Acharya Prashant: Evil is not some humongous monster, evil is small and helpless things like these. These small and helpless things get together in millions and take the shape of a huge creature.
One person is lost and senseless and directionless is pitiable. An entire institute offering MBA degrees full of lost and senseless persons becomes an attractive destination. It is no more pitiable, it is attractive. If there is just one person who wants socks with a thousand holes, then that person will be declared a lunatic. But, if there are a million persons who want socks with a thousand holes, governments will create policies to have an entire industry catering to this huge market. Evil lies in the great number of small people.
What you are saying right now is very obviously stupid to everybody here because you are alone. Had this been a batch of graduating MBAs from some premier MBA institution, you would have shouted me out of this room. And that’s what you will do two years later. Then, do you know who would be sitting here? Some stupid HR person, of some marketing company or ad agency, and the whole occasion would appear very very solemn—a bunch of 200 graduating MBAs eager to present their credentials to the HR person of a promising firm.
On its own, stupidity is so feeble; that it can be crushed very easily. But because stupidity is feeble it knows one thing- it must gather numbers. So, it forms huge organizations, and colonies, where all the stupid ones can stick around, and then they are very difficult to tackle.
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