I cannot understand how this country continues to function at all
This is a rant. Context: I am unemployed right now and trying to make some things work. I have some degree of financial cushion and parental support, for which my material conditions are not terrible, and I can take a few more months to prepare for stuff. But the more I stay at home, spend hours reading the news, I keep wondering what holds the semblance of normalcy in this country together. Not even going as far as the ideological bankruptcy, rampant privatisation and corporate takeover all around; just regular life. You want to book a 3A/3E/Sleeper train ticket for an exam? Cannot because they get sold out 2 months earlier or something. Want to eat vegetables regularly? Cannot, look at the prices. Want to go out on a short walk in the evening? No sidewalk, only debris. Comfortable public transport? Lol.
The list will not end, and this is just me, a fairly privileged person, talking about what only personally affects me.
Adding to this, the right-wing takeover of university unions, the liberalism of the Indian left; haven't heard a single political speech in ages that talks about the continuous degradation of working class life. Bureaucratic bullsh*t all around; I understand that only some of us in this country are living, most of us are barely surviving. But it really makes me wonder how things actually work, why are we not at the brink of a civil war when the conditions are rifer than it could ever have been; exactly what did it take for us to come to this point. Theory and policy analyses perhaps explains this scale of crises, but I cannot make sense of the apathy and indifference with which we go about our day to day lives.