How to wake people up? About empty glory, I mean. That is the worry. Let me give a few examples which should clarify the issues underlying the angst of any sensitive soul.
Visit any household these days, (but, of course, online! Who invites whom home these days?) and the impression that would be created would be that their kids are overflowing with talent.
If you were to quietly observe these talent bombs, what do you find? Sorry to have to say it, but all that is there is 'secondary': they can create reels, they can construct rhymes, they can run threads, for instance. Now it is an open secret that the ChatGPT (and/or any number of such AI versions) 'manages' such talent halo around any head!
Visit any campus event. It would be the same 'games', the same dance steps, the same empty revellery, the same eatery 'thelas', and so on, and so on, "the same" being the underlying motif.
Why the worry then? Well, if everything is so very same, and hence, by implication, without 'thinking', without genuine creativity, where is the uniqueness that defines an individual? Yet another grave issue would be the following. If life is just such empty, repetitive fun, have we already arrived the stage of "no work" that M/S Musk, Gates and others of the ilk have been promising five years hence!?!
Pratima@No, I do not have anything against fun or enjoyment. The worry is against its being empty and repetitive! Just let us think about this 'reality' check. Every season each channel floods the spectators with so much 'talent'. Where are they thereafter, please?!? Are we creating empty crowns on the heads of the next generation? What happens when the reality hits one fine day that there is NOTHING, practically NOTHING, underneath! That is the question!
Quote of the day: "Where is the glory," asks Rick Riordan," in repeating what others have done?"
Word of the day: vainglory. Vainglory is the excessive pride in one's own minor achievements.
Let us learn grammar: Let us now start looking at the use of the definite article "the". Let us begin with the basic most. "The" is used when a common, countable, singular noun has a specificity of reference. May be, it is referred to for the second time in a given context, for instance.
Let us look at an example. Let us read a story. "Once upon a time, there was a lion. The lion lived in a cave. In the cave, scurried about a mouse. The mouse thought no end of himself. " Thus would continue the story. Look at the use of "a" and "the" in these introductory lines. We shall understand further aspects of this "defining" as we go by.
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