SPEAKING FROM THE HEART ... 10

SPEAKING FROM THE HEART ... 10

We as a nation must learn the art of avoiding the hyperbole and the overuse of adjectives in glorification. Understatement carries with it a more potent expressive power. Loudness in conversation, discussion and dialogue is not quite well-mannered and ought to be replaced by a gentler approach that allows rational communication in a pleasant way and does not drown data in the froth of meaningless words and emotions. This is a national problem that is growing by the day and ought to be countered. As the media cater to lowered popular tastes and in the process contribute to the process of further lowering culture by fashioning such tastes, it becomes the lot of conscientious citizens to counter this degradation in every possible way, not the least by infusing culture into social discourse. I do it my way through my writings but find myself woefully unequipped to meet the challenges of the times en masse. This is a demographic problem, a feature of sociocultural evolution which is gathering momentum by the day as education spreads through the culturally unrefined classes and empowers them to wrest control of the governance of the world with its consequent blunting of everything that was thus far more refined in an elitist world of privilege and patronage. The solution lies somewhere in between. Neither privilege nor cultural impoverishment through empowerment of the unrefined to control the finer aspects of life is the way out but a balance of forces that will optimise commercial output while taking care to not lower culture significantly. Balance is the key, the pursuit of excellence while engaging in the act of raising the masses from their coarse, cultural level. A tough act for sure but an attainable one. 

Written by Sugata Bose