Explosive Emergence of Social media || Acharya Prashant
Full video: The Social Media Cacophony || Acharya Prashant, in conversation (2022)
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00:00You bring up any topic and you have an entire community of people across the globe who will immediately present themselves as specialists on that topic.
00:10And they have become the thought leaders of this era.
00:13They are the ones who are shaping even results of elections.
00:18Governments are rising and falling based on the beck and call of ignorance.
00:23It indeed is a dangerous situation.
00:25The explosive emergence of social media especially over the last 5-6 years may have had its immediate and material benefits.
00:35But the challenges it has brought in terms of giving a loud and undeserved voice to worthless people is a huge damage we have suffered.
00:49Wisdom prefers quietness and silence many a times.
00:54Ignorance is so insecure it wants to shout from the rooftop.