Full Video: When the monkey falls in love with the mobile || Acharya Prashant, Intnl Psychology Summit (2023)
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00:0099.99% users of the mobile phone, do they know a thing about the phone?
00:08Do they know?
00:09Except for the user interface, what do they know of?
00:12They have it in their palm as if it's something so ordinary, so cheap.
00:17And economics of scale is indeed providing that wonder of technology to you at very cheap
00:23rates.
00:24You ask yourself, how long will you by yourself create that mobile phone?
00:30Never.
00:31That's the problem.
00:32We have received almost for free something so precious.
00:36If you are given freedom, you are bound to misuse it because it's like giving freedom
00:40and power and authority to a drunken one.
00:44Freedom should be first a thing of within and only then a thing in your hands.
00:51Otherwise the results are catastrophic.
00:52The earth is closer to destruction today than it ever was in its history.
00:56More than 70% of internet traffic is for destructive or wasteful purposes.