The sense of incompletion that propels a young professional to book a flight to a destination he has already mentally photographed, to build a house with rooms that will rarely be used; this is not a rational economic decision. It is the ego’s oldest and most relentless reflex: I am insufficient as I am; adding, acquiring, displaying will resolve the insufficiency.
https://sundayguardianlive.com/feature/the-climate-without-the-hunger-within-179897/amp/https://sundayguardianlive.com/feature/the-climate-without-the-hunger-within-179897/amp/
#climatechange #acharyaprashant
The Climate Without, The Hunger Within
The climate crisis reflects not just emissions, but the ego driving humanity’s destructive behaviors.
The #EV is only one expression of a more fundamental error: the belief that the climate crisis is an external problem, amenable to external solutions, and that the internal condition of the person driving the machine is simply not a relevant variable. This is not a philosophical position. It is what evidence demonstrates once the lens is widened beyond the tailpipe.
https://dailypioneer.com/news/charged-but-unchanged-the-ev-delusion
#AcharyaPrashant
Charged, but Unchanged: The EV Delusion
Charged, but Unchanged: The EV Delusion
If you fight the wrong battle, isn't victory worse than defeat? There is no success in chasing a foolish goal and managing to attain it.
Self-love is not about feeling good, but about being ruthlessly true to oneself.
Self-awareness is self-love, self-indulgence is self-deception.
#Truth rarely feels good. It cuts. It exposes. It demolishes
#comfort.
Speaking on AI, he presented an uncomfortable truth- if machines can replicate our functions, it suggests that much of what we call “intelligence” is merely pattern repetition. In such a rapidly changing world, the only way to stay ahead is for education to focus not on chasing external change, but on connecting the individual to oneself. He emphasised that without this, education remains incomplete.
In his address, he raised the most fundamental question about education- what is the system really producing? He clarified that the issue is not the failure of the education system, but its limited direction. Redefining the idea of the “unknown,” he said that the real unknown is not the external world, technology, or the future, but the human being herself- and the irony is that neither society, nor family, nor education equips her to understand herself.
