva leadership like the boomer stereotype of an annoying entitled wife with her husband: constantly making demands, starting stupid fights with random people knowing he will protect her, and throwing random obstacles to shit-test him. They see themselves as customers, asking “What did my party do for me?”—Leftists see themselves as party workers, asking at every stage “What can I do for my party?”
    (Instead the Left see their sacred entities—the Noble Savage and its incarnations—as customers; they see them as sacred but incapable of agency, requiring their patronage and service.)
    Be purposeful with your political engagement. Stop treating it as a platform to dump your frustrations in life. Be mindful of:

    • What are you trying to achieve, with every word?

    • Is this the best way to achieve that, or can you think of something better?

    • Are you making your team and yourself look good? Does it make people want to join your team?

    • Have you really thought about whether what you’re saying is true/useful? Or are you just saying something it’s fashionable to say?

  2. Equivalently, your attitude must be that of a Kautilyan king:

    His religious vow is his readiness to action; his yajña is his satisfactory discharge of duties; and his dakṣiṇā is his equal attention to all matters.

    In the happiness of his subjects lies his happiness; in their welfare his welfare; whatever benefits himself he shall not consider as good, but whatever benefits his subjects he shall consider as good.

    Hence he shall ever be active and discharge his duties; the root of wealth is activity, and of evil its reverse. In the absence of activity acquisitions present and to come will perish; by activity he can achieve both his desired ends and abundance of wealth.

    —Kautilya Arthaśāstra 1.19

  3. Equivalently, your attitude must be that of an entrepreneur. Follow the Ten Principles of Doing Things:

    1. Do things.

    2. Do VALUABLE things.

    3. Do SCALABLE things.

    4. Find alpha. Look for gaps in the market where you can create value, where you have something to contribute.

    5. Relentlessly iterate and see what works.

    6. Be the best at what you do. If you write a book, make it the best book. If you make a library of ancient Indian texts: make it comprehensive, efficient, indexed with all sorts of info. If you generate AI artworks, iterate until they’re really impressive. Whatever you do, make it the best of its category.

    7. Think, rationally evaluate if whatever you’re doing is truly useful.

    8. But do things that interest you or you’ve forever had an itch to build, because that is where you will likely have an edge over others.

    9. You can just do things.

    10. Doing things is hard and takes effort and agency.

  4. Finally, you must be completely knowledgeable about your ideology, and totally devoted to it—knowing what you believe and how everything else follows from it (section 7.2.6). The Doctrine is as critical to an Ideological Regime as the king is in a monarchy: every new convert must bend the knee to the Doctrine, and the Experts (ministers), Institutions (forts), Human Capital (army) and Ideological Aether (country) must all follow and convey his will (section 4.1).

  5. In all pursuits in life, including your political entrepreneurship, only Four Skills underly all success in life. Train these skills both through learning and practice (i.e. arguing with people online, building things, exercise and healthy eating), and you shall become THE NEW ĀRYA MAN or THE THING-DOER.

    1. thinking/IQ

    2. execution/agency

    3. communication

    4. fitness1