Originally posted by: souro
Saying what happened in the past is inevitable. It may grow less with time but it will remain there.
What one must not do is rest on past laurels. Indians of the past generation used to do that a lot. We invented zero and all that. They just don't seem to accept that the West has after that discovered several such zeroes.
Coming to the current situation, sometimes accentuating a problem actually stresses the need of an urgent solution. There is nothing wrong in that. It helps one to become more alert, active and ultimately superior.
I don't know if you're familiar with the Indian media of yesteryear's. Earlier media always used to downplay Ind-Pak animosity and even used to ignore PDA for an unofficially enemy state, just to keep up that charade of peace and brotherly love. That lax attitude didn't give any positive results and ultimately got us nowhere.
People or country always need a driving force to motivate them to become superior. Sometimes that motivation comes from strong hatred and contempt, nothing wrong with it. Forgetting the past and acting as if everything is fine and dandy and going back to sleep is the actual problem.
Yeah I agree with the first part. But I am still not ok with the fact that people go on and on about it for years. I am totally for learning from the past happenings and evolving from there, but why stress so much on things which we couldn't possibly change decades later? What I only meant is, media tries to stress far too much on the problem, when they should actually lend a helping hand in the solution.
Somewhere though, it is totally true that the media shows what the public wants to see. Why is a certain show on something successful? Because the audience likes watching it and the media would definitely take advantage, that being their job at the end!
However again, I don't really feel a country should become superior to another, or that feeling hatred or animosity against the people of any other country is a good thing either. Nothing wrong if motivation comes from hatred or contempt, but surely, everything is totally wrong if the same motivation comes for hatred or contempt, especially on being instigated by the government or its adjoined medium.
Also, I agree, but no one is saying to feign ignorance on anything that happened previously. There again, I say it once more, I am totally in for discussing past events in order to learn from them, learn being the key word, it is dramatizing any happening to bring on useless emotions is what bothers me.
Agreed on the extra sound effects part. But as for repeat telecast in general. If you don't like it, don't see it. It's as simple as that.
Yup, that's somehow what I do now. I really appreciate everything the media does for its country, for any country. We can't overrule the fact that a proper media can take a country to unimaginably great heights. It is the part where a media takes down a population or a country that gets to me. But then, it's always been so: If you want the good part, learn to take it along with the bad, or just forget about it... 😆
As far as I remember no one protested about Riteish Deshmukh visiting along with his father. What everyone protested was Riteish bringing Ram Gopal Verma along with him. Maybe, they felt that RGV was there on a first person recce so that he can show it later in one of his films.
But was it confirmed he would show it in one of his movies? Didn't the media invent all that hype unnecessarily? Again, I am not against the fact that they voice out their opinion and say what was wrong simply was. What I far from liked what that they actually stressed on for days on the matter. Again, dramatizing what they should simply have stated. And I was in India those days. If I am not mistaken, one of the news channels was even playing some Bollywood songs from war front or something along with the pictures of the two walking in Taj. If that kind of dramatizing is good, tell me what's bad then?
Why all that botheration with a wink and why all these worrying thoughts??
I think winks ease out a situation, take out the worry factor from it, make you feel better about yourself and others, that's why the wink! 😉 😆 And as for the worrying thoughts, I am always worried about the world, it's the random people in it that I don't really care for. 😆 - Kidding!
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