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By blaming the society, don't we hide our own evils | Acharya Prashant, on 'The Fountainhead' (2019)
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Maya
Prakrti
Conditioning
Collectivism
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Individualism
Tradition
Description

Acharya Prashant addresses the tendency of individuals to blame society for their lack of freedom and creativity, particularly in fields like music and architecture. He explains that society is not an external entity but is composed of individuals like ourselves. When we blame professors or authorities for being traditional or orthodox, we fail to see that we are equally clinging to the past through our own attachments and conditioning. He emphasizes that the real enemy is not society, but the fundamental tendencies of the human brain and nature, which he refers to as Maya or Prakrti. We are all victims of the same evolutionary conditioning that seeks security in the past.