Human Civilization has a very complicated relationship with the word "Development" and tries to walk hand in hand with a simple notion that progress cannot be achieved without the mainstream implementation of the upgraded technology that we are handed as gadgets everyday. This article comes up behind a strong incident where a lady has a simple phrase to defend her act of watching telly all the time. A mere phrase,"what else are we gonna do?" has so much to claim behind a typical generation that she being in her 40s, has nothing to do other than watching telly.
Being a kid from the 90s has given me the opportunity to witness the proper transition from loving "Charlie Chaplin" to worshiping "Chota Bheem" and it gets tough to get acquainted with the selection criteria that has altered in such a diversified manner. The rate of transformation has been so intense that being updated technically and psychologically has become two different sides of a coin yet continue to govern the same principles of livelihood. Improvising the psychological aspects of the mob, we have a flamboyant picture of how the role of media has intensified the thought process of common man. Without being judgmental, the entire scenario holds up a bizarre outlook for the future.
Coming back to the incident, it grew up on the basis of a simple news channel which were broadcasting some news related to our education system. The matter was definitely of utmost significance but carried little or no connection at all between the reality and how it was put up. Watching it were 3 people, belonging to the age group of 40s, 50s and 70s respectively with a pretty high level of concentration. Accepting it was far from my conscience and took hardly any time to show my reluctance in watching the same with a simple query to the viewers, "Why do you watch this shit? Infact, why to watch telly all the time?". The mere phrase that I heard in return is aforementioned and to my surprise, they were irritated with the question!
That particular news had nothing special separately, as my vacations have given me a taste of media being in the firing line on three different topics and how they control the mob with a particular topic with no significance at all. And bringing the psychological aspect, it is more surprising to observe the reaction of our society to such news. They see it 24*7, eat it, live on it and basically sleep over it forgetting the ultimate reason behind tuning up a news channel! People end up listening to views and miss out on the news itself! Instead of deciding upon the news, they accept it. The days for a 15 to 30 minutes news in an entire day are long gone with the advent of technology and somewhere took the independence of self scrutinizing of headlines away with it.
If news are one criteria of evaluation of what television has done, then soaps and other celebrity shows their dominance and how they occupy the major part of a common man's evening. The current common man delves into the depth of being a couch potato than serving itself a cup of tea with a neighbor or maybe indulging into some creative aspect that it might be good at! Development has outspoken for human kind and somewhere the lazier side of technological development has outlined the positive parts of the same. Enough has been said and this article couldn't be concluded with a better point that the mob is guided by the media now and they seem to have the wits and pathos of Mark Antony yet a handful amount of people like us still keep tinkering with the fact that this vice should never have existed.................
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