From philosophy to economics

[A]t the time of Socrates, Lao-tze, philosophy was the dominating subject. People thought philosophy was the epitome of knowledge. But suddenly then it turned to economics and that’s the place we have, we lost our heritage of creativity, of the Divine values, of the Divine Gunas.\n\nPeople started depicting things that would sell. And to sell the things they had to appeal to the masses. And the masses who were of very low grade human beings were pleased by very vulgar expressions of beauty. That’s how the vulgarity started growing up. Even in the language, this transformation took place, and people took to very cheap expressions of very superficial themes and very low grade humour. The whole thing was based on giving a very mundane type of entertainment to people.\n\nOn the music side same thing happened. The music that was used to please the Gods and Goddesses, was used to please the kings and the queens. And from them, it came to the masses, and when it came to the masses it became even a very cheap frivolous music. Same about dancing, same about all the arts that were created to reflect the beauty of God, the mirror of God. All that we got from all the five elements was reduced to ashes by the value system that changed our ideas.