Don't Consume Trash || Acharya Prashant
Full Video: Are you smart, or just shallow, young man? || Acharya Prashant, with IIM Calcutta (2022)
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00:00How is it possible that you emerge from a third-rate movie and you do not know how you felt about it?
00:06But we do see all kinds of stupid movies succeeding at the box office.
00:12300 crores, 600 crores, 1000 crores.
00:14We see all kinds of rubbish succeeding in the name of literature.
00:19National bestseller, international bestseller,
00:21lakh copies sold, 2 lakh copies sold, 10 lakh copies sold.
00:24And that fellow is peddling nonsense of the worst kind.
00:28Trash in the name of philosophy, superstition in the name of spirituality.
00:32And still the fellow is succeeding.
00:34Do we care for ourselves?
00:37When I'm reading something, am I asking myself, what is the impact this is having on me?
00:41Am I any better off by consuming this literature or this person or this medicine or whatever it is?
00:48When you take that in, are you asking yourself, what did I get out of it?
00:53Or are we so unthinking and so insensitive towards ourselves that we just don't bother?