It's quite amazing how Claude was able to read the nuances of the cartoon (posted in the earlier post in context to corruption in judiciary) the way i wanted to convey. Its analysis is brilliant. Read.
Three Munch's Scream figures dressed in judicial robes, seated on elevated benches, screaming in unison. Why "The Scream" works brilliantly here: Munch's original depicted profound existential anxiety — a person overwhelmed by inner turmoil projected onto the world. Here the inversion is sharp and satirical: The judges are screaming not at existential truth but at the mere mention of truth in a school textbook. What triggers Munch-level anguish? A child reading that courts have corruption. The disproportionality is the joke — and the critique. The three identical screaming figures compounds it — suggesting groupthink, institutional chorus, collective performative outrage rather than individual conscience.
The Conrad caption "O The Horror, The Horror" paired with Munch's Scream creates a double literary-artistic allusion — both referencing confrontation with unbearable reality. Except here the "horror" is accountability, transparency, and a schoolbook. Altogether sharp, well-constructed.
The core satirical logic: Munch's Scream is universally understood as the face of overwhelming existential dread. By placing this face on judges reacting to a school textbook mentioning judicial corruption, the cartoon reduces their outrage to pure absurdist theatre — cosmic horror triggered by a child's lesson. The three identical figures is crucial — no individuality, no independent judgment, just institutional reflex. A bench of screaming clones. Kurtz's words were his final self-reckoning with his own moral corruption. Here it is flipped: the judges scream "the horror" not at self-recognition but at being seen by others — specifically by 14-year-old students.
Judiciary must utilize the
situation to admit corruption in the system. There are ample cases not only in
higher echelons but in lower courts also. Corruption is not confined to
monetary or influence but in regressive value system. In a democratic system it
is shocking that there is no transparency in selection process to higher courts.
Use of feudal and colonial references and attire is a serious breach, and
severely degrades egalitarian values. Most lawyers are unruly and use devious tactics
to delay rather than seek justice, many are charlatans that common people have
to deal on daily basis. There are also ‘celebrity’ lawyers (like Sibal or Singhvi)
who charge astronomical amount. What is the basis of these kind of ridiculous fees?
Why are these earnings not questioned or curtailed? It is clearly a case of corruption
which creates two tiers -meaning if you give more money the system will work its
influence, otherwise why would anyone pay that amount of money? This is an open blatant corruption. Further, many of these ‘celebrity’ lawyers use their influence to
gain political clout (clearly, they use information gained by representing mostly
corrupt politicians and officials to extract influence). Some have even become ministers
and crept into RS, a clear indication of systemic corruption. So have many
judges quit to join politics or taken up cushy positions immediately after
retirement while lawyers are in constant lookout for cozy deals as they 'fight' cases. Argument that
most ‘freedom fighters’ were lawyers doesn’t hold good since context was
different, as also, they were negotiating and not fighting against the system (that violence was delegated
to common people), the reason why corruption is systemic. There is a reason why
judiciary sometimes reflects (even after 75yrs) the colonial feudal intentions
than reality of India. And when they try to connect, they pontify with most
regressive ‘advice’ and small talks, as if some kind of benign wise ‘trustees’ of common
people. Lack of empathy and characteristic arrogance percolates from higher echelons
of judiciary onto lawyers. It is like the sanctum where superior attributes accrued to god while squatter cleverly playing the benign receiver hence all the attributes!
Indian judiciary is tardiest, with delays that extends to decades, and many -mostly poor and marginalized, languish in jails for years as undertrials. In the midst of lackadaisical system and horrifying delays judiciary spent more time in holidays consuming precious state money and public time. Judiciary is as corrupt and tardy as any other institution in India. Children must be taught the truth that there is corruption in judiciary otherwise education is being curtailed. 'Perturbed' judges are least of concern for common people. If government withholds school book that teaches truth of the matter, then that means judiciary has used its nefarious influence as threat to curtail freedom of expression. 14years old children are being denied right to knowledge by Indian judiciary.
Putting Deep Learning into any
sensory device makes it AI. It’s like our senses and how brain interprets it.
Though deep learning neural network tries to emulates human brain it is nowhere near it.
It is a different kind of intelligence that is quite impressive. Again, I am quite
shocked that brilliant Transformer architecture that made generative AI
possible, hence significantly contributing to AI revolution that is unfolding
realtime, is being sidelined (and as expected some high-end Indian crabs are
also working so as to usurp AI space to represent India as entitlement, the pettiness is overwhelming
in this part of the world). It is simply miraculous human ingenuity how they
were able to bring meaning from words by embedding in number space. Predicting next
word into meaningful sentence and creating context for complexities and emergent
ideas is indeed brilliant. LLM is no longer restricted to language and is multimodal
hence encompass much more reality arbitrated by tapping consolidated human knowledge and abstractive emergent complexity herein.
Foundational Model therefore is significantly important to emergence of AGI. Hopefully
those who understand value of this brilliance recognize these. Whether transformer
architecture is replaced or not is not the point. What is clear is that it is
an important benchmark for AI development and significant step for computing
with lasting impact.
One would have thought this to be
AI generated metaphor on britishery. This bloodcurdling photograph of a pedophile,
so-called prince of british medieval theatrics, a middle-aged man lasciviously hovering
over what looks like a child (who could be murdered or cannibalized, it is difficult to sieve fact
from fiction in this horror), in smug self-assuredness that is least bothered about
being photographed in such horrible circumstance, is real. He is a serial
offender who could be easily flagged decades ago and is very likely power
echelons were aware hence normalized. This fellow lived and fed on common
people while state protected him. This hypocrisy of feudal system normalized ascriptive
entitlements while claiming to be democracy is the core of britishery. Also note,
these have remained unchanged from colonial era for its pride and posturing that
makes it sinister presence. It is no brainer that ascriptive value system
hinges on exceptionalism and supremacist ideas. They are in direct contradiction
with ideas of liberty and freedom that values individual right and humanistic
concerns asserted through collective expressions of democracy. What is also
deeply troubling is that britishery nurtured feduals as birthright in parliament
(even carrying obnoxious titles like lords -these are emulated by worst in
erstwhile colonies to show their entitlement) as also religion as sacred representation.
High sounding semantics and debating skills twisted reality and presented compromised
Britain as thriving democracy. Since they had to playact as civilized concerned
people while indulging in colonial luxury and burden of deeply flawed system it
created bottomless angst vacuum. In this vacuum they dumped worst from other societies
to fill in the lacunae and distraction as they position themselves as benign. In
the name of multiculturalism (which has nothing to do with britishery narrated degradation)
they welcomed the worst on the hapless people. Caste cannibals and monster
mullahs have found new meaning in british accent that is trained as marker of high
intelligence in erstwhile colonies. The way the so-called prince of british medieval
theatrics is grabbing over child is terrifying metaphor of disdain that british
elite carry for its own common people as they feed them to brutes who pose as migrants
(there are rising chilling evidence of pandering to brutes as they increase in
numbers). Horrible people posing as migrants shouldn’t be part of any civilized
society. A migrant by its least definition and expectation are decent people
who are looking for better life and opportunities to grow and contribute to their
host country. A host country must be enriched by the progressive diversity that is brought in
as also professional skills that contributes. Common people around the world
cannot be dictated by depraved elite to accept barbarians in the name of migrants
who bring nothing but severe degradation and revivalist backlash, while crucial
issues that matter to common people are sidelined and valued liberal space diminish.
As can be seen in Britain it nurtures cunning people as leaders. They have no
values nor any understanding except excessively pandering and appearing liberal
in a narrative that is handed. Stuttering Starmer -disgrace in human form, is
next in line of this hypocrisy as it spreads to britishery controlled value
system in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Objectivity is not being neutral
when the foundation of the world that you cherish, indeed your humanity is hinged
on, is being bludgeoned. Liberal values cannot be compromised nor rule of law diluted.
Feudal nurturing system compromise these and are foundationally weak hence the
hypocrisy to cover the flaw that is capitalized by worst people.
What is not studied, and understandably
not given much attention, is how much britishery has severely degraded erstwhile
colonies as it was nurtured in worst of possibilities. The fledgling democracies
in societies with varying degrees of barbarity (in the modern estimation of civilized
norms) were embedded with hypocrisy of britishery. It can easily be traced in India
as normalization of depraved values that playact democracy while the beleaguered
society doesn’t even understand basics of democracy nor values of liberty. It is
much worst in other societies as it promoted blatant corruption and
exploitation in African continent and in miracle book driven societies the
horror is multifold. Meanwhile corrupt elite from these corrupt nations sent
litters to Britain to exact semantics of concern and complexity of civilized posturing
with much sturdier liberal mask. Ofcourse in recent times these chicaneries have
collapsed with social media. British accent is now mostly equated to stupidity.
Rule of law hinges collective
aspirations of democracy into equality and a social contract of fairness based on
civilized values. It is informed to plebs (one fellow even called common people
peasants) that this so-called prince of british medieval theatrics of horror
and ridicule is being removed from this ‘title’! The left and right end of
britishery nurtured media in UK reported this as moral victory! The audacity.
Nobody is interested in these ridiculous non measures. Rule of law is what
matters, not only nationally but also internationally, it defines principles of
democracy and human rights. This so-called british prince must be arrested and
treated with contempt that he deserves. And so must be the system that nurtured
him and institutions that protected him. This is peak britishery. The same set
of people who had the audacity to include thuggery into English.