CONCENTRATE MORE ON THE POST, PLEASE, RATHER THAN PERSONAL PRECONCEPTIONS
Comments to posts must cater to the post proper and not sprayed about indiscriminately. In such pertinence to the posts will comments embellish them and raise the intellectual standard of this group as well. Accuracy is the key, you see, and it springs from right understanding and right concentration, two of the cardinal principles the Buddha preached in his Eight Fold Path or the 'Ashta Margam Path'.
Intellectual and cultural standards the world over are declining and we must make a concerted effort to arrest this precipitous fall. The civilisation of ages is at stake today as mass education is lowering academic standards by the law of averages or the principle of mixtures. If we are unaware of this rapid decline in culture, soon we will be wallowing in the mire of material misery of sorts whose alarming signs are already evident everywhere.
While social media offers space enough for one's free and uninhibited expression without fear of being censured or censored, one ought to bear the responsibility towards the maintenance of cultural standards as well which would merit a better consideration of focused writing and commenting for better pertinence to the subject under discussion.
More often than not posts go viral when they carer to lowly criticism of sorts or discussion of controversial issues in an equally controversial and militant manner when it is seen that comments flow in, pertinent and impertinent [pun intended], so to say, and the matter assumes great moment in the public mind without the people being quite clear as to what the essential issue is. This is regrettable and ought not to happen. Yet, this is what is the general order that obtains in social journalism. Here I request members to read a post, reflect and offer reasoned responses, even emotional ones at that, but let the responses be not wildly off-target that make a mockery of the post.
These are my views as a fellow member, a thinker and a writer of sorts. How you feel about it is your prerogative but I have tried to reason here to hammer home my point in my own way.
May the spirit of this group page keep enlivening ever is the fondest hope of this ardent member of this group ! Jai Hind !
Written by Sugata Bose
Comments to posts must cater to the post proper and not sprayed about indiscriminately. In such pertinence to the posts will comments embellish them and raise the intellectual standard of this group as well. Accuracy is the key, you see, and it springs from right understanding and right concentration, two of the cardinal principles the Buddha preached in his Eight Fold Path or the 'Ashta Margam Path'.
Intellectual and cultural standards the world over are declining and we must make a concerted effort to arrest this precipitous fall. The civilisation of ages is at stake today as mass education is lowering academic standards by the law of averages or the principle of mixtures. If we are unaware of this rapid decline in culture, soon we will be wallowing in the mire of material misery of sorts whose alarming signs are already evident everywhere.
While social media offers space enough for one's free and uninhibited expression without fear of being censured or censored, one ought to bear the responsibility towards the maintenance of cultural standards as well which would merit a better consideration of focused writing and commenting for better pertinence to the subject under discussion.
More often than not posts go viral when they carer to lowly criticism of sorts or discussion of controversial issues in an equally controversial and militant manner when it is seen that comments flow in, pertinent and impertinent [pun intended], so to say, and the matter assumes great moment in the public mind without the people being quite clear as to what the essential issue is. This is regrettable and ought not to happen. Yet, this is what is the general order that obtains in social journalism. Here I request members to read a post, reflect and offer reasoned responses, even emotional ones at that, but let the responses be not wildly off-target that make a mockery of the post.
These are my views as a fellow member, a thinker and a writer of sorts. How you feel about it is your prerogative but I have tried to reason here to hammer home my point in my own way.
May the spirit of this group page keep enlivening ever is the fondest hope of this ardent member of this group ! Jai Hind !
Written by Sugata Bose
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