Random, incoherent ramblings.
There is only one kind of mindset that moves society forward - the one of an artist.
Actors, musicians, writers, and all the like, quite obviously qualify. But good scientists play the same way. Good businessmen have all at one point been artful.
What entails this mindset is the drive to follow through on their ideas with bravado.
The boring movie disclaimer,
This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental.
can be traced back to Rasputin.
What is the phenomenon of people wanting something but then not showing up called?
For instance, movie studios after all the cry of dying theaters just eventually end up releasing movies on streaming platforms instead. We are stuck in a vicious cycle - studios don’t release in theaters because people don’t go; people don’t go to theaters because studios release on streaming.
Indian pedagogy is culturally submissive. The Guru-Shishya dynamic has such a strong grip on headspace. In the West, I’ve always sensed that students operate with a far more sense of agency whereas I have operated with a sense of submissive confidence.
Cricket is probably the only sport which has a formalized lunch break.