Yahia Mansour Tahat
W
hat relies at the root of
writing this is when I see many
abhorrently weird photos and
posts via my screen. “One of the
photos was for a young man sitting
beside the tomb of his close relative, who had passed away two
days earlier, and showing how he
seemingly felt sorrow at his loss.
Meanwhile, he, with tearful eyes,
was casting a glance at the camera
making a proper position of himself to have the camera shoot”.
This was two years ago and yet I
have been wondering: What is the
exact message behind this photo?
Is it to show his severe sadness or
non-decency? Is it to wallow in self
-pity towards him or the dead? Is
it an act of privacy invasion for his
personal life or the dead? And the
most important questions are:
how occurred to him to take such
a photo in that hard time? And
while taking the photo, which idea
preoccupied him more: his presumably great pain over his relative death or how much the photo
should be considerably expressive
and impressive to the people? If
so, does it matter?
What is pseudo-intellectuality?
This is the pseudo-intellectuality
that I mean, which is a rampant
social disease afflicting physiologically vulnerable people. In fact,
what is exactly meant by pseudointellectuality here is a gross fad –
one’s internal conflict – making
people show themselves off misleadingly and meaninglessly. This
social disease is like when someone, as illustrated above, pretending to adopt a cluster of manners
but in actual fact he does not. So
pseudo-intellectuality is not just a
disapproving word it is also a physiological epidemic too.
Social network is a cradle of such
a phenomenon
It’s apparently seen, with the ad-
vent of new technology advances,
that plenty of folks hugely rely on
social
networks
(Facebook,
Twitter, Instagram…etc.) to express their attitudes towards certain issues they are appealed by
and to contact with people they
have bonds with. It is enjoyable to
see comments from people you
don’t concur with and engage with
them in a constructive debate, for
instance. So it is worth stating
that the social media network is
considerably constituted as a new
eye-opener to the people affairs
reflecting one’s social relationship
with others and one’s perspectives. However, social media network is unregulated conduit for
both hypocrisy and ignorance as
well as hubris. Unfortunately,
many bloggers misunderstand and
misjudge the essence of the social
media network and perceive it as
though it is a fertile ground to
show their absurd ideas that agitate some followers’ heavy sarcasm. Accordingly, they miscommunicate with others and misuse
it. They are class