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Full Video: The Only Solution to the Climate Crisis || Acharya Prashant, with NDTV at IIT Delhi (2025)
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00:00Help us establish a link between inner loneliness and over-consuming things.
00:05Why do we all have these wish lists that we want this and if we have this then we'll be happy.
00:09No, you don't have it. You don't have it.
00:11You see, it's a propaganda.
00:13Loneliness is a propaganda.
00:15You are being told that you are lonely so that you may purchase something as your companion.
00:22The thing is, whether you bring this home or whether you enter into a wedding arrangement with someone,
00:29somebody's pockets are going to get lined.
00:34Weddings are fat occasions of consumerism, aren't they?
00:38So, loneliness too, if you would look at it, is a consumerist concept.
00:45We are being made to feel lonely.
00:48The culture is being driven by money.
00:52There are movies and you look at those movies and you say, you know, there's a couple there
00:57and they're having such a great time and I'm the only one without a partner
01:01and you never bother to ask who is financing that movie.
01:05That consumerism is being fueled by the capitalist who wants to turn the entire world into customers
01:15and a man or a woman can be turned into a customer only by making him feel deprived, unriched and lonely.
01:24The more desperate and frustrated and inwardly poor you can make a person feel,
01:32the more he'll feel like going out and shopping.
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