00:00People are not watching movies or reading books or doing anything in life for the sake of the higher pleasure
00:09or the joy that reading itself, watching itself, the process itself gives to you.
00:16Today, books are being written in the PPT format, so there are bullet points. You do not want to enjoy
00:23the beauty of language. You do not want to have, let's say, an 800-page volume in your hands in
00:31which paragraphs run for 4 pages, 6 pages, and sentences run for 10 or 12 lines.
00:38Nobody wants to have that kind of patience and it is not really then a crisis or shortage of patience
00:47in itself. It is a problem with the philosophy of this age. The book has come to me and my
00:54central god is consumption.
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