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The Cancel Culture -Very Divisive

The most dangerous of all falsehoods is a slightly distorted truth. The danger of instant judgements and monolithic narratives are all too prevalent in these deliberations. Where you will find cold-blooded grasping; massive sense of entitlement; an inability to show gratitude; an unrealistic expectation of puritanism from others; and a passionate performance of virtue that is well executed in the public space ( social media) but not in the intimate space of co-habitation and friendship.

These are very trying times. Technology as recent as couple of years ago was supposed to bring us all closer - remember the global village?. The emergence of an old doctrine - "critical race theory" the epitome of this dramatic change in attitude towards anyone with a different point of view has put paid to that paradigm. Here is how the woke brigade often response - "There is no war against free speech. You are perfectly free to say what you want, so long as it aligns with our prevailing view". Very shallow and pathetic.

Our attachment in practice to the principles we think we hold has been fraying since cancel culture/wokery took ascendency. Most of it modish destruction of straw men. If we routinely denigrate our moral values, we weaken solidarity and promote indifference to political principles and institutions. We encourage intransigent assertions of entitlement and magnified claims to victimhood. We have created a space where personal responsibility is an after thought, communal cooperation is handed to thugs , mayhem is de-rigueur. Is it any wonder it looks like a zoo?

We insulate ourselves in ideological bubbles of similar-thinking people and refuse to countenance or even engage with the truth. We now seems to be building echo chambers with titanium and carbon fibre cladding just to make sure we do not see or hear anything different. If these cancel culture mentality is being adopted to the pandemic, may be herd immunity would have been achieved by now.We have become communities in a dislocated social fabric that is fracturing at an astonishing rate. If we do not amend this fast, rupture seems to be the only ramification. None of us have all the answers. We are all inherently biased towards one thing or another. Thus, if the aforementioned cellular-like fortifications are to be dismantled, "tall poppy syndrome" has to go.

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