What Makes a Culture: An Indian Case Study with Jayant Bhandari

Jayant Bhandari joins David Gornoski and Surit Dasgupta for a conversation on the sausage making of culture, corruption in Indian society, the anthropological roots of tyranny, how to build a high trust society, and more.

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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
2:27 Mr Bhandari's background
10:14 Surit's background, materialism in India
13:37 Indian medical system
16:48 British influence and where backwardness begins
19:04 Disastrous COVID response
23:28 Bullying mindset
25:16 Police brutality, encounter killings
26:40 Absence of habeas corpus
29:06 Addicted to chaos and stress
32:28 Failure in understanding diet
33:32 Genetics, religion, civilization
40:00 Spineless aggression
41:41 What would you tell an Indian boy?
47:59 Doing business with Indians
50:53 Indian economic growth is a myth
51:39 Politically correct view of Indian
55:21 What is truth?
56:47 Indians in Canada
58:34 Christianity
1:03:27 Unwillingness to change
1:04:34 Modi
1:05:09 "Don't give up hope"
1:06:30 Busting egalitarian myths, pursuing truth
1:11:15 America must be an example for liberty