Of God-Men and Otherwise

A question posed to me by a friend who is equally Socratic as me...

"So his (Sadhguru) fans are people who fall for over simplification, generalizations, and naive or gullible by charisma or certain desirable personality traits, etc ...  They should  read more science, find time to look at it from other possible angles, and verify/ validate the scientific claims and statistics.... Is that a solution to have an improved world order u reckon?"

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And my idealist/pessimistic (Whichever way you'd like to see it.) answer was:

Too much to ask of people if I say so myself...And the above are reasons why we progressed from the dark ages...And if you ask me...People did fall for over simplification, generalizations, and naive or gullible by charisma or certain desirable personality traits, etc. in regimes that eventually turned dictatorships/generally oppressive..

Can't blame the people though...In their dreams to journey to self-actualization from the lowest tier of Maslow's hierarchy, it's human nature to lose sight of progression when promised a fast-track way to the highest hanging fruit...Everyone wants the best for themselves...And in the shortest time possible...There is a reason why the Travelling Salesman problem is an algorithm we're taught in college..:P

It is a Utopian expectation for an improved world, but then who expected all to think the same...just that I have my fingers crossed that the minority turns into a majority..and until then...people like "Sad"guru, Ravi Sankar, and others shall persist...

Because they capitalize on Hope...And Hope is a drug that can be sold...

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