Fools On The Mic? || Acharya Prashant

Full video : The Social Media Cacophony || Acharya Prashant, in conversation (2022)

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00:00Today's demigods and celebrities are not people with knowledge.

00:05Today's celebrities are loudmouths, those who bark on everything under the sun.

00:11The explosive emergence of social media, especially over the last five, six years,

00:17may have had its immediate and material benefits.

00:20But the challenges it has brought in terms of giving a loud and undeserved voice

00:29to worthless people is a huge damage we have suffered.

00:33And somehow the nature of life is such that the ones who know very little

00:38are the ones most eager to express themselves.

00:42Wisdom prefers quietness and silence many a times.

00:47Ignorance is so insecure it wants to shout from the rooftop.

00:52It indeed is a dangerous situation.