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00:00Kaukrat Chantapati, gaining so much followers in just two or three days, is this really going to change the system
00:06or really going to...
00:10Getting to the root of the rot, reactions hardly succeed.
00:17Would the reaction become a solution? Otherwise, it's fine. You can solve all problems creating Insta pages.
00:23Given two boxes, which one do you tick? Rebellion or responsibility? You tick rebellion.
00:29Especially as Gen Z. I am rebellious.
00:34No, responsible isn't cool enough, or is it?
00:38Rebellious is cool, so I am rebellious.
00:42The Russians had the Bolshevik Revolution 1917.
00:46And not too long after that, they got the bloodiest dictator the history has seen.
00:53The voter will say, come corrupt me even more, so that I vote the most undeserving person to power.
01:00The world has changed. The society has changed. Oh, we brought down the government.
01:04You can do that. And that has happened.
01:06Even in India's vicinity, that has happened. Many other countries, that has happened.
01:10You don't like the government. Who voted the government to power?
01:13But Gen Z doesn't like that answer, does it?
01:16You don't like the climate. You don't like the pollution.
01:18Who is the polluter?
01:20That is the only answer.
01:28My question is regarding social media page called Cockroach Janta Party.
01:33And it's gaining so much followers in just two or three days.
01:39All the unemployment people are following this page as a revolution against the government.
01:46My question is, is this really going to change the system or really going to do something?
01:52I have not done that.
01:54So how can I explain whether or not it's a good thing to do?
02:03Had that been the way, I would have been already working on it.
02:20But you look fascinated.
02:23It's fine.
02:28Getting to the root of the rot
02:36is what can address the problem.
02:43Reactions hardly succeed.
02:51In fact, reactions arise from the same framework
02:58that the problem is.
03:08Superficiality is the problem.
03:09What if the reaction is also superficial?
03:13Would the reaction become a solution?
03:17Otherwise, it's fine.
03:19You can solve all problems creating Insta pages.
03:31We too have a big Insta page.
03:33Did that solve your problem?
03:46It is not revolutions that the ego is afraid of.
03:50The ego happily steps into revolutions.
03:54The ego is afraid of reality, not revolution.
04:01And when the ego says somebody outside is the problem,
04:06that too might be an attempt
04:12to focus its attention away from its own self.
04:19And societies love that.
04:21We are not talking of particular individuals here.
04:24It's a social phenomena, right?
04:26Societies love that.
04:29Because all individuals love that.
04:31It's not about one person.
04:36Everything is in a mess.
04:37Blame somebody out there.
04:41Up there.
04:42So that you don't have to look at yourself.
04:53What does this stand for?
04:58Victory.
04:59For the ego, this stands for victim.
05:02And that is victory.
05:04I am the victim.
05:07The moment you can declare your victimhood,
05:11you are already victorious.
05:13That's the ego.
05:18Oh, somebody else has done all the bad things in life.
05:22Somebody else is responsible for unemployment,
05:26for poverty,
05:29for civic mess,
05:32for a sinking economy,
05:35for overpopulation,
05:37for pollution,
05:40corruption.
05:41Who is responsible?
05:44Somebody else is responsible.
05:48The common man is responsible.
05:50But you don't want to show the mirror to the common man.
05:54The common man hates looking at the mirror.
05:57What the common man rather wants is stories,
06:01narratives that show him as the victim.
06:03Not the perpetrator.
06:07Not the offender.
06:09But the victim.
06:12Somebody else is the offender.
06:14I am the victim.
06:25I understand.
06:27One feels suffocated and one wants to react.
06:34And I am sensitive to that.
06:37I can sense that the youth is disgruntled,
06:42disaffected.
06:44And the youth is looking for an outlet.
06:47But how can you solve a problem if you do not know the situation?
06:55Can you?
06:59There is something wrong with the mechanics of this fan
07:02and it's creating noise.
07:05It's creating noise.
07:09What's immediately disturbing you is the noise.
07:13So, with a gun you want to shoot down the noise.
07:17What are you shooting at?
07:19The noise.
07:21And the noise seems to be coming from everywhere.
07:25So, you are firing at all directions randomly.
07:29However, you will not look at the fan
07:32because you have never bothered to study
07:36electromagnetics or mechanics.
07:40And even the example is insufficient
07:43because the fan is located comfortably outside of you.
07:49In the context of the question,
07:51the fan, the machine that's acting so noisy
07:54is actually situated within.
07:59But the noise appears to be coming from?
08:02It's reflected noise.
08:04It's arising from here,
08:05getting reflected from there
08:07and returning to you.
08:09And you are shooting randomly in all directions
08:12thinking that the culprit is out there somewhere.
08:18The common man is the culprit.
08:22He needs reality before revolution.
08:29He needs mirrors before marches.
08:38But tell him to march and he'll be eager, right?
08:41Going there to join the mega march.
08:44Show him the mirror and he'll bark.
08:53None of us like the way the things are.
08:57In our home,
08:58in our country,
08:59on the entire planet.
09:01Nobody likes it.
09:01Nobody at all.
09:06The problem is
09:09that you experience the problem
09:11without knowing it.
09:16There is a certain dislike you experience.
09:21But you do not understand the inner situation
09:24that is so dislikable.
09:26You don't understand that.
09:28More importantly, you do not understand
09:31that the one who is disliking the situation
09:36is the originator of the situation.
09:43And when it is pointed at,
09:46you resent.
09:48Because acceptance would be responsibility.
09:52If you accept that you are the originator,
09:55then you will have to be responsible.
09:57You would rather be rebellious than responsible.
10:00Right?
10:03Given two boxes,
10:05which one do you tick?
10:07Rebellion or responsibility?
10:08You tick rebellion.
10:10Especially as Gen Z.
10:12I am rebellious.
10:15No, responsible isn't cool enough.
10:17Or is it?
10:19Or rebellious is cool.
10:20So I am rebellious.
10:24You don't like the government.
10:26Who voted the government to power?
10:34You don't like the climate.
10:35You don't like the pollution.
10:37Who is the polluter?
10:47And that does not mean that I am shifting the blame
10:51or putting all responsibility on a certain individual.
10:54No, that's not what I am saying.
10:58Instead what I am saying is that the responsibility lies with the blind collective ego.
11:05No, I am not saying one person is responsible.
11:08No, I am not saying that by the common man I mean one particular common man.
11:15I mean the shared collective ego we all participate in.
11:21And if you don't like what you see,
11:24you will have to address this collective ego.
11:28And this collective ego is what I call as Lok Dharam.
11:46Getting it.
11:52You can bring down one system, one institution.
11:56You will get another brand new system, a very fresh institution from the same center.
12:08Same center.
12:11And you will pat your back and congratulate yourself.
12:14I have succeeded.
12:17The world has changed.
12:18The society has changed.
12:19Oh, we brought down the government.
12:20You can do that.
12:21And that has happened.
12:22Even in India's vicinity that has happened.
12:24Many other countries that has happened.
12:29And historically that has been happening over the centuries.
12:33That doesn't change much.
12:47You know, there have been countries where the youth toppled the dictator
12:53and established democracy.
12:57And then there were elections and the people voted the dictator to power through a democratic process.
13:06Because the people were not changed.
13:09Only the system was changed.
13:22Iran.
13:241979.
13:26Women were so eager to throw the Shah away.
13:32And they were at the forefront.
13:36The regime changes.
13:38The Islamists come to power.
13:41And women are pushed inside the wheel.
13:48What has changed?
13:51What has changed?
13:54What has changed?
13:55What has changed?
14:02The Russians had the Bolshevik revolution 1917.
14:07And not too long after that, they got the bloodiest dictator the history has seen.
14:14Stalin.
14:22Systems, institutions, revolutions, rebellions mean nothing without change of popular consciousness.
14:29Look who has been democratically voted to power in US and many other countries.
14:36They are all products of democracy.
14:38They are such horrible products of democracy.
14:50In fact, democracy is a double-edged sword.
14:57If the voter is not conscious enough, the voter will invite manipulation.
15:05The voter will say, come corrupt me even more.
15:10So that I vote the most undeserving person to power.
15:17Democracy then becomes an instrument that further corrupts the voter.
15:33Inner education is the answer, but it's such a boring answer.
15:37Gen Z doesn't like that answer, does it?
15:40Education.
15:40Education.
15:42We don't need no...
15:47Education.
15:50Education.
15:57Teacher, leave them kids alone.
16:05We don't need no...
16:08Education.
16:20Education is the answer.
16:23Not of the kind we have in schools and colleges.
16:28Education of the self.
16:32That is the only answer and the only revolution.
16:37Without that revolution, all these uprisings are just social entertainment.
16:52Another episode of meaningless political drama.
17:03The curtain falls, the curtain rises.
17:07The characters and the costumes change.
17:10The theme of the play remains the same.
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17:22And you will return home happy and entertained that night.
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17:37Because you have remained the same.
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