3 Idiots Vlog

[Kassim Sin]

I spent most of my life believing that. During my early 20s, I lived in the skeptic blogosphere, a mid-2000s constellation of internet communities theoretically organized around highly charismatic bloggers, vloggers, and other intellectuals. In practice, however, these groups were centered on a more basic principle: hostility toward anyone and anything it deemed "irrational." It was then and is still now a very white, male, and defensive place.

It was there that I developed a deep antipathy toward the anti-vaccination movement. It wasn't that I knew they were wrong about vaccines. It was more than that. I believed myself intellectually and morally superior to those people, and I reinforced that belief each time I left a comment or watched a vlog or republished a snarky article on the subject. I mastered a face, a kind of appalled, disapproving look for any time anybody even broached the subject of vaccine skepticism.

So at first we built a platonic friendship. We spent time together. We bonded over our mutual interest in dancing. I had known her for more than a year the first time she mentioned that her daughter was not vaccinated.

Well, no. I did what most people did: opted for cognitive dissonance. I decided it wasn't worth getting into a fight over, that she could be my friend and have weird opinions about vaccines at the same time. Even as she broke up with her partner, and I broke up with mine, and we found ourselves spending a lot of time together, I ignored the issue. The subject of vaccines came up once or twice over dinners, but so what? I could see she loved and cared deeply for her daughter. She was someone I admired and respected and was beginning to love. Vaccines didn't get in the way.

This is the beating heart of any real discussion about anti-vaxxers. It's impossible to understand their position without considering the amount of fear that goes into the anti-vaccine narrative, and considering how people construct and deal with fear.

For people who don't share their fear, it's very easy and convenient to demand that anti-vaxxers just suck it up and take the shot. I wish they would, too. But we'll never get there by bullying them, by insulting and demeaning them and refusing to take the fact of their fear seriously, even if there isn't much that's serious in its content.

But when I did, I realized that from her perspective, all of my confrontational reasoning sounded like me asking to point a gun at her daughter and have her trust that it was full of blanks. Looking into her eyes, I realized her trust in me was threatened. She asked why I would do that to a child. All of my insistence that vaccines are safe didn't matter. Go tell arachnophobic parents that you must put spiders on their child because society depends on it, and see how that goes. The benefits of getting the shot, expressed in the abstract, simply could not overpower the immediate, disarming fear.

If you've come to believe that vaccines are dangerous, then anti-vax behavior follows almost rationally. If we want to reach these people, dismissing their logic as ridiculous or fringe is the worst strategy. It plays right into the anti-vaccination narrative: that they are the "only sane ones," warning the careless masses about a very real and hidden danger.

My point isn't that the anti-vaxxers might be right. They're not. My point is that once you believe something untrue, it's very easy to keep rationalizing that belief. It's very easy to dismiss your critics as shortsighted. And when you're constantly attacked, it's natural to make your resilience part of your identity, to become even more committed to maintaining it.

Back when my wife and I were just friends, I met her sister a couple of times. She is a very pleasant, completely agreeable, and naturally sociable person. I really had no reason to be anything less than friendly to her. Then my wife told me that her sister is a naturopath who studied the toxic effects of vaccines "extensively."

A lack of personal investment is, as it happens, what led to my wife's initial rejection of vaccines: She had a very unfortunate run-in with a complacent MD in her late teens, while she was going through a lot of pain physically and mentally.

She got out with a prescription and an unshakable feeling that this doctor, and his clinic, and the government that paid for his services, did not care at all about her concerns, her needs, and her fears. That she was a problem that could be solved with a couple of pills. That the fear she had felt for her sanity was not respected, not even considered. That the solution to her drug problem was more drugs.

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Saale, main hawai jahaaz choddke aaya hu. Ye apni pant chodd ke aaya hai. Sirf Rancho se milne ke liye. 5 saal se hum usko dhoond rahe hai, zinda hai ki mar gya, nhi pata. Aur tujhe kya lagta hai, teri ye fuddu si shart ke liye yahaan aayega?

Aaj uss kamine Rancho ke liye izzat aur bhi badh gyi. Hum sab college sirf degree paane ke liye jaate the, degree nhi hogi toh naukri nhi milegi, naukri nhi hogi toh koi baap apni beti nhi dega, bank credit card nhi degi, duniya respect nhi degi, lekin wo saala college degree ke liye nhi, sirf padhne ke liye aaya tha. Usse naa last aane ka darr tha. Na first aane ka laalach.

This, right here, is the reason Rancho topped in the college, because he had nothing to lose. It was easy for him to be fearless, but he tried his best that his friends too learn this art to be carefree.

This, I believe, is the most inspiring scene in the whole film. About a year back, I had got an accident, when I received a big shock regarding something, and throughout my recovery period, I watched this scene several times, while chanting Aal Izz Well to my heart. It gave me power to return to school and face certain people and situations, without losing my self respect.

To have such an amazing cast on board, and to make them fit their roles perfectly, Rajkumar Hirani went to extreme measures. Omi Vaidya was called in from US for not a big pay check to play the role of Chatur. Though Omi wanted to watch some Bollywood films and learn some Hindi, he was strictly asked not to. The director wanted him to be as clueless about the language as his character is, else how do you expect Mutra Visarjan to sound as funny as it did?

It turns 10 this year, but this movie can never get out of date, at least not until the education system in India changes. 3 idiots will always be known as a classic, which can never be forgotten. Movies come and go, but very few stay the way this does!

Ohh! I think there is a particular area dedicated in my mind where the movie is kept. And everytime i see it, any scene any moment the rainbow memory cells in care of it just lights up as the first time!

I am totally agree with you on the only one misleading part i find too in the movie. That chatur things. But again I see that the director very cleverly put the extreme teachers day plan to occur as Rancho sees chatur delivers distracting magazines to rooms to clear up competitors! This is a good reason to now doing something on him. But doesnot cover the method and misleading messages generated by it. That it is normal to bully rag or humiliate when following any cause.

?your simplex review. All the feelings with the film became live one more time at the time of reading it? and re-intensifying it more. I am from bangladesh by the way and have the original screenplay of it on my wishlist since i saw it in amazon.

At the beginning of the movie, Farhan received a call while his plane is taking-off. He act like having a heart attack by stands up and falls immediately. After the plane lands, all turn into comedy, he runs away from airport workers. Oh, that call was calling from Chatur (Omi Vaidya), who claims that he found their long lost friends, Rancho (Aamir Khan). After that, Farhan calls his best friends in previous uni life, Raju (Sharman Joshi). Farhan pick up Raju and then rush to meet Rancho. However, Rancho was not there. Chatur lie and gathered them at there for the reason to show about his achievement among this 10 years. He reveals that he really did find Rancho in Shimla. While the characters are driving through stunning landscapes, Farhan remembers the uni years, and we get a look at how the entire story began.

At last, I would like to emphasise the positive sides of the movie. Rancho, Farhan and Raju (3 idiots) who are struggling to reach their goals under great pressure. They give me a big map on how can we realise our dream and insist on our dreams. From this movie, it taught me to fight for dreams instead of always being follow the step and being a yes-man in front of difficulties.

Last summer, the Vlog Squad flew to Utah to make a triumphant return to vlogging after a hiatus imposed by Covid-19. After wakeboarding, the group had planned to perform a stunt in which they would swing on a rope dangling from an excavator while Dobrik drove it. There was no medic on site, nor, according to Dobrik and Wittek, did they consult with a lawyer beforehand. Mariduena says Dobrik had obtained permission from the excavator owner to operate it after an hour and a half of training, but that was about it.

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