Freedom of speech and
the current society
While Johnny
was crossing the road, he accidentally steps on a cockroach and the cockroach
dies in that impact. This is a small and insignificant incident in everyone’s life.
We might have killed many such living things without our consciousness, we will
never come to know the count. The passersby who notice and even those who don’t
notice it directly will always judge us and make passing comments. This is how
the society is and was. Thanks to the social media and freedom of speech as a
constitutional right of every citizen in India, the words that are spoken are
unlimited to even fit in the current Oxford dictionary.
It is said
that people living in a joint family have a better memory power when compared
to those who live in the nuclear family setup. The reason, as per psychologists
and psychiatrists is that in a joint family setup, the family members speak
about topics and share their memories time and again just like how it is played
in a tape recorder again and again. This helps in people retaining their memories
and moments better. Thanks to the social media, the nuclear family members are
not left out. They get reminded about events, memories and instances in almost
every site/social media app. Facebook is the frontrunner in such memory
retaining technique.
Coming back
to the above-mentioned insignificant incident, the passerby has plenty of options
to express their feelings on the social media. Social media is filled with
applications which gives users a host of options to express things in a catchy
way. We have known that social media and the internet is a double-edged sword.
Every innovation has both benefits and drawbacks. If the feelings that we share
in the social media creates a positive impact on the reader’s life then we call
it positive, else if it creates more hysteria and negative impression to life,
we call it as negative.
Every
government all over the world is suffering to cut down the nuisances and
disturbances created in the social media. Along with the feelings expressed on
the social media comes the issue of privacy and security. In the European Union,
almost everyday the social media innovators are called for many kinds of
discussions. These discussions mainly are to do with suppressing the fake news,
privacy of individuals and the likes. The more we discuss the more complicated
it becomes. Life comes to a full stop. Everything in the end stops at the point
where it begins. It is the self, it is how we feel or express. It is how we
perceive things. It is how tolerant we are towards each other.
There are
plenty of pseudo intellects in the society who knows how to create disturbance
in the society. It is a fun for them to see people taking up law in their own
hands to seek justice to their own selfish emotions. I might be judgmental
about this claim you may think. Let it be. I have been watching the trend of social
media and the generic societal behavior. It is enough if everyone observes how
the feel, react and express their feelings to others in personal relationships
to find out who we really are. Then it is easy to follow the societal pattern
and be judgmental about it. Without inner realization, we cannot realize the
truth, the basics of human psychology and behavior.
“A moron has intentionally
stepped on the helpless cockroach while walking, where are we heading.” – this is
the trending headlines in Facebook, Twitter and other social media apps. This
small headline grabs the attention of people. The reason being is simple, we are
being fed with negative headlines for many years now and the media knows that what
grabs the attention of the people is the negative story line. But has anyone
even thought why we are so attentive the negative headlines rather than the positive
ones that every media covers too?
If we start
with exploring this point, then we will unveil the personality hidden in us.
Once that is unveiled, we will start to question self. The things we like, we see,
and we desire. Then it is easy to understand the whole psychology of
perception. Our own perception would change. We will stop rejecting the societal
headlines. We will stop rejecting the negative news channels and news creators
in this world. That is the starting point of self-realization for me. The
social media has positive news and content also, but many of us miss to see
them due to the busy bombardment of reality shows, competitions like “America/India
got talent” and etc. We get lost in the jungle. Someone rightly said internet
is a jungle. We need to tread our path carefully and consciously.
