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Everybody is a Hypocrite | Aieysha Ann Mathew | TEDxMACE


I think I’m gonna fart really a serious

faces of creeping me out but anyways um

I tell you what my type is I want to ask

you questions okay right the snap-in

knowledge it’s a yes or no question okay

um if it’s a yes okay if it’s an or

don’t move question one how many of you

dislike hypocrites raise your hand

great everybody second question how many

of you are hypocrites okay you have a

lot of courage just very few people but

you have a lot of kind of tracing wrap

so I’m here today proves you that

everybody is a hypocrite so you’re not

leaving the spoon until you realize that

you’re a hypocrite okay so let’s begin

what is hypocrisy longingly one of the

few people who strongly believed that

everybody is a hypocrite defined

hypocrisy through a formula hypocrisy is

equal to belief – action the degree of

hypocrisy is equivalent to the value of

the difference between your belief and

actions you can say that if you want to

sound smart but in simple words

hypocrisy um means if your beliefs are

not congruent to your actions you’re a

hypocrite okay I can give you

innumerable examples of how disgustingly

hypocritical we are on a daily basis but

since I have very limited time I will

give you just a few situations that are

prominent in the society

well place those situations in front of

you I want you to think and ask yourself

if you are one of those people that I’m

talking about here we go

prostitution so if a prostitute passes

you by you give them the death stare you

stare at them like they are not normal

people that’s okay that’s totally fine

they’re not normal people normal people

are privileged with choices they are not

in Asia children at the age of 10 are

sold to men by their parents in India

children at the age of 12 to 15 are

abused manhandled drugged so that they

will not escape this profession they

crave for the privileges that we take

for granted like education so if a girl

enters an institution I’m saying that

she wants to study there and bhaijaan’s

mentions that she was once a prostitute

do you think the institution will allow

her to study there if the institution

allows her in do you think the Society

will be okay with that

you might know all of this you might

know that um prostitutes don’t have a

choice and you might claim that you

would give them the respect and equality

they justly deserve but will you really

will you talk to a prostitute in a

public place will you sit next to a

prostitute in church will you be okay

with your children

talking to them or sitting next to them

we are taught when we were young that

it’s not okay to judge we preach to our

friends that they have no right to judge

us we tell a little children that it’s

wrong to judge it’s a sin to judge

others but don’t we judge we’re actually

waiting to judge for not willing to be

judged and that is hypocrisy right there

Donald Trump you know him very

interesting personality okay so he’s

dead that a woman who commits oppression

is a murderer and um and she must be

punished as that of a murderer

we all know that abortion is wrong it’s

well inappropriate but have you ever

thought of the pain and struggle that a

woman goes through when she reaches that

decision have you ever thought that

maybe out of the number of tribulations

that she goes to maybe abortion might

have been her best option have you ever

for a moment put yourself in her shoes

and felt the fear and agony that she

feels you must feel that Donald Trump is

a moral man he is filled with integrity

you must feel that way that’s great if

you don’t know the fact that this is the

same man who lit the cuold autistic

children and imitated mutated minute

okay mimicked a handicapped

reporter as a matter of a joke during a

conference you know cuz cuz it’s fun but

at the end of the day we’re all Donald

Trump’s the actual difference between

ours and Donald Trump is that he is

being watched and we are not if our

actions were watched and our statements

were recorded you realize that we’re

just like him or even was so marking on

hating Donald Trump is like hitting

ourselves so if you all were famous if

you are famous and you make a statement

in the public and you makes it into the

public and by chance

unfortunately or fortunately you are

found contradicting that statement with

your action you will end up being the

most hated person on social media people

are going to make fun emails about you

people are going to lift you up and

ridicule you to criticize the society so

my advice is that um we should all steer

clear from positions of authority you

we the word brave brings along the rage

it brings a lot of anger that’s great

cuz it’s disgusting it’s pathetic it’s

depressing

but the funniest thing is the hilarious

thing is that what actually happens

there is no one there no one to protect

or fight for the gun but when the damage

is done

people are nowhere come together and

there’s little performance you know like

writing big statuses on Facebook

changing profile pictures to black

conducting um debates on it I still

remember the time when I have to write a

300 words essay on the Delhi gang-rape

oh I shall here’s an I said you just

just write about it

if these protests actually helped if it

actually made a difference these

protests up the girl instead really

brought change then 29 year old Isha and

23 year old which saw me I wish turnout

would still be alive you might say that

if you were there things would be

different you might say that if you were

there caught in the scene or you you see

this girl being raped you would fight

for her well screw you that’s what they

all say tell me that you would would not

be terrified at the sight of it tell me

you will not be that and run for your

life and be afraid tell me that you

wouldn’t freeze and you wouldn’t know

exactly what to do you tell me all that

and I will tell you that you are a

tea is drowning in hypocrisy and we are

going along with it so beautifully like

a dead fish so when you deconstruct the

concept of hypocrisy it’s the little

things we do every day you’re on a daily

basis those moments when we contradict

ourselves with our actions and then it

builds up to something so big and

unstoppable

yes hypocrisy is unstoppable because we

live in a society and as long as we

continue to be a part of that society we

will always be hypocrites see when our

surroundings change our beliefs our

actions our thoughts change along with

it that’s basically how we evolved so

being a hypocrite is actually being

human but don’t get me wrong on all the

bad qualities of bad habits like

possessiveness greediness selfishness

laziness

if a christy is the ugliest thing that

you can wear and there are some who are

more epic ratan the others some being

90% and the others being 10% so even

though our hypocrisy is unstoppable does

not mean it can’t be reduced to a large

extent so how do we reduce hypocrisy

look at this clean screen very closely

okay I want you to read aloud can you

can you see that up for me lovely

okay so you can see you know cuz it’s

not sweat or anything so yeah it’s

actually beyond a s each letter

represents something so um I would like

to rearrange the alphabet just for now

okay it’s actually bras so just for now

I’m gonna rearrange to be on si mainly

because I want you to come in the end

cuz I have a soft corner for it and I

want to save the best for the last

so that’s not would be um B stands for

brutal honesty

brutal honesty so how do I explain this

to you don’t have it the already honesty

is really difficult and being brutal

about it makes these worse

brutal honesty simply means that start

prompt to what you believe in even if it

offends the other brutal honesty does

not mean being cruel but to say things

as it is without adding garam masala to

it right so how do you be brutally

honest let me give you one a simple

example is my butt fat yes yes it is if

it’s brutal if it’s if it’s bad you tell

me it’s that right you tell me yes yes

it’s bad if if I ask you for old you

tell me I’m old yeah yes you look old

and no cream is going to fix that Ayesha

that’s how you be brutally honest that’s

a little thing let’s you start with the

silly examples that I gave you okay

now here’s an interesting thing that you

must know our society does not promote

brutal honesty it promotes the exact

opposite lies lies lies like um dark

skin is beautiful

this lie to us that dark skin is

beautiful and then invented a cream

court fair and lovely and

we go dark and lovely does not exist

okay right and the in light was that um

everybody is beautiful in appearance and

made sure that only specific specific

people are worthy enough to be in the

front cover of Vogue or Femina or to be

models skinny skinny people not healthy

skinny all right mmm teach yourself

the act of brutal honesty so that you

can be true to others and most

importantly true to yourself have you

realized why society lies to us they lie

to us

the society lies to us because we like

we lie every day that it bill stops um

builds up to something so big that it

affects the society so why do we lie we

lie because we are people pleasers it’s

okay to be peer pleasing people that’s

fine until you lose your entire

personality by making the other live a

lie so like I said teachers at the act

of brutal honesty so that you can be

true to others and most importantly true

to yourself learn it and you’re sure to

stand out because you possess that one

trait that most of us lack all right

next is our right on stance toward

reserve your judgment okay so there are

two types of judgmental people we are

most likely to fall under both one day

your type one next to your type to the

other day you’re both of them

simultaneously so what is type one type

one are those people who talk about

things they have zero experience about

okay they are often known as opinion

races they like to give their opinions

or pass judgments on everybody you know

even though they have zero knowledge

about them or any subject to a pure

smart

are to be intelligent to look

intelligent or write gossipers usually

fall in this category so here’s my

advice to all the type one present here

to be intelligent or if you want to be

intelligent you have to possess a trait

of an intelligent person that is knowing

where to shut up to be wise you need to

talk less because a wise man once said

nothing type to okay so these are the

people who have a particular bad quality

and when that same bad quality is found

on somebody else they mock them hate

them ridicule them even though they have

it within themselves right liars who

hate other liars disliking hypocrites

when you’re hypocrites yourself I think

we’re all type 2 today so here’s my

advice to type 2 including me don’t

point at the dust in your brother’s eye

when you haven’t taken out the dog in

yours it’s from the Bible read it once

in a while okay yes sure

don’t tell showdown – lets it’s right

there I don’t think I need to explain

that but it simply means this don’t tell

me that you’re passionate about

something show me don’t tell me that you

have a wonderful personality

show me instead in our society there’s a

lot of talking and less doing what we

need is more playing and less talking

right so it yeah it is my favorite okay

so when I found out that I was a

hypocrite

how did I find that out so I was sitting

isolated in a corner and thinking about

how to destroy planet Earth and then I

would suddenly struck me that I

hypocrite I was so disgusted at myself

and I want to change so badly so it is

what I did a stands for awareness to be

aware that you’re a hypocrite

it simply means know that you are

imperfect to know that you are filled

with flaws to know that you are in no

authority to judge and only god can

judge and when you get that point of

realization you become conscious of what

you see and what you do and when you

realize those you make you find that you

begin beyond being a hypocrite and then

you become guilty and then you make an

effort to change and that is when you’re

truly aware and when you’re truly aware

you spread the awareness you tell

everybody and anybody that they are

hypocrites that’s exactly what I’m doing

right now okay so that’s the entire

concept of a oh if you haven’t done any

of these four methods then

congratulations you are among the 90% of

the majority of the population who are

big fat hypocrites if you don’t want to

be among the 90 you change now

stop now if you’re gone to all of that I

suggest you do all of it but you can’t

order that take at least one of the

methods and put it really close to your

heart and act on it every day so that

you’re on the verge to be a better human

being a human being that the society

desperately trust me desperately needs

so I’m gonna have to control now with

question okay how many of you would call

yourself a hypocrite and dare and have

the nerve to make it effort to change

thank you you

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