The not so technical and the not so ‘giving a damn’ about
data leaks people can relax as this article is not about Facebook-Cambridge
Analytica data scandal of collecting personally identifiable information but is
more towards how your ‘I hate politics’ opinion in the ‘Political views’ column
of Facebook’s purportedly know-your-client section, is gradually changing into
something that can be metaphorically described as ill-knead, naively rolled and
half-baked Chapati, getting puffed towards taking shape of a country which,
unfortunately, is India.
Considering the psychology of humans of hating or being
indifferent towards things they don’t know about, ‘I hate politics’ opinion can
be deducible to safely assume that ‘I don’t know much about our country’s
political atmosphere’. It’s probably this data of number of people who hate
politics (which I reckon to be in lacs), is something that must have encouraged
political parties to set up their own information technology cell to shoulder
the responsibility of kneading your raw brain and shaping it into a political
party’s symbol. Please don’t ask how political parties know that you hate
politics because for that I’ll have to go into the scandal that I promised not
to.
You’ll, I suppose, will appreciate the fact that the
efficiency, these IT cells work with, is directly proportional to your hatred
towards politics, your lack of political knowledge, your inability to
differentiate between an authentic and a fake news, and in some cases your dependency
on bizarre political memes as your life support system. Needless to say that the
number of people hating politics is so large that it provided a dream platform
for the employees of these IT cells to cash-in brownie points for their annual appraisal.
Soon, political discussions began to trend, unauthentic news and fake
information took over, and people with ‘I hate politics’ opinion felt left out
and deemed tagging themselves with a political party as an absolute exigency.
Not that I don’t advocate having a political opinion but
this, unfortunately, instead of making people logically aware of their country’s
management, created a lot of adamant, non-compromisingly opined, and close
minded nincompoops. It was to my surprise when I met a guy who didn’t know the
Indian State where Godhra is geographically located (Yes! Such people exist),
was into a textual altercation with a person supporting a different political
party than him. To add to this trauma, instead of questioning their elected
representative, they have voluntarily taken a self-imposed obligation of
defending the political symbol their brain has transformed into.
The IT cells have redeemed so much out of your half-witted
debates and baseless political discussions of defending your choice of election
that if I say that the current era of political power can be summarized as manufacturing
controversies to polarize voters, it won’t be completely inaccurate.
The problem with having skyscrapers of political opinions on
foundations hit by an acute attack of shallowness, is allowing the unscrupulous
political parties to thrive for eras one after the another, distancing our nation
yet again from an unimpeachable management and virtuous representatives for a
generation or two. Now that our country again is in election mode, and these IT
cells again will be into the fully fledged business of shaping your unscholarly
political mind to their advantage, deactivating your social account, the
timeline of which is suffering from an unopposed encroachment and making way for
yourself to scroll down the timeline of independent India will account for a
major contribution on your part for a better tomorrow.
PS: I have not yet touched the ‘3-seconds-share’ thing. That’s
altogether a different issue.
No comments:
Post a Comment