MY DIGITALIZED NONSENSE

As I, the archetypal couch-potato that I am, continue to watch on TV and the internet, the recent massively spontaneous mass protests over ageless abuse of women, gender inequality and moral policing of unwanted social fringes over new age cultural pursuits by young artists, I wonder in awe about the Collective Strength of us, Common Men and Women. It is a calming reassurance for cynical minds : Yes, It Can Be Done. Circumstances can be overcome.

I'm sure that against the backdrop of the internet 'renaissance', the eager anthropologist and the social observer didn't miss to neglect this definitive pattern in human behaviour that had been theorized by scholars decades ago, but was not believed in entirety.
This is because an ever- accelerating process of technological evolution (and thus enabling technological advancement) in the late 20th century had ensured one definitive sociological phenomenon -- our society got segmented into smaller (in size, not necessarily so in relevance or importance) institutions -- small and essentially Isolated, that allowed the same basic diurnal activities of the human species to be carried out. We call them Families, which provide the stage for the same 'acts and activities' to be carried out, to this day, to this very moment. (Well, the 'modes and modalities' in which the activities are carried out are quite different, but that, being a subtle variation, is not relevant to the present issue at hand.)

This 'isolation', in the context of quality or quantity, subjectivity or objectivity, shall always continue to vary, sometimes drastically. Though neosociologists claim that these  trends seem to indicate that this concept of 'isolation' shall wipe itself out, I have a point here to argue about and disbelieve it for good reasons.

I feel that the 'neo--sociological isolation' shall perennially continue to exist over turning pages (or e-pages) of geography and across slides (or pps) on demography, well at least till geography and demography shall cease to exist themselves.

I do agree fully that technological evolution did lead to the present social structure where glaring differences within mass or collective actions of human behaviour are much less prominent or directly observable in any given situation because the homogeneity of mass perception prevails over the heterogeneity of individual behavioral patterns (which dominate to affect our senses on any single day, anytime and anywhere at family levels). Yet I find it a paradox that it is technological advancement that is throwing exploring lights on community behaviour at the moment. We just cannot ignore the role of the internet in all the recent changes the world has witnessed.

There seems to be a new air of hope all around. One barely expected to witness the way people changed systems in the Middle East, from Tunisia to Egypt, where freedom of expression had been usurped almost as a historical tradition. Man shall continue to dream and new ideas will always flow in, as they had done over the last 50 years. What clearly stands out is Absolute Intent and the way people used it, the practical execution to bring down everything that is stagnant and decadent.

One of the strongest factors behind this is the Internet -- the way people have used it for healthy communication, in e-forums and social networking sites as they fought to dream and thus to fight on. Awareness has spread all over the world rapidly in its most unadulterated form. I think India's fairytale is a very strong pointer about how we should proceed tomorrow, to qualify governance and administration at any level and in any office being amongst the foremost priorities of them all..

The Egyptian revolution and the 'mould' its socio-politics chose to be impressed by, are not Causes. They are the Results (which I choose to perceive as unavoidable) of the Collective Consciousness of a group of people present in every cross-section of society, driven to secure unison by a variety of factors that they felt to prioritize in the same bracket. We all heard the barely audible pitch of voices accelerating to a crescendo, causing audible cracks in the glass that shattered away noisily in the palaces of the feudal elite. It was this Collective Emotion that spread digitally and was shared all over the world at the speed of light that hastened and strengthened the movement.

The prominent context which I'm trying to point out is the 'form' in which informations were dispatched and received. Almost a century ago, a similar need to spread and share valuable information had become absolutely imperative in European battle-fields where the First World War was being fought. Spread they did, in a hitherto relatively unknown technology which constituted of a manual exercise that printed a meaningful sequence of 'dots' and 'dashes' on a piece of paper, in a remarkably simple way that allowed transfer of information in incredible speed, zipping to and fro across continents and oceans, from one station to another in forms of electromagnetic quanta.

While the SPEED of 'actual' transfer (the physicality of the process) has remained almost the same, the time taken for the information to reach the recipient's brain and get registered to be comprehended in its fullest form has come down drastically. More important is the FORMAT. Through the world-wide-web, ideas are shared in virtual audio-visual forms which incorporate the factor of 'EMOTION' (which I believe you are fitter than yours truly to attempt to conceptualize) to the data -- and that affects the result in an entirely different scale, the parameters of which are not digitally controlled in concrete digit units - a factor which man dreams to control with more authoritative volition some day,

And THAT is exactly why the process cannot be withdrawn by itself or be self-controlled. Dreams and passions are shared now in the most elemental forms, the question of when or where exists no longer a question, and the echoes continue to reverberate to be manifested later, someday and somewhere else. So we have to Got to Continue to speak, listen to, learn, share and adapt to one and all, NOT ONLY TO SURVIVE. BUT TO LIVE .

But again, That is what Life is all about, isn't it? I shall be keen to know what YOU say...

Note : **(the concepts of androids, humanoids, avatars are beyond the current issue. Though it would be interesting to observe when overzealous fertile brains shall tinker about anti-corruptoids, fanaticoids, or nihilistoids, agnosticoids, even jihaditoids, over super-conductor receptacles containing hybrid consummables of siliconised caffeinoids)!!!**