TO WRITE OR NOT TO WRITE

TO WRITE OR NOT TO WRITE

I feel ashamed of the intellectual culture of my countrymen in general and hope for its progressive improvement with passing years through better training of the faculties. Right now it is more of frothy emotionalism that goes on instead of considered conversation. The scope of an affirmation made by an author is so quickly limited by scanty understanding and its meaning and motive entirely misunderstood whereupon supercilious counter-remarks are made, certainly does not indicate good intellectual health of the polity.

Online journalism has made the commoner reduce lofty ideas to commonplace trash and it is a regrettable state of things. So often I think of quitting online writing because readers there are few and far between, and even of those that read, most fail to or care not to read the message intended to be conveyed and merely respond in a puerile manner not much removed from the innocence of infancy. Whether I shall continue to write on Facebook or not depends on my inspiration to do so, for to all intents and purposes it is a dead line of work producing a worthless froth and consuming my life in the process. Let my labour be reserved for a higher cause than engaging in such fruitless authoring of literary stuff before an incapable and unappreciative audience. This is to pondered now. Adieu!

Written by Sugata Bose