Our Sophistication is a Lie || Acharya Prashant
Full video: Policymakers, wake up! || Acharya Prashant, with O.P. Jindal University (2022)
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00:00One animal wants to grab the territory of another animal,
00:03especially if the former is a bigger animal.
00:07One big country wants to grab the territory of a smaller country.
00:11But this we take as something a bit sophisticated.
00:15We discuss this in the United Nations.
00:17We talk of this as something at least half serious and half intellectual.
00:23We sit in our formal clothes and discuss the occupation of territory
00:29on high fora.
00:30But when one dog encroaches into the territory of another dog,
00:37we look at it as something very ordinary, very lowly indeed.
00:43We do not see that the same thing is happening.
00:46And unless we come to that sharp, quick, conclusive realization,
00:52we'll keep giving respect to all the wrong things.