Media Violence and Xenophobic Distortion

By flaunting mayhem, mutilation, brutalization and airing of deprecating scandals the media moguls are raking up fat wads of bank notes. But they should slither out of the cocoon of their penny-scraping mentality and think of the moral grooming of the generations to come.

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The violence they are generating will have a boom rang impact on their own children and it is most likely that their own progeny will tumble into the trenches of immorality they are digging out for others.

In this age of cheap ink and oratory the print and electronic media are the eyes and ears of the world. The world has become a global village due to innovations in information technology and transportation. Paradoxically, they have shortened the physical distances but equally widened the mental distances among the people. Advancement in scientific technology is impinging on the moral principles, ethical values, decent traditions and civilized customs of the whole humanity. Encroachment of new inventions and discoveries are continuously demeaning social institutions all over the globe. Therefore, with each passing day, the green thumb smoothie modern chap is incessantly becoming more fuddy-duddy, child of nature, brown-nose, tight as Kelsey's nuts and iceberg despite latest hi-tech break with the past. The integer of the angelic smut hound Mr. cools is perpetually dwindling. Therefore, all rose-colored progress of man is counter progress. The contemporary pseudo smart guy is treading on an off beam course in the depths of despair due to his narrow-minded approach. William Shakespeare (1564-1616), English poet and playwright mentioned in his "A Midsummer Night"s Dream' (1595-1596), Act 3, and Scene 2. “What fools these mortals be!”

Machines have been gradually taking over humankind. Now the morally sleaze people don't share their glad tidings and sorrows as in the past. The fate of family, political, educational, religious and economical institutions is in the doldrums. Therefore, due to flood of information and dominancy of mechanics the sentiments of fraternity, sacrifice, philanthropy and altruism have been replaced by egotism, insatiability, materialism and individualism. This has given a crippling blow on the face of humanity and traumatized the very basic principles for founding of global peace. Man has become a machine, and a jailbird to his unfulfilled ambitions and a serf to skyrocketing price of living. Those who anticipate sympathy from a stumblebum senseless cog in the wheel are living in a cloud cuckoo land. The illustrious poet of the east, Allama Muhammad Iqbal rightly forecast:“Hay dil ke leay maot machinon ki hakoomat;Ehsase murawwat ko kuchal dete hain aalat (The government of the machines is a demise for the heart; the instruments crush the emotions of courtesy).

The western people have been austerely suffering due to cheapskate, cuss, and sticky beak media violence. Ishmael Reed (1938 -) U.S. writer said in his book "Reckless Eyeballing", “If violence is as American as apple pie, then Europe provided the oven, because on the public buildings, in the churches, and in the painting there are scenes of violence.” The international head cooks and bottle washer ersatz moralists have been sponsoring this disgusting earthy and distorting material to the half-pint growing countries that can morally and mentally tear down their younger generations. Global counterfeit glib tongue hammer men are flaring the flames of ethnicity, political rivalry, religious extremism and sectarianism in Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Pakistan, Lebanon, Sudan, Somalia, etc, through inclined, buttinski and wheeler-dealer media that can geographically fracture these backward countries into tiny-winy toothless divisions incapable of resisting. The global loaded mucky mucks are repeating the vindictive history of the dark chapters of colonialism to eviscerate the already stunted and behindhand countries so that no one can challenge their writ in the international affairs.

 

The live telecasting of the incident of hanging of Saddam Hussain in Iraq mortally troubled the people worldwide, especially the nippers and a score of kids committed suicide due to deep psychosomatic impact. The well-heeled counterfeit champions of human rights and phony custodians of democracy aired the horrific incident with male fide intentions that a Shia PM Nauri Al-Maliki finally signed the death sentence of a Sunni ex-President Saddam Hussain. The clandestine purpose was to flare the flames of sectarianism to fish in troubled waters. They stepped into the shoes of their forefathers i.e., the white colonial masters of the rearward countries by adopting the devilish policy of "Divide and Rule. The unbridled projection and propagation of such horrendous incidents with monstrous intention have been venomously upsetting the worldwide peaceful co-existence.

 

Hairs raising gory events anywhere in the world are displayed on the television screen in no time by the grunge live wire barrack-room lawyer media. Various news channels are quick to telecast acts of terrorism worldwide, which form superb copies for journalists. Horrible and spine-tingling news generate fear and panic in the society. Due to frequent projection of dead mutilated bodies, and live broadcast images of effusing human blood and stab have benumbed and brutalized the viewers by indoctrinating callous and violent attitude in them. These terrible print and live pictures have resulted in the development of senselessness in the individuals by eroding the feelings for the betterment of humanity and international serenity.

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