Book Discussion on 'The Anxious Generation' by Jonathan Haidt

[@অরুণাভদাস]

This is another insightful discussion by Ashish Dhar and Adarsh Jha. People who are aware of problems of modernity should listen to this discussion.

[@pagarbook2099]

This is a really interesting/important Book. It would be great if you guys can discuss "Disappearance of rituals"

[@dnikhilrao]

Good discussion. Keep the series going, gents.

[@sumitdutta7043]

I first heard about Jonathan Haidt from Swami Sarvapriyananda of Ramkrishna Mission (currently the head of Vedanta Society Newyork)

[@ryu_no_kagizume]

Fantastic discussion! This is better than many podcasts!

[@Anubhavsengupta1902]

Sir you people are doing sn amazing job,people like you are much needed for our Sanatan Dharma!,but I have a criticism for you that you must try to make long form video essays because your videos extremely less views and subscribers,at first it's going to be hard for you but once you make long form video essays then more and more people are going to watch your videos!🙏🕉️

[@cokedupnormies2651]

Would love these topics on the next OPIndia podcast!

[@Vizorfam]

Thank you so much for this amazing video 🙏

[@shravyaamin8346]

We need more book discussions....

[@jimmy1989vp]

Please read "Happiness Hypothesis " by Jonathan Haidt. Great book on what you can do to control your primitive mind(elephant). A must read !!!!

[@AryamanAtrey]

Please continue Dharma 101 series. Hope you cover both the discussion of key texts of hinduism along with philosophical aspecgs covered. Also if you have time would you look into Tilak's Bhagvad Gita Rahasya since no major channel has covered it in my knowledge.

[@Upword]

Episode 2 is almost ready

[@ashok.vardhan.g]

Must read: "Understanding Media" by Marshall McLuhan

[@Alpha-Cheeno]

Anxiety is one of the primary triggers of mental illness, including various personality disorders.

[@Haveagodday-w8m]

Thankyou👏

[@अभ्यंतर]

Awesome discussion

[@pagarbook2099]

What a random coincidence. I wrote this today only. *Information galore is creating a fallacy of knowing everything* Last few days I was thinking about beef fat mixed in Tirupati devasthanam laddu, atrocity on Bangladesh Hindus and internet generation inclination towards being a podcaster / shit talker vs boomers’ being extremely action biased 1857, first independence movement of India, do you remember the trigger? Why did the nation organised against Britishers? Mangal pandey was the leading figure of the movement. Earlier he was sepoy in Bengal native infantry. He got to know that Britishers are deliberately using beef fat in the cartridges given to hindus in British police force. This was such an event of betrayal for hindus serving in police forces that all of them rebelled against Britishers and it became a country wide phenomenon. It is known as first freedom movement 1857. Mangal pandey was hanged later in 1857 and his regiment was disbanded. What has changed since then? Tirupati devasthanam is one of the most sacred places for hindu and beef fat was mixed in sacred Prasadam. No hindu came on street. Ideally Hindus would have created a nation wide movement to bring our Devatas and temple out of government control immediately. Similarly indian hindus seeing everyday through social media what is happening with our brothers and sisters in Bangladesh? Still we are playing cricket with Bangladesh. We are cheering our cricket team who stood for BLM movement but they don’t give a damn for Bangladesh Hindus. Isn’t it strange that in the information age where we know what is happening across globe in real time but we are not acting even if our sacred devatas and temples being served beef fat mixed prasadam. Just imagine In 1857 how hard it would have been to spread this news and still hindus managed to create country wide agitation. What changed since then? I feel the fundamental reason is information galore. I heard a teenage guy in shark tank saying i will buy unacademy and byjus. It was misunderstood with confidence but it actually is utter nonsense. Information abundance made him speak random ambition without actually being ultra obsessed or passionate about it. This information abundance era is making us action-less and shit talkers. We see everything in realtime basis, we are busy listening, reading, watching everything all the time. We are not processing it, we don’t have time to internalise it. Lack of time is pushing us away from day to day rituals. Rituals bring action bias to human but disappearance of rituals is making us stop thinking and hence we are gonna stop acting or rather we already have stopped. We can’t obsessed with anything anymore. We don’t love the way we used to, we don’t hate the way we used to and we don’t build the way we used. Information age will create anxious generation. What next then? Are we doomed as a civilisation? My optimistic brain suggests good time creates weak, weak men creat bad times and bad times create strong men. Smoking used to be cool in 70s/80s now it is not cool anymore. Party was elite once but now we call them party animal. Consuming Information was cooler till last few years, now it is not. Stronger communities will be ritualistic. They will have a guru, they will be selective in terms of information consumption. They will be action biased than info consumption biased. They will choose a path and consciously become obsessed with it their whole life without any distraction. *Being ritualistic will be new cool*

[@KasDlonewolf]

Wonderfully written, I must say! Thank you for sharing! A return to orthodoxy will usher in a new era of transformation for our civilization! 🎉

[@Himanshu_Khichar]

If something like mixing beef in prasad had happened in North India, you'd have seen a much larger outrage and street action because Hindutva was born and is strongest in North India. Beef eating has been normalised in South India, in what possible world would there be street action against the use of beef in the prasad in that region? It's only because North India didn't fall to anti-Hindu forces that South is still has a semblance of having Hinduism present in its culture. South Indians and dhimmis pejoratively call us "cow belt", "bimaru", but at least cow reverence, which is an integral part of Sanatan Dharma is only protected because of North Indians. Although we are less materialistically developed than South India (which North Indians should aspire to overcome), we are at least proud that we have still protected our ancient Aryan culture, and let's be honest, it was *our* Vedic Sanskritic culture, North India is the epicentre of Sanatan Dharma, South India is just an extension of the that culture.

[@pagarbook2099]

@@Himanshu_Khichar I stay in banglore and i am from Bihar, studied in kota and jaipur for good 6-7 years i have seen north India decently. I am in Banglore since last 6 years. I don't think i agree with this North India is epicentre and south is extension. South indian are as sanatani and rooted for their culture as we north Indians are if not more. I feel it is not about who is more sanatani and who is less. It is more like restructuring has happened to our fundamental values like families and communities after 9091 and advent of cheap mobile and social media took it an ultimate level. Clueless loners we all are eating and shitting content day in day out. We have stopped thinking and we have become actionless across north south east west everywhere

[@singhskeptic5742]

British Philosopher John Gray has written a book "Straw Dogs" where he critiques the utophian faith in reason ,science and technology.He rejects the idea of human progress .Do read

[@keithhunt5328]

Amazing book for misanthropes and pessmists

[@arpanghosh9480]

Great

[@yajnavalkya9449]

It is perhaps time to bring in a book of Evola in this Bookmark series. Along with that, can you do a special episode in the style of the Bookmark series on (every chapter of) Manusmriti and, in the same episode, explain how different manuscripts of the same text (like the Northern and Southern versions of Vyasa's Mahabharata) are dealt with in the tradition?

[@reconquistahinduism346]

Manusmriti will and can invite troubles in today's day and age including shutting down the KZbin channel. No person wants to live in a casteist , racist and sexist world today.

[@Upword]

We will discuss Manusmriti in our other podcast - Dharma 101

[@yajnavalkya9449]

@@reconquistahinduism346 You say, "...No person wants to live in a casteist , racist and sexist world today..." . To which I reply, Dharma is not decided by what the majority wants. In other words, Dharma is not democratic. If let's say most Hindus today do not have a problem with making temples into tourist places, should we say that making temples into tourist places is right? No. Manusmriti is not racist since it primarily does not deal with "races" or ethnic groups (the four varna are not ethnic groups). Pre-modern Indian society was not racist. Is Manusmriti sexist? Yes, it is, in the sense that it discriminates between the genders and prescribes different gender roles and duties for men and women. And, that can be good and ethical (and discrimination is not necessarily a bad word). Pre-modern Indian society as well as present-day Indian society is also sexist in that sense. "Casteist" is a meaningless word used to slander people and texts whose views you don't like, in the same way "fascist" has become meaningless in present-day discourse and is used by left-liberals to slander their opponents or opposing views. Be more specific in what you wanted to convey, if anything meaningful, by the term "casteist".

[@reconquistahinduism346]

@@yajnavalkya9449 lol. Sugar coating and euphemism cannot escape racism in Manusmriti. Varnas like bullshit terms cannot impress anyone except for radical tiny fringe extremist anti constitution Hindus who ultimately will face legal punishments even severe if anyone complaints to police or the courts. There is NO scientific explanation of varnas whatsoever. The varnas were made purely to subjugate and perscute large groups of people at the hands of tiny number of Brahmins. In today's world there is NO scope for discrimination and supremacy on the basis of varnas. Varnas are unconstitutional and anything unconstitutional will NEVER be entertained in the court of law , in open public or private spaces because of pressure by media and judiciary. The only way you can implement manusmriti to some extent is ONLY in your personal spiritual life like marrying same caste partners or observing certain food taboos in your personal place. But the moment you enforce it on others , it will instantly be scrapped by the judiciary , bring bad name to India and only alienate 80% of Hindus who are actually moderate , liberal and forward looking especially the youth and women. People like you and Ashish Dhar are only tiny fringe who have no power at all in public or private sphere but only in your personal lives.

[@reconquistahinduism346]

@@yajnavalkya9449 @yajnavalkya9449 lol. Sugar coating and euphemism cannot escape racism in Manusmriti. Varnas like bullshit terms cannot impress anyone except for radical tiny fringe extremist anti constitution Hindus who ultimately will face legal punishments even severe if anyone complaints to police or the courts. There is NO scientific explanation of varnas whatsoever. The varnas were made purely to subjugate and perscute large groups of people at the hands of tiny number of Brahmins. In today's world there is NO scope of discrimination and supremacy on the basis of varnas. Varnas are unconstitutional and anything unconstitutional will NEVER be entertained in the court of law , in open public or private spaces because of pressure by media and judiciary. The only way you can implement manusmriti to some extent is ONLY in your personal spiritual life like marrying same caste partners or observing certain food taboos in your personal place. But the moment you enforce it on others , it will instantly be scrapped by the judiciary , bring bad name to India and only alienate 80% of Hindus who are actually moderate , liberal and forward looking especially the youth and women. People like you and Ashish Dhar are only tiny fringe who have no power at all in public or private sphere but only in your personal lives.

[@Anubhavsengupta1902]

Sir you should make a video on the amazing and 💯% Scientific way Gautam Buddha was born,how her Mother Maha Maya dreamed of an white Elephant and then it entered inside her womb and then Gautam Buddha was born!,that video is needed Specially for all the Neo Buddheists in Bharat who always talk about logic and science but just to make fun and disrespect Hinduism,that video is needed!🚩🕉️

[@HariChera]

Do not entertain them

[@yajnavalkya9449]

Stop commenting on various videos pleading others to demean the Buddhist sect. Buddhists generally are not our enemy (see the podcast with Pankaj Saxena on this channel to know why). Members of the Navayana cult (I don't know whether most of them even believe in karma and rebirth which are at the foundation of Buddhist cosmology) are not the only ones that self-identify as Buddhists. Many people in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Japan, etc. are Buddhists too. There are many stories in the astika sects of the Hindu religion similar to the one that you are asking Upword to make a video on. If you need a video, ask Upword to make a one on Navayana separately.

[@rameshv5]

AIDA = Attention, Interest, Desire, and Action - the cycle through which advertising influences buying behavior.

[@AutoKay]

Great discussion team. If I want to add a book by Haidth to my reading list which one should I start with. I have read taleb and I like his work, but the way he writes is very tangential and some references to France and other countries I don't get. Haidth seems better, which one to pick?

[@Upword]

We recommend 'The Righteous Mind' as that is arguably his most important work.

[@AutoKay]

@@Upword already half way through! Thanks for the reco What an eye opener

[@prahlada2616]

Please get nityanand mishra to upclose with upword...of the people on youtube, you guys can churn out some meaningful content with him💪💪

[@binaymishra222]

Interesting

[@sahilxd11]

Acha hai Australia government ne ban kar diya social media minors ke lea

[@cokedupnormies2651]

56:38 dont forget zero dangers in school. It hurts men more. This is why girls score higher in CBSE it is not something we should beag about it.

[@SaiyyadInnayaYassir]

Wht are u discussing Saar 🤔r doing wht uk 🇬🇧pm told while hindu argue on finance other plan 📝an action 🎬day.... See 👀 Bangladesh🇧🇩 Manipur era 2046 and also ur tirupati. I guess hindu 🤔hv lost sense of survival instinct. It's inheritance of sinking ship 🚢

[@cokedupnormies2651]

You have lost your agency the day you adopted your Jewish religion. Care about hindu agency so much? Then toh yahoodpan tyaago Sanatan apnao. Simple.