The Truth Trumps Over The NeoLiberal Narrative
If I were to sum up the underwritten blog in a tweet :
#NeoLiberal Narrative
has been #Trumped over by the Truth. #ModiBhakts #Brexit #Presstitutes
#NewWorldOrder #Democracy
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| Take This! |
You could be wrong once (2014 – India). Once bitten twice
shy (June 2016-UK). But you cannot afford to be wrong yet again (November
2016-USA)! You may wish to justify that the Liberalati failed to read the pulse
of the majority of the people. Else with such multi-billion dollar networks and
data that reaches out to infinity, it is unfathomable for the mainstream media
to not even for once figure out the simmering discontent within people.
It could be argued that the Liberalati started losing its
plot in 2014 and a man who did not belong to the Lutyens (in New Delhi –
Imperial headquarters of the Liberalati) came in command and quite literally
made them invisible in their own smog. In India, the Liberalati has now started
dying a slow and a painful death. They would now exile at times in London and
New York, get rejuvenated, do their Vipasnas and come back to India, bring new trends
and hashtags like #Intolerance #Bhakts #EmergencyIsBack etc. The Indian viewership
has now made it perfunctory.
Come June 2016, the UK referendum on #Brexit gave a tight slap on the face of
the Mainstream media. Nigel Farrage and Boris Johnson, apparently the two most
demonized people of the Europe and the English language comprehending world at
the time, stood vindicated and David Cameron fell a victim to the narrative of
an obsolete Neoliberal media. David Cameron seemingly was mugged by the
Liberalati there.
Now its November, and one of the most significant elections
were contested between a woman with an incomparable political history against a
man with zero political career. The Liberalati of the world participated in it!
It was like a confluence and the world congress on the International Symposium
of Intellectuals and Liberlati (ISIL in short!). It was as if the hopes of the
entire neoliberal world were pinned on this election. A woman is contesting,
for the first time! A woman should win! Why is that,
if one asks? Because she
is a woman!! #NuffSaid
#HowDareYouQuestion #YouMisogynist #MotherSisterHater #Feminism ! Quite
literally anyone who questioned Hillary was either termed a Misogynist or a War
monger. Supporting Trump became a blasphemy, a taboo of sorts. A serious stigma
on you as a human being of the present day world. Trump was already trolled. Right
from Obama and his annual media address to the Jimmys and the Olivers and God
knows who ever came wearing a suit every evening and night on the American
television gave it out. Trump was now a joker, One from You-cannot-be-serious!
to the Why-so-serious? one. But guess what happened next? Silent Majority. The
self-perceived infallibility of the Liberalati has now hit the ground face
first.The liberalati should ask themselves what went wrong?
USA, UK and India, the three supreme democracies have come
out and quite ferociously put across a point. It may be Right, Left, Centre or
any weird ideological combination under the Sun. But for once, it is not a
Neoliberal ideology. The point that I wish to make is that the mainstream media
has lost its connect with the ground reality. The mainstream media became popular
after picking issues from the ground and presenting it to the viewers. I
believe that when they started out they did carry out their jobs without any
sense of prejudice and reporting the news as it is with utmost sincerity was
their goal. There was no parallel narrative of the news-as-it-should-be. An
issue was picked, reported, analyzed and left for the viewers to decide. Once
this happened, viewership increased, the mainstream media became popular, generated
revenues, gained political and social importance with the elite, formed a group
of intellectuals and decided to create a narrative. This narrative that they
stuck to was neoliberal in nature. Because it is cool, exciting, sort of anti-establishment
because democracy is usually a place where dissent is celebrated. Hence, the
narrative stuck. The narrative of the
news-as-it-ought-to-be. Now this narrative overshadowed the ground reality of many
issues, only to be reported with a sensationalistic sense of controversy,
analyzed and dissected with a sense of bias and very smartly spoon fed to the
viewers. And the news was being bought because the viewers believed in their
credibility. The focus shifted from the
public at large to populism. Populism being, the agendas that the elite wanted
in the market rather than what the public demanded. It needs to be appreciated
that how this metamorphosis of the pyramid of the news where news went from
bottom to top now quickly moved from top to bottom. It has for the longest time
changed the whole outlook towards the news and information. News is now
created, it is then marketed, and then propagated with sensationalism, making
the viewer nothing more than a hypnotized news addict.
The impeccable credibility and the underlying trust was
cracked open by the advent and the penetration of the social media.
Social-media at first was considered as more of an offshoot of the mainstream media. The Liberalati was amused by these new tools of communication and information
on the smartphones and considered them as nothing more than harmless toys. But as
luck would have it, the people got access to it. Ordinary people. The
hypnotized news addict people. They seemed to like it. The people started
becoming aware of these independent blogs, later tweets, facebook posts etc
where anyone could put forth a viewpoint. Viewers and readers were left
impressed as they could not only relate to the issue and agenda, but more
importantly openly questioned the credibility of the Liberalati and the
Intellectuals. The Liberalati, out of its habit, still decided to play the news
as it ought to be but thought it could still capture this new territory of
infinite information. Sadly, or Gladly, this did not happen. As any tyrant too ignorant and too arrogant to
realize the strength of the unorganized dissent within its fiefdom, with slow
and steady passage of time, was struck so hard and got disconnected with the
masses, that it just did not know how to react or curb this parallel world of
independent free narrative. The viewers could now see through the narrative of
the Liberalati. The Liberalati lost relevance.
They may now call it a #Tragedy
#EndOfTheWorld but the beauty of the
democracy is they eventually get what they desire. In a democracy, one can do
with dissent, but not with denial. The Liberalati must realize that this denial
is making them as dangerous as a Dinosaur in today’s world. This earth survived
longer than the media, and it still will. The threats and the mobilization
without proper explanation and understanding are now seen as a bubble. The
bigger they get, the more entertaining it is to see them burst. The amusement
is not the burst, but how big can the bubble get! Sorry Liberalati, the silent
majority did not burst the bubble. It just quietly watched you expand for as
long as it takes. Trump is not as charming
as Obama, he is not as beautiful as Hillary. He might be a schmuck. But so is
the majority of the world and guess what, they have identified with him and his
promise. No matter how disgusting, derogatory, divisive it may sound to you, it
is the will of the people. This was the will of the people which the Liberalati
conveniently ignored.
To conclude, the Liberalati needs to now evolve, get humble,
apologize and get back to the ground. Otherwise the incorrigibility will
inevitably stand true. It won’t be as much of a #Tragedy to see the #EndOfTheWorld
for the #MainstreamMedia.
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