No nostalgia to be poured. Just a rant on a very disturbing trend I observed and was wondering if it was only me who's feeling this way.
From what's happenning around me and what I read and watch on TV, somehow I get a feeling that being "BAD" is the "IN" thing. The meaner, the cheaper you speak, behave, the higher you raise yourself on the "Youth" qoutient. They seem to be no spoilt or misguided youth. Instead they seem to have deliberately chosen to wear this "Attitude". Roadies , Splitsvilla (from whatever little I've seen) seem to be the torchbearers of Gen-$#@$%#...Almost every second word on the show is beeped. What should have been a measure to hide the expeltives has now become a sort of attention seeker. I wonder if the people who speak all those words actually count theirs and are appraised on that criteria. Almost, all my friends use expletives (including me). But make sure it reaches ONLY the intended audience. Here, its a totally different story. Actually the reverse. Speak as much ill as possible of all those who are not present. And thats one thing catching up a lot. I myself have witnessed many such instances. Criticising or making fun is one thing and ridiculing and humiliating "friends" in their absence is another.
And of course this "I'm bad" trait spills on to every other aspect. Social conciousness is something that's become as extinct as Ganguly's antics. On asking my friend to not litter on road, I got one the most ridiculous responses one could ever come across. " Come on, its public property and I'm public" . That Abhishek Bachchan's punchline from Guru could be misused to this extent would 've been the last thing that even Mani Ratnam could've imagined.
Even if these things seem trivial, how about people preferring to read "Chennai Times" over Times of India on the day after (the nth) Serial Blasts.(they aren't any different otherwise). I could go on and on with this rant. All I could gain is being titled as "Preachy". And tat reminds of a superb Public Servive Message that used to air on DD
"Shaitan banna aasan hai,
par kya insaan bane rahna itna mushkil hai??"
Roughly translated as:
"Its easy being evil,
but is it that difficult staying human??"
Sunday, September 28, 2008
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3 comments:
yes your are right ...but there is a correction our friends were misguided but not evil.........all they thought was this "THE MORE ARROGANT I AM,THE MORE I USE EXPLETIVES, THE MORE SMART I ACT, I WILL EVENTUALLY WILL BE MORE POPULAR".....forgetting that life is all about living and not acting..............i think this is an awesome blog because it is surely need for our youth in India...usage of expletives does not show your strength it actually shows your weakness.........
Thanks.."Evil" was just the literal transalation of the word Shaitan in that public service msg.
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