Currently, there is this video on the Google which is apparently hugely popular. That is to say, it has gone viral. It shows a small boy. The legend below the snap shows the kid to be three. One would not know, but the child surely could not be older than six, for sure.
This video shows a kid about to drink sugarcane juice. The father asks him to look in to camera so that the shoot could carry on. Well, the child loses his cool, and follows a tirade wherein he blasts the father for constantly shooting him. He reminds the father that the day before he was shot while 'doing potty'.
Of course, the child's irritation, his response afterwards appeared rather 'staged'. Even then, the video raises very interesting issues such as the lust for instant and constant publicity, even if cheap, the eternal invasion of the social media in an individual's privacy, the constant camera conscious posing, et al. The list could go on.
As a result, children are precocious. They internalise very early adult values, imposed on them via the mobile, the serials, the video games, for instance. Every child now is an expert at selfie pouting, at being 'smart' at/with the camera. In the process, the essential and innate innocence is absolutely lost, completely tarnished.
The truly worst are the children participating in the multi- channel talent search shows. It is a terror, a horror to see a child mouthing, moving, gyrating to a 'lavani', to a vulgar, double meaning song with extremely provocative gestures. Even if they win, yet again the staged competition, they would be forgotten within a months tops.
In the process in the meanwhile much is lost, much water flows under the bridge washing away forever the childhood, never ever to return! Wither(ed) indeed the childhood!
Pratima@if such is childhood, how would be the adulthood!!?!!
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