The India I see is one that has turned a blind eye to serious problems. On one side, our people, particularly the youth are ready to plunge into action instead of being passive spectators. However, they strike me as immature, gullible people who are certainly not ready enough to discern what is right.
With trivial issues surfacing, one begins to wonder as to what happened to the ones that mattered until yesterday. Issues such as parents being sent to age old homes, health, relationships, education and much more, seem to have been clouded by pointless talk. Seriously, how are today's middle aged folk treating their parents in India?
Important discussions revolve around alcohol, drugs, pretentious news, false publicity of wannabe revolutionaries whose credibility is unnecessarily discussed, lavish expenditure, North-South-Northeast inclusion/exclusion, sexual orientations, unrealistic cinema, overuse of social media, overrated "TV" series, selfies, attention seeking and of course, the ever intriguing and over-hyped sex. The country - and the world at large, appears to steadily march towards its own rotting. Our immaturity is clearly reflected in the nature of the leaders we choose. The fact that we are even considering listening to people like Kanhaiya pains me deeply.
There was a time when the world had thinkers, seers who could foresee how things would be in the future - the internet seems to have now clouded our eyes, and the only visions we seem to have of the future are the ones shown to us in films. Twisted stories shown in the films and drama we watch have subtly affected our minds, clouding our judgement, and, unless I am much mistaken, this has affected our character in a way, patching into our DNA an element of wickedness. We have certainly lost the straightforwardness that seems to have prevailed in the previous generations, losing our innocence and developing cunningness at a very tender age. This is mirrored by the visible growth of health problems which are certainly induced by the state of our mind in addition to the state of our environment.
Any discussion on the current generation would touch upon the clichéd "technological advances" - a topic where this generation doesn't seem to score much. While research is more common now than ever, it seems to have become a rush to get a Doctorate or to compete with a rival organisation rather than for the sake of national progress, let alone global. National leaders - and nations as such, seem to focus a lot on amassing wealth and armaments while not invading other countries, and while progress is seen in small pockets, overall progress has come to a standstill.
The internet has pampered us, drilling engineered ideas into our heads. Marketing has reached a peak, convincing people that they need to stay "connected" to the internet at all times - this is something I find quite unnecessary. In spite of years of the mobile phone's presence in our lives, it still feels unnecessary - at least at times, if not always. Such logical thoughts may be short lived - thinking out of the box is, as I had once remarked to a friend a couple of years back, limited to thinking within a bigger box. All of what we feel can be done, seems to have already been done - this generation looks like a bunch of redundant lives that simply exist, draining the world of its resources for no useful reason at all.
I really do hope I'm wrong.
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