Aggression in living room

                     Some ICMR type of agency should study the psychosomatic impact of the high decibel levels on TV in our living rooms. The aggression, the pitch, the belligerence, the vocabulary, the irreverence to things/people small or big, is bound to cause damage to the collective psyche of the society, not to say anything about the individual. It is so contrary to our cultural conditioning, where we, for example, were taught to respect our teachers."Guru Gobind dou khade kake laagey paon... ". But when anchors run down teachers with "so-what-if-you-are-a-professor, this-is-not-your-classroom-and-I-am-not-your-student" type of audacity, then I am worried, not just about my aural health but much more.

                     I am seriously concerned about the impact on young kids, who have a mighty dose of media of all types at home, school, social space, everywhere. Can we hold on to some remnants of our culture and not let it destroy the minds of young kids? How will this aggressiveness spill out in society, if it is allowed to go unhindered? I shudder to think of long-term consequences of this...