Viruses that affect the Indian socio- psychological
perceptions.
Myth making; hero-worship; citing exceptions as examples and
make sweeping statements based on that; over generalizing the particular;
particularizing the general; over simplifying the complex; complicating the
simple; resorting to unloving criticism and uncritical love; projecting poverty
and suffering as the important requirements to get god’s grace; evaluating
anything or anyone with irrelevant aspects; quoting and questioning things
without contextual relevance; proceeding with justifications to bolster up or
brush aside facts; paralyzing simple events with unwarranted and perverted
analysis; forging for facts to fit into preconceptions; showing intolerance
towards dissent; invent intentions when results are good and useful; pandering
to populism and political correctness over providing long term prosperity;
making desperate attempts to degrade some and deify others; opposing for the
sake of opposing; rejecting reasoning; operating with selective amnesia and collective
indifference; trying to mask present
short comings by raking up past glories and gloat with ethnocentric pride; sit
on judgment over everything and everyone without trying to know in detail what
we are judging ; generously throwing
opinions around even without doing some home work on any issue,
diverting attention from intrinsically important issues by projecting emotionally
appealing allegations, twisting facts, total indifference to facts etc have all
become such a huge carapace covering the present generation that no one can
know what is the real character of this generation.
The prime reason for most of these ugly trends are because people are overwhelmingly
negatively influenced by media houses both in the print and audio visual which
churns out heroes out of zeros and in some cases the glamorous reel industry
dominates over and sometimes replaces the reality. These worthies in the media
are mostly guided by some petrified ideological fixations bolstered by some
putrefied slogans and outdated statistics ,
pelf that pours into their purses,
propelled by pseudo intellectualism and all of these masquerading as
meaningful concern for the public. These media worthy pawns are moved around to
manipulate, mislead and micro manage remotely all domains by multiple forces.
Most unfortunate impact of the manifestation of these
attitudes is that many gullible youths
apply most of these indiscriminately across the whole spectrum of human
activities like in political domain,
religious activities, social issues, cultural institutions, sports arena,
economic development projects,
commercial sector etc.
Unfortunately all these lead to a socio-psychological
conditioning which grows into a belief system, then that very belief system
conditions everything we encounter it becomes a sort of vicious circle.
“Everything changes as you move through three stages of
awareness:-
first, that beliefs are the result of conditions;
second, that beliefs are the cause of conditions;
and third, that beliefs are themselves conditions.”
― Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Recently a retired Indian army general showed his great
skills as a minister in rescuing not only Indians but people from many countries from the violence torn Yemen
while the media managed to divert the whole attention by focusing on a single
word ‘presstitudes’ over a whole lot of great work done by the entire team.
Here I would like to some pertinent quotes:-
“Get out of your own way… stop the paralysis by analysis…
decide what you want, create a simple plan, and get moving!” - Steve Maraboli.
“Across planes of consciousness, we have to live with the
paradox that opposite things can be simultaneously true.”
― Ram Dass.
“Science is organized
knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.” - Immanuel Kant
“The reflection is not in the mirror but of the
mirror”.- ‘Sailor’ Bob Adamson
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give
up every preconceived notion, follow
humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn
nothing.”-Thomas H. Huxley
“Commitment is an
act, not a word”.- Jean-Paul Sartre .
"When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be
our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of
us will win, but both will profit”.- Ayn Rand
"Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be
conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone." - Ayn Rand:
“Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant
explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and
simple beauty”.- Galileo Galilei.
“Whatever hysteria exists is inflamed by mystery, suspicion
and secrecy. Hard and exact facts will cool it.” -Elia Kazan
“Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best
understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative,
mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like
unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist”.- Steven Pinker
“Ignoring facts does not make them go away”.-Fran Tarkenton
“Reason is man’s tool of knowledge, the faculty that enables
him to perceive the facts of reality. To act rationally means to act in
accordance with the facts of reality. Emotions are not tools of cognition. What
you feel tells you nothing about the facts; it merely tells you something about
your estimate of the facts. Emotions are the result of your value judgments;
they are caused by your basic premises, which you may hold consciously or
subconsciously, which may be right or wrong.”- Ayn Rand
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