The Indian Patriarch || Acharya Prashant

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00:00Amitabh Bachchan spewing continuous nonsense in some family blockbuster.

00:04That's the dream figure every North Indian patriarch wants to be.

00:09Somebody whose authority is unquestionable.

00:12He just gets up from the inherited family chair, five centuries old,

00:17and declares the heavenly truth.

00:19And the wife and the kids and the daughter-in-laws especially,

00:22they roll at his feet because the oracle has spoken.

00:25Don't you get impressed?

00:26We have characters in the movies uttering absolutely stupid dialogues with great conviction.

00:32And you get impressed by the sheer baritone and the gravitas.

00:36A lot of nonsense just passes in the name of very beautiful words.

00:41Respect, love, sacredness, understanding.

00:44And just because somebody is saying something with great conviction

00:48does not mean that the fellow knows what he is talking of.

00:56So this is and that is, thank you for letting me know's going away.

01:05And to look for the information, I want to give away from theinguemato school.

01:10I want to give away from there, because I know I'm saying something with great conviction and truth.