கலி காலம்

Often I see this, "நாங்கல்லாம் அந்த காலத்துல..", not just with people around but predominantly in social media, particularly,

• அப்பல்லாம் தங்கம் 10 ரூபாய், இப்ப 10000 ரூபாய் கொடுத்தாலும் கிடக்கமாட்டேங்குது.
• அப்ப TV-ல ஒரு சேனல் தான் வரும். பார்க்க நல்லாயிருக்கும். இப்ப 1000 சேனல், ஒண்ணயும் பார்க்க முடியல.
• ...
• எல்லாம், கலி காலம்.

What Senthil had posted is not very different than this.

Before we get to the bottom of it, let us (also) accept the fact that population today is 10x more than 100 years back. Most issues that we talk today is a consequence of this. Population raises the need. It warrants competitiveness. That compels for newer/dynamic technology.

Having said that, now let's get back to the couple of messages in those images,

• High Income -> Less Peace of Mind.
  • Spurious correlation. High or Low is relative terms. Peace of mind has nothing to do with that. Peace of mind is a consequence of how one handles the life irrespective of income. எல்லா ஏழையும் சந்தோஷமாக இல்லை, எல்லா பணக்காரனும் வருத்தப்பட்டுக்கொண்டிருப்பதும் இல்லை.
• Landline united the family while mobile divided the family.
  • Perceptional error. If a house has 1 entry/exit door, all will go through that, while the same house 5 doors, each one will take different doors. This does not mean that they are not united by heart. Landline/mobile is only a communication media. It is a question of convenience. Mobile made it convenient relatively better. It did not divide the family.
• Lot of Humans, less humanity.
  • 100 years back, the resources were plenty, while today, it is competitive. People with "high humanity" 100 years back were with surplus resources. Therefore the comparison of humanity is correct only when these two categories of different time points are with the similar resources.
• Orientation towards Free WIFI than free Book.
  • I would say, it is a positive development. Earlier days, Book was the format of knowledge, but today, Internet of Things (IOT), which is more versatile, convenience, exponential and interactive. So I don't find orientation towards free WIFI is wrong. But it is hard to accept that books are better than IOT.
• Touched Moon, neighbors unknown.
  • Again proportional issue. We had one neighbor 100 years back, but now there are 100 neighbors (I meant the population raise). Among the 100 neighbors, we still keep one for support. Therefore nothing has changed.
• Lot's of friends in social media, but No Best Friends
  • Fundamentally wrong. Social media (let's say, facebook) has many "connects". The "connects" are named and annotated as "Friends" by the software. But you and me know the true definition of a friend. It is however, often misinterpreted (including highly educated fellas) as, I have 1500 facebook "Friends", but no best friend. We easily get carried away by words. Therefore henceforth, don't blame social media. Blame your interpretation about social media.

Today we sit and criticize tabs and mobile devices. 100 years later, these devices may not exist. Humans will figure out to directly connect neurons in brain / spinal cord with embedded silicon/optical chips/processors. And the communication will happen by brain waves facilitated by electronic chips. Visualization will be realised without a physical device. We may not need to physically see a movie, but can just be realized within our brain.

At that time (100 years later) people used to talk surprisingly, "in ancient time (2018), Humans used to use physical device (they used to call it as mobile phones) for communication".

Let's not get surprised and critize todays' development. Let's prepare ourselves for tomorrow.