What we learn after work determines how well we do at
work. Wat we do at work determines how we feel when we get home. At a certain
point, we have to ask ourselves: Is our current life style preventing us from achieving
a far, far better way of living?
The life style change we identify may not be easy at
first, and it may not be what everyone else is doing. We live in an age when
information technology has grown at astounding rates of speed – and when a new “wired”
generation can find a World Wide Web site for every obsession, whether it
creative or destructive. We also live in a society where television is king and
it is now joined by a co-ruler called Internet through social media. In today’s
world, an incredible amount of social energy is spent discussing, analysing and
reliving what happened the night before on a plastic box with speakers, a knob,
and a glass display screen. Fortunately we also live in a country where
individual choice still determines how a person spends the day, and where no
one has to spend the day hypnotized unless he or she chooses to.
Internet is an amazing research tool. But today,
technology has, in too many cases, become a way of quickly dispersing mediocre,
mundane thoughts. When the Internet becomes more of a productivity vacuum than
a productivity tool, I say it’s time to stop wandering around the Internet.
I would prefer “cutting edge” on thought, not “cutting
edge” on technology for its own sake. Technology has to be the tool for keeping
track of cutting edge thought. Technology must always come second in line;
thought has to be the first priority.
The two technologies, television and internet, which have
merged to rule our daily lives, ostensibly are there to help us learn new
things, make us aware about our world, our environment, provide solutions to
our problems; the television and Internet. Instead of making us aware about the
world, they make us confine to a certain thought process, instead of providing
solution to our problems, they are creating new ones.
All the social media platforms like twitter, Facebook,
Instagram, WhatsApp, don’t make any more social than we already were, but to
some extent they make us unsocial. Where virtual like has become more important
than actually meeting someone and expressing our feeling towards him. Emojis
have taken place of real emotions. You can find expressionless people posting
sad emoji. You may find people putting thumbs up or like emoticon without even
reading the post or giving a good look to the picture shared on one’s wall.
The need for frequently blocking the internet services
or certain social media application in the area of strife, across the globe,
are evidence enough that this medium has graduated from being innocuous
platform to informally interact with your friends, to becoming a viscous medium
which has serious damaging potential to the civil society.
The worst thing with these social media platforms is
that unlike internet, which is a technology and mostly is not controlled by any
organization, person or nation; these platforms are controlled and managed by
people and organization, who control what goes on these platforms, there is no
guarantee that these platforms won’t run agenda or subversive acts against
people, organization or countries which do not fit into their scheme of things.
Unfortunately this fear is now a reality, now these platforms have become tools
of warfare and the highest bidder gets them. Cambridge Analytica story is the
most recent example of the dangerous potential these technologies have.
It is more dangerous than the conventional arms and ammunition
used in war, because these attack the mind and psyche of people, the effect of
which are long lasting and consequences are much more serious. The situation
with social media is catch 22 situation. You can’t regulate it because of free
speech, but their selective free speech can strangulate the right of free
speech of many. The strength of social media, i.e. being able to communicate
with large number of people in real time at almost zero cost, is becoming a
threat. Viral, a term which graduated from the world of biology to world of
internet is the new addition to already powerful arsenal of internet. Phenomenon
like blue whale is the example of the extent of damage which these technologies
can render silently.
It’s amazing, how easily and silently these
technologies and tools transform you from being a user to becoming an addict. Observe
how many times you check your cell phone for WhatsApp, Facebook or twitter post
updates. How distraught you feel when you don’t get enough likes on your post. This addiction silently eats into your time,
your competency and your efficiency.
Television has many positive aspects. It’s the only place
you can watch how snow leopard lives in its habitat in sub-zero temperature, it’s
the only way you can see important news events unfold, as they’re taking place,
from virtually anywhere on earth. Of course, these are important contributions
to society. But it will probably come as no surprise to learn that television
usually doesn’t live up to its full potential as an educational tool or news
delivery system. All too often, television is an excuse to “learn” mediocrity –
and nothing more. The television news has mostly become a platform for
propagating agenda or setting certain narrative, dictated by the highest
bidder. This has seriously damaged the credibility, reliability and
authenticity of television news across the globe. Many of the TV news editors,
journalists have earned an adjective of “presstitue”
for them, a term coined Gerald Celente, which is a portmanteau of 'press' and
'prostitute.'
Television is not the best centrepiece of any
achievers’ lifestyle. The conquerors don’t
let television or Internet (as in social media) rule their lives. They use TV and
internet selectively, rather than letting these technologies use them.
I will leave you with a poem by Jay Handerson on
Social Meida Demon, which I found on the internet.
Social Media Demon by Jay Handerson.
Social
media needle in the arm.
Our
next drug fix held in a square box
Vent
our thoughts on local thots with our fingers
Laughing
as we finger tap out our zingers
Plotting
on how we can get meaner.
Taking
pictures looking like no one else is more cleaner.
At
the end of the day we just wanna feel better.
Euphoric
feelings when friends we never met likes our posts.
That
real connection succumbed to post-mortem.
Real
friends viewed like an open casket.
Nowhere
to go when you are looking for an oulet.
Traded
them in for Twitter heroine.
Only
the real thing is that anxiety that we are carrying.
Take
you from this life we are sharing in.
At
the end of the day, we just wanna feel better.
High
of off that validation.
Derealization…..
Schizophrenic
escape from the real situation.
Social
media was built by the free masons.
Metaphoric
illuminati and its Satan
It’s
bigger than the feeling you’re chasing.
Convincing
the world how we are not basic.
Post
about check chasing and keeping the messes.
Lost
in the message.
We
forgot who the real god is
At
the end of the day we just wanna feel better
Social
media needle in the arm.
Our
next drug fix held in a square box.
Vent
our thoughts on local thots with our fingers.
Laughing
as we fingers tap out our zingers.
Plotting
on how we can get meaner
Taking
pictures looking like no one else is more cleaner.
At
the end of the day we just wanna feel bitter.
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