Social Media

Published on 20th April, 2019, in Economic Times. Of late, people on Twitter have noticed that Twitter blocks accounts of people who complain against harassment of women. But men who harass women go scot free. It is no coincidence that the men who harass women seem to be associated with powerful political organisations while the women who complain are not. It is not clear, therefore, whether the act, by the social media barons and their team, is against women or in favour of political parties. It all comes down to business. For all its noble aspirations, social media is ultimately a business, whether it is ..

Why do people think that by calling stupid people stupid they will make them less stupid ? It will only annoy the stupid person who will disagree. They will call the name-caller as the 'intellectual fake media' and dig their hills into more stupidity. And the intellectual, who wanted to feel superior in the first place by name-calling, will feel like a helpless victim. Nobody likes being humiliated. Certainly not stupid people. So stupid people have become smart by turning the word 'intellectual' into a term of abuse. The wise man would not name-call and instead work hard to enable the stupid rather than humiliate ..