Celebrities and Coverage by Media
The media is inundating their news columns with details of lives of celebrities, their marriage, divorce, kids, their lives, as if we are here to devour only that stuff and it is our only requirement. This is really underestimating our tastes, goals in life, intellectual and cultural preferences and civilized affiliations.
The media is covering this useless stuff to get more revenue. It is not known whether they are ruining our cultural sensitivities or we are inviting this stuff so that our tastes to be degraded. In any case it is an onslaught on our cultural outlook. Our civilization is guided by individuals if lesser taste and aesthetic preferences.
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Wisdom
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Discretion and Discrimination
Let us cultivate discretion and discrimination
No happening in this world takes place according to the feelings of sensitive people. Reality is harsh and insensitive. We cannot frame it in an ideal or idea. Many insensitive people also dominate this world. Wise thing is, let us not be sensitive to all happenings in this world and mind our life limited by and to our near and dear. Though we can dream and imagine without limits, we cannot take the world with us according to our dreams, however virtuous and caring they are. Realistic living sets peace in our heart and mind; though this limitation appears "selfish and uncultured and uncivilized", it is always wise to ignore things which we cannot do anything about. Else our life will be full of mental disturbance and peaceless-ness.
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Role Models for Indian Youth
Celebrities are not our role-models. Actually present youth is not having any role-models other than CEOs or successful software industrialists. It is interesting that even though India is having second most scientists' population, the scientists are not known outside their chosen temples of learning or places of work. Professors of universities or prestigious private educational institutions are absent in the list of role models for the youth.
Most of the youth is carried away by the modern gadgets and information contained in them and shared on them and are building an inner world far away from real world.
Youth is not having other than parents to emulate. But unfortunately most of the parents are as good or bad as their children in these matters.
So the space is mostly vacant which is being partially filled by past intellectuals, scholars, scientists and the like. Present is unable to produce any worth while individuals from noble professions to emulate their lives and utterances. This also mostly due to all these intellectuals or scholars are themselves most confused. And they are only spreading their confusion and ignorance. Most of the current intellectuals are confined to their social affiliations and are refusing to come out of their well.
Society bereft of role models is vulnerable to extremists and prone to get plunged into chaos and disturbances because all most all intellectuals or scholars holding public positions or are popular are subjective and are not objective at all on issues or disciplines and subjects of learning.
Youth having role models of objective attitude is essential for the welfare and well-being of youth themselves, nation, society and within of the individuals.
Even spiritual and religious people are not up to standards to be role models to the youth. Mere recitation of spiritual, religious texts and wearing certain clothes are failing to make them ideal.
Normally in India it is the house holders who have been guiding the youth and society. But now householders have become very weak in all aspects and swamis and babas and ammas are replacing them with disastrous consequences.
There are no statesmen or women to enthuse youth and guide them. All we have are only narrow-minded and disruptive politicians.
A householder in the form of parents, again reigning supreme is necessary for youth to have role models and necessary guidance for life and living. Let us see how things turn.
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