he best way to understand the character of a society is to examine the character of the men and women that the society chooses as its heroes or its role models.
Heroes and role models reveal a society’s highest standards .The first thing that comes into my mind is when was the last time I read about a hero in the newspapers or any other media ? What defines a hero or role model in today’s society ? The author claims that the heroes and role models represent the society we live in.This statement leads to a moral dilemma inside me .Whether this claim just aims that society is represented by handful of role models or it also has a secondary meaning of being judgmental about the true nature of society by observing a handful of famous figures in the society.
Everyday I look into the paper and I find news of natural calamities, political wars, unfortunate accidents and the editorial section covering the sane political drama. There also is a section of sports and entertainment which cut in as big sections of the paper. For a country like India, the role models and heroes have been reduced from war heroes to bollywood actors and sports star. The majority of the crowd consists of teenagers and young persons. Whether poor or rich, every young person likes to imitate their favorite heroes and sadly the part of their life they want to imitate is not a real one. The films the mass watches on screens, the type of characters played, they create a bigger impression than some war stories and award ceremony of the army cadets. Even the newspapers are hardly interested to post photos of such functions or any actual heroic acts. The young mass practically worships the sports stars and film stars. Does that mean that the entire society can be judged on that basis that we live in a dream world ? This image will also seem to wipe out the problems in a society like poverty, poor lifestyles and corruption etc.
Even medias like you tube,facebook etc the most searched videos are that of popstars and other glamorous personalities and compared to that how many of us really have searched about the Nobel laureates and other such people ? The
Everyday I look into the paper and I find news of natural calamities, political wars, unfortunate accidents and the editorial section covering the sane political drama. There also is a section of sports and entertainment which cut in as big sections of the paper. For a country like India, the role models and heroes have been reduced from war heroes to bollywood actors and sports star. The majority of the crowd consists of teenagers and young persons. Whether poor or rich, every young person likes to imitate their favorite heroes and sadly the part of their life they want to imitate is not a real one. The films the mass watches on screens, the type of characters played, they create a bigger impression than some war stories and award ceremony of the army cadets. Even the newspapers are hardly interested to post photos of such functions or any actual heroic acts. The young mass practically worships the sports stars and film stars. Does that mean that the entire society can be judged on that basis that we live in a dream world ? This image will also seem to wipe out the problems in a society like poverty, poor lifestyles and corruption etc.
Even medias like you tube,facebook etc the most searched videos are that of popstars and other glamorous personalities and compared to that how many of us really have searched about the Nobel laureates and other such people ? The