Last time
out I highlighted the catharses, its effects and its general concerns and impacts on our lives. This is not asking anyone of us to throw away our TV's or stop watching it.
It's a call, to view things, with a more broader view, richer perspective. If we continue to watch and not have a general consensus,realize and see through the lies, then we are boldly staring at a global catastrophe that would envelop our minds such as when we receive things that are surreal,we wouldn't deny it.
This is called Disinformation, whereby a lot of truth is enveloped together with lies, covering it up to perfection.
To sum it up, in Tun Mahathir's own words, in a recent interviewed he mentioned
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Of course, we can also acquire knowledge through television but we cannot gain an education just by watching television alone. They say a picture paints a thousand words. Sometimes when you look at a picture, you see not just one but many thousands of words. However, understanding still may not come and so you do not produce."
What he was trying to convey is that, in my own interpretation, a picture paints a thousand words, with TV you get a thousand words, but you're not able to put those words into context and get the essence of the message, so you remains in trance state of illusory, all confused and purged with emotion. And that is where our TV watching minds are easily influenced.
What do we all make of the populous today and it's mentality?
Have you failed to notice how easily entrenched the global populous minds when virtually anything is thrown to them?
Like a bunch of hungry hounds they feast on whatever it is that's being served at them!
Any new trends, fads, fashion or whatsoever it is their ignorant eyes could be deceived to coerce their pockets in order to not be left out.
It's not a new disease, it is a global pandemic that has been ongoing ever since men had step foot on this very earth.
Over the years, a lot have yearned to the fact that it is not wrong to be frivolous with their spendings and that its justified because they work hard to earn that money.
These thoughts, these pedagogy had been instilled into mankind for generations.
It is these thinking that had brought mankind into a deep state of paranoia, a paranoid recluse that's afraid to lose his or her money or belongings even though it is to aid for a better cause.
It is this kind of unjust feeling that had breed a wholesome sense of insecurity in all of us, an absence of empathy that had horde a powerful hate towards helping one another.
Have we forgot what we've been taught in schools, home or even by our respective religions?
To be just, helpful and spread equal wealth throughout the world?
Isn't this lessons taught so that we could have lived side by side with equality of wealth surpassing the greed of many?
It is not wrong to be wealthy, but with it comes a great responsibility, that the notion of giving, should be able to rise from one's heart and not from any form of unnecessary push or pressure.
In The Art of War, the infamous essay translation of Sun Tzu by Denma it was mentioned;
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When wealth is exhausted, people are hard-pressed by local taxes"
No one could argue to the fact that taxes largely around the world had been misused. That large sum of money would render anyone pointless and they would have a hard time handling it, and there and then, the deviation starts to happen.
And this is why, for the sole purpose, spreading wealth is not only for the tax payers, it is also for the non tax payers.
Not only for the rich but to almost anybody who has sufficient enough change and an ounce of kindness in them.
I firmly believe that all religions mainly teaches its believers to be just, righteous and always giving out to the needy. As I don't have the necessary knowledge of other religions, I might want to highlight the ones being taught in Islam. (mind you, that if a Muslim claims to practice Islam, they should be able to apprehend and fulfill these requirements)
In Islam, when one acquires such amounting wealth, then one should be able to spread it either by means of Zakat or self-righteousness.
And when delving into the subject of self-righteousness, Allah SWT has promised so much bounty and rewards, such as in this excerpt taken from the Holy Quran ;
Righteousness does not consist in whether you turn your faces towards the east or the west; what is righteous is to believe in God and the last day, and the angels, and the Book, and the messengers; to spend of your substance, out of love for Him, for your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves; to be steadfast in prayer, and practise regular charity; to fulfil the contracts which you have made; and to be firm and patient, in pain (or suffering) and adversity, and in times of war. Such as do so are people of truth. Such are the God-fearing. (Al-Baqara, 177)Furthermore, what makes it a righteous act is not the resulting consequence but rather the intention that is behind it. That is why our acts of righteousness should be solely done to seek the approval from God and not the contemporary limelight that this world offers. This is what separates a righteous deed from the often termed "charity".
Our ignorant populous had shaped itself to be ignorant in terms of charity. No longer is it based on social solidarity but rather it had become a personal desire to win affection of the people.
If we all pitch in to help, bit by bit, the skewed thread that had misled this avaricious populous will be sewn up, and we will be able to witness then, the more giving more fond and affectionate populous that would help each other out in any kind of situation.
But it would all begin, with us, with our very hands and hearts making a difference, no matter how small we contribute and no matter what we contribute, we could stand up and make a difference, NOW!
So, stop satisfying your tyrannous greed, stop chasing popularity, and start by giving away solidarity.
