Does the title appear confusing to you? Okay, let me try and explain it. The second word in this alliterative phrase is a noun, and refers to the new technology of mass communication (for example, podcasting, comedy shows, stand-up comedians, et al) which has a hugely flourishing following currently. Countless podcasts by all sorts, of all sorts, and for all sorts, for instance!
Once a podcast, for instance, thus establishes itself, it should be less showy, less shallow, less shrill. Unfortunately, that hardly happens. The interlocutor (most often the podcast proprietor as well) of the podcast generally behaves as if (s)he is the master of all. Such 'jacks' (actually no-gooder's, Jack's of all treads, with very limited basic info, forget any vision, despite the HUGE access via the AI) 'jack' up their image. They pretend to be a public intellectual, while in their private space , they are the regular Ranbir (of the Allahabadi variety, too) type!
Equally responsible, actually irresponsible, is the audience of such podcasts, reels, memes, and the types. With the advent of the mobile, the tagline "kar lo duniya mutthi mai", should have led to a more creative vision, a more productive discussion. Instead, it is mostly provocation and entertainment, and the audiences are 'loving it'. Otherwise, how to explain a horror show like the 'Big Boss' and its countless clones?
Entertainment, entertainment , entertainment is the pass word to each and everything currently. As a result, the content is unbelievably dumbed down. May be, thus is subtly created the unthinking customer necessary for consumerism!?! No, I am not in to conspiracy theories.
Yet unmistakable is the simplification that dominates all possible domains. Sure, there is no need for any high-faulting jargon. Yet why is it necessary to tone down everything as if the audience has no brains at all? Or is it the case that entertainment and capitalism are cronies? Silly minds used to dumbed down entertainment in every field can easily be the fodder of gigantic trans-national conglomerates? Easy it always is to rule the non-thinking! Big bad brave world indeed, showed up, 'exposed' long long ago by Orwell, Huxley, and others of their ilk!
Pratima@The dumbing down of all sorts of discourses is dangerous because machines, be it robots, be it the AI 'agents' prompting precisely, are getting smarter by the second!
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