Recently , some survey revealed that Indian teens where one of the happiest ones in the world. Compare this with the basic human tendency of gossip and you will find that Indian people also are in need of random useless information which does no good to anyone.
Any such news on current affairs also affects no one but that is not the point. However, Current affairs lets one develop an intelligent opinion on things that might eventually matter us. By useless information I meant films stars and their alleged affairs and secret marriages. Why do we care if two films stars exchanged garlands in Varanasi? How does this affect our opinion on them or the films in which they have acted?
Human mind needs gossip and this is a new age problem. Earlier in the good old days when there was no TV or even newspapers people had little access to information on events that happened beyond 5 miles. However, modern day has killed the distance and the information overload has indeed made mind a noisier place.
60% of the internet today is pirated stuff and pornography and similar chaos is being reflected into our minds as well. After a hard days work (by hard I mean the stress due travel and gossiping) we need to unwind. Mind unwinds only by processing useless information requiring shorter memory needs. Any further requirement of processing information leads to mental fatigue and boredom. This makes us change channels using the remote.
We have trained our minds to be under productive and pampered it by feeding useless information which does not contribute in any kind of intellectual development. The only way to mature our mind is to remain focused on what we are supposed to do and not what others are doing. Be it good looking film starts getting married!
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