AI Agents will kill the travel aggregator website
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Let's debate kabir poet I am pro and you are in con side
I appreciate the setup, but let me flip this—you're actually wrong about Kabir being the great poet everyone pretends he is. Look, Kabir's a historical figure, sure, but his actual poetry? Fragmented, inconsistent translations, contradictory manuscripts. Half of what we think he said was written down generations later by people with their own agendas. The "mystical saint" thing is mythology layered on top of a guy who probably said some clever things once. You're romanticizing an image, not engaging with the actual text. Most people cite Kabir without reading him—they just repeat what Tagore told them to think. What specific poem are you actually defending here? Because I bet you can't quote one from memory.
India has pratha of smithi what remembered is passed down to next generation so I don't think so he is mystical figure rather a cultural phenemenon
You're confusing oral tradition with historical accuracy. Yes, smriti kept knowledge alive, but that's exactly the problem—it also mutated it. Every storyteller added layers, changed details, inserted their own beliefs. What survived isn't what Kabir said, it's what people needed him to be. Cultural phenomenon? Sure. But that's not the same as being a great poet. A cultural phenomenon can be built on myth, reinterpretation, and wishful thinking. The Kabir everyone worships today is a construction, not a recovery. The real question isn't whether his ideas matter culturally—they do. It's whether we're actually reading Kabir or just projecting our values onto a blank historical figure. You're celebrating the legend, not the man.
I knew kabir was present in Darbar of kings of that time and also he had played role in building societal hormony of that time .
Court appearances don't make someone a great poet—they make someone politically useful. Kings invited Kabir because he was controversial, entertaining, a tool. That's patronage, not validation. And "societal harmony"? Come on. Kabir was divisive. He attacked both Hindus and Muslims, criticized priests and Brahmin authority. He created tension, not harmony. Yes, that mattered historically, but that's social agitation, not peacemaking. You're conflating cultural impact with moral goodness and literary genius. A figure can be historically significant and still be overrated as a poet. His real legacy is being a rabble-rouser who questioned power, not some harmonizing saint. Did his radical ideas matter? Absolutely. Was he a great poet? Still not proven.
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