00:00The professor would be like, grab a coffee, sit with us if you want to discuss it.
00:05In India, the gap between teacher or professor and student is...
00:08Authority and the past.
00:11Here, when I came, my first day here, I'll tell you.
00:14So the professor was standing, I went there, I said, hello, professor.
00:17And the other guy came in, he was a UK guy.
00:19He just said, hey, hi, professor, hi, with the name, hi, Alan.
00:23You see, when the prevalent philosophy, the pop philosophy,
00:27the one that the masses subscribe to, says that the controller,
00:32the overriding authority sits outside of you.
00:35Then obviously a power structure, a power distance has been created.
00:40And you're supposed to then kneel and bow down and not question and stay distant.
00:49And also probably stay a bit afraid.
00:53There's this underlying silent layer of fear also.
00:57But when you have taken huge strides in science,
01:03and when you have seen that much of what you call as life,
01:08can be determined through your own understanding, your own systems.
01:13So then there is no mystical or metaphysical need to surrender to an unknown force.
01:20Now you can be friendly.
01:22You are not respectful to the object.
01:25Respect is not the right word to apply or not to apply.
01:29You can call it friendly intimacy.
01:30No.
01:31Yes.
01:31Yes.
01:31Well, I'll see.
01:33Yes.
01:35You, yes.
01:38You.
01:40Yes.
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