The Power of Stupidity || Acharya Prashant

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00:00If there is just one person who wants socks with a thousand holes,

00:04then that person will be declared a lunatic.

00:06But if there are a million persons who want socks with a thousand holes,

00:10governments will create policies to have an entire industry catering to this huge market.

00:15Evil lies in the great number of small people.

00:19One person lost and senseless and directionless is pitiable.

00:23An entire institute offering MBA degrees

00:26full of lost and senseless persons becomes an attractive destination.

00:30It is no more pitiable, it is attractive.

00:32On its own, stupidity is so feeble, it can be crushed very easily.

00:36But because stupidity is feeble, it knows one thing, it must gather numbers.

00:40So it forms huge organizations, colonies, where all the stupid ones can stick around.

00:45And then they are very difficult to tackle.

00:47Evil is not some humongous monster.

00:50Evil is small and helpless things like these

00:53that get together in millions and take the shape of a huge creature.