Ideas attract people in adherence, generally, when these are delivered well-packaged or in a dramatised way. This is how working ideas originate and spread. Ordinary people can hardly ideate based on their own experiences and engagements. Ideas come to people from seats of tradition, mavericks, or leaders at the helm of extraordinary events. The Western world presents a well-documented history of its ideational journey, and we can see that most of the lasting ideas originated during very short spans of history. What happens is that a grand idea discredits too many good little ideas and prohibits the emergence of another great idea.
My humble submission is that people's everyday experiences should lead to idea formation and be shared; this should be a continuous interactive process, and people should value their lived experiences. The next great idea must be democratically generated.
This is why I always respect the sharing of ideas on social media. Indeed, there is a great possibility and occurrences of wrong ideas being circulated and believed. However, my other contention is that curated ideas emanating from established media may be trapped within worse ideational frameworks.
People who believe they are in the know should not be perfectly assured of their correctness. They may be wrong, too. At the same time, people who think that good knowledge should prevail bear the responsibility to engage with other people with an open mind and respect. Generally, the so-called elite disseminators of ideas are haughty, disrespectful and patronising to commoners. They are unlikely to abandon their exalted lofty locations. People themselves must be aware of self-worth. It is a pedagogical challenge, but I do not think that practitioners are aware of this crying need.
Niraj Kumar Jha
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