Greed & Media

              Few days before, I was watching ‘Face the Nation’ on CNN-IBN and their topic for discussion was ‘Is Greed the driving force of new India.’ They came up with such discussion from latest IPL spot-fixing scam. Fall of Sreesanth’s career is one big example of pure greed. 

‘Greed is good.’

                If not, why we feel happy seeing an Ad of recent Samsung Galaxy S4; why we admire the person who drives Audi/ BMW and why wearing Being Human t-shirts makes us feel proud. Because, we are one product of “product-debased” lifestyles, that we lead and how we have all lost a sense of the self. And when you lose yourself you tend to start making money from wrong means.

But tell me one thing, why our inner conscience doesn’t hurt when we do corruption. We never feel bad giving bribes to Government officials. Is our conscience dead or we had stop giving damn to it. It’s the fact that we have enclosed ourselves in our tiny apartments with things that supposedly give us pleasure which signifies that how we have started living our lives by letting others judge us and they’re judgement dictate our actions. And, we don’t want to think above it.

               Our life has been cluttered by the “need-creation” of companies and how this has culminated in a moral degradation of the society we live in. Switch-on your TV, you will find only Negativity around you. “Negative, srif Nagative hi bikta hai yaha” –one dialogue of movie Rockstar, seems to be correct. Daily soups are showing misery of newly married couple, News channels showing Rape, Scam, Corruption, betrayal, inflation, Falling Economy, etc and our Hindi Cinemas are showing crime as a legitimate path of getting rich in glamorised way.

From where, the society will get its motivation? When we try to generate moral from Lord Ram, Krishna, Mahatma Gandhi, we end up thinking - gone are days where people thinks good about others. This doesn’t mean that only bad is happening around us. If the women are getting raped, somewhere there’s also one single-mother who is becoming an IAS officer. There’s also some person who is working for social cause or making some rural innovations like Bio-fuel Stoves. Don’t they deserve some media attention? Why not propagate about such people and make them our celebrity.

                            We are in a society that is on the verge of boiling, we need a specific media  where we can showcase good things happening around us; there’s only one initiative taken by CNN-IBN in their program ‘India Positive’ where they  talks about positivity and accomplishments of people in our society. We need to know such stories more to make us strong and motivated.

In present state, I consider media as only simple mean to moralize, not customized.