How to be a Rational Thinker - Syed Muzammil Shah - Journalism and the Media -

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Syed Muzammil Shah is a Journalist and a Content Creator. Muzammil comes on The Pakistan Experience to discuss Arshad Sharif's murder, Sadaf Naeem's death, the DG ISI Press Conference, the Long March, Nietzsche, Muzammil's journey, Philosophy, Rationality and the Youth.

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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:15 Arshad Sharif's Murder
7:30 State-friendly Journalists realizing their mistakes
13:30 DG ISI/ISPR Press Conference
23:00 Sadaf Naeem's murder and Channel 5
31:30 Fascism and the Imran Khan phenomenon
42:45 Personal transformation from reading Zaid Hamid
48:30 How did he become such a staunch rationalist?
50:00 Nietzsche
59:30 How Narrative is Built in Society
1:01:20 Ways to decrease extermism
1:04:10 Ten Major Necessary Steps Pakistan needs to take
1:06:50 Individualism and Post-modernism
1:13:15 South Punjab
1:16:00 Youth
1:18:30 How to challenge the powerful
1:21:20 Civil Society of Pakistan
1:22:40 Indic Philosophies
1:25:30 Politics; Mohsin Dawar vs Manzoor Pashteen
1:29:00 Biases and Prejudices
1:32:10 Asymmetry in Pakistani Politics
1:33:50 Equal vote vs equal opinion
1:35:20 Decline of populism in the developed world
1:36:00 Pakistan; fault lines and nation-building
1:40:22 Which political party is the lesser evil
1:43:20 Moraliy
1:44:10 Punjabis and Privilege
1:47:40 Current State of Journalism and role of Ordinary Pakistanis
1:53:56 Turning Point in Life
1:56:00 Revolution
1:56:00 Journalism and Journalists
1:58:40 Nihilism
2:00:00 The Why