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Śrīkānta Kṛṣṇamācārya
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My favorite has to be a relatively obscure film from 1979 - Manzil

Amitabh plays a Micawber-ish character suffused with an entrepreneurial spirit, who struggles to make ends meet

A great film that highlights how well meaning people are often hobbled in low-trust societies
Amitabh in the film has a lot of energy. A great deal of ambition

But he is hobbled by an ecosystem that refuses to co-operate with him

He cannot get people to do things. He cannot enforce contracts.

These are the travails of a low trust society
Here's the film available on youtube

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Śrīkānta Kṛṣṇamācārya
@shrikanth_krish
We should not link personal habits/morality with interpretation of scripture

Nearly all commentators on Brahma Sutra (including Shankara and Ramanuja) defended animal sacrifice in the limited context of a Vedic Yajna

Though it is v v likely Shankara / Ramanuja were vegetarians
There is no doubt that an ethical argument against animal sacrifice has animated the HIndu world for at least 2500 years

And that ethical argument did not always merely stem from the two nAstika maThas, but often from within the Astika fold
While this ethical argument did have an impact of making animal sacrifice less frequent and less prevalent (outside of the Shakta traditions), it was never positioned as a repudiation of the Vedic scripture
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@shrikanth_krish
A factoid from David Reich (regret picking him up so late)

Almost every non-African has some Neanderthal ancestry (max 2%)

0% in sub-saharan Africa

Yet though Neanderthal zone was mostly Europe, modern Europeans have less Neanderthal ancestry (1.5%)

Other non-Africans at ~2%
This inter-breeding happened roughly 40-50K yrs ago in Near East and not Europe, as per Reich, soon after the early migration out of Africa of modern Humans

Soon after moving out, they met Neanderthals in the Near East, their long lost cousins who had left Africa 500K+ years ago
But Reich also believes the Neanderthal inheritance today is lower than it perhaps ought to have been because of natural selection

i.e.

The early hybrids of Neanderthals and modern Humans had lower fertility as compared to the rest of modern Humans
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Śrīkānta Kṛṣṇamācārya
@shrikanth_krish
A board that highlights all that is wrong with urban South Indian culture

This is how you shrink ambition in society - a culture where kids turn jaded and decadent by the time they reach youth (sometimes earlier)
Now a clarification -

I don't think it is wrong to push kids hard from a young age

What's wrong is to benchmark them against each other, without an absolute standard to aspire to
When the culture is competitive, you shrink your ambition. You judge yourself on a relative scale

The great John Stuart Mill in the 19th century, who had a remarkable tutor in his father, warned against "competitive" education in his autobiography
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