The only principle that truly runs this world, created by all of us, is the principle of greed and power. What do you think that fellow has earned his billions for? He didn't become a politician to be noble. The only thing that separates us from animals is the intellect, not the center the intellect is operated from. Don't locate the problem and the responsibility somewhere out there. We change ourselves; the world changes.
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Questioner: Pleasure to meet you, sir. So my question is: as an engineering graduate in IIT, you’ll probably end up, let’s say, in a tech firm, a VC-funded entrepreneurship, or civil services. But nowadays, with all the recent news we are getting, all the top bosses here, or let’s say the ‘masters’ here, are probably doing very depraved acts, as mentioned in the Epstein files. You take VCs like Peter Thiel or like Bill Gates, everyone like that.
So how does one justify contributing one’s intelligence and labor into a system that ultimately feeds such vulgarity? How do we handle the feeling of having blood on our hands? And any scenario other than outright rebellion feels like being compliant with the extreme vulgarity that is taking place. Right?
So as somebody who’s probably going to end up in the workforce in a couple of years, how do I deal with this mental thought? Because the system in itself is extremely depraved.
Acharya Prashant: You get the question? What he’s saying is: in recent years, in fact, recent decades, we have had a series of scandals exposed, the latest one pertaining to these Epstein files. He’s saying, he studies here, and then he would be picked up by a tech firm or a consulting firm or some kind of management, or he would proceed for his MBA or MS or UPSC too, he mentioned. He’s saying, but it doesn’t matter where I go, now the skeletons are all tumbling out of the cupboard, and it seems my bosses would all be very deprived of character. That’s the word he used, depravity.
