The first generation with money buys property, the second buys experiences, the third buys time, and an Indian family usually has all three generations at the same table calling the other two wasteful.
Your father cannot see the point of a holiday that leaves nothing behind. You cannot see the point of a fourth plot in a town nobody will live in. Neither of you is being irrational, you are pricing things differently because you grew up with different quantities of them and risk, security and purpose have differing meanings to you.
A few centuries ago, the King of Spain could definitely afford better entertainment than you. Now, there is no better movie he can watch than the same movie everyone else is watching.
The democratization of entertainment, thanks to technology.
Indian parents will not praise you to your face but will boast about you to strangers, and both halves are deliberate. Direct praise is withheld because it tempts fate and strengthens your bargaining position inside the house, while third-party boasting captures the status without paying you any of it. Children grow up knowing their worth exists but is held in an account they cannot access.
Careful not to misread Nolan’s message here. Agamemnon’s armor in The Odyssey is deliberately oversized and exaggerated because he represents human ego, ready to sacrifice absolutely everything for personal gain. He is Nolan’s symbol of what destroys humanity.
George Orwell worried that a shrinking vocabulary would eventually produce a shrinking range of thought.
It is difficult to think a nuanced thought with a blunt language.
Bad mileage?
Your calculations are wrong, go to service centre!
Bad AQI?
Your meters are wrong, go to a weather station.
Bad water?
Throw that TDS meter. Go to jal board office to test the quality.
Bad governance?
What nonsense?? See Pakistan.
one of the most perfect example of the female gaze (a vision, possibility, etc) vs the male gaze (literally what their eyes see) i have ever seen and it was delivered by *checks notes* a random photo dump by charles leclerc on twitter dot com