Influence of Bollywood || Acharya Prashant

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00:00We tell ourselves stories like Hindi movies do and then we believe in those stories. We never

00:06bother to experiment, verify, examine those stories. We live in stories as if the stories

00:15have an absolute existence of their own. Just because somebody is saying something with great

00:20conviction does not mean that the fellow knows what he is talking of. That includes this speaker.

00:25We have characters in the movies uttering absolutely stupid dialogues with great conviction and

00:33you get impressed by the sheer baritone and the gravitas. Amitabh Bachchan spewing continuous

00:39nonsense in some family blockbuster. That's the dream figure every North Indian patriarch

00:46wants to be. Somebody whose authority is unquestionable. Don't you get impressed?