The fact that the masses are exploited very easily by many is no secret any more. It has been done all through the history and will probably continue in future also . However I feel that game played in doing so will be increasingly difficult as it is no longer possible to hide information from people in this age of information technology. One of the method is to allot people a group. In psychology a branch of social sciences ,they use the term of group pressure for this. When you are alone you have a certain original behavior. When you are a part of a group that group has certain goals which are not necessarily same as your original goals. Chances are greater that as a member of a group your original thinking is likely to change in favor of group thinking. This is what psychologist and sociologist call as group pressure. Masses have been exploited throughout the history by using this powerful tool by making them parts of infinite groups existing in the worlds. As usually a person is parts of many group there is competition in groups to attract you to their view of thinking by another tool known as propoganda. Another method these groups use is to conceal that information from masses which is against the interests of their groups that is the selective education, because they know that few people have reading habits and even fewer people self educate themselves on issues other than their field of specialities hence such people easily become vulnerable to be the victims of such exploitations. We consider a person educated if he has passed certain academic or professional degrees in a particular field but out side their fields people are almost ignorant. To be well informed is a difficult and lifelong process. This handicap of masses is well known by manipulators of such games which are hand in gloves with even sections of the men in power, industry and media in many countries of the world. Being part of many groups plays havoc with the original thinking of the person and make him victim of a very big problem which is called as identity crisis by social scientists As a poet has said Ghair mumkin hai ke halat ki guthi suljhe Ahle danish ne bahut soch ke uljhayi hai
Posted on: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 23:04:15 +0000