Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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30 published records
01 / uncertainty
“I don’t know. That’s what I grew up with. We got all the music and movies 10 years after you have them.”
02 / belief
“I think India is one of the countries where communism is still a popular thing, not something that people will shirk from, but Indian communism is not that great.”
03 / belief
“In my view, her book, Ants Among Elephants, is one of the most important of this year.”
04 / belief
“There is some extra genetic thing that we inherit from castes. I think that people’s body language can easily tell which caste you are.”
05 / belief
“I would say Marxism is a worldview, and Marxism looks at the world in terms of class, like feminists looks at the world as men and women, and religious people look at the world as Christians and non-Christians, and Marxists look at people as workers and capitalists.”
06 / belief
“I think that beggars there, it’s a new thing for people to beg, so they don’t really know how to beg.”
07 / belief
“I would say that all the restaurants on Sixth Avenue, like at St. Mark’s, they are all trash.”
08 / uncertainty
“I was shocked to learn it’s now the L Line. I don’t know why they did that. For me, that’s very confusing.”
09 / uncertainty
“I know it’s not perfect, but they’re better in these two countries. I don’t know much about North Korea.”
10 / uncertainty
“I don’t know. She wanted us to go to school and get educated. They’re against humanities.”
11 / commitment
“If foreigners ask me, I will say I’m from India. But if Indians ask me, I have to say which state and what caste.”
12 / belief
“If I think back in time a bit, people in the United States, they’re very familiar with the apartheid system of South Africa.”
13 / belief
“I think that in the guise of feminism, people are really putting restrictions on individual liberty.”
14 / commitment
“Yeah, because I will alienate people. People read this book and they think that “Oh, she’s automatically going to be a feminist.”
15 / uncertainty
“I don’t know. When I was arrested, she was very worried. She said, “I wish I could take you back into my womb.”
16 / belief
“One, you worked in the financial sector for the Bank of New York for a while, I believe until 2009.”
17 / uncertainty
“Mother Teresa—I don’t know what her grand scheme was, but she really did a lot of good things in India.”
18 / belief
“I was optimistic about that in that sense. I think that, yeah, things can happen to make this country better.”
19 / belief
“By the way, I think that the French are still lying on the laurels of French Revolution.”
20 / uncertainty
“In India, I don’t know for whom it’s developing, but for the majority of people, it’s going down.”
21 / preference
“” I don’t know. I like to be a good coworker rather than a good conductor.”
22 / preference
“I like writing nonfiction but only the kind of issues that I have, which involves enthusiastic storytellers like my family and centered around an issue—for example, the farmers’ suicide in India.”
23 / evaluation
“Because I don’t really identify with the crowd there. I think hipsters is just in clothes and stuff, but not in attitude.”
24 / prediction
“I think that there’s some special geological, geographical, climatic conditions that necessitated for some caste system to be there, to division of labor because if land is .”
25 / evaluation
“She has everything that she wants, and now she desires desiring. Because there’s nothing else to desire for her, she’s depressed now.”
26 / observation
“Some hide behind culture, but some others openly say that this is Brahmin American Association, and if you want to join the Facebook page, you have to tell their shibboleths like what’s your gotra, what’s your this, what’s your horoscope, this, that. We’re not able to tell them because we don’t know what .”
27 / evaluation
“People are just dying because they have to have minimum balance in the bank, and they don’t know how to open bank accounts, and their money is taken away.”
28 / prediction
“I will say this: Everybody is dying to know whether I got into university because of reservations.”
29 / evaluation
“I can’t think of anything, but I used to think all old people that are by themselves, going around by themselves, are like beggars because old women don’t go out by themselves.”
30 / evaluation
“I thought Christian brotherly love is the way to emancipation of all oppression in the world. But when I grew up and I saw in churches people being discriminated—rich people and poor people in church—I thought, I don’t know what Jesus is going to do in the other world, but nothing is happening now.”