WHO IS THE REAL DEPENDENT? PEOPLE OR INSTITUTES
- Madhukar Dama
- 1 day ago
- 4 min read
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INTRODUCTION: THE TRUTH NOBODY TELLS YOU
No poor man ever asked for a school. No tribal woman ever demanded a hospital. No farmer ever fought for a stock exchange. No grandmother ever pleaded for a pharmaceutical company.
Institutions are not born out of mass rebellion. They are built by those who need them.
> The builder of an institution is its primary beneficiary.
We’ve been told the opposite: that governments, schools, banks, clinics, courts, and corporations were created to solve our problems. But most institutions are created by a small group of people to secure their own survival, power, and prosperity.
You are made to believe you can’t live without them — because the builder cannot live without your belief.
It’s not you who needs the system. It’s the system that desperately needs you.
Let’s now take a deep, slow-burning look at 20 such institutions — all of which dominate our daily lives today — but didn’t exist earlier.
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1. SCHOOL
Who needs it? The teacher, textbook publisher, principal, and education board.
Who built it? Industrialists and rulers — to produce obedient workers.
Why? To condition minds, not free them.
What did children have earlier? Real-life learning from elders, nature, work, animals, fields, crafts, and mistakes.
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2. HOSPITAL
Who needs it? Doctors, pharma companies, medical device makers.
Who built it? The modern medical industry to profit from sickness.
Why? To control health through dependency.
What did people have earlier? Home remedies, midwives, healers, fasting, seasonal eating, barefoot walking, rest.
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3. COURT
Who needs it? Lawyers, judges, and the justice machinery.
Who built it? Colonial and feudal governments to centralize authority.
Why? To define morality on paper, not reality.
What did people have earlier? Local village councils, panchayats, elders, apology, compensation, exile, shame.
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4. RELIGIOUS INSTITUTIONS
Who needs it? Priests, monks, gurus, religious organizations.
Who built it? Power-hungry individuals to act as middlemen to the divine.
Why? To monopolize fear and salvation.
What did people have earlier? Direct relation with nature, sky, soil, river, silence, and inner voice.
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5. BANK
Who needs it? Bankers, capitalists, governments.
Who built it? Colonial and commercial empires to hold people's wealth.
Why? To regulate and exploit resources under official terms.
What did people have earlier? Grain banks, mutual help, storage in home or trust with respected elders.
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6. INSURANCE
Who needs it? Insurance companies.
Who built it? Fear marketers who sell risk to extract money from the common person.
Why? To sell peace of mind through paper promises.
What did people have earlier? Community support, natural recovery, acceptance of loss.
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7. UNIVERSITY
Who needs it? Professors, publishers, grant-seekers, bureaucrats.
Who built it? Elites to validate knowledge under institutional control.
Why? To create artificial authority.
What did people have earlier? Gurukuls, apprenticeships, lifelong learning through work.
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8. POLICE
Who needs it? The state.
Who built it? Rulers to control dissent, not to protect people.
Why? To impose order from above, not build peace from below.
What did people have earlier? Self-policing communities, respect-based fear of elders.
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9. DIGITAL PLATFORMS
Who needs it? App developers, ad sellers, data miners.
Who built it? Tech giants to feed off attention.
Why? To turn you into a product.
What did people have earlier? Direct conversations, handwritten letters, daily village meetups.
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10. POLITICAL PARTIES
Who needs it? Politicians and their contractors.
Who built it? Those who wanted to fight for power with the help of blind masses.
Why? To divide, not unite.
What did people have earlier? Leadership through deeds, not drama.
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11. TRANSPORT AUTHORITIES
Who needs it? Car companies, oil giants, toll collectors.
Who built it? Industrialists to spread markets and mobility.
Why? To destroy local self-reliance.
What did people have earlier? Walking, cycling, bullock carts, self-sufficient villages.
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12. ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY
Who needs it? Actors, producers, sponsors, media owners.
Who built it? To replace local music, stories, dances, festivals.
Why? To steal time and emotion.
What did people have earlier? Folk stories, spontaneous performances, real-time fun.
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13. ADVERTISING AGENCIES
Who needs it? Sellers of fake dreams.
Who built it? Corporations to inject insecurity and desire.
Why? To make you feel less, so you spend more.
What did people have earlier? Word of mouth, trust-based trade.
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14. FOOD INDUSTRY
Who needs it? Processed food giants, chemical manufacturers, packaged brands.
Who built it? To convert kitchen into market.
Why? To destroy self-cooking and food wisdom.
What did people have earlier? Home-grown, hand-cooked, seasonal eating.
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15. PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRY
Who needs it? Drug makers, retailers, diagnostic labs.
Who built it? To replace prevention with pills.
Why? To profit from prolonged symptoms.
What did people have earlier? Self-healing, fasting, bitter herbs, lifestyle-based recovery.
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16. MODERN GROCERY CHAINS
Who needs it? Retail conglomerates.
Who built it? To kill farmers and local sellers.
Why? To centralize food control.
What did people have earlier? Farmers markets, barter, local traders.
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17. FASHION INDUSTRY
Who needs it? Designers, influencers, fast fashion companies.
Who built it? To destroy natural dressing.
Why? To keep identity shaky so spending increases.
What did people have earlier? Hand-woven local wear, reused and mended.
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18. CHILDCARE CENTRES
Who needs it? Working parents, caregivers, corporates.
Who built it? To allow parents to work and consume.
Why? To replace parenting with services.
What did people have earlier? Joint families, siblings, natural parenting, village watch.
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19. TOY INDUSTRY
Who needs it? Toy manufacturers.
Who built it? To break imagination and create dependency.
Why? To package play as a product.
What did people have earlier? Stones, mud, leaves, animals, siblings.
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20. INTERNET OF THINGS
Who needs it? Device makers, data collectors.
Who built it? To monitor, not assist.
Why? To extract habits and control choices.
What did people have earlier? Inner knowing, body cues, natural rhythm.
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FINAL THOUGHT: FLIP THE NEED
> Every time you are told that you "need" a service — ask: Who would collapse if I didn’t?
The one who runs, promotes, advertises, and maintains it — that’s the one who really needs it.
The rest is manipulation.
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