Shut-Up – Self Censorship

Rather than involving myself in useless debates, discussions, toxic
arguments, and trolling train without meaning and facts, I will rather
keep myself mum and just shut up.

Few days back I was watching program on Al-Jazeera “B-Studio Unscripted”
where the intellectual minds come and talk on issues, society, arts etc.
and was listening to one of the great artist Anish Kapoor, he was
mentioning how art is more like a rebellion or as Picasso had once said
“Art is a War” and talking about the impact of art and artist on the
society on whole. He used word self-censorship. I was intrigued by this
word and concept, immediately my thoughts started running and thinking
yes, he is right why should we not just keep ourselves quiet rather than
involving into senseless social media trolls and fake information. And
if this censorship is applied, lot of issues will automatically be
solved.

We are living in utter chaos, surrounded by fake news, fabricated
issues, bias views and what not, we all know very well somewhere in our
heart and sub-conscious that all this is not real, this mess and chaos
is creating more uncertainty and divisions in our society, democracy,
and social fabric. You know, in US elections there were close to 140
fake news websites identified where the source of data was mostly from
Facebook. As per Craig Silverman, media editor Buzzfeed, in mid-2016, a
funny stream of completely made-up stories that seemed to originate from
one small eastern European town. “We ended up finding a small cluster of
news websites all registered in the same town in Macedonia called
Velves, Silverman recalls, as per BBC reporting.

Why we need to just keep away from this fake news, is because they not
only threat to democracies but to us as people. This fake news is
relentlessly targeting the hyper-partisan views, which play to the fears
and prejudices of people to influence their voting patterns and their
behavior. We have seen this not only is USA elections but in other
countries too, like India, and latest in France. So, what is the impact
if these fake news or information, twitter feeds and trolls, and main
media news and yes, WhatsApp universities, its changing and distorting
how political campaigns are run and yes then legitimacy of these
elections, elected officials and governments are Questionable.

Now, how can we as the People of our Country and as part of our society
clear our thoughts and mind from getting corrupted by these toxic 24/7
feeds which is untrue and fabricated. The only way is to “SHUT-UP” and
yes, “SELF-CENSOR” yourself. We need to stop getting sucked or tangled
in unethical, biased, racist topics and discussions. Get away from News
Channels of any kind, they are spreading one sided story which is
without facts and are biased. They are controlling your mind
continuously by feeding junk like venom. It’s human nature, if you feed
your brain or mind something repeatedly then you will be affected
obviously, it is like hypnotism, we are being hypnotized every second.
And people who do not understand and ignore real issues, except their
views without questioning, start believing all their non-sense crap and
in turn poison others around them, friends, family and yes society
because somewhere we all are vulnerable.

From my perspective, one should think before acting or making any
decision. I know we all are not same illogical, irrational stupid; we
know what is going on, and who all are going to gain from this. Are they
rewarding you too from their success, giving you positions, money etc,
“NO” and will never give you, we are pawns in their hand? Say something
happens or we are under attack, we people will be on the front line or
the firing line, see what is happening in Ukraine, who is dying in
streets like dogs, common man and the Army personal. Has any government
official or Mayor or minister died, No, what these politicians and
bureaucrats are involved in the “Game of Sanctions”.

Finally, my request to all who are reading this, stop being Bias,
Irrational and Fake, think before you take or decide on saying agree or
disagree or most importantly posting anything on social media. Use your
intelligence, think logically, and see if it makes any sense and who
will gain from it and who will lose. At the end, be real people with
rationale thinking, stop getting into cults or wings, Be You.

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. –
Plutarch