Full Video: Are you smart, or just shallow, young man? || Acharya Prashant
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00:00People are not watching movies or reading books or doing anything in life for the sake of the higher pleasure or the joy that reading itself, watching itself, the process itself gives to you.
00:17Today books are being written in the PPT format. So there are bullet points.
00:21You do not want to enjoy the beauty of language. You do not want to have let's say an 800 page volume in your hands in which paragraphs run for 4 pages, 6 pages and sentences run for 10 or 12 lines.
00:40Nobody wants to have that kind of patience and it is not really then a crisis or shortage of patience in itself. It is a problem with the philosophy of this age.
00:53The book has come to me and my central God is consumption.